June 7 is National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
Daniel Boone Day: On June 7, 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone first saw the forests and valleys of present-day Kentucky. For more than a century, the Kentucky Historical Society has celebrated June 7 as “Boone Day.”
June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee presented the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress. It declared the United Colonies to be independent of the British Empire. The motion was seconded by John Adams and led to the United States Declaration of Independence.
Asian cholera reached Quebec in 1832, brought by Irish immigrants, and killed about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
Birthday of Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848),leading French Post-Impressionist artist. Examples of Gauguin’s works can be seen at WikiArt
In 1862, the United States and Britain agreed to suppress the slave trade.
Benjamin Harrison became the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game on June 7, 1892. The Cincinnati Reds beat the Washington Senators 7-4 in 11 innings.
In 1892 – Homer Plessy, an American Creole was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the “whites-only” car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. It was overturned in Brown v Board of Education in 1954. Plessy was 7/8 white or, according to the language of the time, an octoroon.
George Sampson patents clothes dryer on June 7, 1892. George Samson wrote in his patent:
My invention relates to improvements in clothes-driers. The object of my invention is to suspend clothing in close relation to a stove by means of frames so constructed that they can be readily placed in proper position and put aside when not required for use.
Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania was launched June 7, 1906 from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
Birthday of Virginia Apgar (1909), American physician, anesthesiologist, and researcher who developed the Apgar score, a method of evaluating newborn infants to assess well-being. The five criteria include appearance, pulse, reflex irritability or grimace, activity, and respiratory effort. Each criteria is given a score of 0, 1, or 2. The baby is assessed at one and five minutes following birth.
In 1914, the Alliance was the first vessel to pass through the Panama Canal.
June 7,1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.