Today is Thursday, June 25, the 176th day of 2009. There are 189 days left in the year.
1178 _ Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon
1798 _ U.S. passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1929 _ President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1938 _ Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40c per hour
1941 _ FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination
1942 _ British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
1950 _ Korean War begins; N. Korea invades S. Korea
1951 _ First color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to four cities
1981 _ Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
1991 _ Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia