TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 6 2019
1523 Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union
1716 French transport the 1st African slaves to Louisiana
1813 The United States invasion of Canada is halted at Stony Creek, Ontario.
1844 The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.
1882 Electric iron patented by Henry W. Seely, NYC
1889 Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
1924 The German Reichstag accepts the Dawes Plan, an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts.
1930 Frozen foods are sold commercially for the first time.
1932 US Federal gas tax enacted
1934 President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.
1941 The U.S. government authorizes the seizure of foreign ships in U.S. ports.
1944 D-Day: Operation Overlord lands 400,000 Allied American, British, and Canadian troops on the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied France.
1946 The National Basketball Association (NBA) is founded
1966 African American James Meredith is shot and wounded while on a solo march in Mississippi to promote voter registration among blacks.
1966 NFL & AFL announce their merger
1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
1982 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out the PLO
1984 The video game Tetris is published
1988 George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
1999 Napster the online music file sharing service starts as the first widely-used peer-to-peer sharing service allowing music fans to easily share MP3 format song files with each other. The service is shut down by court order in July 2001.
2001 A Los Angeles court awards $3bn in punitive damages to Richard Boeken against cigarette maker Philip Morris saying they did not do enough to warn him of the dangers of smoking
2002 President Bush proposed a new Cabinet department: The Department of Homeland Security.
** history.net, onthisday.com, infoplease.com, timeanddate.com, thepeoplehistory.com, on-this-day.com **
