68 — Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by
flogging.
1833 — President Andrew Jackson goes on a train ride for the first time…and becomes the first President to ride a train.
1909 — Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife/mother, drives across the
United States with three non-driving female companions (in fifty-nine days in a Maxwell automobile).
1925 — Walter Percy Chrysler starts a company and names it after himself: The Chrysler Corporation.
1932 — It starts small enough — 1 cent per gallon — the first gas tax in the US, thanks to the Revenue Act of 1932.
1944 — Operation Overlord (aka D Day) begins with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.
1946 — US-born King Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramintharamaha Bhumibol Adulyadej Mahitalathibet Ramathibodi Chakkrinaruebodin Sayamminthrathirat Borommanatbophit (Bhumibol Adulyadej for short) ascends to the throne of Thailand (where he still rules, the world’s current longest reigning monarch!).
1966 — James Meredith is shot while trying to march across Mississippi.
1967 — Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six Day War.
1968 — President Lyndon Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy.
1978 — Voters in California approve Proposition 13, a state constitutional amendment slashing property taxes.
1984 -– Tetris is released.
2004 — The body of President Reagan arrives in Washington to lie in state in the Rotunda before his funeral.
2005 -– The US Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning marijuana, including medical marijuana.
2008 — Retail gasoline prices rise above $4 per gallon in the USA.
2009 — The sun didn’t rise. And nobody panicked or thought anything of it. What’s with that? (I just checked for Significant Breaking News and found none, so the sunrise thing will have to do. Well, wait, I just see this from North Korea.) Like I said, the sun didn’t rise this morning. Neither did a man-made sun.
Good day?