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Too early? naww, you're right on time today :D
GOOD MORNING!
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1788 The U.S. Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.
1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.
1932 After heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling lost a title fight by decision to Jack Sharkey, Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, exclaimed: ''We was robbed!''
1963 Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII as head of the Roman Catholic Church. The new pope took the name Paul VI.
On June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. Eight members of the Ku Klux Klan went to prison on federal conspiracy charges; none served more than six years.
1973 The Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.
1977 Menachem Begin became Israel's sixth prime minister.
1982 A jury in Washington, D.C., found John Hinckley Jr. innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three others.
1985 Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
1989 The Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.
1997 The Women's National Basketball Association made its debut as the New York Liberty defeated the Los Angeles Sparks 67-57.
2001 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., indicted 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2001 Actor Carroll O'Connor died at age 76.
2001 Blues musician John Lee Hooker died at age 83.
Ray Davies of the Kinks turns 61 today
Interesting... both Meredith Baxter AND Michael Gross
(the mom & dad from tv's "family ties") turn 58 today.
Nils Lofgren is 54 today
Prince William is 23 today
Have a great day all...
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