Thursday, June 09, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

JUNE 9
1934:Everyone’s favorite trouser-less animated fowl, Donald Duck, makes his debut in the Walt Disney short The Wise Little Hen.

1902: Popular professor and future president of the United States Woodrow Wilson is unanimously elected president of Princeton University. Wilson is the only president in U.S. history to hold a Ph.D.; he received a doctorate in political science from Johns Hopkins University in 1886.  

1973: Secretariat, ridden by jockey Ron Turcotte, wins the Belmont Stakes by a record 31 lengths. Following his earlier victories in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, Secretariat becomes the first horse to win the Triple Crown since Citation in 1948.
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