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.
Happy Birthday To
  • 1917   Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti) (straight man of comedy-team: Martin and Lewis)
  • 1943   Ken Osmond (actor: Leave It to Beaver, High School U.S.A.)

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