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Daily Calendar for Saturday, June 10, 2017

Born

  • Gustave Courbet (painter) –
  • Hattie McDaniel (actress; the first African American to win an Academy Award) –
  • Judy Garland (actress & singer) –
  • Eugene Parker (American astrophysicist; proposed the idea of solar wind in 1958 ) –
  • F. Lee Bailey (attorney) –
  • Jim Shea (Olympic gold medalist, Men’s Skeleton) –
  • Pokey Reese (baseball player) –
  • Tara Lipinski (figure skater) –
  • Princess Madeleine of Sweden –
  • Leelee Sobieski (actress) –

Died

  • Sir Robert Laird Borden (Canadian prime minister) –
  • Spencer Tracy (actor) –
  • Louis L'Amour (author) –
  • John Gotti (gangster) –
  • Ray Charles (singer) –
  • John A. Eddy (solar astronomer, coined the term Maunder Minimum) –
  • Gordie Howe (hockey player) –

Events

  • Bridget Bishop was the first person to be hanged at the Salem Witch trials–
  • Ben Franklin’s kite and key experiment proved lightning is electricity–
  • Canada Constitution Act is passed by British Parliament, creating Upper and Lower Canada–
  • Phoenix steamboat first in U.S. to sail on open sea–
  • First boat race between Oxford and Cambridge–
  • The United States Naval Academy graduated its first students–
  • U.S. Marines landed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba–
  • Alcoholics Anonymous founded –
  • The Deep premiered–
  • United States War Dogs Memorial was dedicated, Holmdel, New Jersey–

Weather

  • Yakutat, Alaska, reached 87 degrees F, a record for that town–

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