
Category: Day in history



June 25, 1999 – National Take Your Dog To Work Day – Americas Little Road Rage Problem – Sleeping Pilots
June 25, 1999 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 25, 1999 – Maybe a slow news day, but still. It was National Take Your Dog To Work Day, and for that brief moment most employees and employers were deluged with fur people and the

June 22, 1999 – President Clinton Visits Macedonia Refugee Camps – Stephen King Has Another Surgery
June 22, 1999 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 22, 1999 – President Clinton arrived in Skopje Macedonia for a visit to a Kosovar refugee camp. In going to the Stenkovec Refugee camp, just a few miles from the Kosovo border, the President got


June 18, 2008 – Same Sex Marriage In California – Midwest Flood Waters Surge – A Middle-East Refugee Tsunami
June 18, 2008 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 18, 2008: just ten years ago today. Same sex marriage became legal in California. After a long battle and with still-contentious opponents, the first marriage licenses were granted to Gay and Lesbian couples all over

June 15, 1973 – Brezhnev Holds A Press Conference (Of Sorts) – Nixon Goes To Pekin (Illinois) – Your Gas Hog Lifestyle Is About To Change
June 15, 1973 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 15, 1973 -Busy news day – Starting with President Nixon going to Pekin Illinois to visit the birthplace of the late Everett Dirksen. Nixon and Everrett Dirksen’s widow unveiled the cornerstone of a new research center


June 17, 1947 – A Princeton Commencement – President Truman
June 17, 1947 – President Truman – Princeton University Commencement Address – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 1947; graduation season and the season for commencement addresses. Princeton University conferred Doctor of Laws degrees on a number of notables in 1947. Among them, General Eisenhower and Judge Learned Hand
