1621 The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, present-day New York City.
1808 Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy, was born in Christian County, Ky.
1888 The poem ''Casey at the Bat,'' by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
1937 The Duke of Windsor married American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom he had abdicated the British throne, in Monts, France.
1963 Pope John XXIII died at age 81.
On June 3, 1965, astronaut Edward White became the first American to "walk" in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.
1968 Pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio, The Factory, by actress Valerie Solanas.
1981 Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital and returned to the Vatican three weeks after an attempt on his life.
1983 Gordon Kahl, a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota, was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials near Smithville, Ark.
1989 Chinese army troops began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.
1999 Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO airstrikes.
2001 Mel Brooks' musical comedy ''The Producers'' won a record 12 Tony Awards.
2004 Julio Franco became, at age 45, the oldest player in major league history to hit a grand slam, connecting in Atlanta's 8-4 victory over Philadelphia.
Tony Curtis turns 80 today
Chuck Barris turns 76 today
Singer Suzi Quatro turns 55 today
Now, off to brew up some wonderful, lifegiving coffeeeeee.......
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