CallMaker's This Day in History

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June 9, 3013

 

Oh what the hell...that's what happens when geezers get up too early............

 

Aw 3T, I was just about a half a bubble off this morning and now I'm getting my Johnson pulled........as I deserve

 

Events

• 411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
• 53 – The Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
• 68 – The Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and starting the civil year known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
• 721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.

 

Just June 9 triva............it's boring day here...almost time for my nap.

 

Today's Calendar

June 10 is the 161st day of the year (162nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 204 days remaining until the end of the year.

1776 - The Continental Congress appointed a committee to write a Declaration of Independence.

1801 - The North African State of Tripoli declared war on the U.S. The dispute was over merchant vessels being able to travel safely through the Mediterranean.

1898 - U.S. Marines landed in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

1925 - The state of Tennessee adopted a new biology text book that denied the theory of evolution.

1940 - Italy declared war on France and Britain. In addition, Canada declared war on Italy.

1948 - Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in the Bell XS-1.

1970 - A fifteen-man group of special forces troops began training for Operation Kingpin. The operation was a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.

2004 - History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. ~ Ronald Reagan