Don Singleton: Tuesday, June 7

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Tuesday, June 7

This Day In History

1654 Louis XIV was crowned king of France in Rheims.
1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
1848 French postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin was born in Paris.
1864 Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term as president at the Republican Party convention in Baltimore.
1892 The first pinch-hitter in baseball was used in a game.
1892 Homer Plessy was arrested when he refused to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans. The case led to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ''separate but equal'' decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
1939 King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, N.Y., from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
1948 The Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia with the resignation of President Eduard Benes.
1967 Author-critic Dorothy Parker, famed for her caustic wit, died in New York at age 73.
1976 "The NBC Nightly News", with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, aired for the first time.
1981 Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons
1996 The Clinton White House acknowledged it had obtained the FBI files of prominent Republicans, calling it ''an innocent bureaucratic mistake.''
1998 James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas.
2000 U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp.
2002 A yearlong hostage crisis in the Philippines involving three Americans came to a bloody end as Filipino commandos managed to save only one of the captives.
2002 Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel was convicted in Norwalk, Conn., of beating Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley to death when both were 15 years old in 1975.