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• Today is Friday, June 7, the 158th day of 2013. There are 207 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlights in History:
• On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution stating "That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown."
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• On this date:
• In 1654, King Louis XIV, age 15, was crowned in Rheims, 11 years after the start of his reign.
• In 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone first began to explore present-day Kentucky.
• In 1862, William Bruce Mumford, a Confederate loyalist, was hanged at the order of Union military authorities for tearing down a U.S. flag that had been flying over the New Orleans mint shortly before the city was occupied by the North.
• In 1863, French forces occupied Mexico City during the Franco-Mexican War.
• In 1892, Homer Plessy, a "Creole of color," was fined for refusing to leave a whites-only car of the East Louisiana Railroad. (Ruling on his case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld "separate but equal" racial segregation, which it overturned in 1954.)
• In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
• In 1942, the World War II Battle of Midway ended in a decisive victory for American forces over the Imperial Japanese.

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