On this day …
June 2, 2017
- In 1692, Bridget Bishop was the first person to go to trial during the Salem Witch Trials.
- In 1835, P.T. Barnum and his circus started their first tour of the United States.
- In 1896, Guglielmo Marconi applied for a patent for his “wireless telegraph.”
- In 1953, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was the first major international event to be televised.
- In 1967, The Beatles released what is considered one of the greatest albums of all time, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
- In 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted on 15 counts of murder for his role in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
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