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- THIS WEEK IN HISTORY -
June 5, 1916 - The Sherif Hussein proclaims a revolt of the Arabs in the province of Hejaz, an action that undermines the Turkish Empire; June 5 ,1963 - State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested; June 5, 1975 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal; June 6, 632 - Prophet Muhammad passes away (approximate date); June 6, 1950 - Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized; June 6, 1967 - Israeli troops occupy Gaza during second day of the Six-Day War; June 6, 1982 - 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out the PLO; June 7, 1099 - The first crusade in Jerusalem begins; June 7, 1967 - Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem; June 7, 2000 - The UN recognizes the blue line as the border between Israel and Lebanon; June 8, 1974 - Saudi Arabia and USA sign military and economic contract; June 10, 1967 - Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help; June 10, 1916 - Great Arab Revolt begins against ruling Ottoman Turks; June 6, 640 - Muslim army sent by Caliph Omar begins siege of Heliopolis, city succumbs mid to late July, paving way for Muslim conquest of Byzantine Egypt; June 10, 1982 - Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut.
June 5, 1851 - Anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in serial form; June 5, 1950 - US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation; June 5, 1956 - US Federal court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Constitutional; June 6, 1966 - Civil rights activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi; June 6, 1968 - Sen. Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night; June 7, 1862 - The US and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade; June 8, 1953 – The US Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons; June 8, 1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives; June 9, 1772 - First naval attack of the Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI; June 9, 1870 - US President Ulysses S. Grant meets with Sioux Chief Red Cloud at The White House in Washington, D.C.; June 10, 1692 - The first victim of the Salem witch trials is hanged for witchcraft in the colony of Massachusetts; June 10, 1752 - Benjamin Franklin tests the lightning conductor with his kite-flying experiment; June 10, 1963 - US Equal Pay Act signed into law by President John F. Kennedy; June 11, 1776 - Continental Congress creates committee to draft a Declaration of Independence.
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