Today is Saturday, June 7, the 158th day of 2025. There are 207 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On June 7, 1982, Graceland, Elvis Presley’s Memphis mansion, was opened to the public as a tourist destination, five years after Presley’s death.

Also on this date:

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 exist

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