Saturday, June 11

This Day In History

• 1509   England's King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon.
• 1776   The Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.
• 1919   Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing's first Triple Crown winner.
• 1936   The Presbyterian Church of America was formed in Philadelphia, PA.
• 1963   Gov. George Wallace confronted federal troops at the University of Alabama in an effort to defy a federal court order to allow two blacks to enroll at the school.
• 1963   Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
• 1977   Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
• 1979   Actor John Wayne died at age 72.
• 1982   The movie "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" opened.
• 1985   Karen Ann Quinlan, the comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision, died in Morris Plains, N.J., at age 31.
• 1986   A divided Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania abortion law while reaffirming its 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion.
• 1987   Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term in office.
• 1990   The Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting desecration of the American flag.
• 1992   The Supreme Court ruled that people who commit hate crimes may be sentenced to extra punishment.
• 1996   Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., left the Senate to concentrate on his campaign for the presidency.
• 2001   Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
• 2002   Rock star Paul McCartney married Heather Mills in a remote Irish castle.

Happy Birthday To

• 1880   Jeannette Rankin (U.S. Congresswoman: 1st woman to be elected to this position
• 1910   Jacques-Yves Cousteau (marine explorer: PBS-TV producer; co-inventor of Aqua-Lung; died June 25, 1997)
• 1913   Vince Lombardi (Pro Football Hall of Famer: coach: Green Bay Packers: Super Bowl I, II; “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.”; died Sep 3, 1970)
• 1945   Adrienne Barbeau (actress: Swamp Thing, Maude, Cannonball Run, Silk Degrees, Double-Crossed, Two Evil Eyes)
• 1956   Joe Montana (football: San Francisco 49ers quarterback: