June 11, 1963 – On this morning a procession of Buddhist monks and nuns marched to an intersection near the Cambodian embassy in Saigon. Three monks emerged from a car. One placed a cushion on the road and another carried a 5-gallon tank of gasoline. The third monk was Hòa thượng Thích Quảng Đức, [...]
June 10, 1607 - Sir John Popham died on this day. He was one of the most powerful and feared men of his time.
As a child he was abducted by gypsies, and by the time he was a teenager he was surviving as a thief and highwayman. Ironically he would grow up to be a [...]
June 9, 1909 – Today was the day that Alice Huyler Ramsey began her historic cross-country road trip from New York City to San Francisco. She and her three travel companions became the first women to drive across the continent. For the record, Alice did all the driving.
Alice was a 22-year-old housewife from Hackensack, New [...]
