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
1790 John Barry copyrighted “Philadelphia Spelling Book.” It was the first American book to be copyrighted.
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.
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 1st appearance of Donald Duck in a cartoon, “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.
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
1978 After 148 years, the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints finally allowed black men to become priests.
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.
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.
2019 Over 1 million people protest in Hong Kong over proposed new extradition laws to China in one of largest-ever protests in the city
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
