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Our Day in History - June 7 |
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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 June 7, 2009 - exactly 39 years to the day, Sunday, after 2pm, the Class of 1970 graduated in the auditorium in Main Building at NCSD International News: 2009 Five U.S. contractors have been detained in the investigation of the slaying of another American in Baghdad's Green Zone in what may become the first case of U.S. citizens facing Iraqi justice under a security agreement that took effect this year 2009 Investigators continues to search debris and black boxes from Air France oceanic flight 447. Faulty speed sensors are believed to have played a major role on the plane piloted mostly by computers, the first "electronic plane" as they say. 228 people are presumed dead. At the beginning of the day the first two bodies were found and by the end of the day 15 more 2009 Mexicans begins burying kids killed in day care fire 2009 Ceremonies mark 65th anniversary of D-Day 2009 12 solders killed in Iraq and Afghanistan this week 2009 The day's top Google searches: David Carradine, bing, Air France, French Open, and Sims 3 National News: 2009 Obama returns from overseas trip after addressing the Muslim world 2009 Health care tops Obama's agenda. Wants Congress to come up with a plan on his desk by August of this year 2009 Exactly one year to the day she ended her historic campaign for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, in her first Sunday morning news talk show interview, says that it is a pleasure to work with President Obama - ABC News' This Week with George Stephanopoulos 2009 Researchers are studying ants' efficiency in moving around to apply their "smarts" to get rid of traffic jams on the nation's highways 2009 7-8 inches of rain had fallen in the Miami area in the previous 36 hours and more was expected Statewide News: 2009 Controversy continues to swirl over the NCSU hiring of the wife of former NC Governor Easley. NCSU Board of Trustees had emergency meeting in the afternoon which resulted in the next day firing of Mary Easley 2009 Northbound lanes of I-95 near NC 210 were closed for about 1˝ hour after a wreck that happened around 7:30 am sending 10 people to the hospital 2009 The state's Deaf community anxiously awaits the results of this coming Thursday's legislative voting regarding budget cutbacks for the three schools; NCSD, ENCSD and the Governor Moorhead School for the Blind re: Senate Budget Bill 202 Section 10.57B(a)(b)(c). Pages 64 and 65 of this pdf file Entertainment: 2009 David Carradine's family members, dissatisfied with Thai investigators and "profoundly disturbed" by the publication of a forensics photo in a Bangkok tabloid, seeks help from the FBI 2009 27 years ago today, (June 7, 1982) Priscilla Presley, opens Elvis's Graceland to the public, five years after his death. 2009 Norman Lear was profiled on CBS News show Sunday Morning, reflecting on his breaking taboos on television, mostly with shows like: All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, Hot l Builimore, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Different Strokes, and Archie Bunker's Place 2009 Popular movie of the day - The Hangover Sports: 2009 Laker's basketball star, Lumar Odem, reveals that he's a candy addict, consuming the equivalent of 600 sugar cubes a week - CBS News Sunday Morning 2009 Tar Heels beat East Carolina Pirates 9-3 making them the first Atlantic Coast Conference team to reach Omaha for four straight seasons for the College World Series 2009 Tiger wins the Memorial: Two holes, two towering shots, two clutch birdies. Just like that, Tiger Woods broke out of a four-way tie and won the Memorial on Sunday with a 7-under 65 to cap off a high-charged comeback. And just as suddenly, he silenced the skeptics who wondered if he was ready to defend his title in the U.S. Open in two weeks at Bethpage Black 2009 The Los Angeles Lakers takes a 2-0 in the NBA finals, beating the Orlando Magic 101-96 in overtime Sunday night
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