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Today in
History ~ June 6
D-Day
Swedish Constitution and Flag Day (National Day)
Events
1002 - German king Henry II the Saint crowned
1242 - 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris
1513 - Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs Valois
1523 - Regent Gustav Vasa was crowned King Gustav I of Sweden (Swedish National Day)
1536 - Mexico begins it's inquisition
1639 - Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
1654 - Queen Christina of Sweden resigns & converts to Catholicism
1664 - New Amsterdam renamed NYC
1683 - The Ashmolean, the world's first museum of science, opened in Oxford, England.
1716 - 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana
1772 - Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe DuSable settles Chicago
1809 - Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established
1816 - 10" snowfall in New England, "year without a summer" (Krakatoa)
1833 - President Andrew Jackson boarded a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad train for a pleasure trip to Baltimore. to become the first president to take a ride on the "Iron Horse."
1844 - Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) forms in London
1861 - Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers
1862 - Battle of Memphis, Tennessee-city is surrendered
1862 - Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
1872 - Susan B. Anthony was fined for voting in an election in Rochester, N.Y. She refused to pay the fine and the judge allowed her to go free.
1882 - Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000
1882 - Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC
1885 - Leo Delibes' opera "Lakme" is produced (Paris)
1889 - Great Fire in Seattle
1904 - National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, NJ
1909 - Alaska Yukon and Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
1911 - Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to U.S. (not ratified)
1914 - 1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
1918 - The first large-scale battle fought by American soldiers in World War I began in Belleau Wood, (1st US victory )
1919 - Finland declares war on bolsheviks
1925 - Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp
1931 - Yanks turn triple play but lose 7-5 to the Indians
1932 - The first gasoline tax levied by Congress was enacted as a part of the Revenue Act of 1932
1933 - 1st drive-in theatre opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
1933 - US Employment Service created
1934 - Securities & Exchange Commission established
1934 - The New Deal swept through Wall Street as President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Securities Exchange Act.
1934 - Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
1936 - Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ
1938 - Sigmund Freud arrives in London
1941 - 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1942 - 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
1942 - Japanese armada retreated in the World War II Battle of Midway.
1942 - Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
1944 - D-Day invasion of Europe took place during World War II as hundreds of thousands of Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France in the largest invasion in history. [H]
1944 - Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad
1944 - Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor
1946 - Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1949 - George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four is published
1955 - Bill Haley & Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
1958 - Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
1965 - Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive homers beating White Sox 12-0
1966 - Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.
1966 - Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed
1966 - Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with 'angry alligator'
1966 - NFL & AFL announce their merger
1966 - Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
1967 - Israeli troops occupy Gaza
1969 - Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar
1971 - "Ed Sullivan Show" last broadcasts on CBS-TV
1971 - Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
1972 - US bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed
1972 - A coal mine explosion in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, trapped 464 miners underground. More than 425 died.
1975 - British voters decide to remain on Common Market
1977 - "Washington Post" reports US has developed neutron bomb
1977 - Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
1978 - California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, a primary ballot initiative calling for major cuts(57% ) in property taxes .
1980 - Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title
1982 - Israel launched a full-scale invasion when 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive Palestine Liberation Organization fighters out of the country. (The Israelis withdrew in June 1985.)
1983 - Li Xiannian becomes pres/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR
1984 - Indian Army Storms Sikh's Golden Temple [H]
1985 - Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later claimed to be the remains of Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious "Angel of Death" of the Nazi Holocaust. [H]
1985 - Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1988 - 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant
1991 - NATO issued a statement saying it would not accept any "coercion or intimidation" against the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe.
1991 - NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992
1992 "A.P. Indy" won the 124th running of the Belmont Stakes.
1994 - 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia (about 1000 killed)
1994 - National leaders and elderly World War II veterans commemorated the 50th anniversary of "D-Day."
1996 - A family of four became the first persons to leave the Freemen ranch in Montana since April.
1996 - The Senate narrowly rejected a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution as outgoing Majority Leader Bob Dole and the Democrats clashed over deficit reduction.
1997 - Angela Marquardt of Berlin was sued for maintaining a Web site with links to a banned magazine.
1997 - Melissa Drexler a teenage mother gives birth and murders her baby at the prom
1997 - Sun Microsystems proposal for giving control of its Java programming language to an international standards group. is rejected
1997 - Timothy McVeigh's lawyer pleaded with a jury to spare the life of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber, holding up his dress uniform and portraying him as a model soldier deeply disturbed by his government's role in the disaster at Waco.
2000 - Unilever agreed to buy Bestfoods for $20.3 billion in a deal creating the world's biggest food company.
2001 - A jury in Los Angeles awarded more than $3 billion to lifelong smoker Richard Boeken, deciding that tobacco giant Philip Morris was responsible for his incurable lung cancer. (The jury award was reduced by a Superior Court judge to $100 million, which Philip Morris is appealing; Boeken died in January 2002.)
2001 - Democrats formally assumed control of the U.S. Senate; the unprecedented shift in power came about after the decision of Vermont Republican James Jeffords to become an independent.
Birthdays Today
1436 - Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepared astronomical tables
1502 - Jofo III, King of Portugal (1521-57)
1599 - Diego Vel zquez, Spanish painter
1755 - John Flaxman, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey tomb stones)
1755 - Nathan Hale (American patriot & Revolutionary War military officer: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.")
, hanged as a spy by British on Manhattan
1756 - John Trumbull (artist: painter of the Revolution: The Battle of Bunker Hill, The Surrender of Cornwallis, The
Declaration
of Independence; son of colonial Connecticut's governor)
1799 - Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit (Eugene Onegin, Russlan & Ludmilla)
1850 - Karl F. Braun, codeveloper of wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)
1860 - William R Inge, English theologian/Deacon St Paul's Cathedral
1869 - Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer/conductor, son of Richard Wagner (who composed "Siegfried Idyll" to commemorate his birth)
1872 - Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918)
1875 - Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929)
1886 - Paul Dudley White, heart specialist
1891 - Ted Lewis (Friedman) (entertainer)
1898 - Walter Abel (actor: Raintree County, Mirage, Quick Let's Get Married, 13 Rue Madeleine, Wake Island, Silent Night Bloody Night, Kid from Brooklyn, Holiday Inn, The Indian Fighter)
1903 - Aram Khachaturian (musician, composer: Sabre Dance, Spartacus)
1907 - Bill Dickey (Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Yankees catcher [1925- 1943]; coach)
1917 - Kathran Graham, publisher (Washington Post)
1925 - Walter Percy Chrysler, cars
1932 - Billie Whitelaw (actress: Frenzy, The Dressmaker, The Secret Garden, The Omen, Masterpiece Theatre productions)
1932 - David R. Scott, U.S. astronaut (Gemini 8 Apollo 9 15)
1935 - Bobby Mitchell, NFL running back wide receiver (Browns Redskins)
1935 - Dalai Lama 14 (Nobel Peace Prize winner: spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists
)
1935 - Jon Henricks (swimmer)
1935 - Robert Mitchell (Pro Football Hall of Famer:Cleveland Browns running back; Washington Redskins wide receiver: 1st black player for Washington; All Pro [1962 & 64]; four Pro Bowls)
1939 - Edward Giacomin (Hockey Hall of Famer: goalie: NY Rangers; Vezina Trophy winner [1970-71])
1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds (Anderson) (singer: Quarter to Three, New Orleans, Rendezvous, Come on Let's Go)
1941 - Marshall Johnston (hockey)
1943 - Joe Stampley (country singer: Soul Song, There's Another Woman, Whiskey Chasin', Back Slidin', Double Shot of My Baby's Love)
1943 - Merv Rettenmund (baseball)
1944 - Bud (Derrel) Harrelson (baseball)
1944 - Monty Alexander (jazz musician: piano: So What?)
1944 - Peter Albin (musician: bass, guitar & vocals: group: Big Brother and The Holding Company: Piece of My Heart)
1945 - David Dukes (actor: War & Remembrance, The Winds of War, Sisters, The Men's Club, Snow Kill, The Triangle Factory Fire Scandel, The Josephine Baker Story, Held Hostage)
1946 - Chuck Williams (basketball)
1947 - Ada Kok (swimmer)
1948 - Robert Englund (actor: A Nightmare on Elm Street [1-5], Hustle, A Star is Born, The Adventures of Ford
Fairlane)
1952 - Harvey Fierstein, Playwright
1953 - Jack Novak (football)
1954 - Harvey Fierstein (Tony Award-winning actor: Torch Song Trilogy [1983], Mrs. Doubtfire, Bullets Over Broadway; and playwright: Torch Song Trilogy [1983], La Cage aux Folles, Tidy Endings)
1956 - Bjorn Borg (tennis champion: French Open [1974, 75, 78, 79, 80, 81], Wimbledon [1976, 77, 78, 79, 80])
1960 - Steve Vai (musician: guitar: group: David Lee Roth Band: California Girls)
1961 - Sydney Walsh,
Famous deaths
0840 - Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies
1671 - Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed
1944 - Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day
1944 - Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41
1945 - Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide
1968 - Robert F Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42, shot on June 5th
1976 - J Paul Getty, oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83 in London
1979 - Jack Haley, actor (Wizard of Oz), dies of cancer at 79
1991 - Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist (Girl from Impanima), dies at 64
1991 - Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77
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