Right this moment is Monday, June 9, the a hundred and sixtieth day of 2025. There are 205 days left within the yr.
Right this moment in historical past:
On June 9, 1973, Secretariat gained the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths, profitable horse racing’s Triple Crown and setting a still-standing document by working the 1 1/2-mile dust course in 2 minutes, 24 seconds.
Additionally on this date:
In 1732, James Oglethorpe acquired a constitution from Britain’s King George II to ascertain the colony of Georgia.
In 1954, in the course of the Senate Military-McCarthy hearings, Military particular counsel Joseph N. Welch berated Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, a Republican from Wisconsin, asking: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
In 1972, heavy rains triggered document flooding within the Black Hills of South Dakota. The ensuing catastrophe left not less than 238 folks useless and greater than 1,300 properties destroyed.
In 1978, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a coverage of excluding Black males from the Mormon priesthood that had been in place for greater than 125 years.
In 1986, the Rogers Fee launched its report on the Challenger catastrophe, criticizing NASA and rocket-builder Morton Thiokol for administration issues resulting in the explosion that claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
In 2013, Rafael Nadal grew to become the primary man to win eight titles on the identical Grand Slam tennis match after beating fellow Spaniard David Ferrer within the French Open remaining. (Nadal would end his profession with 14 French Open titles.)
In 2022, at its first public listening to on the matter, the Home panel investigating the Jan. 6 rebel on the U.S. Capitol positioned blame squarely on Donald Trump, saying the assault was not spontaneous however an “attempted coup” and a direct results of the defeated president’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Right this moment’s Birthdays:
- Sportscaster Dick Vitale is 86.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Dave Parker is 74.
- Movie composer James Newton Howard is 74.
- Creator Patricia Cornwell is 69.
- Actor Michael J. Fox is 64.
- Author-filmmaker Aaron Sorkin is 64.
- Actor Johnny Depp is 62.
- Actor Gloria Reuben is 61.
- Actor Michaela Conlin is 47.
- Actor Natalie Portman is 44.
- Musician Anoushka Shankar is 44.
- Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Laurie Hernandez is 25.
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