National Donut Day started in 1938 as a fundraiser for The
Salvation Army in Chicago.
Their goal was to help those in need during the Great
Depression, and to honor the Salvation Army "Lassies"
of World War I, who served doughnuts to soldiers.
Thirteen years after American settlers founded the city named
for him, Chief Seattle died in a nearby village of his people.
Born sometime around 1790, Seattle (Seathl) was a chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes who lived around the Pacific
Coast bay that is today called Puget Sound.
He was the son of a Suquamish father and a Duwamish mother,
a lineage that allowed him to gain influence in both tribes. It was
rededicated on December 8, 1975.
The statue was added to the National Register of Historic Places
on April 19, 1984, and named a city landmark on May 6, 1985.
The copper statue shows Seattle with his right hand extended
as if in greeting. The statue stands atop a stone base that was
designed to serve as a fountain, although the fountain has been
turned off and on over the years.
The statue was sculpted by James Wehn and was unveiled
November 13, 1912.
On June 6, 1889, a fire ignited in a Seattle woodworking shop and
swept through some 100 acres, destroying much of the city’s
business district and waterfront.
The Great Seattle Fire culminates in losses estimated at $20 million
—and served as a turning point in the city’s history.
The fire started shortly after 2:30 p.m. when a pot of heated glue at
Victor Clairmont’s woodworking shop in the Pontius Building on
Front Street (now First Avenue) and Madison Avenue burst into
flames.
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On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of
northern France, commonly known as D-Day.
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890 – 1969)
Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy
was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the
California presidential primary.
Immediately after he announced to his cheering supporters that
the country was ready to end its fractious divisions, Kennedy
was shot several times by 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan.
Robert Kennedy was pronounced dead a day later, June 6, 1968.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan turned 80 in March.
At Sirhan’s 17th parole board appearance on March 1, 2023, he
was again denied parole. He has waived his right to contest
deportation if he is paroled.
