Saw the car license plate, and of course I got to thinking: What makes June 9 significant (for a Democrat, perhaps)?
Here are a few noteworthy events occuring on the 9th of June. Scroll to the very bottom of list for an "auspicious" event:
AD 68 Nero, Roman Emperor died
1834 William Carey, Christian Missionary died
1870 Charles Dickens died
1898 China leases Hong Kong's new territories to the United Kingdom for 99 years
1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey, 22-year-old housewife from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the 1st woman to drive across the US, in a Maxwell 30, drives 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days
1934 1st appearance of Donald Duck in a cartoon, "The Wise Little Hen"
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| pc: wikipedia |
1962 Tony Bennett debuts in concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC
1963 Actor Johnny Depp born
2016 Barack Obama officially endorses Hillary Clinton as Democratic Presidential Nominee
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| This is the day which the LORD hath made ... |
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