Today in History
~ June 7
Events
1099 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem
1628 - English king Charles I accepts Petition of Rights
1654 - Louis the XIV was crowned King of France in Rheims.
1769 - Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky
1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a
Declaration
of Independence.
1780 - Anti-Catholic riot in London, hundreds die
1839 - The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed.
1860 - Workmen start laying Market Street RR track
1862 - Gen Ben ("Beast") Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed & destroyed US flag on display over New Orleans Mint
1863 - Mexico City captured by French troops
1864 - Abraham Lincoln was nominated for another term as president at his party's convention in Baltimore.
1893 - Gandhi's First Act of Civil Disobedience refused to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train
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1905 - Norway dissolves union with Sweden (in effect since 1814)
1906 - Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
1916 - Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun
1929 - The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
1936 - Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16 set record of no strike outs
1938 - Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown by Eddie Allen
1939 - King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrived at Niagara Falls, N.Y., from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
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1942 - Battle of Midway ends: Adm Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan [H]
1942 - Japanese forces captured Kiska and Attu in Alaska's Aleutian island chain.
1944 - Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler
1946 - US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel
1948 - The Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia with the resignation of President Eduard Benes.
1953 - 1st color network telecast in compatible color Boston Mass
1954 - 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated - New Brunswick NJ
1954 - Edsel Team Formed
1955 - 1st President to appear on television in color - DD Eisenhower
1955, - CBS unveiled The $64,000 Question, which would fast become the model for a small army of money-minded quiz shows.
1965 - Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
1965 - Supreme Court rules 1879 Connecticut law ban of contraceptives unconstitutional
1966 - James H. Meredith, who in 1962 became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, was shot by a sniper while on a lone civil rights march through the South.
1967 - Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho & Bethlehem
1968 - Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
1970 - The Who's "Tommy" is performed at NY's Lincoln Center
1971 - Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut
1972 - "Grease" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 3,388 performances
1972 - German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
1975 - The first videocassette recorder went on sale to the public.
1977 - Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law
1980 - Temperance Hill wins Belmont Stakes (50:1 long shot)
1980 - Tommy John wins his 200th 3-0 on a 2 hitter
1981 - Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1982 - Israeli jets bombed central Beirut while Israeli ground forces captured
Beaufort Castle and surrounded the Lebanese city of Sidon.
1982 - Pres Reagan meets Pope John Paul II & Queen Elizabeth
1983, one day after Nicaragua expelled three U.S. diplomats, the Reagan
administration ordered Nicaraguan
consulates closed and expelled six Nicaraguan diplomats.
1990 - 1990, South African President de Klerk lifted a four-year-old nationwide
state of emergency in all but the strife-torn Indian Ocean province of Natal.
1991 - A U.S. District Court judge rejected a request by San Francisco TV station KQED for permission to televise the execution of convicted murderer Robert Alton Harris.
1991 - The government reported the nation's unemployment rate had worsened to a four-year high of 6.9 percent in May, up 0.3 percent from April.
1991 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir rejected U.S. calls for compromise
to convene a Middle East peace conference.
1992 - A British newspaper reported that Princess Diana, in despair over her
marriage to Prince Charles, made five attempts at suicide and had suffered from
depression-linked illnesses.
1995 - Two buses crossed into Serbia with 108 U.N. peacekeepers freed by the Bosnian Serbs.
1995 - President Clinton vetoed his first bill, a Republican plan to cut $16.4 billion in spending.
1996 - The Clinton White House acknowledged it had obtained the FBI files of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's press secretary, former Bush chief of staff James A. Baker III and other appointees from Republican administrations, calling it "an innocent bureaucratic mistake."
1998 - In a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men were sentenced to death for the crime, a third to life in prison.)
1999 - Gunmen killed popular Mexican television host Francisco "Paco" Stanley.
1999 - The FBI put alleged terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden and anti-abortion activist and accused doctor killer James Charles Kopp on the bureau's Ten Most Wanted list.
2000 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp., declaring the software giant should be split into two because it had "proved untrustworthy in the past." Microsoft vowed to appeal.
2001 - A three-judge panel of the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's request for an execution delay.
2001 - A federal judge refused to stop plans for a World War II Memorial on the
National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Birthdays
Today
1502 - Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582
1770 - Earl of Liverpool, (C) British prime minister (1812-27)
1778 - Beau (George Bryan) Brummel (English men's fashion leader)
1811 - James Young Simpson, Scotland, obsterician (used chloroform)
1848 - Paul Gaugin (Eugene Henri), French post-impressionist painter
1896 - Robert Mulliken, US, chemist/physicist (Nobel 1966)
1897 - George Szell, conductor
1909 - Jessica Tandy (Academy Award-winning actress: Driving Miss Daisy [1989], Cocoon, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Birds, Forever Amber, Used People, Camilla; performed on Broadway with husband, Hume
Cronyn)
1909 - Peter Rodino, (D) NJ Rep
1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks (Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Annie Allen [1950])
1919 - Ray Scherer (newsman: NBC)
1922 - Rocky Graziano, pugilist
1926 - Bobby Avilla (baseball)
1928 - Charles Strouse (musician: composer: Golden Boy)
1928 - Randolph Turpin (boxer)
1929 - John Turner, (L) 17th Canadian prime minister (1984)
1930 - Dolores Gray (actress: The Opposite Sex, Kismet, Designing Women)
1931 - Virginia McKenna (actress: Duel of Hearts, Born Free, The Chosen, Simba)
1934 - Wynn Stewart (singer: It's Such a Pretty World Today, Wishful Thinking, After the Storm)
1940 - Tom Jones (Thomas Jones Woodward) (The Prince of Wales: Grammy Award-winning singer: It's Not Unusual, She's a Lady, What's New Pussycat?, I'll Never Fall in Love Again, Without Love, Delilah, Love Me Tonight, Green Green Grass of Home)
1943 - Ken Osmond (actor: Leave It to Beaver)
1943 - Nikki Giovanni (poet: The Women and the Men, My House)
1944 - Cazzie Russell (basketball: forward & guard: NY Knicks, Golden State Warriors, LA Lakers, Chicago Bulls)
1947 - Don Money (baseball)
1947 - Thurman Munson (baseball: NY Yankees catcher: Rookie of the Year [1970], Baseball Writer's Award [1976])
1952 - Liam Neeson, N Ireland, actor (Schindler's List, Les Miserables, Rob Roy, The Dead Pool,
Excalibur)
1954 - Louise Erdrich (Award-winning novelist)
1958 - PRINCE (Prince Rogers Nelson) (The Artist Previously Known as Prince: musician, singer:
Purple Rain, actor: Purple Rain, Under the Cherry Moon, Graffiti Bridge)
Famous
deaths
1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-29), dies at 53
1631 - Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal)
1862 - William B Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason, at 42 for destroying the U.S. flag
(New Orleans)
1863 - Franz Xavier Gruber, composer, dies at 75 (Silent Night)
1965 - Judy Holiday dies at 42
1967 - Author-critic Dorothy Parker, famed for her caustic wit, died in New York.
1980 - Henry [Valentine] Miller, US writer (Tropic of Capricorn), dies at 88
1996 - [Francis] Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies at 91
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