TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

June 7, 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.”

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1099

The First Crusade began besieging Jerusalem, which was captured the following month.

1654

King Louis XIV, age 15, was crowned in Rheims, 11 years after the start of his reign.

1769

Frontiersman Daniel Boone first began to explore present-day Kentucky.

1892

Homer Plessy, a “Creole of color,” was arrested for refusing to leave a whitesonly car of the East Louisiana Railroad.

1929

The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.

1958

Singer-songwriter Prince was born Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis.

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.

1977

Britons thronged London to celebrate the silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, who was marking the 25th year of her reign.