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ure out how to argue to a jury with strong connections to the school.
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• 9. SOUTHERN POET LAUREATE
• Natasha Trethewey becomes America's 19th poet laureate on Thursday, and the first one to hail from the South since the Library of Congress chose Robert Penn Warren as the first poet laureate in 1986.
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• 10. JOINING THE TRIPLE CROWN CLUB
• On Saturday, I'll Have Another makes a bid to win the Triple Crown. There have been 30 horses that came into the Belmont Stakes with a chance to win the honor. Here's a look at some who just missed, and the alibis.
Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Thursday, June 7, the 159th day of 2012. There are 207 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlights in History:
• On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy, a "Creole of color," was arrested and fined for refusing to leave a whites-only car of the East Louisiana Railroad; his case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which at the time upheld "separate but equal" racial segregation, a concept overturned in 1954 by Brown v. Board of Education.
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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 1712, Pennsylvania's colonial assembly voted to ban the further importation of slaves.
• In 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone first began to explore present-day Kentucky.
• In 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."
• 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 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the (Continued on page 29)
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