Sunday, June 07, 2009
Only 207 days until the Year 2010
Julian: 2454990 Day of Year: 158
Hebrew: 15th of Sivan, 5769
Islamic: Sunday 14 Jumaada al-THaany 1430 A.H.
Chinese Year: 4707 Ox (Earth-Ox-26-79)
Chinese Lunar: Gui Wei Day, Geng Wu Month, Ji Chou Year
Chinese Solar: Day 15, Fifth Month, Ji Chou Year
Today is:
Nursing Assistants Day
On The Way To Today... June 7th
1494 - The Treaty of Tordesillas was signed, under which Spain and
Portugal agreed to divide the New World between themselves.
1523 - Gustavus Vasa was proclaimed King Gustavus I of Sweden after he
defeated the Danes.
1546 - England signs Peace of Andres with Scotland/Ireland
1557 - England declares war on France
1654 - Louis XIV was crowned king of France in Rheims.
1694 - English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest
1775 - United Colonies change name to United States
1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental
Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
1832 - The Reform Act came into force in Britain redistributing
parliamentary seats and expanding the electorate.
1860 - The "dime novel" made its first appearance when a New York
publisher issued Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter,
written by Mrs. Ann Stevens.
1863 - Mexico City captured by French troops
1864 - Abraham Lincoln was nominated for another term as president at
his party's convention in Baltimore.
1887 - Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston,
Washington D.C.
1892 - The cord bicycle tire was patented by J.F. Palmer of Chicago,
Illinois.
1903 - Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of passive resistance was born when
he was thrown off a segregated train in Pietermaritzburg, South
Africa, where he spent 21 years.
1905 - Sweden and Norway agreed to end their union with a Treaty of
Separation, which came into effect the following October.
1906 - The famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania was launched. In
1915, it was sunk by a German U-boat.
1912 - U.S. Army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
1929 - The Papal State was revived when the Vatican was established in
Rome. It had not existed since 1870.
1937 - On the cover of "LIFE" magazine, the latest campus fashions of
the times were shown. They included saddle shoes.
1939 - King George VI and Queen Elizabeth crossed from Canada to the
U.S. to become the first British monarchs to visit the United States.
1942 - The Battle of Midway came to an end, inflicting the first major
naval defeat of the war on the Japanese.
1953 - Ollie, Kukla, and Fran (Allison), with the Boston Pops
Orchestra directed by Arthur Fiedler, were featured on the first
network telecast in "compatible color." The program was broadcast from
Boston, Massachusetts.
1962 - NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 31,580
mph
1965 - Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
1965 - Sony Corporation unveiled its brand new consumer home videotape
recorder, today known as a VCR, which was originally intended to show
homemade videos. It sold for $995, camera not included.
1971 - The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz II docked in space with the Salyut
space station.
1981 - Israeli planes attacked and destroyed the Osirak nuclear
reactor near Baghdad, Iraq.
1988 - Bangladesh, the world's third largest Muslim nation, made Islam
its state religion as riot police went on alert to prevent protests
against the law.
1989 - For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89
1998 - In a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd Jr., a
49-year-old black man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to
his death in Jasper, Texas.
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