FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2011

Today is Friday, June 17, the 168th day of 2011. There are 197 days left in the year.

1789 ― Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly

1837 ― Charles Goodyear obtains his first rubber patent

1856 ― Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia

1885 ― Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship ``Isere”

1940 ― France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II

1950 ― First kidney transplant (Chicago)

1953 ― Riots in East Germany for reunification

1967 ― China becomes world's fourth thermonuclear (H-bomb) power

1982 ― U.S. President Reagan‘s first U.N. Gen Assembly address (``evil empire" speech)

1988 ― Women sentenced to 90 years in first product tampering murder case