TODAY’S HISTORY

the “Night of the Long Knives,” a series of murders ordered by Adolf Hitler to eliminate his political rivals, began in Germany.

1936: Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind” was published.

1966: The National Organization for Women was formed.

1982: The proposed

Equal Rights Amendment, designed to guarantee equal rights for women, failed when its ratification deadline passed.

2007: An

SUV loaded with propane canisters was driven into the terminal entrance and caught fire in a terrorist attack at Glasgow airport in Scotland.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004), poet/ essayist; Lena Horne (1917-2010), singer; Paul Berg (1926-), biochemist; Robert Ballard (1942-), oceanographer; David Alan Grier (1956-), actor; Vincent D’onofrio (1959-), actor; Mike Tyson (1966-), boxer; Monica Potter (1971-), actress; Matisyahu (1979-), rapper; Lizzy Caplan (1982-), actress; Michael Phelps (1985-), Olympic swimmer.

TODAY’S FACT: In 1953, the first Chevrolet Corvette was produced at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1994, Tonya Harding was stripped of the national figure skating championship title and banned for life from the sport for planning an attack that injured rival skater Nancy Kerrigan.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.” — Czeslaw Milosz

TODAY’S NUMBER: 999 — telephone number of the world’s oldest emergency call service, which was introduced in London on this day in 1937.

TODAY’S MOON: Between new moon (June 28) and first quarter moon (July 6).