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On May 30, 2011, the Lincoln Public Schools District Office was set on fire by a former teacher.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Former Slave Isabella Baumfree Becomes Sojourner Truth (1843)
Born into slavery in New York, Baumfree had four different masters before escaping with her infant daughter in 1826, one year before the state abolished slavery. She traveled and championed abolition, changing her name in 1843. Her dictated memoirs were published as The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave. In 1851, she delivered what is now known as the "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Women's Rights Convention.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Birth of the Italian Republic (1946)
During World War II, Italy was a monarchy in chaos. King Victor Emmanuel III had appointed Benito Mussolini prime minister in 1922 to avoid revolt, but, when war came, the two fought on opposite sides—Mussolini with the Axis and Victor Emmanuel with the Allies. Victor Emmanuel's history with Mussolini made the monarch unpopular after the war, and he abdicated in favor of his son, who ruled for 40 days before the Italian Republic was created by a referendum.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
The Eschede Train Disaster (1998)
On the morning of June 3, 1998, the Munich-Hamburg Inner City Express train derailed near the village of Eschede, Germany, while traveling at 124 mph (200 km/h). One of the train cars hit a bridge, causing it to collapse. The cars behind jackknifed into the wreckage, while the front part of the train detached, coming to a stop well past the Eschede station. More than 100 people died as a result of the crash.

June 4, 1963 - Though discrimination banning African-Americans from swimming had been illegal under state law for years, the pool at Peony Park in Omaha was segregated until 1963.

On June 4, Fred Winthrop, a black airman from Offutt Air Force Base was told he couldn’t use the pool. The city of Omaha said the law wasn’t clear if the language included swimming pools.

Peaceful protests were staged by the NAACP Youth Council at Peony Park until it was open to all paying visitors later that year.

Birthdays
1878 Pancho Villa
1951 Suze Orman
1953 Kathleen Kennedy
1971 Mark Wahlberg


Events
70 Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem

1851 Anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in serial form in "The National Era"

1884 William Tecumseh Sherman refuses the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."

1920 First rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell in San Francisco (later Bank of America)

1937 Henry Ford initiates a 32 hour work week

1947 US Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines the "Marshall Plan" to rebuild Western Europe

1952 First nationally televised sporting event, Jersey Joe Walcott defeats Ezzard Charles in 15 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title at Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1967 Six-Day War begins between Israel and the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria

1968 Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan assassinates Robert F. Kennedy, shooting him 3 times and wounding 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Kennedy dies the next day.

1988 Russian Orthodox Church celebrates its 1,000th anniversary

1991 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev receives the Nobel Peace Prize