Today in History: Wednesday, June 03, 2015
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1621 The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, present-day New York City.<\/p>\n
1888 The poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.<\/p>\n
1937, the Duke of Windsor married American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom he had abdicated the British throne.<\/p>\n
1963 Pope John XXIII died at age 81.<\/p>\n
1965 Astronaut Edward White became the first American to walk in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.<\/p>\n
1989 Chinese army troops began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.<\/p>\n
1989 Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died.<\/p>\n
1999 Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO airstrikes.<\/p>\n
2001 Mel Brooks’ musical comedy “The Producers” won a record 12 Tony Awards.<\/p>\n
2008 Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.<\/p>\n
2009 New Hampshire became the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n
2011 Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when rebel rockets barraged his palace; he later went to Saudi Arabia for treatment.<\/p>\n
2011 Physician-assisted suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian died at a Michigan hospital at age 83.<\/p>\n
Today’s Birthdays:
\nBroadcast journalist, Anderson Cooper turns 48 years old today.<\/p>\n
Chuck Barris, Game show host, (“The Gong Show”), 86<\/p>\n
Larry McMurtry, Author, 79<\/p>\n
Ian Hunter, Rock musician, (Mott the Hoople), 76<\/p>\n
Billy Cunningham, Basketball Hall of Famer, 72<\/p>\n
Penelope Wilton Actress (“Downton Abbey”), 69<\/p>\n
Suzi Quatro, Singer, 65<\/p>\n
Mike Gordon, Rock musician, (Phish), 50<\/p>\n
Tennis player, Rafael Nadal turns 29 years old today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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