TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JUNE 9
68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging
1534 Jacques Cartier sails into the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in Canada.
1549 Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England
1628 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass
1772 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion
1790 John Barry copyrighted “Philadelphia Spelling Book.” It was the first American book to be copyrighted.
1822 Charles Graham receives 1st patent for false teeth
1856 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts
1860 The Ms. Ann Stevens book “Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter” was offered for sale for a dime. It was the first published “dime novel.”
1861 Mary Ann “Mother” Bickerdyke begins working in Union hospitals.
1863 At the Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, Union and Confederate cavalries clash in the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War.
1869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer (Phila)
1898 China agreed to lease Hong Kong to Britain for 99 years.
1931 Robert H. Goddard patents a rocket-fueled aircraft design.
1934 Donald Duck makes his film debut in The Wise Little Hen
1942 The Japanese high command announces that “The Midway Occupation operations have been temporarily postponed.”
1943 Congress passes “pay-as-you-go” income tax
1944 The Republic of Iceland was established.
1945 Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declares that Japan will fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.
1954 At the Army-McCarthy hearings, attorney Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency?”
1959 The first ballistic missile-carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, is launched.
1967 Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
1969 Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice
1978 After 148 years, the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints finally allowed black men to become priests.
1978 Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, London
1985 Thomas Sutherland, an American educator, was kidnapped in Lebanon. He was not released until November 1991.
1986 The Rogers Commission released a report on the Challenger disaster. The report explained that the spacecraft blew up as a result of a failure in a solid rocket booster joint.
1997 British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong expires
2000 Canada and the United States signed a border security agreement. The agreement called for the establishment of a border-enforcement team.
2000 The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal gift and estate taxes. The bill called for the taxes to be phased out over 10 years.
2011 The world’s first artificial organ transplant was performed. It was an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells.
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
