Today in HistoryToday is Thursday, June 7, the 158th day of 2007. There are 207 days left in the year.

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In 1937, actress Jean Harlow died in Los Angeles at age 26.

In 1967, the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic opened in San Francisco.

In 1988, Bangladesh, the world’s third largest Muslim nation, made Islam its state religion as riot police went on alert to prevent protests against the law.

In 1990, the Warsaw Pact formally abandoned its role as guardian of Kremlin power in eastern Europe and committed itself to radical democratic change.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: ‘Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”’ — Dorothy Parker, American writer (1893-1967).