Happy 90th birthday, George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president of the US!
FIFA World Cup Brazil begins today (June 12-July 13). First game is Brazil vs Croatia at Sao Paulo.
National Jerky Day
Birth anniversary of Anne Frank (1929-1945). She would have been 85 years old.
Happy Birthday! Chick Corea, Vic Damone, Jim Nabors
1839 - Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the legend.
1849 - The gas mask was patented by L.P. Haslett.
1897 - Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became known as the Swiss army knife.
1939 - The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.
1963 - "Cleopatra" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, and Richard Burton premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.
1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, MS.
1967 - State laws which prohibited interracial marriages were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1979 - Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.
1981 - "Raiders of the Lost Ark" opened in the U.S.
1982 - 75,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt were in attendance.
1987 - U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
2003 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis spoke for the first time in nearly 19 years. Wallis had been in a coma since July 13, 1984, after being injured in a car accident.
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