Today is Monday, June 7, the 158th day of 2010. There are 207 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for American independence from Britain.
ON THIS DATE
In 1769, Daniel Boone first began to explore present-day Kentucky.
In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
In 1981, Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
In 1998, in a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men were later sentenced to death for the crime; a third received life.)
In 2000, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp., declaring it should be split into two because it had “proved untrustworthy in the past.”; Microsoft vowed to appeal. (An appeals court later threw out the breakup order.)
In 2005, General Motors announced plans to close plants and eliminate 25,000 manufacturing jobs in the United States by 2008.
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