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
1790 Civil war breaks out in Martinique.
1856 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts
1861 Mary Ann “Mother” Bickerdyke begins working in Union hospitals.
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 made his screen debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1943 Congress passes “pay-as-you-go” income tax
1944 The Republic of Iceland was established.
1954 At the Army-McCarthy hearings, attorney Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency?”
1967 Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
1969 Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice
1970 Harry A Blackmun becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1972 American advisor John Paul Vann is killed in a helicopter accident in Vietnam.
1978 After 148 years, the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints finally allowed black men to become priests.
1985 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon
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.
2011 The world’s first artificial organ transplant was performed. It was an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells.
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