Yep, we have a lot of common that day. This day cumulated our years of
schooling before we parted ways to join the fabric of American life. But did
you know that a lot of history was made on this day alone? For starters,
NCSD's
football star of 1963, 1964, and 1965, Billy Jernigan and his wife, had a
baby girl
Sue Ann, born the day we were receiving our diplomas.
I have collected, on this page, interesting events of history that has
occurred
before and after our Graduation Day. I was really surprised at what I found
and
I know you will too.
On this day...June the Seventh:
1498 Christopher Columbus leaves on his third voyage of exploration.
1712 The Pennsylvania Assembly bans the importation of slaves.
1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky
1775 United Colonies changes name to United States
1783 Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
1786 Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr Hall, NYC)
1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1862 The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade
1863 Mexico City captured by French troops
1864 Abe Lincoln renominated for President by Republican Party
1866 Chief Seattle dies near the city named for him
1869 Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sucks)
1872 Congress endorses penny post card
1886 1st Civil Rights Act passes
1889 Cable Cars begin service in LA
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)
1896 1st car is stolen
1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 6 Napoleons" (BG)
1905 Norway declares the union with Sweden dissolved
1912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
1914 The first vessel passes through the Panama Canal
1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
1920 Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument
Heinie
Groh goes to wake him, but ump ejects Roush for delay of game
1929 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1921 Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, & held in jail until 4 PM
1930 NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"
1931 Duke & Duchess of Kent wed
1932 Over 7,000 war veterans march on Washington, D.C., demanding their
bonus pay for service in World War I.
1935 Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds & leaves the game
1936 1st parking meters are invented
1937 World's largest flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily
1937 The cover of LIFE magazine showed the latest in campus fashions of the
times which included saddle shoes
1938 The Douglas DC-4 makes its first test flight
1936 Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16; longest game without a strikeout
1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
1940 Last British troops leave Narvik, Norway
1941 English & French troop overthrow pro-German Syria
1942 Bing Cosby records "Silent Night"
1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
1942 Battle of Midway Ends
1948 John Rudder becomes 1st Negro commissioned officer in US marines
1948 Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than sign a
Constitution making his nation a Communist state
1949 Siam changes name to Thailand
1953 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
1953 1st color network telecast in compatible color, Boston, Mass
1954 Ford assigns team to create a new car, later to be named the Edsel.
1955 CBS unveiled The $64,000 Question, which would fast become the model
for a small army of money-minded quiz shows.
1959 X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
1963 American Heart Assn is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes
1965 Monarchy restored in Morocco
1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
1965 US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1965 USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon
1965 Sony Corporation unveiled its first consumer 1/2-inch format helical
scan
VTR (video tape recorder). It was priced under $3000 (and only in black &
white).
1966 NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
1967 Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen
1967 Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem
1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
1968 Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning
1968 Gary Puckett & Union Gap releases "Lady Will Power"
1968 James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., captured
1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
1969 Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired
1969 Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August
1969 Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
1969 Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 33 students of the NCSD Class of 1970 graduates
1970 Players & management end labor dispute, ups min salary to $12,000
1970 Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033rd win
1970 The Who's Tommy is performed at NY's Lincoln Center
1970 22nd Annual Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young & Susan Hampshire.
1970 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open.
1970 Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George, dies.
1970 E. M. Forster, British novelist and essayist, dies had 2 short stories
and 12
movies made from his works. A Passage to India and A Room With a View
were his well known works screen played and were remade in the '80s.
1971 North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam
1971 Vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment
1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut
1974 US & Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
1975 2 passenger trains collides near Munich Germany killing 35
1975 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
1975 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
1977 Queen celebrates Silver Jubilee in London
1978 Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery
1978 Yachtswoman Naomi James breaks the solo round-the-world sailing record
by two days.
1979 "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
1979 Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched
1980 John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg for US Open
1981 Bjorn Borg wins his 6th French Open singles (defeats Ivan Lendl)
1981 Israel F-16 fighter-bombers destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production
facility
1982 Pres Reagan meets Pope John Paul II & Queen Elizabeth
1982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
1982 Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where
Elvis
Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits
1983 "Trading Places," "Ghostbusters," & "Gremlins," premieres
1985 Sylvester Stallone was “The modern John Wayne,” according to the movie
wizards at USA Today. They referred to Sly as “The Macho Male.” The
comment came on the release of the Stallone flick, Rambo: First Blood,
Part II.
1987 Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall testifies at Iran-Contra hearing
1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird
collisions
by 20%
1989 Wayne Gretzky wins his 9th NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years
1989 1st Baseball game to start outdoors and end indoors, as Toronto Blue
Jays
stadium closes roof during game at 8:48, & beat Brewers 4-2
1989 An historical oddity: On this day in 1989, there was a moment in the
very
early morning and later in the afternoon, when the time was 1:23:45 on
6/7/89. Don't expect that kind of sequence for another hundred years, or
perhaps at 12:34:56 on July 8, 2009, depending on how you look at it.
(Look at the numbers, not the date)
1992 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for the 7th time
1990 France, West Germany and Italy lift a ban on British beef
1990 Hungary announces plan to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact
2000 The UK prime minister is heckled and criticized by Women's Institute
members as he gives a speech at their conference
2001 Randy Caines had a cardiac catheterization done on him, which is a
small
camera looking inside his heart, 31 years to the day we all graduated, eh?
2004 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
2005 New DVD releases: "Be Cool," "Beyond the Sea," and "Seed of Chucky"
2005 Tuesday, June 7, 2005 is National Hunger Awareness Day. Now in its
fourth
year
2005 President Bush welcomes British Prime Minister Blair to the White House
2005 Apple Computers Inc announces dumping IBM Corp. as the supplier of
processor chips for its Macintosh computers. Starting next year, future Macs
will use Intel Corp. processors, the same kinds of chips found in millions
of
PCs running software from Apple's archrival Microsoft Corp
2005 www.npd.com announces iTunes is more popular than most peer-to-peer
file sharing services. Legal paid download store gives peer-to-peer (P2P) a
run for its money; WinMX most popular music and movie download spot,
while iTunes and LimeWire share second position
2005 Eat more raisins! According to researchers at the University of
Illinois at
Chicago, compounds found in raisins fight bacteria in the mouth that cause
cavities and gum disease
2006 For the first time in 36 years, two Classmates, Donnie Crump and Lester
Latkowski visited the NCSD campus on our graduation anniversary
2006 Greenspan Says U.S. Needs to Get off Gas
2006 Dow Below 11,000 for 1st Time Since March
2006 Personal IDs of 26.5 million or 80% of US Military Veterans stolen
continues
to be the top story of the day
2006 The Canadian terror plot may have been bigger than previous believed
2006 The shuttle is expected to fly no earlier than July 1. NASA hopes to
get in
three shuttle flights this year and plans to retire the aging shuttle fleet
by
2010
2006 More than a week after being wounded in an Iraqi car bombing, CBS
reporter Kimberly Dozier is back on American soil
2006 A scientist found a rare species of millipede, last seen 80 years ago
in
central California
2006 New arrivals to this country must adopt American values and learn
English
says President Bush, pushing anew for his proposal to overhaul immigration
rules
2006 Harvard University scientists said Tuesday they are trying to clone
human
embryos to create stem cells they hope can be used one day to help conquer
a host of diseases
2006 News and entertainment shows were still showing the videos of the city
size dust storm, aka haboob, that blew over Phoenix, Arizona
2006 President Bush received confirmation that American forces killed al-Qaida
Chief al-Zarqawi
2006 The day's top google searches:
-The election for California Secretary of State
-The CIA revealed newly declassified documents stating that the CIA kept
quiet
about the whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the
1950s for fear
he might expose undercover anti-communist efforts in West
Germany
2006 Entertainment News:The death of master of photography, Arnold Newman,70
2007
International News:
G-8's Hot Topics: Last G8 for President Bush and England Prime
Minister Blair;
The U.S., China and Europe can't agree on a single way to combat climate
change;
The ongoing war of words between President Bush and Russia's President Putin
cools as both agree to cooperate on missile-defense systems in Europe
National News:
2007 Immigration Reform Bill Dies In Congress
2007 Spoiling for a veto fight, Congress cleared legislation today easing
restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The House
vote
to send the measure to President Bush was 247-176, 35 short of the level
needed
to override a second veto in as many years on the issue
2007 Stocks Dive: Worst Week In Four Months - The spring rally in
stocks
sputtered for a third consecutive day as worries about inflation and higher
interest rates returns to investors. Treasury debt yields rose above 5
percent,
taking a toll on rate-sensitive shares like utilities and home builders
2007 Two central Wisconsin school districts canceled classes today as a
sheriff
warned that violent storms and tornadoes forecast for the state could be the
"granddaddy of all super cells." Other schools let out early
2007 Michigan Man in Wheelchair Takes Wild Ride Down a Highway at 50 mph
2007 Target employee in Kansas charged in abduction and murder of
18-year-old
Kelsey Smith
2007 Land Dispute Over 9/11 Flight 93 Crash Site
2007 Jet Lag - Air Travel Slowest In Over a Decade
2007 NASA performs final preparations for STS-117 Atlantis liftoff tomorrow
evening,
the first of a possible total of 3 Space Shuttle missions for the remaining
of the year
2007 Latest technology from AT&T announced today - Phone to Phone Video
Streaming: It allows users to send a live video stream to a recipient during
a
standard wireless voice call --- possible future replacement of the VRS
system
2007 Automotive News - Ford Zooms Past Competition in Quality and
Toyota's
Hybrid Sales Surpass 1 Million
2007 Historical Find - Abraham Lincoln Civil War Note Uncovered
2007 National average gas prices in the USA soars to $3.14 although gas can be
found
at $2.85 at truck stops on I-40/I-85 between Greensboro and Burlington, NC.
Diesel
was $2.67!!!
Statewide News:
2007 N.C.'s Ocracoke Island named top beach from "Dr. Beach" annual beach
picks
2007 North Carolina Traffic Headline: Durham — Two lanes of
southbound I-85 in
Durham reopened this afternoon after being closed for nearly 18 hours when a
truck carrying three dozen barrels of benzyl chloride overturned in a "freak
accident"
2007 NC Woman Suffers Aneurysm One Day Before Husband Returns From War
2007 Unbeknownst to us Classmates, Joyce Sigmon Benfield is in the hospital
with
collapsed lung and is unconscious but stable
2007 C70 Classmate Lester Latkowski visited one of his many favorite
teachers,
Bashie Crutchfield this day, to celebrate her years of loving and caring of
her
students she taught through all her years at NCSD
2007
Entertainment:
In an exclusive interview with ABC's "Good Morning
America,"
the ex-Beatle and
music legend Paul McCartney opened up about his
divorce
and
his new album
released this week. "Memory Almost Full" is being
hailed by
critics
as a
masterpiece. One standout track on the album, "The End of
the End",
describes
what McCartney says he'd like his funeral to be like. Sir
McCartney
can't
remember how many songs he's written, and now that he is 64,
he regrets
writing
the Beatles' classic "When I'm 64" which is is on the album "Sgt.
Pepper's
Lonely
Hearts Club Band" celebrating it's 40th Anniversary of it's release
this
month.
- Bob Barker in Tears - Entertainment shows highlights of Bob Barker's last taping
of the 35 year
year old game show "The Price is Right"
- Inmate No. 9818783 has left the building. After spending 72 hours of a 45
day
prison sentence, heiress Paris Hilton was released from prison. Yet, the
judge who
put her in jail ordered her into court to determine whether she should be
put
back behind bars...Webmaster's note- this only happens in America, not Las
Vegas
2007 The day's top google searches:
-Paris Hilton, Diamonds Park, and Lebron James
2008
International News:
2008 G-8 to Fight Oil Prices With Efficiency, Tech
2008 Laura Bush on surprise Afghan visit
2008 7 dead in stabbing spree in downtown Tokyo after attacker drives into a
crowd
2008 New study calls for $45 trillion to cut greenhouse gases in half by
2050
2008 Florida size Arctic ice melts in a week and scientists blame global
warming
for disappearance of glacial lake in remote Southern Chile leaving a crater
behind
2008 North Pole's ice disappears forcing Santa and Company to move south to
a
currently undisclosed location
National News:
2008 Former first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, ended her historic campaign
for
the presidency and told supporters to unite behind rival Barack Obama,
closing out
a race that was as grueling as it was groundbreaking
2008 Jim McKay, the veteran and eloquent sportscaster thrust into the role
of
telling Americans about the tragedy at the 1972 Munich Olympics dies. He was
86
2008 Obama announces his two week presidential campaign tour which will kick
off in Raleigh, NC on Monday, June 9th
2008 New study shows flip-flops cause problems and pains in the legs, knees
and
back and foot experts warn the shoes cause more health problems than any
other
shoe, including high heels!
2008 Gas prices hovers at the $4 mark and provokes thieves to steal 800
gallons
2008 City of LA sues Time Warner Cable
2008 Ed McMahon fighting foreclosure
2008 Disney creates Google Earth map of Disneyworld for patrons
2008 Kentucky-bred BIG Brown's Triple Crown dreams wilted in the searing
heat
when long shot Da' Tara led all the way to win the 2400m Belmont Stakes
2008 Space shuttle Discovery crew installs space station module from Japan
on the
ISS. This STS-124 mission commemorates the 10th shuttle mission since the
Columbia accident and will leave ten flights remaining in the Space Shuttle
program until its end in 2010
2008 The day's top Google searches: Jim McKay, Belmont Stakes 2008,
The
Bachelor - Byron, and Indiana State Police
Statewide News:
2008 Early season 100 degree heat wave sets records across North Carolina
2008 Wildfires continues to burn at NC wildlife refuge threatening to close
major
highways US 64 and US 264 to the Outer Banks
2008 State Republican Convention anchored by former GOP presidential
candidate
Mike Huckabee, in Greensboro, NC, included a list of critiques of Democratic
hopeful Barack Obama
2008 NC's largest power company, Progress Energy, is seeking a large rate
increase
2008 First "Got to be NC Festival" showcasing homegrown foods at the NC State
Fairgrounds
2008 Raleigh pastor is questioned in wife's murder
2008 Morrisville woman dies after being shot by police who said she was
stabbing
her mother
2008 NC State baseball beats Georgia, 10-6, evens up series at 1-1
Entertainment:
2008 Bo Diddley gets a rocking sendoff at Fla. funeral. A founding figure of
Rock 'n'
Roll, his unique sound still defines popular music today
2008 Popular movie of the day - You Don't Mess With the Zohan
Happy Birthdays:
1843 Susan Elizabeth Blow, pioneered kindergarten education
1909 Jessica Tandy London, Academy Award-winning actress: The Birds, Cocoon,
Batteries Not Included, Driving Miss Daisy [1989]; Fried Green Tomatoes,
Forever Amber, Used People, Camilla; performed on Broadway with
husband, Hume Cronyn; died Sep 11, 1994
1917 Dean Martin, singer/comedian (partner for Jerry Lewis)
1922 Rocky Graziano, boxer/entertainer (Pantomime Quiz, Martha Raye Show)
1922 Myron Healey, (Sometimes Credited As: Michael Healey, Myron D. Healey,
&
Myron Healy), Petaluma, Calif., actor (Wyatt Earp)
1940 Tom Jones, (Thomas Jones Woodward) Pontypridd, Wales, singer, aka The
Prince of Wales: Grammy Award-winning singer [Best New Artist - 1965]:
It’s Not Unusual, She’s a Lady, What’s New Pussycat?, I’ll Never Fall in
Love
Again, Without Love, Delilah, Love Me Tonight, Green Green Grass of
Home, Sex Bomb
1940 Nancy Sinatra, Jersey City, singer (Boots are Made for Walkin')
1942 Chuck Negron, singer (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1943 Ken Osmond, actor (Eddie Haskel-Leave it To Beaver)
1943 Nikki Giovanni, poet (Ladies Home Journal Woman of the Year 1973)
1944 Bill Rafferty, Queens, NY, comedian (Laugh-In, Real People)
1944 Boz Scaggs, [William Royce], Dallas Tx, rocker (Steve Miller Band)
1944 Don Grady, [aka Don Agrati], actor (Robbie Douglas-My Three Sons)
1946 Jenny Jones, TV talk show host
1953 Bonnie Tyler, singer (Total Eclipse of the Heart)
1957 Scott Raymond Adams, Catskill, NY, cartoonist (Dilbert)
1958 The entertainer known as Prince
1970 Mike Modano, hockey, Minnesota North Stars, Dallas Stars
1970 Mr. and Mrs. Billy Jernigan, had a baby girl Sue Ann, their first
bundle of joy
1981 Anna Kournikova tennis champ, US Open [doubles: 1999]
1981 Larisa Oleynik, actress: 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Secret World of
Alex
Mack, Ten Things I Hate About You
Death occurrences on this day:
1893 Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth's brother dies
1969 Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days), dies of lung cancer at 57
1971 Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies at 40
1975 William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies at 78
1996 Max Factor, cosmetics pioneer, aka, the make-up of make-up artist. Born
as Max Faktor in Lodz, Poland
2005 Ann Bancroft, noted for her role as Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate" and
her
longtime marriage to actor-filmmaker Mel Brooks, dies at 73
2006 Singer-Songwriter Billy Preston Dies At 59
2008 Jim McKay, ABC network's veteran and eloquent broadcaster dies
at 86. The
Emmy wining sportscaster for ABC's Wide World of Sports for 40 years was
best
known for his dramatic coverage of the '72 Munich Olympics "Our worst
fears have
been realized tonight. They have now said there were eleven hostages; two
were killed in their rooms yesterday morning, nine were killed at the
airport
tonight.They're all gone."
Holidays observed on June 7:
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Chad : National Day
Western Australia : Foundation Day (1838) - - - - - ( Monday )
Massachusetts : Teachers' Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Ireland : Bank Day - - - - - ( Monday )
Bahamas : Labour Day - - - - - ( Friday )
New Zealand : Queen's Birthday - - - - - ( Monday )
Roman Empire : first day of the Vestalia (penus vestae) in honor of Vesta
Norway : Union Dissolution Day, observing the 1905 decision to dissolve the
Union between Sweden and Norway
Malta : Sette Giugno - Riot in Malta that began the road to self government
and
then independence in 1919
June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap
years), with 207 days remaining
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