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1833: President Jackson rides the Iron Horse. In Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland, President Andrew Jackson boards a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad train for a pleasure trip to Baltimore. Jackson, who had never been on a train before, was the first president to take a ride on the “Iron Horse,” as locomotives were known then.
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1856: Sitting President Franklin Pierce denied his party’s nomination for reelection. On June 6, 1856, the fifth and final day of the Democratic Party’s national convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, President Franklin Pierce becomes the first elected president of the United States not to be nominated by his party for a second term. Instead, the party chooses James Buchanan, who will go on to win the presidency in November.
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1930: Frozen food is sold in retail stores for the first time – 18 stores in Springfield, Massachusetts took part in a trial to test consumer acceptance. Clarence Birdseye, the founder of the Birds Eye Frozen Food Company, is considered to be the father of the modern frozen food industry.
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1944: D-Day – Allies storm Normandy’s coast. On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of northern France, commonly known as D-Day.
By daybreak, 18,000 British and American parachutists were already on the ground. An additional 13,000 aircraft were mobilized to provide air cover and support for the invasion. At 6:30 a.m., American troops came ashore at Utah and Omaha beaches.
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1946: The National Basketball Association (NBA) is founded. The NBA, which comprises teams in the United States and Canada, is considered the world’s premier men’s professional basketball league.
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1949: Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s prophetic novel of a world ruled by Big Brother, was published.
1967: President Nasser of Egypt closed the Suez Canal, alleging that US and British forces were aiding Israel.
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1982: The 1982 Lebanon War was triggered by the attack on Israeli ambassador, Shlomo Argov, in London on June 3. Thousands of civilians died during the war, which lasted three years.
1984: In a bloody climax to two years of fighting between the Indian government and Sikh separatists, Indian army troops fight their way into the besieged Golden Temple compound in Amritsar–the holiest shrine of Sikhism–and kill at least 500 Sikh rebels. More than 100 Indian soldiers and scores of nonbelligerent Sikhs also perished in the ferocious gun and artillery battle, which was launched in the early morning hours of June 6. (Sikh groups dispute this figure and say thousands died, including a large number of pilgrims who were there for an important Sikh festival). The army also attacked Sikh guerrillas besieged in three dozen other temples and religious shrines throughout the state of Punjab. Indian officials hailed the operation as a success and said it “broke the back” of the Sikh terrorist movement.
The Sikh religion, which was founded in the late 15th century by Guru Nanak, combines elements of Hinduism and Islam, the two major religions of India.
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1984: The video game Tetris is published. Russian computer engineer, Alexey Pajitnov, created the puzzle game. With over 100 million copies sold, it is one of the most successful video games in history.
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1995: South Africa abolishes the death penalty. Capital punishment is struck down by the Constitutional Court as inconsistent with the newly democratised country’s constitution.
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BIRTHS ON THIS DAY: June 06
James Barnor, 95 years
Ghanaian photographer, in Accra, Gold Coast was born in 1929. For years a studio portrait photographer, he began to collect celebrities as clients, and created photo portraits with elements of photojournalism. His work as a photojournalist documenting Ghana’s transition from colony into its first three decades of independence have been exhibited in museums international.
Faure Gnassingbé, 58 years
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé is a Togolese politician who has been the president of Togo since 2005. Before assuming the presidency, he was appointed by his father, President Gnassingbé Eyadéma, as Minister of Equipment, Mines, Posts, and Telecommunications, serving from 2003 to 2005.
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Marian Wright Edelman, 85 Years
Marian Wright Edelman is an American activist for civil rights and children’s rights. She is the founder and president emerita of the Children’s Defense Fund. She influenced leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr.
Hamani Diori (6 June 1916 – 23 April 1989)
First president of Niger from independence in 1960 until he was removed by a military coup d’état in 1974. He was respected internationally as a spokesman for African issues and for negotiating solutions to conflicts. Domestically, his ban on political opposition and failure to address famine and poverty made him unpopular and led to his ouster. He died at the age of 72.
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