Today is Sunday, June 4, the 155th day of 2017. There are 210 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight: On June 4, 1977, the VHS home videocassette recorder was introduced to North America by JVC during a press conference in Chicago.
On this date:
In 1783, the Montgolfier brothers first publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon, which did not carry any passengers, over Annonay, France.
In 1937, one of the first, if not the first, shopping carts was introduced by supermarket chain owner Sylvan Goldman in Oklahoma City.
In 1939, the German ocean liner MS St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, was turned away from the Florida coast by U.S. officials.
In 1940, during World War II, the Allied military evacuation of some 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France, ended. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared: “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
In 1942, the World War II Battle of Midway began, resulting in a decisive American victory against Japan and marking the turning point of the war in the Pacific. The wartime drama “Mrs. Miniver,” an MGM production starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, premiered in New York.
In 1947, the Christmastime tale “Miracle on 34th Street,” a 20th Century Fox production, opened in New York.
In 1992, the U.S. Postal Service announced the results of a nationwide vote on the Elvis Presley stamp, saying more people preferred the “younger Elvis” design.
Today’s birthdays: Sex therapist and media personality Dr. Ruth Westheimer is 89. Actor Bruce Dern is 81. Actress-singer Michelle Phillips is 73. Actor Parker Stevenson is 65. Actor Keith David is 61. Blues singer-musician Tinsley Ellis is 60. Actress Julie Gholson is 59. Actor Eddie Velez is 59. Singer-musician El DeBarge is 56. Actress Julie White is 56. Actress Lindsay Frost is 55. Tennis player Andrea Jaeger is 52. Actor Scott Wolf is 49. Actor-comedian Rob Huebel is 48. Comedian Horatio Sanz is 48. Actor Noah Wyle is 46. Actor-comedian Russell Brand is 42. Actress Angelina Jolie is 42. Actor Theo Rossi is 42. Alt-country singer Kasey Chambers is 41. Model Bar Refaeli is 32. Olympic gold medal figure skater Evan Lysacek is 32. Americana singer Shakey Graves is 30. Rock musician Zac Farro is 27.
Thought for today: “Reputation is a bubble which a man bursts when he tries to blow it for himself.” — Emma Carleton, American journalist (1850-1925).
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