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• Today is Saturday, June 7, the 158th day of 2014. There are 207 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlights in History:
• On June 7, 1939, King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, New York, from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
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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 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Continental Congress stating "That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."
• 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.
• In 1954, British mathematician, computer pioneer and code breaker Alan Turing died at age 41, an apparent suicide. (Turing, convicted in 1952 of "gross indecency" for a homosexual relationship, was posthumously pardoned in 2013.)
• In 1967, the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic opened in San Francisco.
• In 1972, the musical "Grease" opened on Broadway, having already been performed in lower Manhattan.
• In 1981, Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.

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