Today is Wednesday, June 9, the 160th day of 2010. There are 205 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On June 9, 1954, during the Senate-Army Hearings, Army special counsel Joseph Welch berated Sen. Joseph McCarthy for his attack on Frederick Fisher, a junior attorney at Welch’s law firm, asking: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
ON THIS DATE
In A.D. 68, the Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide.
In 1870, author Charles Dickens died.
In 1973, Secretariat became horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning the Belmont Stakes.
In 1978, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
In 1980, comedian Richard Pryor suffered almost fatal burns at his San Fernando Valley, Calif., home while freebasing cocaine.
In 2000, the Justice Department released a report saying an 18-month investigation had found no credible evidence that conspirators aided or framed James Earl Ray in the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Painter Jacob Lawrence died in Seattle at age 82.
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