As we speak is Tuesday, June 17, the 168th day of 2025. There are 197 days left within the 12 months.
As we speak in historical past:
On June 17, 1994, after main police on a slow-speed chase on Southern California freeways, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with homicide within the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her pal, Ronald Goldman. (Simpson was acquitted of the murders in a legal trial in 1995, however held liable in a civil trial in 1997.)
Additionally on this date:
In 1775, the Revolutionary Warfare Battle of Bunker Hill resulted in a pricey victory for the British, who suffered heavy losses.
In 1885, the Statue of Liberty, disassembled and packed into 214 separate crates, arrived in New York Harbor aboard the French frigate Isère.
In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which boosted U.S. tariffs to traditionally excessive ranges, prompting international retaliation.
In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom, in Abington (Pa.) Faculty District v. Schempp, struck down, 8-1, guidelines requiring the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer or studying of biblical verses in public colleges.
In 1972, President Richard Nixon’s eventual downfall started with the arrest of 5 burglars contained in the Democratic headquarters in Washington, D.C.’s, Watergate complicated.
In 2008, a whole bunch of same-sex {couples} obtained married throughout California on the primary full day that same-sex marriage turned authorized by order of the state’s highest courtroom; an estimated 11,000 same-sex {couples} could be married beneath the California regulation in its first three months.
In 2015, 9 Black worshippers have been killed when a gunman opened hearth throughout a Bible research gathering at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. (Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, was captured the next day; he could be convicted on state and federal homicide and hate crime expenses and sentenced to loss of life.)
In 2021, the Supreme Courtroom, in a 7-2 ruling, left intact the complete Reasonably priced Care Act, rejecting a serious Republican-led effort to kill the nationwide well being care regulation recognized informally as “Obamacare.”
In 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth Nationwide Independence Day Act into regulation, creating the primary new nationwide vacation for the reason that institution of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
- Filmmaker Ken Loach is 89.
- Former Home Speaker Newt Gingrich is 82.
- Musician Barry Manilow is 82.
- Comic Joe Piscopo is 74.
- Actor Jon Gries is 68.
- Filmmaker Bobby Farrelly is 67.
- Actor Thomas Haden Church is 65.
- Actor Greg Kinnear is 62.
- Olympic velocity skating gold medalist Dan Jansen is 60.
- Dressmaker Tory Burch is 59.
- Actor Jason Patric is 59.
- Actor-comedian Will Forte is 55.
- Latin pop singer-songwriter Paulina Rubio is 54.
- Tennis Corridor of Famer Leander Paes is 52.
- Tennis star Venus Williams is 45.
- Actor Jodie Whittaker is 43.
- Rapper Kendrick Lamar is 38.
- Actor KJ Apa is 28.
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