TODAY IN HISTORY - JUNE 7TH

1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.

1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.

1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.

1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.

1911 – Brooks Stevens, American engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile (d. 1995) is born.

1915 – Charles Reed Bishop, American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (b. 1822) dies.

1917 – Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (d. 1995) is born.

1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray was elected its first president.

1955 – Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.

1958 – Prince, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 2016) is born.

1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.

1971 – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.

1977 – Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.

1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.

1990 – Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper is born.

1990 – Universal Studios Florida opens in Orlando, Florida.

1992 – Bill France, Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (b. 1909) dies.

1995 – The long-range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.

2013 – A gunman opens fire at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, after setting a house on fire nearby, killing six people, including the suspect.