This Day in History – June 27, 2011

1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn 1847 NY & Boston linked by telegraph wires 1914 US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia 1915 100ø F (38ø C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record) 1917 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service 1929 1st color TV demo (NYC) 1934 Federal Savings & Loan Association created 1940 USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar 1954 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia) 1955 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois) 1966 1st sci-fi soap opera, “Dark Shadows,” premiers 1969 Police raid the Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against the police, it lasts 3 days 1973 John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon’s “enemies list” 1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise 1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts 1986 Anne White shocks Wimbeldon by wearing only a body stocking 1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce 1986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal 1987 Supreme Court Justice Powell retires 1988 Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m) 1990 Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims]]]]> ]]>