TV actress Louise Sorel

Events in 1940 and 6-8

Events in US in the birth year of Louise Sorel

• Selective Service Act signed. Background: conscription
• The first Social Security benefit checks are paid out (Jan 30).
• The Pennsylvania Turnpike opens. It is the first multilane U.S. superhighway. The first Los Angeles freeway opens.
• The first McDonald's hamburger stand opens in Pasadena, Calif.

Birthday Louise Sorel (6-8) in history

• Day 6-8 year 1806: Emperor Francis II abdicated, marking the end of the Roman Empire.
• Day 6-8 year 1825: Bolivia declared its independence from Peru.
• Day 6-8 year 1926: Gertrude Ederle became the first U.S. woman to swim across the English Channel.
• Day 6-8 year 1945: The first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
• Day 6-8 year 1962: Jamaica gained its independence within the Britain Commonwealth.
• Day 6-8 year 1965: President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed the poll taxes and literacy tests that had restricted black voter registration in the South.
• Day 6-8 year 1997: British prime minister Tony Blair and Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams meet—the first time in 76 years that a British leader and an IRA ally meet.
• Day 6-8 year 2003: Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy to replace Gray Davis as governor of California to Jay Leno on the Tonight Show.
• Day 6-8 year 2012: Curiosity, a SUV-size rover, successfully landed on Mars. The rover's research has been planned for the next two years, but since Curiosity's electricity is powered by plutonium, it could be operational and provide insight into Mars for decades to come