MIKE GRACIA
President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman
discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation.
President Nixon (seated) and H.R. Haldeman.
It was on this day in 1995.
Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995)
ED DANAHUE
On this day in 1858, in a speech in Springfield, IL, Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved. He
declared, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
On this day in 1963, 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova went into
orbit aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft for three days. She was the
first female space traveler.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova turned
80 in March.
It was on this day in 1961, Rudolf Nureyev defected from the
Soviet Union while in Paris, traveling with the Leningrad Kirov
Ballet.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
It was on this day in 1940, as Paris became occupied, loud speakers
announced the implementation of a curfew being imposed for 8 pm.
The main gate of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.
The Nazis also opened their concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-
occupied Poland on this day in 1940.
Robert Dean Stethem (November 17, 1961 – June 15, 1985)
Stethem was a U.S. Navy Seabee who was murdered by Hezbollah terrorists
while aboard flight 847 during the hijacking.
The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the "Stars and Stripes"
as the national flag of the United States. The Resolution stated "Resolved:
that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red
and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, that would
represent a new Constellation."
On May 20, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson officially proclaimed
June 14 "Flag Day" as a commemoration of the "Stars and Stripes."
Donald John Trump is 71 years old today. He is the 45th, current President of the United States.
TIM MAGUIRE
It was on this day in 1971.
President Johnson and Thurgood Marshall
On this day in 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in
Miranda v. Arizona, establishing the principle that all criminal suspects
must be advised of their specific legal rights when they are placed under
arrest. It’s now considered standard police procedure.
China’s Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted
into violence on this day in 1900.
The unmanned NASA space probe Pioneer 10 was launched in March of
1972. The first up-close images of the planet Jupiter were provided by the
probe.
Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman
CAMILLE BOHANNON
On this day in 1963
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963)
It was on this day in 1978.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.
