1934 – Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon “The Wise Little Hen.”
0068 – Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging
1534 – Jacques Cartier became the first to sail into the river he named Saint Lawrence.
1549 – Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England
1628 – 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Massachusetts
1790 – John Barry copyrighted “Philadelphia Spelling Book.” It was the first American book to be copyrighted.
1822 – Charles Graham of New York patents porcelain 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 began working in Union hospitals.
1898 – China agreed to lease Hong Kong to Britain for 99 years.
1910 – A passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland)
1930 – Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1931 – Robert H. Goddard patented a rocket-fueled aircraft design.
1934 – Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon “The Wise Little Hen.”
1940 – Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.
1943 – “Pay-as-you-go” (withholding) US income tax deductions authorized
1944 – The Republic of Iceland was established.
1945 – Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declared that Japan would fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.
1946 – Bhumibol Adulyadej becomes King of Thailand after the death of his brother King Ananda Mahidol
1954 – Joseph Welch asks US Senator Joseph McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” during Senate-Army hearings
1959 – The first ballistic missile carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, was launched.
1970 – Harry Blackmun sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
1978 – Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
1978 – Johannes Gutenberg’s Bible, the first book produced using the printing press, (1 of 21 complete versions) 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.
1999 – NATO and Yugoslavia signed a peace agreement over Kosovo.
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.
2006 – King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand celebrates the 1st of 3 national holidays to commemorate his 60 years on the throne.
2011 – The world’s first artificial organ transplant was performed. It was an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells.
2013 – Edward Snowden publicly makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents
2016 – Successful attempts to turn CO2 gases into stone underground in Iceland published in the journal “Science”
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
2021 – One of the worst ever plagues of mice in New South Wales, Australia, prompts local government to commit $100 million in support to farmers
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
