June 7
1099 - The First Crusade began besieging Jerusalem, which was captured the following month.
1494 - Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the New World between the two countries.
1654 - Louis XIV was crowned king of France at age 15, 11 years after his reign officially began.
1769 - Frontiersman Daniel Boone first began to explore present-day Kentucky.
1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing a Declaration of Independence, stating "That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."
1892 - Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of "separate but equal" in 1896.
1929 - Vatican City became a sovereign state.
1939 - King George VI arrived at Niagara Falls, N.Y., from Canada on the first visit to the U.S. by a reigning British monarch.
1948 - President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia resigned and the Communist takeover of the country was completed.
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.
1981 - Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1993 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious groups could sometimes meet on school property after hours.
1993 - Ground was broken for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
1998 - James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old African-American man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men were later sentenced to death; one of them, Lawrence Russell Brewer, was executed in 2011. A third defendant received life with the possibility of parole.)
2000 - A federal judge ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp.
2003 - The Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elected the first openly gay bishop by the New Hampshire Episcopalians.
2013 - President Barack Obama vigorously defended the government's just-disclosed collection of massive amounts of information from phone and Internet records as a necessary defense against terrorism, and assured Americans, "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls."
Birthdays
22 - Christian McCaffrey (football player)
25 - Amanda Leighton (actress)
25 - Jordan Fry (actor)
27 - Emily Ratajkowski (actress/model)
28 - Iggy Azalea (rapper)
28 - Amy Childs (reality star)
29 - Shelley Buckner (actress)
30 - Michael Cera (actor)
37 - Anna Kournikova (tennis player)
37 - Larisa Oleynik (actress)
39 - Anna Torv (actress)
40 - Bill Hader (actor/comedian)
40 - Adrienne Frantz (actress)
43 - Allen Iverson (basketball player)
44 - Bear Grylls (TV personality)
46 - Karl Urban (actor)
48 - Helen Baxendale (actress)
49 - Kim Rhodes (actress)
51 - Dave Navarro (musician)
53 - Mick Foley (professional wrestler)
59 - Mike Pence (Vice President of the United States)
63 - William Forsythe (actor)
65 - Colleen Camp (actress)
66 - Liam Neeson (actor)
67- Anne Twomey (actress)
72 - Jenny Jones (talk show host)
75 - Ken Osmond (actor)
78 - Ronald Pickup (actor)
78 - Tom Jones (singer)
87 - Virginia McKenna (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 7
1892 - John Joseph Doyle became the first pinch-hitter in baseball when he was used in a game.
1936 - New York Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 16 innings; longest game without a strikeout.
1978 - The Washington Bullets defeat the Seattle Supersonics in seven games to win the NBA championship.
1982 - Los Angeles Dodgers' first baseman Steve Garvey becomes only the fifth player in major league history to play in 1,000 consecutive games.
1983 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies strikes out Lonnie Smith for his 3,522nd career strikeout to temporarily pass Nolan Ryan as the all-time strikeout leader.
1989 - The Toronto Skydome hosted the first game to be played indoors and outdoors in the same day. The roof was closed when the weather became threatening.
1997 - The Detroit Red Wings win their first Stanley Cup championship in 42 years, defeating the Philadelphia Flyers four games to none. Red Wings goaltender Mike Vernon is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff Most Valuable Player.
1998 - The Baltimore Orioles retired Eddie Murray's #33.
2004 - The Tampa Bay Lightning defeat the Calgary Flames to win the Stanley Cup.
2008 - Veteran sportscaster Jim McKay died in Maryland at age 86.
2009 - Roger Federer of Switzerland became the sixth man in tennis history to win a career Grand Slam and tied Pete Sampras' record of 14 major singles titles when he won the French Open.
1099 - The First Crusade began besieging Jerusalem, which was captured the following month.
1494 - Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the New World between the two countries.
1654 - Louis XIV was crowned king of France at age 15, 11 years after his reign officially began.
1769 - Frontiersman Daniel Boone first began to explore present-day Kentucky.
1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing a Declaration of Independence, stating "That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."
1892 - Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of "separate but equal" in 1896.
1929 - Vatican City became a sovereign state.
1939 - King George VI arrived at Niagara Falls, N.Y., from Canada on the first visit to the U.S. by a reigning British monarch.
1948 - President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia resigned and the Communist takeover of the country was completed.
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.
1981 - Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1993 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious groups could sometimes meet on school property after hours.
1993 - Ground was broken for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
1998 - James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old African-American man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men were later sentenced to death; one of them, Lawrence Russell Brewer, was executed in 2011. A third defendant received life with the possibility of parole.)
2000 - A federal judge ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp.
2003 - The Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elected the first openly gay bishop by the New Hampshire Episcopalians.
2013 - President Barack Obama vigorously defended the government's just-disclosed collection of massive amounts of information from phone and Internet records as a necessary defense against terrorism, and assured Americans, "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls."
Birthdays
22 - Christian McCaffrey (football player)
25 - Amanda Leighton (actress)
25 - Jordan Fry (actor)
27 - Emily Ratajkowski (actress/model)
28 - Iggy Azalea (rapper)
28 - Amy Childs (reality star)
29 - Shelley Buckner (actress)
30 - Michael Cera (actor)
37 - Anna Kournikova (tennis player)
37 - Larisa Oleynik (actress)
39 - Anna Torv (actress)
40 - Bill Hader (actor/comedian)
40 - Adrienne Frantz (actress)
43 - Allen Iverson (basketball player)
44 - Bear Grylls (TV personality)
46 - Karl Urban (actor)
48 - Helen Baxendale (actress)
49 - Kim Rhodes (actress)
51 - Dave Navarro (musician)
53 - Mick Foley (professional wrestler)
59 - Mike Pence (Vice President of the United States)
63 - William Forsythe (actor)
65 - Colleen Camp (actress)
66 - Liam Neeson (actor)
67- Anne Twomey (actress)
72 - Jenny Jones (talk show host)
75 - Ken Osmond (actor)
78 - Ronald Pickup (actor)
78 - Tom Jones (singer)
87 - Virginia McKenna (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 7
1892 - John Joseph Doyle became the first pinch-hitter in baseball when he was used in a game.
1936 - New York Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 16 innings; longest game without a strikeout.
1978 - The Washington Bullets defeat the Seattle Supersonics in seven games to win the NBA championship.
1982 - Los Angeles Dodgers' first baseman Steve Garvey becomes only the fifth player in major league history to play in 1,000 consecutive games.
1983 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies strikes out Lonnie Smith for his 3,522nd career strikeout to temporarily pass Nolan Ryan as the all-time strikeout leader.
1989 - The Toronto Skydome hosted the first game to be played indoors and outdoors in the same day. The roof was closed when the weather became threatening.
1997 - The Detroit Red Wings win their first Stanley Cup championship in 42 years, defeating the Philadelphia Flyers four games to none. Red Wings goaltender Mike Vernon is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff Most Valuable Player.
1998 - The Baltimore Orioles retired Eddie Murray's #33.
2004 - The Tampa Bay Lightning defeat the Calgary Flames to win the Stanley Cup.
2008 - Veteran sportscaster Jim McKay died in Maryland at age 86.
2009 - Roger Federer of Switzerland became the sixth man in tennis history to win a career Grand Slam and tied Pete Sampras' record of 14 major singles titles when he won the French Open.
