Monday, June 07, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

JUNE 7
1769:Frontiersman Daniel Boone crosses into present-day Kentucky, despite British restrictions on westward settlement.

1913: British mountaineer and missionary Hudson Stuck leads the first successful ascent of Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America.

2000: U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson orders Microsoft to be broken into two smaller companies to prevent the software giant from violating antitrust laws.
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