Echoes from the past | June 4-10

A look back at national, state and local history from this week in years past.

National History

- from various sources

June 10, 1692 - The first hanging of a ‘witch’ during the Salem Witchcraft trials.

June 10, 1775 - John Adams proposes to Congress that the men laying siege to Boston should be considered an army, a continental army that is to be led by a general.

June 6th, 1944 - D-Day June 8th, 1948 …