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Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:28:25 -0500
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Saturday, June 06, 2009
Only 208 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
D-Day
On The Way To Today... June 6th
1242 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris
1391 Inhabitants of Seville Spain massacres 5,000 Jews
1513 Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs Valois
1520 France and England sign treaty of Scotland
1536 Mexico begins it's inquisition
1660 The Peace of Copenhagen was signed, ending the war between
Sweden and Denmark.
1664 New Amsterdam renamed New York City
1665 Battle at Monte Carlo: English and Portuguese army beat Spain
1673 France and Brandenburg sign peace treaty
1683 The first public museum, The Ashmolean, was opened at Oxford,
England.
1716 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana
1744 France and Prussia sign peace treaty
1797 Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic
1801 The war between Spain and Portugal known as the War of the
Oranges ended with the Treaty of Badajoz being signed.
1809 Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy
established
1813 U.S. invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek
1816 10' snowfall in New England, 'year without a summer', Krakatoa
1833 Andrew Jackson became the first United States President to
ride in a railroad car. He boarded a Baltimore & Ohio, B&O, passenger
train in Baltimore, Maryland.
1850 Levi Strauss made his 1st blue jeans
1875 Netherlands goes on the gold standard
1882 Cyclone in Arabian Sea, Bombay, India, drowns 100,000
1882 H.W. Seely of New York City patented the first electric
flatiron. Today we call his invention the electric iron
1896 George Samuelson leaves New York harbor to row across Atlantic
1914 1st air flight out of sight of land, Scotland to Norway
1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st U.S. victory of WW I
1919 Finland declares war on bolsheviks
1920 Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army
1932 U.S. Federal gas tax enacted
1933 The world's first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New
Jersey. It had parking accommodations for 500 cars and displayed a
projection screen forty by fifty feet.
1936 Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New
Jersey
1941 1st Navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1942 1st nylon parachute jump, Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray
1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1942 Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
1944 "D-Day": the Allied forces began the invasion of Normandy,
France, during World War II. The assault was led by the largest
invasion fleet in history - 1,200 fighting ships, 10,000 planes, and
more than 150,000 soldiers. The successful landing was hailed as the
beginning of the end of Nazi Germany.
1944 Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad
1944 Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. receives congressional medal of honor
1944 U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje
1947 Treaty drawn for establishment of International Patent
Institute
1971 Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50
die
1972 Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie
Rhodesia)
1972 Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
1972 U.S. bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed
1977 Washington Post reports U.S. has developed neutron bomb
1979 200th running of horse's Derby in England
1979 Royal Air force receives 1st F-16
1980 For the second time in a week, U.S. nuclear forces went on
red alert following a computer error warning of a Soviet attack.
1981 In the world's worst rail disaster, seven coaches of an
overcrowded passenger train were blown off the tracks into the River
Kosi, in Bihar, India. At least 800 people were killed
1983 Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland
1994 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia, about 1000
killed
1994 Brian Lara scores 501 not out for Warwickshire vs Durham
1994 CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade
1994 Cricketer Brian Lara hits record 501 not out/390 runs in 1 day
2006 Union of Islamic Courts takes over Mogadishu, Somalia
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