What happened this day in history?  Thanks to digital media and amazing historians, we have this list for you via the History Channel and a few dates that we added to the list just for fun.

American Revolution

• 1723 Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations, is baptized in Scotland

Automotive

• 1998 Autoworkers’ union calls strike at GM parts factory

Civil War

• 1864 Union routs Rebels at the Battle of Piedmont

Cold War

• 1947 George Marshall calls for aid to Europe

Crime

• 1968 Bobby Kennedy is assassinated

Disaster

• 1870 Constantinople burns
• 2001 Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall along the Texas coastline ($5.5 billion in damages)

General Interest

• 1901 Anastasia Nikolaevna, Daughter of the last Russian Tsar is born (d. 1918)
• 1963 Profumo resigns in sex scandal
• 1967 Six-Day War begins
• 1968 Robert F. Kennedy shot
• 1975 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)
• 1981 AIDS Epidemic officially begins in the US
• 1988 1^st Children’s Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000
• 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
• 2004 Ronald Reagan dies

Hollywood

• 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Memphis, Tennessee, on WMFS 92.9 FM
• 1998 First Episode of Sex and the City airs on HBO
• 2004 Jennifer Lopez marries Marc Anthony

Literary

• 1949 Ken Follett is born
• 1998 Alfred Kazin, American writer and literature critic, dies at 83
• 2012 Ray Bradbury, bestselling science fiction author, dies at 91
• 2013 The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published

Music

• 1956 Elvis rocks The Milton Berle Show
• 2013 47^th CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert win big

Old West

• 1922 Discoverer of Klondike Gold dies

Presidential

• 1888 Cleveland denies widow her husband’s military pension
• 1933 FDR takes United States off gold standard
• 1942 FDR warns Japanese against using poison gas

Sports

• 1902 42^nd British Golf Open: Sandy Herd shoots a 307 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club
• 1993 Julie Krone wins the Belmont Stakes
• 1948 Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecutive hitting streak at 23
• 1952 1^st sporting event televised nationally – Walcott vs Charles boxing
• 1955 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hist 550’ HR off Chicago Billy Pierce
• 1981 Astro’s Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader (1,777)

Vietnam War

• 1968 Robert Kennedy shot after California primary
• 1972 Laird testifies before Congress

World War I

• 1916 British War Minister Lord Kitchener drowns
• 1917 10 Million US men begin registering for draft

World War II

• 1940 Battle of France begins
• 1944 Allies prepare for D-Day
• 1944 1^st B-29 bombing raid