TUESDAY, June 06, 2023

1889-Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks

1933-First drive-in theatre opens (Camden NJ)

1942-First nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)

1946-Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV

1960-Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"

1967-Six-day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin

1971-Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station

1975-Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established

1978-Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57 percent

1985-Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located & exhumed

1988-George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II

Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)

2012-Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs