Today in History (June 7)

Today is Tuesday, June 7, the 158th day of 2022. This is today in history.

Local news

  • In 2013, an estate sale in Chetopa, Kansas auctioned off more than 1,300 lamps; a lifelong collection from two families.
  • In 2015, an Oklahoma law was signed that required children less than two years of age to sit rear-facing in car seats.
  • In 2018, a crime report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau stated that Missouri was one of the top states for motorcycle thefts.

World news

  • In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
  • In 1942, the Battle of Midway ended in a decisive victory for American naval forces over Imperial Japan, marking a turning point in the Pacific War.
  • In 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, struck down, 7-2, a Connecticut law used to prosecute a Planned Parenthood clinic in New Haven for providing contraceptives to married couples.

Entertainment

  • In 1848, French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin was born in Paris.
  • In 1993, Ground was broken for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
  • In 2012,  Bob Welch, a former member of Fleetwood Mac who went on to write songs and record several hits during a solo career, died in Nashville.

Politics

  • In 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Continental Congress stating “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”
  • In 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious groups could sometimes meet on school property after hours.
  • In 2006, The U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

Birthdays

Movie director James Ivory is 94. Actor Virginia McKenna is 91. Singer Tom Jones is 82. Poet Nikki Giovanni is 79. Former talk show host Jenny Jones is 76. Americana singer-songwriter Willie Nile is 74. Actor Anne Twomey is 71. Actor Liam Neeson is 70. Actor Colleen Camp is 69. Author Louise Erdrich (UR’-drihk) is 68. Actor William Forsythe is 67. Record producer L.A. Reid is 66. Latin pop singer Juan Luis Guerra is 65. Former Vice President Mike Pence is 63. Rock singer-musician Gordon Gano (The Violent Femmes) is 59. Rock musician Eric Kretz (Stone Temple Pilots) is 56. Rock musician Dave Navarro is 55. Actor Helen Baxendale is 52. Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., is 50. Actor Karl Urban is 50. TV personality Bear Grylls is 48. Rock musician Eric Johnson (The Shins) is 46. Actor Adrienne Frantz is 44. Actor-comedian Bill Hader is 44. Actor Anna Torv is 43. Actor Larisa Oleynik (oh-LAY’-nihk) is 41. Former tennis player Anna Kournikova is 41. Actor Michael Cera is 34. Actor Shelley Buckner is 33. Rapper Iggy Azalea is 32. Actor-model Emily Ratajkowski is 31. Rapper Fetty Wap is 31.

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