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By Clare Mendez, Resident 1779: This Revolutionary War arm general was court-martialed for plotting to hand over the U.S. fort at West Point, New York, to the British. 1885: This gift from France to honor the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the United States of America arrived by boat in New York Harbor. 1903: This business and manufacturing pioneer launched his Dearborn, Michigan, company with $28,000 in cash from a dozen investors. Within a couple of decades, his business grew into one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world. 1944: The D-Day invasion of Europe took place as 156,000 Allied forces landed on the beaches of this French region. 1950: President Harry Truman ordered U.S. air and sea forces to this country to prevent the spread of Communism in Asia. 1953: This couple, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, was executed at Sing Sing Prison in upstate New York. 1967: Lyndon Johnson nominated this Solicitor General to become the first African American justice on the Supreme Court. 1968: This Pop Art artist, known for his painted images of soup cans, was shot and nearly killed in his Manhattan studio. 1968: Senator Robert Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded in this Los Angeles hotel. 1974: This new technique for saving choking victims was published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. 1974: This ballet star ran three blocks to a waiting car in Toronto and thus effectively defected from the Soviet Union. 1997: Boxer Mike Tyson was disqualified from a heavyweight title fight for doing this. 1997: After 156 years of British rule, this colony was returned to China. 8 SOLERA DIAMOND VALLEY | JUNE 2020 This trivia quiz will stretch your long-term memory muscles. 1779: Benedict Arnold, whose name quickly became synonymous with treason 1885: The Statue of Liberty. It traveled in pieces packed into 214 crates and took four months to reassemble. 1903: Henry Ford (The Ford Motor Company) 1944: Normandy 1950: Korea. This marked the beginning of the three-year-long Korean Conflict. 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (Stan and Barbara – any relation?) 1967: Thurgood Marshall 1968: Andy Warhol 1968: The Ambassador Hotel 1974: The Heimlich Maneuver 1974: Mikhail Baryshnikov 1997: Tyson bit off a portion of the ear of his opponent, Evander Holyfield. 1997: Hong Kong june IN HISTORY ANSWERS