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Today in History

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YEARDAYEVENT
840Jun 6Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-Semite), died.
1002Jun 6German king Henry II, the Saint, was crowned.
1242Jun 624 wagonloads of Talmudic books were burned in Paris.
1436Jun 6Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepared astronomical tables, was born.
1502Jun 6Jofo III, King of Portugal (1521-57), was born.
1513Jun 6Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs. Valois.
1523Jun 6[Gustav] Gustavus Vasa was elected Gustavus I of Sweden.
1536Jun 6Mexico began its inquisition.
1606Jun 6Pierre Corneille (d.1684), French dramatist, poet and writer of Le Cid, was born: “Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.”
1639Jun 6Massachusetts granted 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill.
1654Jun 6Queen Christina of Sweden resigned and converted to Catholicism.
1671Jun 6(OS), Stenka, Stepan Razin, Russian Cossack, was killed. [see Jun 16]
1674Jun 6Sivaji crowned himself King of India.
1716Jun 6The 1st slaves arrived in Louisiana.
1727Jun 6Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni, female vocalists, attacked each other during a performance of Bononcini~ez_rsquo~s Astianatte in London.
1755Jun 6Nathan Hale (1776), American patriot who said ~ez_ldquo~My only regret is that I have but one life to give for my country,” was born. He was hanged by the British as a spy during the American Revolution
1756Jun 6John Trumball, American painter, was born.
1801Jun 6The Treaty of Badajoz (also known as the Peace of Badajoz) was signed in Badajoz between John VI of Portugal and representatives from the Kingdom of Spain.
1809Jun 6Sweden declared independence and a constitutional monarchy was established.
1813Jun 6The U.S. invasion of Canada was halted at Stoney Creek, Ontario.
1822Jun 6Alexis St. Martin, a fur trader at Fort Mackinac in the Michigan territory, was accidentally shot in the abdomen. William Beaumont, a US Army assistant surgeon, treated the wound and St. Martin survived. The stomach wound did not close and Beaumont undertook experiments in 1825 to study the digestive system.
1832Jun 6Jeremy Bentham (b.1748), English social reformer, died. He had his body preserved at the Univ. College, London. Bentham was later considered the father of utilitarianism. He thought that enlightened policymakers should seek the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people.
1844Jun 6The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London by George Williams.
1860Jun 6William R. Inge, English theologian, Deacon St. Paul’s Cathedral, was born.
1861Jun 6Lincoln’s cabinet declared Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers.
1862Jun 6Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry). [see Jul 4, 1862]
1865Jun 6Confederate raider William Quantrill (b.1837) died in Louisville, Ky., from a shot in the spine he received escaping a Union patrol near Taylorsville, Kentucky.
1868Jun 6Robert F. Scott (d.1912), British explorer, was born.
1869Jun 6Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer, conductor, son of Richard Wagner
1872Jun 6Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, the last Russian Tsarina (1894-1918), was born. She was later killed with her husband by revolutionaries.
1875Jun 6Walter P. Chrysler, founder of the Chrysler Corporation, was born.
1882Jun 6Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowned 100,000.
1885Jun 6Leo Delibes’ opera “Lakme” was produced in Paris.
1901Jun 6Sukarno (d.1970), Indonesia’s 1st president (1949-1966), was born in Surabaya, Java.
1902Jun 6Jimmie Lunceford, bandleader, was born.
1903Jun 6Composer Aram Khatchaturian was born in Tiflis, Russia.
1904Jun 6The National Tuberculosis Association was organized in Atlantic City, NJ.
1907Jun 6Bill Dickey, professional baseball player, was born.
1914Jun 6The 1st air flight out of sight of land was made from Scotland to Norway.
1916Jun 6China~ez_rsquo~s Pres. Yuan Shikai (b.1859) died
1918Jun 6In France the US Marines counter-attacked the Germans and pushed them back to the woods at Bois de Belleau. U.S. Marines entered combat at the Battle of Belleau Wood. 1st US victory of WW I.
1919Jun 6Finland declared war on Bolsheviks.
1924Jun 6The German Reichstag accepted the Dawes Plan, an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts.
1925Jun 6Maxine Kumin, poet novelist and children’s author, was born.
1930Jun 6A Chronicle-Universal talkie newsreel was shown at the Marion Davies and Embassy Theaters as well as motion-picture houses throughout Northern California and Nevada.
1933Jun 6The US Congress passed the National Employment Service, creating a national system of public employment offices.
1934Jun 6Bill Moyers, American broadcast journalist, was born. He served as press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson.
1934Jun 6President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Securities Exchange Act, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.
1937Jun 6Ivan Papanin (1894-1986) raised the Soviet flag over the North Pole-1 station. For 234 days the 4-man Papanin team carried out a wide range of scientific observations in the near-polar zone.
1938Jun 6Bishop Rafael Guizar Valencia (b.1878) died in Mexico City. He had risked his life to tend the wounded during Mexico~ez_rsquo~s revolution. In 2006 Pope Benedict XVI named him a saint.
1939Jun 6Marian Wright Edelman, first African-American woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar, was born. She was the founder of the Children’s Defense Fund.
1941Jun 6The U.S. government authorized the seizure of foreign ships in U.S. ports.
1942Jun 6The 1st nylon parachute jump was made in Hartford, Ct., by Adeline Gray.
1944Jun 6Gerrit John van de Peat (41), artist, resistance fighter, was executed.
1945Jun 6Meinoud M. Rost van Tonningen, anti Semite, NSB (1937-41), committed suicide.
1958Jun 6Premier Charles de Gaulle said Algeria will always be French
1962Jun 6Yves Klein (b.1928), French artist, died of a heart attack.
1966Jun 6Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford were wed.
196Jun 6An Arab oil embargo began one day after the beginning of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, with a joint Arab decision to deter any countries from supporting Israel militarily.
1969Jun 6Joe Namath resigned from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar.
1971Jun 6“Ed Sullivan Show” made its last broadcasts on CBS-TV.
1976Jun 6Jean Paul Getty (b.1892), US oil magnate, billionaire, died. He left $1.2 billion as an endowment for a museum and art activities around the world.
1977Jun 6The Washington Post reported that the US had developed a neutron bomb.
1979Jun 6Jack Haley (b.1898), actor, died of cancer. He is best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and farmworker Hickory in The Wizard of Oz.
1981Jun 6In Bihar, India, a train crashed after a bridge collapsed in flash floods during the monsoon and some 400-800 people were killed in what was reportedly world’s worst train disaster.
1984Jun 6In India government forces stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar in an effort to crush Sikh extremists. At least 1,000 Sikhs and 200 soldiers were killed. On Feb 4, 2014, Britain acknowledged that it had played an advisory role to India~ez_rsquo~s government in the attack.
1985Jun 6Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as the remains of Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious “Angel of Death” of the Nazi Holocaust near Sao Paolo, Brazil.
1986Jun 6Ronn Teitelbaum (d.2000 at 61) opened his Johnny Rockets restaurant on Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles. In 2000 it had grown to 138 outlets in 25 states.
1987Jun 6President Reagan met with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. Alysheba, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, placed fourth at the Belmont Stakes, losing to Bet Twice.
1988Jun 6In NYC 2 large snapping turtles were found in a Bronx sewage plant.
1989Jun 6In Washington, DC, Thomas Foley was elected the 49th speaker of the House of Representatives.
1990Jun 6A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, declared the 2 Live Crew album ~ez_ldquo~As Nasty As They Wanna Be” to be obscene. The decision was later overturned on appeal.
1991Jun 6Sylvia Porter (77), economist, author (Money Book), died.
1992Jun 6A.P. Indy won the 124th running of the Belmont Stakes.
1993Jun 6At the Tony Awards, “Kiss of the Spider Woman” won best musical; “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches,” won best play.
1994Jun 6President Clinton joined leaders from America’s World War II allies to mark the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
1995Jun 6US astronaut Norman Thagard broke NASA~ez_rsquo~s space endurance record of 84 days, one hour and 16 minutes, aboard the Russian space station ~ez_ldquo~Mir.”
1996Jun 6The Senate narrowly rejected a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution as outgoing Majority Leader Bob Dole and the Democrats clashed over deficit reduction.
1997Jun 6Timothy 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, Texas.
1998Jun 6“Real Quiet” was denied horse racing’s Triple Crown as “Victory Gallop” won the Belmont Stakes by a nose.
1999Jun 6At the Tony Awards, Arthur Miller~ez_rsquo~s ~ez_ldquo~Death of a Salesman” was named best revival; ~ez_ldquo~Side Man” won best play; ~ez_ldquo~Fosse” was awarded best musical.
2000Jun 6In New Orleans the National D-Day Museum opened on the 56th anniversary of the Allied landing to liberate Europe from Nazi terror.
2001Jun 6Pres. Bush announced plans to restart negotiations with North Korea on issues ranging from missile production to border soldier deployment.
2002Jun 6Pres. Bush proposed a new Cabinet department for domestic security. The Department of Homeland Security would operate on a $37.5 billion budget and have 169,154 employees.
2003Jun 6A federal appeals court ruled that cell phone users can keep their telephone numbers when they change their phone companies.
2004Jun 6World leaders, including President Bush and French President Jacques Chirac put aside their differences to commemorate the D-Day invasion that broke Nazi Germany’s grip on continental Europe.
2005Jun 6The US Supreme Court ruled 6-to-3 that people who smoke marijuana because their doctors recommend it to ease pain can be prosecuted for violating federal drug laws.
2006Jun 6US Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson acknowledged a stolen computer contained personal data on about 2.2 million active-duty military, Guard and Reserve personnel, not just 50,000 as initially believed.
2007Jun 6Bob Barker taped his last episode of CBS’ “The Price Is Right.”
2008Jun 6Pres. Bush signed a transportation bill that freed $45 million for environmental studies for a levitating train planned to run from Disneyland to Las Vegas.
2009Jun 6Palm Inc. introduced its new smart phone called Pre. Two days later Apple unveiled updated versions of its popular iPhone.
2010Jun 6In Ohio a tornado killed 5 people. The tornado that hit Wood and Ottawa counties had estimated winds of up to 165 mph and was by far the most severe of four confirmed tornadoes to strike northern Ohio over the weekend.
2011Jun 6The US Senate confirmed lawyer Donald Verrilli Jr. as the new Solicitor-General, replacing Elena Kagan, who was appointed to the US Supreme Court. Verrilli most recently served as Deputy Counsel to President Obama.
2012Jun 6Angolan troops, whose presence angered local soldiers and prompted a coup in April, began leaving Guinea-Bissau. The pullout was completed on June 9.
2013Jun 6A law enforcement sweep in San Diego led to the arrest of 50 people including 7 active-duty Marines, 7 former Marines and  Navy sailor. The busted crime rings dealt in illegal drugs, stolen military gear and cars.
2014Jun 6San Francisco~ez_rsquo~s Glide Foundation announced that Andy Chua of Singapore bid $2,166,766 to win a private lunch with Warren Buffet, head of Omaha-based Berkshire-Hathaway.
 Source: Timelines of History

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