On this day …
June 7, 2016
- In 1494, officials from Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the New World between the two countries.
- In 1654, Louis XIV was crowned King of France.
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Temperance advocate Carrie Nation became associated with her omnipresent tomahawk. - In 1692, an earthquake in Port Royal, Jamaica, killed more than 1,600.
- In 1892, Benjamin Harrison became the first U.S. president to attend a baseball game.
- In 1899, Carrie Nation began a campaign of vandalizing establishments that served alcohol by destroying the inventory of a saloon in Kiowa, Kan.
- In 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that married couples legally had access to contraception.
- In 1981, Israeli war planes destroyed Iraq’s Osiraq nuclear reactor.
- In 1982, Priscilla Presley opened Graceland to the public.
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