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.”

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1099

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

1654

King Louis XIV, age 15, was crowned in Rheims, 11years 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.

1948

The Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia.

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.

1981

Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.

2017

President Donald Trump announced his choice to replace James Comey a day ahead of the ousted FBI director’s congressional testimony, tapping Christopher Wray, a white-collar defense lawyer with a strong law enforcement background.