This Day in History:

June 6

Happy, Happies to:

*1755 Nathan Hale American patriot/spy

*1799 Alexander Pushkin Russian poet *1868 Robert Falcon Scott Antarctic explorer

*1875 Thomas Mann author

*1896 Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/marshall/governor-general of Libya *1936 Levi Stubbs [Stubbles] singer (The Four Tops)

*1939 Gary U.S. Bonds [Anderson] singer

Farewells to:

*1799 Patrick Henry US patriot Having gotten liberty, he accepted the alternative *1862 Turner Ashby, Stonewall Jackson’s cavalry leader, 33, was killed near Harrisonburg VA.

*1939 Ford Madox Ford, writer, died at 65

*1968 Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Sirhan.

*1991 Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist (Girl from Ipanima), died at 64

On This Day In:

*1513 - Swiss papal forces defeated the French at the Battle of Novara in Italy during the War of the Holy League.

*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.

*1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association, the YMCA, was founded in London.

*1862 - Battle of Port Royal, SC *1862 - After a brief battle between Confederate and Union gunboats, Memphis, Tennessee, surrendered to Union forces in the American Civil War.

*1882 - H.W. Seely of New York City patented the first electric flatiron. Today we call his invention the electric iron.

*1892 - Benjamin Harrison became the first U.S. president to attend a major league game as he watched Cincinnati defeat the hometown Washington team in 11 innings, 6-5.

*1918 - In his first at-bat at Ebbets Field since being traded by the Dodgers in the off-season, Casey Stengel called time, stepped out of the batter's box, tipped his hat allowing a bird to fly out much to the amazement and amusement of the fans.

*1918 – The US 2nd Division was ordered to retake Belleau Wood *1925 - Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp.

*1932 - The first federal tax on gasoline in the United States was enacted. Then the rate was only a penny per gallon.

*1933 - The first drive-in movie theater opened, in Camden, N.J.

*1934 - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was established to protect the interests of investors.

*1942 - The first parachute jump in the U.S. using a nylon parachute was made (by Adeline Gray, a parachute rigger).

*1942 - Japanese forces retreated in the World War II Battle of Midway.

*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 (at least by western journalists).

*1949 - 1984, George Orwell's vision of a world ruled by Big Brother, was published.

*1964 - I Get Around, recorded by The Beach Boys, entered Billboard's pop record charts on this date, and was in the Number 1 position for 2 weeks. It stayed on the charts for 13 weeks, and was later certified gold.

*1966 - America's Gemini 9 spacecraft splashed down after a three-day mission during which astronaut Eugene Cernan walked in space for a record 2 hours 8 minutes. *1966 - Black activist James Meredith was shot and wounded as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.

*1971 - The Ed Sullivan Show left CBS-TV - it had been a showcase for more than 20 years for artists who ranged from Ethel Merman to Ella Fitzgerald, from Steve and Eydie to the Beatles. "The Ed Sullivan Show" was the longest running variety show on TV. *1978 - California passed proposition 13. Voters supported Senator Howard Jarvis in cutting property taxes 57 percent. This was seen as the start of a taxpayer revolt against high taxes and excessive government spending.

*1982 - Israel launched a full-scale invasion against Lebanon. In the operation "Peace for Galilee," Israeli troops besieged and bombed Beirut.

*1984 - Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikh's holiest shrine, killing an estimated 1,000 people. *1985 - Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as the remains of Dr. Josef Mengele, the ''Angel of Death'' of the Nazi Holocaust

hi dangerous one-

thanks for inviting me to check this group out.

you will keep me on my toes. i like to learn something new every day. with this group i may even learn two!

jm

Thanks for the invite, Nick. I love history! Not as much as baseball, but close... :)

thanks for the invite Nick.

Just a note that I was devastated to learn I missed D Day yesterday. Hoping you will highlight a few events per day that will be pertinent to us and not just generic trivia.

This Day in History:

Happy, Happies to:

*1778 Beau [George Bryan] Brummel fashion leader

*1848 Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin artist

*1917 Dean Martin [Dino Crocetti], comedian, singer

*1940 Tom Jones [Thomas Jones Woodward] singer

Farewells to:

*1329 Robert the Bruce, who seized the Scottish throne in 1306, died of leprosy and was succeeded by David II.

*1631 Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India. Her tomb is the Taj Mahal

*1871 Thomas Jackson Rodman, U.S. military inventor of perforated-cake gunpowder

*1937 Jean Harlow, Hollywood's first sex goddess, died from uremic poisoning and kidney failure. Her sudden death shocked the nation. She would be best-remembered for her film performances in Hell's Angels, Red-Headed Woman, and The Public Enemy.

*1967 Dorothy Parker, famed for her caustic wit, died in New York

*1970 Edward M Forster, British writer (Maurice, passage to India), dies at 91

On This Day In:

*1099 - First Crusaders arrived in Jerusalem

*1494 - The Treaty of Tordesillas was signed, under which Spain and Portugal agreed to divide the New World between themselves.

*1654 - Louis XIV was crowned King of France in Rheims

*1672 - Battle by Solebay: Dutch admiral M de Ruyter defeated the Franco-English fleet

*1799 – First Battle of Zurich – The French, under Massena, were forced to retreat by the Austrians, under Archduke Charles

*1892 - An African American man named Plessy refused to move from a seat reserved for whites on an East Louisiana Railway train in New Orleans (this lead to the U.S. Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896, where separate racial accommodations were determined NOT to be inherently unequal)

*1892 - The cord bicycle tire was patented by J.F. Palmer of Chicago, Illinois.

*1892 - The first pinch-hitter was used in a baseball game. John Joseph Doyle pinch-hit in a game between the Cleveland Spiders and Ward’s Wonders of Brooklyn, New York.

*1893 - 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.

*1906 - The famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania was launched. In 1915, it was sunk by a German U-boat.

*1914 - The first vessel, the Alliance, passed through the Panama Canal

*1940 - British/French troops evacuated Narvik

*1942 - Japanese troops landed on Attu, Aleutian Islands

*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 - Released one month earlier, Carole King's album Tapestry was awarded a Gold Disc on this date. The album was in Billboard's Number 1 album spot for 15 weeks and stayed on the charts for an incredible 292 weeks. Tapestry and King were later awarded the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance (Female). The album sold 12 million copies globally within two years.

*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.

*1990 - The Warsaw Pact formally abandoned its role as guardian of Kremlin power in Eastern Europe and committed itself to radical democratic change.

*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.

*2000 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered Microsoft Corporation split in two for predatory monopolistic practices (although Microsoft changed some of its practices and contracts, the breakup of the company never occurred - after administrations changed from Clinton to Bush, new remediations were ordered during the penalty determination phase by another Federal judge)

nick, i am really enjoying these postings of yours. thanks for going to the effort to do this.