Today is Monday, June 8, the 159th day of 2009. There are 206 days left in the year.
452 _ Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
1786 _ First commercially-made ice cream sold (N.Y.)
1824 _ Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1889 _ Cable Cars begin service in L.A.
1940 _ Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
1965 _ U.S. troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1967 _ Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 U.S. crewmen
1968 _ Rolling Stones release ``Jumpin' Jack Flash"
1979 _ The Source, first computer public information service, goes online
1986 _ Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected president of Austria