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Today In History 7/6
1348 Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and ... Read more
1348 Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and ... Read more
1687 Isaac Newton’s great work Principia published by Royal Society in England, outlining his laws of motion and ... Read more
1776 The Declaration of Independence, adopted this day in 1776 by the Second Continental Congress, called for the ... Read more
324 Battle of Adrianople: Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats his co-emperor Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. 1187 Battle ... Read more
626 Incident at Xuanwu Gate: in fear of assassination, Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li ... Read more
1859 1st intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. 1863 The Battle of Gettysburg, one ... Read more
1520 Faced with an Aztec revolt against their rule, forces under the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés fight their ... Read more
1534 French mariner Jacques Cartier “discovered” Prince Edward Island off the coast of what is now Canada. 1613 ... Read more
Oxford resident Jeffrey Reed has been in the music industry most of his life – from playing in ... Read more
1389 Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest ... Read more
1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sets sail from the Mexican port of Navidad to explore the west coast of ... Read more
363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by ... Read more
1447 Casimir IV, the grand duke of Lithuania, was crowned king of Poland. 1678 Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia ... Read more
1497 John Cabot became the first European to set foot in North America since the Vikings. 1509 Henry ... Read more
1611 English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and seven others set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on ... Read more
Obituary: Ronnie Harold Phillips, 68, passed away Monday, June 19, 2023, at his home in Oxford, after an ... Read more
The Oxford Post Office has a new leader with lots of experience. Brian Kist, a three-decade veteran of ... Read more
Obituary: Sandra Jo Brown Atkinson, 78, of Oxford, passed away Wednesday, June 14, 2023, following a brief illness. ... Read more
Obituary: Hubert (Herb) Avent, 81, of Etta, peacefully passed away on June 9th after a brief illness. Hubert Avent ... Read more
Obituary: L V Hilliard was born December 27, 1945 in Oxford, to the late Willie J. Hilliard and ... Read more
Obituary: Dr. John Terry McMillan, 79, died Sunday, June 11, 2023, at his home in Oxford, MS. Visitation ... Read more
Brian Krist is now the postmaster for Oxford. He began his role in April and grew up in ... Read more