Today’s highlight
On June 9, 2023, a felony indictment said Donald Trump improperly stored in his Florida estate sensitive documents on nuclear capabilities, repeatedly enlisted aides and lawyers to help him hide records demanded by investigators and cavalierly showed off a Pentagon “plan of attack” and classified map.
On this date
1732: James Oglethorpe received a charter from Britain’s King George II to found the colony of Georgia.
1870: Author Charles Dickens died in Gad’s Hill Place, England.
1915: Guitarist, songwriter and inventor Les Paul was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
1978: Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding Black men from the Mormon priesthood.
1983: Britain’s Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, won a decisive election victory.
1993: The science-fiction film “Jurassic Park,” directed by Steven Spielberg, had its world premiere in Washington, D.C.
2020: Hundreds of mourners packed a Houston church for the funeral of George Floyd, a Black man whose death during a Minneapolis arrest inspired a worldwide reckoning over racial injustice.
Today’s birthdays
Media analyst Marvin Kalb is 94. Sports commentator Dick Vitale is 85. Retired MLB All-Star Dave Parker is 73. Actor Michael J. Fox is 63. Writer-producer Aaron Sorkin is 63. Actor Johnny Depp is 61. Rock musician Dean Felber (Hootie & the Blowfish) is 57. Actor Natalie Portman is 43.