Today is Saturday, June 7, the 158th day of 2025. There are 207 days left in the year. 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 arrested for refusing to leave a whites-only car of the East Louisiana Railroad. (Ruling on his case, Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld “separate but equal” racial segregation, a concept it renounced in 1954.)

In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City formally came into existence as the Italian Parliament ratified the Lateran Treaty in Rome.

In 1942, the Battle of Midway ended in a decisive victory for American naval forces over Imperial Japan, marking a tu

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