TIME TRAVELING, JUNE 7 1712 The Pennsylvania Assembly bans the importation of slaves. 1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposes to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence, the dissolving of all political connection between the United Colonies and the State of Great Britain. 1866 Thirteen years after American settlers found the city named for him, Chief Seattle, chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes, dies in a nearby village of his people. 1903 Professor Pierre Curie reveals the discovery of Polonium. 1913 Hudson Stuck, an Alaskan missionary, leads the first successful ascent of Mt. McKinley, the highest point on the American continent at 20,320 feet. 1929 The sovereign state of Vatican City comes into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty are exchanged in Rome. 1932 Over 7,000 war veterans, many of them unemployed, march on Washington, D.C., demanding their bonuses. The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses – to a maximum of $625 -- in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945. The principal demand of the marchers is the immediate cash payment of their certificates. 1937 The cover of LIFE magazine shows the latest in campus fashions of the times, which include saddle shoes. 1939 King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrive in the U.S., making the first visit to the U.S. by a reigning British monarch. 1942 The Battle of Midway ends. The sea and air battle lasts four days. Japan loses four carriers, a cruiser, 292 aircraft, 2,500 troops, and dominance in the Pacific. The U.S. loses the “Yorktown,” the destroyer “USS Hammann,” and 145 aircraft, and suffers 307 casualties. 1944 Off of the coast of Normandy, France, the “USS Susan B. Anthony,” an ocean liner converted to a U.S. Navy troop transport ship in 1942, strikes a mine and sinks. All 2,689 people aboard are rescued. 1948 The Communists complete their takeover of Czechoslovakia. 1965 General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. military operations in Vietnam, requests a total of 35 battalions of combat troops with another nine in reserve. President Lyndon Johnson eventually acquiesces to the commander’s request, and ultimately there will be more than 500,000 U.S. troops in South Vietnam. 1966 Former actor Ronald Reagan receives the Republican nomination for governor of California. He ultimately wins the November election, and his tenure as governor helps pave his way for victory in the 1980 presidential election. 1976 The NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor and David Brinkley airs for the first time. 1994 The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia declares the RMS Titanic, Inc. (RMST) salvor-in-possession of the wreck and the wreck site of the RMS Titanic, which sunk on April 15, 1912. Since 1987, the company has made seven research trips to the site and recovered 5,500 artifacts. 2002 Michael Skakel, 41, is convicted in the 1975 bludgeoning death of his former Greenwich, Conn., neighbor, 15-year-old Martha Moxley. Skakal, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, wife of the late U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, is later sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.
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