On This Day:
Saturday June 7, 2014 This is the 158th day of the year, with 207 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: first American novel Credit for writing the first American novel, "The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature," goes to William Hill Brown (1756-1793). The book was published in 1789. Brown was the son of a Boston clockmaker who made the timepiece in Old South Church, Boston.
Holidays Feast day of St. Meriasek, St. Robert of Newminster, St. Anthony Gianelli, St. Gottschalk, St. Vulflagius, St. Willibald, St. Colman of Dromore, and St. Paul I of Constantinople.
Malta: National Day.
Freedom of the Press Day.
Events 1494 - Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, agreeing to divide the New World between them.
1498 - Christopher Columbus left on his third voyage of exploration.
1769 - Frontiersman Daniel Boone began his explorations and sighted Kentucky.
1775 - The United Colonies changed their name to the United States.
1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
1893 - Mohandas K. Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer working in South Africa, refused to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train, his first act of civil disobedience.
1914 - The first vessel passed through the Panama Canal.
1929 - The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence.
1939 - King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, New York, from Canada, the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
1955 - "The $64,000 Question," a summer replacement show, premiered.
1965 - The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a Connecticut law banning contraception.
1975 - Sony Corporation unveiled the Betamax videocassette recorder (VCR).
1991 - Mount Pinatubo explodes, making it the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century.
2002 - Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel was convicted in Norwalk, Connecticut, of beating Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley to death when both were 15 years old in 1975. He was later sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.
2006 - The British Houses of Parliament are temporarily closed due to an anthrax scare.
Births 1848 - Paul Gauguin, French post-Impressionist painter.
1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, African-American poet.
1917 - Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti), American singer, film actor, and comedian.
1929 - John Turner, English-born Canadian prime minister.
1940 - Tom Jones (born Sir Thomas Jones Woodward), Welsh singer.
1953 - Johnny Clegg, English-born South African musician.
1958 - Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson), American musician.
1967 - Dave Navarro, American musician.
1981 - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player and model.
Deaths 1866 - Chief Seattle (also called Sealth, See-ahth, and Seathl), leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish Native American tribes.
1937 - Jean Harlow, American actress.
1971 - Leo Burnett, advertising executive born in St. Johns, Michigan.
1980 - Henry Miller, American novelist.
1996 - Max Factor, Jr., American businessman.
2006 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born terrorist.
|
No comments:
Post a Comment