June 7
1494 - Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the New World between the two countries.
1654 - Louis XIV was crowned king of France.
1712 - Pennsylvania’s colonial assembly voted to ban the further importation of slaves.
1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing a Declaration of Independence.
1892 - Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Supreme Court's "separate but equal" precedent set in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896; a precedent that was reversed by the court in 1954.
1929 - Vatican City became a sovereign state.
1939 - King George VI arrived at Niagara Falls, N.Y., from Canada on the first visit to the U.S. by a reigning British monarch.
1942 - The Battle of Midway ended in a decisive victory for American naval forces over Imperial Japan, marking a turning point in the Pacific War.
1948 - President Eduard Bene of Czechoslovakia resigned the the communist takeover of the country was completed.
1954 - British mathematician, computer pioneer and code breaker Alan Turing died at age 41, an apparent suicide. (Turing, convicted in 1952 of “gross indecency” for a homosexual relationship, was pardoned in 2013.
1965 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, struck down, 7-2, a Connecticut law used to prosecute a Planned Parenthood clinic in New Haven for providing contraceptives to married couples.
1981 - Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1993 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious groups could sometimes meet on school property after hours.
1993 - Ground was broken for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
1998 - James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old African-American man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men were later sentenced to death; one of them, Lawrence Russell Brewer, was executed in 2011 and the other, John William King, was executed in April, 2019. A third defendant received life with the possibility of parole.)
2000 - A federal judge ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp.
2003 - Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elected the first openly gay bishop by New Hampshire Episcopalians.
2004 - A steady, near-silent stream of people circled through the rotunda of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, where the body of the nation’s 40th president lay in repose before traveling to Washington two days later for a state funeral.
2020 - A majority of Minneapolis City Council members said they supported dismantling the police department. (The idea later stalled, but it became part of a national debate over police reform.)
2020 - A tally by Johns Hopkins University revealed that the worldwide death toll from COVID-19 had surpassed 400,000.
Birthdays
25 - Christian McCaffrey (football player)
30 - Emily Ratajkowski (actress/model)
31 - Iggy Azalea (rapper)
32 - Shelley Buckner (actress)
33 - Michael Cera (actor)
40 - Anna Kournikova (tennis player)
40 - Larisa Oleynik (actress)
42 - Anna Torv (actress)
43 - Bill Hader (actor/comedian)
43 - Adrienne Frantz (actress)
46 - Allen Iverson (basketball player)
47 - Bear Grylls (TV personality)
49 - Karl Urban (actor)
51 - Helen Baxendale (actress)
54 - Dave Navarro (musician)
56 - Mick Foley (professional wrstler)
62 - Mike Pence (former Vice President of the United States)
66 - William Forsythe (actor)
68 - Colleen Camp (actress)
69 - Liam Neeson (actor)
70 - Anne Twomey (actress)
75 - Jenny Jones (talk show host)
81 - Tom Jones (singer)
90 - Virginia McKenna (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 7
1892 - John Joseph Doyle became the first pinch-hitter in baseball when he was used in a game.
1978 - The Washington Bullets defeat the Seattle Supersonics in seven games to win the NBA championship.
1982 - Steve Garvey became the fifth player in major league baseball history to play in 1,000 consecutive games.
1983 - Steve Carlton temporarily passed Nolan Ryan in career strikeouts when he registered his 3,522nd.
1989 - The Toronto Skydome hosted the first game to be played indoors and outdoors in the same day. The roof was closed when the weather became threatening.
1997 - The Detroit Red Wings won their first NHL championship in 42 years. They swept the series with the Philadelphia Flyers.
1998 - The Baltimore Orioles retired Eddie Murray's #33.
2004 - The Tampa Bay Lightning defeat the Calgary Flames in seven games to win the Stanley Cup.
2009 - Roger Federer of Switzerland became the sixth man in tennis history to win a career Grand Slam and tied Pete Sampras' record of 14 major singles titles when he won the French Open.
2018 - The Washington Capitals defeat the Vegas Golden Knights in five games to win the Stanley Cup.
1494 - Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the New World between the two countries.
1654 - Louis XIV was crowned king of France.
1712 - Pennsylvania’s colonial assembly voted to ban the further importation of slaves.
1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing a Declaration of Independence.
1892 - Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Supreme Court's "separate but equal" precedent set in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896; a precedent that was reversed by the court in 1954.
1929 - Vatican City became a sovereign state.
1939 - King George VI arrived at Niagara Falls, N.Y., from Canada on the first visit to the U.S. by a reigning British monarch.
1942 - The Battle of Midway ended in a decisive victory for American naval forces over Imperial Japan, marking a turning point in the Pacific War.
1948 - President Eduard Bene of Czechoslovakia resigned the the communist takeover of the country was completed.
1954 - British mathematician, computer pioneer and code breaker Alan Turing died at age 41, an apparent suicide. (Turing, convicted in 1952 of “gross indecency” for a homosexual relationship, was pardoned in 2013.
1965 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, struck down, 7-2, a Connecticut law used to prosecute a Planned Parenthood clinic in New Haven for providing contraceptives to married couples.
1981 - Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1993 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious groups could sometimes meet on school property after hours.
1993 - Ground was broken for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
1998 - James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old African-American man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men were later sentenced to death; one of them, Lawrence Russell Brewer, was executed in 2011 and the other, John William King, was executed in April, 2019. A third defendant received life with the possibility of parole.)
2000 - A federal judge ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp.
2003 - Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elected the first openly gay bishop by New Hampshire Episcopalians.
2004 - A steady, near-silent stream of people circled through the rotunda of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, where the body of the nation’s 40th president lay in repose before traveling to Washington two days later for a state funeral.
2020 - A majority of Minneapolis City Council members said they supported dismantling the police department. (The idea later stalled, but it became part of a national debate over police reform.)
2020 - A tally by Johns Hopkins University revealed that the worldwide death toll from COVID-19 had surpassed 400,000.
Birthdays
25 - Christian McCaffrey (football player)
30 - Emily Ratajkowski (actress/model)
31 - Iggy Azalea (rapper)
32 - Shelley Buckner (actress)
33 - Michael Cera (actor)
40 - Anna Kournikova (tennis player)
40 - Larisa Oleynik (actress)
42 - Anna Torv (actress)
43 - Bill Hader (actor/comedian)
43 - Adrienne Frantz (actress)
46 - Allen Iverson (basketball player)
47 - Bear Grylls (TV personality)
49 - Karl Urban (actor)
51 - Helen Baxendale (actress)
54 - Dave Navarro (musician)
56 - Mick Foley (professional wrstler)
62 - Mike Pence (former Vice President of the United States)
66 - William Forsythe (actor)
68 - Colleen Camp (actress)
69 - Liam Neeson (actor)
70 - Anne Twomey (actress)
75 - Jenny Jones (talk show host)
81 - Tom Jones (singer)
90 - Virginia McKenna (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 7
1892 - John Joseph Doyle became the first pinch-hitter in baseball when he was used in a game.
1978 - The Washington Bullets defeat the Seattle Supersonics in seven games to win the NBA championship.
1982 - Steve Garvey became the fifth player in major league baseball history to play in 1,000 consecutive games.
1983 - Steve Carlton temporarily passed Nolan Ryan in career strikeouts when he registered his 3,522nd.
1989 - The Toronto Skydome hosted the first game to be played indoors and outdoors in the same day. The roof was closed when the weather became threatening.
1997 - The Detroit Red Wings won their first NHL championship in 42 years. They swept the series with the Philadelphia Flyers.
1998 - The Baltimore Orioles retired Eddie Murray's #33.
2004 - The Tampa Bay Lightning defeat the Calgary Flames in seven games to win the Stanley Cup.
2009 - Roger Federer of Switzerland became the sixth man in tennis history to win a career Grand Slam and tied Pete Sampras' record of 14 major singles titles when he won the French Open.
2018 - The Washington Capitals defeat the Vegas Golden Knights in five games to win the Stanley Cup.
