On June 7th in US Political History
Part II
Part II
On June 7th in 1864 Abraham Lincoln was nominated for another term as president at his party's convention in Baltimore.
On June 7th in 1912 US army tested the 1st machine gun mounted on a plane.
On June 7th in 1915 The resignation of William Jennings Bryan as Woodrow Wilson‘s secretary of state, was prompted by the "second Lusitania note." Bryan, who had signed the first Lusitania note demanding that Germany stop unrestricted submarine warfare, disavow the sinking of the Lusitania and make reparations for the loss of U.S. lives, declined to sign a second note out of fear it might involve the U.S. in World War I. The second note, which demanded certain pledges from Germany, was dispatched on June 9 over the signature of Bryan‘s replacement, Robert Lansing. A third note, dispatched on July 21, was a virtual ultimatum warning that repetition of such acts as the sinking of Lusitania would be regarded as "deliberately unfriendly."
On June 7th in 1932 Over 7,000 war veterans march on Washington, D.C. demanding their bonuses for service in WW I.
On June 7th in 1934 The US Corporate Bankruptcy Act allowed corporations to reorganize.
On June 7th in 1939 King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, N.Y., from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
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