On This Day:
Sunday June 8, 2014 This is the 159th day of the year, with 206 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Ziegfeld Follies Florenz Ziegfeld produced the first Ziegfeld Follies revue on Broadway in New York City in 1907, and the combination of seminudity, pageantry, and comedy proved successful until the 1930s when the Great Depression ended the show. Ziegfeld required that every woman in the Follies have a 36-inch bust, a 26-inch waist, and 38-inch hips. Some famous Ziegfeld girls include Eve Arden, Nora Bayes, Fanny Brice, Billie Burke, Paulette Goddard, Anna Held, Marilyn Miller, Ann Pennington, and Barbara Stanwyck.
Holidays Feast day of St. Medard, St. William of York, St. Cloud of Metz, and St. Maximinius of Aix.
Events 1783 - Iceland's Laki volcano erupted and continued to spew lava for eight more months; more than 9,000 people were killed.
1789 - The Bill of Rights was first proposed, by James Madison.
1861 - Tennessee seceded from the Union.
1869 - Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago, Illinois received a U.S. patent for the suction vacuum cleaner.
1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.
1965 - U.S. forces were authorized to go into combat in South Vietnam.
1967 - During the Six-Day War, Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attacked the USS Liberty in international waters off Egypt's Gaza Strip.
1968 - Authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1986 - Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.
2001 - Tony Blair is elected to a second term as British Prime Minister.
2006 - Workers working on the regeneration of Broadmead, Bristol discover an unexploded German bomb from World War II.
Births 1772 - Robert Stevenson, Scottish engineer.
1810 - Robert Schumann, German composer.
1869 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect.
1921 - Suharto, President of Indonesia.
1921 - LeRoy Neiman, artist, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
1927 - Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor.
1944 - Boz Scaggs (born William Royce Scaggs), singer and songwriter born in Canton, Ohio.
1951 - Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins), Welsh singer and guitarist.
1957 - Scott Adams, American cartoonist, and creator of the Dilbert comic strip.
1962 - Nick Rhodes (born Nicholas James Bates), English keyboardist for Duran Duran.
1977 - Kanye West, American rapper.
Deaths 632 - Mohammed, regarded by Muslims as the last messenger and prophet of God.
1809 - Thomas Paine, English author of "The Rights of Man".
1845 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States of America.
1874 - Cochise, leader of the band of the Chiricahua Apache. Cochise County, Arizona is named after him.
1924 - George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber.
2000 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist, and the creator of the comic strip Shoe.
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