THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Today is Sunday, June 17, the 168th day of 2018. There are 197 days left in the year. This is Father’s Day.

IN THE NATION

1579: Sir Francis Drake arrived in present-day northern California, naming it New Albion and claiming English sovereignty.

1930: President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-hawley Tariff Act, which boosted U.S. tariffs to historically high levels, prompting foreign retaliation.

1972: President Richard Nixon’s eventual downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside Democratic national headquarters in Washington’s Watergate complex.

1994: After leading police on a slowspeed chase on Southern California freeways, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with murder in the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

2015: Nine people were shot to death in a historic African-american church in Charleston, S.C. (Suspected gunman Dylann Roof, arrested the following morning, has since been convicted of federal hate crimes and sentenced to death.)

IN THE WORLD

1397: The Treaty of Kalmar created a union among the kingdoms of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow is 75. Comedian Joe Piscopo is 67. Actor Mark Linn-baker is 64. Musician Jello Biafra is

60. Movie producer-director-writer Bobby Farrelly is 60. Actor Thomas Haden Church is 57. Actor Greg Kinnear is 55. Olympic gold medal speed skater Dan Jansen is 53. Actor Jason Patric is

52. Actor-comedian Will Forte is 48. Tennis player Venus Williams is 38. Rapper Kendrick Lamar is 31.