SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2009

Today is Saturday, June 6, the 157th day of 2009. There are 208 days left in the year.

1844 _ Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) founded in London

1882 _ Electric iron patented by Henry W. Seely, NYC

1933 _ First drive-in theatre opens (Camden, N.J.)

1960 _ Roy Orbison releases ``Only the Lonely"

1967 _ Six-day War between Israel and Arab neighbors begin

1972 _ Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie, Rhodesia)

1980 _ Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title

1982 _ 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO

1984 _ 1,200 die in Sikh ``Golden Temple" uprising India

1988 _ George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)