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