Associated Press
On June 16, 1858, Accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
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1812 The City Bank of New York (later Citibank) opened for business.
1890 Stan Laurel of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Lancashire, England.
1897 The United States signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii.
1903 Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.
1911 The forerunner of IBM was incorporated in New York State as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co.
1932 President Herbert Hoover was renominated at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1960 “Psycho,” directed by Alfred Hitchcock, premiered in New York.
1963 The Soviet Union launched the first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, into orbit aboard Vostok 6.
1967 The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival – which catapulted Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Janis Joplin to stardom – opened in northern California.
1976 Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.
1978 President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.
1987 A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him; he was convicted of illegal weapons possession.
1996 Russians voted in the country’s first independent presidential election; the result was a runoff between President Boris Yeltsin, the eventual winner, and a Communist challenger.
2011 Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., announced his resignation from Congress, bowing to the furor caused by his sexually charged online dalliances with a former porn actress and other women..
Today’s Birthdays:
Golfer Phil Mickelson turns 45 years old today.
Joyce Carol Oates, Author, 77
Billy “Crash” Craddock, Country singer, 77
Lamont Dozier, Songwriter, 74
Eddie Levert, R&B singer (The O’Jays), 73
Joan Van Ark, Actress (“Knot’s Landing”), 72
Roberto Duran, Boxer, 64
Gino Vannelli, Pop singer, 63
Laurie Metcalf, Actress (“Roseanne”), 60
Missy Peregrym, Actress, 33