On this date

1523 — Gustav Vasa became Sweden’s new king, Gustav I. 1654 — Queen Christina of Sweden abdicated; she was succeeded by her cousin, Charles X Gustav. 1799 — American politician and orator Patrick Henry died at Red Hill Plantation in Virginia. 1809 — Sweden adopted a new constitution. 1844 — The Young Men’s Christian Association was founded in London. 1925 — Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corp. 1933 — The first drive-in movie theater was opened by Richard Hollingshead in Camden County, New Jersey. (The movie shown was “Wives Beware,” starring Adolphe Menjou.) 1934 — One hundred and four seniors of Rome High School received diplomas, marking the largest class so far to graduate from the school. 1966 — Black activist James Meredith was shot and wounded as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration. 1968 — Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. 1977 — A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law imposing an automatic death sentence on defendants convicted of the first-degree murder of a police officer. 1982 — Israeli forces invaded Lebanon to drive Palestine Liberation Organization fighters out of the country. (The Israelis withdrew in June 1985.) 1994 — President Bill Clinton joined leaders from America’s World War II allies to mark the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. A China Northwest Airlines passenger jet crashed near Xian, killing all 160 people on board. 1999 — The counties of Floyd, Gordon, Chattooga, Polk, Walker, Dade, Coosa and Whitfield were included in proposed new state air quality regulations that would expand by 44 the number of counties required to sell lowsulfur fuel by the year 2003.

Five years ago

Business social network LinkedIn reported that some of its users’ passwords had been stolen and leaked onto the Internet.

One year ago

A jury in Los Angeles returned a death sentence for Lonnie Franklin Jr., the serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” who murdered nine women and a teenage girl over several decades.

Space station astronauts opened the world’s first inflatable space habitat, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, and floated inside.