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On This Day:
Tuesday June 2, 2009
This is the 153rd day of the year, with 212 days remaining in 2009.
Fact of the Day: Spelling bee
The Scripps National Spelling Bee was actually started by The Louisville
Courier-Journal with nine contestants in 1925. In 1941, Scripps assumed
sponsorship of the program. There was no Scripps National Spelling Bee during
the World War II years of 1943, 1944, and 1945. Co-champions were declared in
1950, 1957, and 1962. The word "bee" as in "spelling bee" is not referring to
an insect but to a community social gathering at which friends and neighbors
join together in a single activity (sewing, quilting, barn raising, etc.),
usually to help one person or family. The first attested use of the term in
writing dates to 1875.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Erasmus, St. Oda, St. Attalus, Saints Marcellinus and
Peter, St. Eugenius I, pope, St. Nicholas the Pilgrim, St. Stephen of Sweden,
and St. Pothinus and his Companions.
Belgium: Procession of the Golden Chariot.
Bhutan: Coronation Day.
Bulgaria: Hristo Botev Day.
Italy: Republic Day.
United Kingdom: Coronation Day of HM Queen Elizabeth II.
Events
1774 - The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to allow British
soldiers into their houses, was reenacted.
1851 - Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
1865 - Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of Confederate
forces west of the Mississippi, signed the surrender terms offered by Union
negotiators, marking the end of the Civil War.
1896 - Great Britain granted Guglielmo Marconi the first wireless radio
patent.
1924 - Congress granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the
United States.
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16
months after the death of her father, King George VI.
1966 - The U.S. space probe Surveyor I landed on the Moon and began
transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
1987 - President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan
Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
Births
1740 - Marquis de Sade, French nobleman and writer.
1840 - Thomas Hardy, English poet and novelist.
1890 - Hedda Hopper (Elda Furry), American gossip columnist, radio
commentator, actress.
1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, American Olympic gold medalist swimmer, actor.
1941 - Charlie Watts, English musician.
1943 - Ilaiyaraaja (born Gnanadesikan), Indian film composer, singer, and
lyricist.
1948 - Jerry Mathers, American actor.
1955 - Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian.
1960 - Kyle Petty, American race car driver.
1980 - Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian rock musician.
Deaths
1990 - Rex Harrison, British actor.
2007 - Chinese Vice Premier Huang Ju.
2008 - Bo Diddley (born Otha Ellas Bates), an influential American rock
and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
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