Salman Rushdie 1947 - Author
- 0240 BC - Eratosthenes estimated the circumference of the Earth using two sticks.
- 1586 - English colonists sailed away from Roanoke Island, NC, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
- 1862 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln outlined his Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery in U.S. territories.
- 1865 - The emancipation of slaves was proclaimed in Texas.
- 1910 - The first Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
- 1958 - In Washington, DC, nine entertainers refused to answer a congressional committee's questions on communism.
- 1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster (BY DEMOCRATS) in the U.S. Senate.
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