This Day In History

Jun 7 1954
Despondent over court-ordered estrogen treatments to cure his homosexuality, Alan Turing commits suicide by consuming an apple laced with cyanide. Turing is considered the founder of modern computing, a pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and a crucial member of the team that cracked Germany's Enigma cipher in World War II.

Jun 7 1958

Prince Roger Nelson is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The boy is destined to one day be known as the artist formerly known as Prince.

Jun 7 1982
In an effort to defray its $500,000 annual upkeep costs, Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public only five years after Elvis died in an upstairs bathroom. The bathroom is kept off-limits to tourists.

Driver Responsible For Dutch Tragedy Dies

Netherlands-- The man responsible for the deadly crash during the Queen's Day celebration in the Netherlands on Thursday has died.

Before his death, the driver was charged with attempting to attack the royal family along with taking the lives of four people at the parade and injuring 12 others.

The driver plowed through police barriers set up to protect Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima during their procession in the annual Queen's Day celebration. He sent innocent observers "flying through the air" before being ejected from the vehicle himself.

Awful.

Police still have no leads on the man's motive for causing Thursday's horrendous accident.