- 1933] Fogging up the windows of the old Chevy: The first drive-in opens in Pennsauken (NJ). The lot covered 10 acres with enough room for 400 rockin' cars (6/6)...
- 1944] The dawning of D-Day: U.S. troops land in Normandy. The number one song that day was "I'll Get By" by Dick Haymes with the Harry James Orchestra. All major league games are cancelled (6/6). The next time all the games are cancelled is September 11, 2001...
- 1967] Guilty as charged: Mass murderer Richard Speck is sentenced to death in the electric chair for his murder rampage. The sentence is reduced to a life term. Speck dies of a heart attack in prison in 1991, one day short of his 50th birthday…2002] Kennedy cousin (nephew of Ethel) Michael Skakel is convicted in Norwalk (CT) (6/7) of beating Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley to death when both were teenagers in 1975. He's still in prison for the crime...
- 1968] Another Kennedy is cut down: Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) is shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in the California Democratic Primary. Gunman Sirhan B. Sirhan is immediately captured (6/5). Kennedy will die from his wounds on June 6…
- 1981] The birth of AIDS: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 5 men have come down with a rare form of pneumonia. These are the first reported cases of what will become AIDS (6/5)...
- 1998] Horrific crime: Forty-nine year old black man James Byrd Jr. is dragged to his death from the back of a pickup truck in Jasper (TX) (6/7). In 1999, William King, a white man, is sentenced to death for this horrific murder...
- 2002] Kidnapped: Fourteen-year old Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her parents' home in Salt Lake City (6/5)...
- 2004] 'Happy Trails': Ronald Wilson Reagan, our 40th president dies in Los Angeles after a long struggle with Alzheimer's. Reagan was 93 (6/5)...2008] Legendary sportscaster Jim McKay, best known as host of "Wide World of Sports", dies of natural causes at 86 (6/7)...
- 2008] Hillary is outted: Hillary Clinton suspends her presidential campaign and endorses Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for president (6/7)...
- 2008] Brown-out: Big Brown becomes the first Triple Crown favorite to place last in The Belmont Stakes. Big Brown previously won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. Longshot (38-1) Da'Tara wins wire-to-wire (6/7)...For more on June 5 - 7:
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