Secretariat wins Belmont Stakes by record 31-lengths, completes 1973 Triple Crown

1973

Secretariat wins Triple Crown in breathtaking style

Born on This Day

89th Annual Academy Awards - Press Room

Michael J. Fox

1961 -

Actor who earned fame for "Family Ties" and "Back to the Future." Advocate for a Parkinson's disease research.

Christian Dior : Photocall - Paris Fashion Week - Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2024

Natalie Portman

1981 -

Israeli American actress and star of "Beautiful Girls" and the "Star Wars" prequels, who won an Oscar for "Black Swan."

Cole Porter, American Song Writer

Cole Porter

1891 - 1964

Composer and lyricist whose work includes "Anything Goes," "Night and Day" and "I Get a Kick Out of You."

1934

JUN

9

Donald Duck waddles into pop culture, debuting in Disney’s "The Wise Little Hen." In it, the irascible quacker and his pal Peter Pig try to avoid work by faking stomach aches until Mrs. Hen teaches them the value of labor.

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1856

Handcart pioneers depart for Salt Lake City

In an extraordinary demonstration of resolve and fortitude, nearly 500 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often informally known as Mormons) leave Iowa City and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their goods and supplies in two-wheeled handcarts. Of all the thousands of pioneer journeys to the West in the 19th […]

1893

22 die in collapse of Ford’s Theatre, site of Lincoln assassination

In Washington, D.C. on June 9, 1893, the interior of ramshackle Ford’s Theatre collapses, causing the deaths of 22 people. The building—where President Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865—houses hundreds of clerks employed by the War Department’s Records and Pensions Division. An investigation determines the cause of the tragedy was a pier that had […]

1915

William Jennings Bryan resigns as U.S. secretary of state

On June 9, 1915, United States Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns due to his concerns over President Woodrow Wilson’s handling of the crisis generated by a German submarine’s sinking of the British passenger liner Lusitania the previous month, in which 1,201 people—including 128 Americans—died. Germany’s announcement in early 1915 that its navy was adopting […]

1954

“Have you no sense of decency?” Sen. Joseph McCarthy is asked in hearing

In a dramatic confrontation, Joseph Welch, special counsel for the U.S. Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether communism has infiltrated the U.S. armed forces. Welch’s verbal assault—including the enduring question “Have you no sense of decency?”—marked the end of McCarthy’s power during the anticommunist hysteria of the Red Scare in […]

1956

Best-selling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell is born

On June 9, 1956, one of the world’s top-selling crime novelists, Patricia Cornwell, best known for her forensic pathologist character Dr. Kay Scarpetta, is born in Miami, Florida. Cornwell, whose maiden name is Daniels, had a difficult childhood: When she was 5, her father, a lawyer, left the family. Afterward, Cornwell moved with her mother […]

1964

CIA report challenges “domino theory”

In reply to a formal question submitted by President Lyndon B. Johnson—“Would the rest of Southeast Asia necessarily fall if Laos and South Vietnam came under North Vietnamese control?”—the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) submits a memo that effectively challenges the “domino theory” backbone of the Johnson administration policies. This theory contended that if South Vietnam […]

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