This Day in History – June 6
1639 – Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill.1861 – Lincoln’s cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers.
1882 – Electric iron patented by Henry W. Seely, NYC.
1896 – Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo leave NY harbor to row across Atlantic; their 55 day record for rowing was not broken for 114 years.
1925 – Walter Chrysler founds automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation.
1932 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon sole.
1933 – 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden, NJ)
1936 – Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially, Paulsboro, NJ.
1942 – 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
1946 – Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV.
1955 – Bill Haley & Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock” hits #1.
1960 – Roy Orbison releases “Only the Lonely”
1966 – NFL & AFL announce their merger.
1969 – Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar.
1971 – “Ed Sullivan Show” last broadcasts on CBS-TV.
1983 – 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins and Roy Acuff.
1991 – NBC announces Jay Leno will succeed Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992.
1998 – TV sitcom “Sex and the City” premieres in the US on HBO, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.
2005 – The United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich.
2015 – Convicted killers Richard Matt and David Sweat break out of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York.
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