THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2016

Today is Thursday, June 9, the 162nd day of 2016. There are 204 days left in the year.

1732 — Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe

1789 — Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I

1822 — Charles Graham receives 1st patent for false teeth

1883 — First commercial electric railway line begins operation in Chicago

1898 — China leases Hong Kong’s new territories to Britain for 99 years

1931 — First showing of a Donald Duck cartoon

1940 — Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II

1949 — Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes first woman treasurer of U.S.

1960 — ABC & AFL sign a five-year contract

1963 — Movie “Cleopatra” opens in NY

1969 — Brian Jones quits the Rolling Stones

1969 — Warren Burger confirmed as U.S. Chief Justice

1970 — Harry A Blackmun becomes a Supreme Court Justice

1991 — Jim Courier beats Andre Agassi for the French Open