Daily Calendar for Thursday, June 16, 2011

Events

• Spain declared war on Britain and the siege of Gibraltar began– 1779
• The first roller coaster in the United States began operation at Coney Island, New York– 1884
• First issue of Klondike Nugget published, Dawson, Yukon– 1898
• Andrew Jackson, Jr. was issued a patent for eye protectors for chickens– 1903
• Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho, released– 1960
• Soviet dancer, Rudolph Nureyev, left the touring Kirov Ballet and asked for political asylum in France– 1961
• First female in space, Valentina V. Tereshkova, was launched into orbit in Soviet Vostok VI– 1963
• People were caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building– 1972
• A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off of California’s northern coast to become the fourth significant quake to jolt California in a week– 2005