On This Day June 7th

 OTD

June 7th is the one-hundred-fifty-eighth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 207 days remain until the end of the year.

 

Events

1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.

1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.

1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion was seconded by John Adams and led to the United States Declaration of Independence.

1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania was launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.

1946 – The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which had been off the air for seven years because of World War II.

1975 – Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.

1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits. Still is

 

Birthdays

1687 – Gaetano Bernstadt, Italian actor, and singer (d. 1734)

1811 – James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician (d. 1870) The first proponent of anesthesia.

1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (d. 1903)

1905 – James J. Braddock, American world heavyweight boxing champion (d. 1974)

1917 – Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (d. 1995)

1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor

1958 – Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (d. 2016)

 

Holiday Highlight

DANIEL BOONE DAY

1769 Daniel Boone arrived near the Cumberland Gap, a passage between the Appalachian Mountains that led straight into present-day Kentucky. By working with the Transylvania Company, he made a trail through the Cumberland Gap and named it the Wilderness Road.

 

The Wilderness Road, a trail through the Cumberland Gap that Daniel Boone created, became one of the main roads for people going west. This was a significant development in American pioneering history. Soon after its completion, Boone founded Boonesborough near the Kentucky River. His wife and daughters settled at Boonesborough, becoming the two first Anglo-American women who settled in Kentucky, a testament to the impact of his work.

 

Boone's journey was not without its challenges. He faced significant opposition from British soldiers and Native Americans in his new settlement. In a testament to his courage, he was even captured by the Shawnee, a Native American tribe, in 1778. Yet, he managed to escape and protect his settlement. He didn't give up despite losing all of his land in Kentucky by 1798. He moved west towards present-day Missouri with his son in 1799, where he lived peacefully until his death on September 26, 1820, at 85. His last words, “I’m going now; my time has come,” reflect the resilience and determination that defined his life.

 

Daniel Boone discovered and developed one of America’s most important gateways for early settlers to travel west of the Appalachian Mountains. Today, he is considered a symbol of the Western pioneering spirit.

 

Holidays And Observance

Daniel Boone Day

June Bug Day

National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

National Donut Day

Trial Technology Day

VCR Day

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