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THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2013

Today is Thursday, June 6, the 157th day of 2013. There are 208 days left in the year.1523 ― Gustavo I becomes king of Sweden (Swedish National Day)1882 ― Electric iron patented by Henry W. Seely, NYC 1844 ― Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) founded in London1885 ― The opera “Lakme” is produced (Paris) 1933 ― First drive-in theatre opens (Camden, N.J.) 1962 ― Beatles meet their producer George Martin for first time; record “Besame Mucho” with Peter Best on drums1967 ― Six-day War between Israel and Arab neighbors begin 1977 ― U.S. Supreme Court tossed out automatic death penalty laws1988 ― 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 

Jun 5, 2013

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2013

Today is Wednesday, June 5, the 156th day of 2013. There are 209 days left in the year.1661 ― Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge 1806 ― Batavian Republic becomes the Kingdom of Holland 1917 ― 10 million U.S. men begin registering for draft in WW I 1933 ― U.S. goes off gold standard 1940 ― First synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron, Ohio 1945 ― USA, U.K., USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany 1947 ― Sec of State George C. Marshall outlines “The Marshall Plan”1968 ― Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day 1975 ― Suez Canal reopens (after 6-Day War caused it to close) 1977 ― First personal computer, the Apple II, goes on sale

Jun 4, 2013

TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2013

Today is Tuesday, June 4, the 155th day of 2013. There are 210 days left in the year.780 B.C. ― First total solar eclipse reliably recorded by Chinese 1647 ― British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner 1783 ― Montgolfier brothers launch first hot-air balloon (unmanned) 1784 ― Mme. Thible becomes first woman to fly (in a balloon) 1927 ― First Ryders Cup (Golf), U.S. beats England 9-2 1929 ― George Eastman demonstrates first Technicolor movie (Rochester, N.Y.) 1940 ― German forces enter Paris 1942 ― Battle of Midway begins; Japan's first major defeat in WW II 1956 ― Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public 1965 ― Rolling Stones release “Satisfaction”

Jun 3, 2013

MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2013

Today is Monday, June 3, the 154th day of 2013. There are 211 days left in the year. 1098 ― Christian Crusaders seize Antioch, Turkey 1851 ― First baseball uniforms worn; Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers 1860 ― Comanche, Iowa, completely destroyed by one of a series of tornadoes 1916 ― ROTC established by Act of Congress 1918 ― Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional 1934 ― Dr. Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted 1976 ― Queen's “Bohemian Rhapsody” goes gold 1976 ― U.S. presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta 1989 ― Troops in China shoot and kill hundreds of students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing 1991 ― Mt. Unzen erupts in Japan; worst eruption in Japanese history

Jun 2, 2013

SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2013

Today is Saturday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2013. There are 214 days left in the year. 1495 ― First written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland; Friar John Cor is the distiller 1845 ― Homing pigeon completes 11,000-km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days 1869 ― Voting machine patented by Thomas Edison 1893 ― The opera “Falstaff” is produced (Berlin) 1938 ― Superman Comics launched 1958 ― Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France 1967 ― Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in U.S. and go gold 1969 ― Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio and TV 1990 ― Dow Jones Average hits a record high of 2,900.97 1991 ― Mt. Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for first time in 600 years 

May 31, 2013

FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2013

Today is Friday, May 31, the 151st day of 2013. There are 214 days left in the year.70 ― Rome captures first wall of the city of Jerusalem 1531 ― “Women’s Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted 1678 ― Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes 1868 ― Dr. James Moore (U.K.) wins first recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parch de St. Cloud, Paris 1870 ― E. J. DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement 1884 ― Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patents “flaked cereal" 1900 ― U.S. troops arrive in Peking, help put down “Boxer Rebellion” 1917 ― First jazz record released (Dark Town Stutters Ball) 1991 ― Oldest bride; Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia 1997 ― Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150 meter race

May 30, 2013

THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2013

Today is Thursday, May 30, the 150th day of 2013. There are 215 days left in the year.1783 ― Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes first daily newspaper in U.S. 1814 ― First Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon’s first abdication 1872 ― Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy 1889 ― The brassiere is invented 1913 ― First Balkan War ends, Treaty of London 1958 ― Unidentified soldiers killed in WWII & Korean War buried in Arlington 1965 ― France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (underground) 1967 ― Biafra declares independence from Nigeria 1967 ― Robert “Evel" Knievel’s motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles 1972 ― Three Japanese PFL terrorists kill 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv’s Lod International Airport 

May 29, 2013

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2013

Today is Wednesday, May 29, the 149th day of 2013. There are 216 days left in the year. 526 ― Antioch struck by earthquake; about 250,000 die 1849 ― Lincoln says “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and of people some of time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time" 1900 ― Trademark “Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co. 1942 ― Bing Crosby records “White Christmas" greatest selling record to date 1959 ― Charles de Gaulle forms French Government 1968 ― U.N. resolves sanctions on white minority-ruled Rhodesia 1977 ― Janet Guthrie becomes first woman to drive in the Indianapolis 500 1982 ― Pentagon plans first strategy to fight a nuclear war 1990 ― Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic 1997 ― Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000-year-old fossil

May 28, 2013

TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013

Today is Tuesday, May 28, the 148th day of 2013. There are 217 days left in the year.1742 ― First indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman’s Fields, London) 1871 ― Paris communards revolt put down 1923 ― Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere 1961 ― Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize, 1977) 1961 ― Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years) 1964 ― Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Delhi 1964 ― Palestine National Congress forms the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in Jerusalem1971 ― USSR Mars 3 launched, first spacecraft to soft land on Mars 1972 ― White House “plumbers” break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate 1997 ― Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis 

May 27, 2013

MONDAY, MAY 27, 2013

Today is Monday, May 27, the 147th day of 2013. There are 218 days left in the year.1679 ― Habeas Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in U.K. 1703 ― St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great 1921 ― After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty 1935 ― Supreme Court declares FDR’s National Recovery Act unconstitutional 1942 ― Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered 1951 ― Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing 1961 ― President Kennedy announces U.S. goal to reach the Moon 1980 ― South Korean military cracks down on democracy movement; 2,000 killed 1994 ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile 1997 ― Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO

May 26, 2013

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