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June 7th in History

Plessy and Gandhi commit civil disobedience, the US Supreme Court legalizes contraception, and Graceland opens to the public! Beau Brummel, Paul Gauguin, Prince, and Anna Kournikova are born; Robert the Bruce, Jean Harlow, and Alan Turing die. Happy Sette Giugno!

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Quote of the Day

"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: 'Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.'"

Dorothy Parker, author and critic died June 7, 1967