This Day in History for June 10th;
1639 -- 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1720 -- Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard.
1752 -- Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!
1760 -- NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine.
1776 -- Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Decl of Ind.
1793 -- The Jardin des Plantes zoo opened in Paris. It was the first public zoo.
1846 -- Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire.
1854 -- Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved.
1854 -- The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, held its first graduation.
1902 -- Patent for window envelope granted to H.F. Callahan.
1905 -- 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me.
1909 -- The SOS distress signal was used for the first time. The Cunard liner SS Slavonia used the signal when it wrecked off the Azores.
1925 -- The state of Tennessee adopted a new biology text book that denied the theory of evolution.
1935 -- Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous.
1943 -- FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)
1955 -- 1st separation of virus into component parts reported.
1967 -- Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help.
1970 -- A fifteen-man group of special forces troops began training for Operation Kingpin. The operation was a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.
1971 -- 11 die in a train crash in Salem, Ill.
1977 -- James Earl Ray escaped with 6 others from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee. Ray was recaptured June 13, 1977
1984 -- US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time.
1985 -- Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula.
1987 -- An earthquake hit 15 states from Iowa to South Carolina.
1991 -- Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops.
1998 -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that poor children in Milwaukee could attend religious schools at taxpayer expense.
I hope everyone enjoys this day in history!!
MsPriss *PrissieHuggzz* :)
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