June 7th
Today in America's Present Past
1663 | Indian Wars: Munsee Esopus make a surprise attack on the Dutch settlement of Wiltwijck, New York.
1665 | Civil Rights: Boston's First Baptist Church was founded.
1769 | Frontiersman Daniel Boone ascends Pilot Knob and views what becomes Kentucky.
1776 | War of Independence: Richard Lee (Virginia) moves the Declaration of Independence in the Continental Congress.
1843 | American educator Susan Blow was born.
1862 | Civil War: General Benjamin Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed the US flag on display over the New Orleans Mint.
1863 | Civil War: The Battle of Milliken's Bend, Louisiana.
1864 | POTUS: President Lincoln renominated by the Republican Party.
1866 | 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1866 | Chief Seattle, Suquamish, and Duwamish died.
1892 | Civil Rights: Creole shoemaker Homer Plessy buys a whites-only train ticket in New Orleans in civil disobedience, resulting in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
1896 | Aviator and WWI flying Ace Douglas Campbell was born.
1900 | Inventor and professor Frederick Terman was born.
1913 | Hudson Stuck and Harry Karstens become the first Americans to ascend the main summit of Denali (Mt McKinley).
1917 | Entertainer Dean Martin was born.
1917 | Melvin Jones founded Lions Clubs International.
1928 | Physician and CPR inventor James Jude was born.
1932 | Physician and first American brain surgeon William Williams Keen died.
1936 | Charles "Lucky" Luciano was convicted on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution.
1937 | Actress Jean Harlow died.
1942 | WWII: US forces concluded the Battle of Midway, defeating Japan.
1952 | Actor Liam Neeson was born.
1953 | TV: The first color network telecast in compatible color.
1955 | POTUS: Republican Eisenhower becomes the first President to appear on color TV.
1958 | Entertainer Prince Rogers Nelson was born.
1959 | Politician Mike Pence was born.
1965 | SCOTUS: Court decided Griswold v. Connecticut.
1967 | Musician Dave Navarro was born.
1967 | Author and poet Dorthy Parker died.
1968 | Sirhan Sirhan was indicted for the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1978 | Comedian Bill Hader was born.
1980 | Novelist Henry Miller died.
1998 | Civil Rights: James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas.