June 9th
Today in America's Present Past
1628 | Civil Rights: The first deportation from what is now the US, Thomas Morton was expelled from Massachusetts.
1650 | The Harvard Corporation, a corporate entity governing the educational organization Harvard, was established, making it the first U.S. corporate entity.
1732 | James Oglethorpe was granted a charter for Georgia.
1772 | The Gaspee Affair occurs.
1790 | The first book copyrighted under the governance of the U.S. Constitution is the "Philadelphia Spelling Book.”
1791 | Inventor of “Dry Cleaning” Thomas L. Jennings was born.
1822 | Charles Graham patents porcelain false teeth.
1856 | Civil Rights: 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled hand carts.
1862 | Civil War: The Battle of Port Republic is waged.
1870 | POTUS: Republican President Grant meets with Sioux Chief Red Cloud at the White House.
1890 | Composer Cole Porter was born.
1909 | Alice Huyler Ramsey becomes the first woman to drive to San Francisco across the continental U.S to New York City.
1911 | Activist Carrie Nation died.
1916 | Politician Robert McNamara was born.
1927 | Activist Victoria Woodhull died.
1931 | Scientist Robert Goddard patents a jet engine.
1934 | Cartoon icon Donald Duck debuts in "The Wise Little Hen.”
1938 | Laser printer inventor Gary Starkweather was born in Lansing, Michigan.
1943 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt signs the Current Tax Payment Act into law, creating the practice of withholding taxes from employee paychecks.
1949 Civil Rights: Georgia Neese Clark became the first woman U.S. Treasury Secretary.
1961 | Actor Michal J. Fox was born.
1963 | Actor Johnny Depp was born.
1969 | SCOTUS: Warren Burger confirmed as Chief Justice.
1970 | SCOTUS: Justice Harry Blackmun is sworn in.
1976 | Politician James A. Farley died.
1981 | Actress Natalie Portman was born.
1985 | War on Terror: American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon.
2000 | Painter George Segal died.
2017 | Actor Adam West died.
2023 | POTUS: Former President Trump was indicted by a federal grand jury on 37 counts.