Hello there, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Swing bandleader Jimmie Lunceford, who knew a thing or two about the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1586 – Francis Drake‘s forces raid St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.
- 1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force two times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
- 1833 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride on a train.
- 1844 – The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
- 1889 – The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
- 1892 – Chicago ‘L’ (commuter rail system) begins operation
- 1932 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1⁄4¢/L) sold.
- 1933 – The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
- 1934 – New Deal: the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- 1944 – World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
- 1946 – The National Basketball Association is created, with eleven teams.
- 1968 – Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John F. Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5.
- 1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched.
- 1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is released.
- 1985 – The grave of “Wolfgang Gerhard” is opened in Embu, Brazil; the remains exumed are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz‘s “Angel of Death”. Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
- 2002 – Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
- 2005 – In Gonzales v. Raich, the United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana.
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