On This Day: Tuesday June 7, 2005 This is the 158th day of the year, with 207 days remaining in 2005. Fact of the Day: Drive-In Movie The first drive-in movie theatre was opened in 1933 in Camden, New Jersey by Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr. Hollingshead designed it for his mother, who complained about the uncomfortable seats at theatres. A drive-in would allow her to enjoy the comfortable, plush bench seats of a vehicle of that era. Then known as an "automobile theater," the drive-in had room for 500 vehicles and charged a rate of 25¢ per person or $1 a car. The sound was provided by a public-address system with a single large speaker mounted on the projection booth. After the locals complained about the noise, Hollingshead tried other solutions before deciding to install smaller speakers mounted on poles at each parking spot. At the height of their popularity (1958), there were more than 4000 drive-in movies in the U.S. Now, only a few hundred still exist. Holidays Feast day of St Meriasek, St Robert of Newminster, St Anthony Gianelli, St Gottschalk, St Vulflagius, St Willibald, St Colman of Dromore, and St Paul I of Constantinople. Malta: National Day. Freedom of the Press Day. Events 1494 - Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, agreeing to divide the New World between them. 1498 - Christopher Columbus left on his third voyage of exploration. 1769 - Frontiersman Daniel Boone began his explorations and sighted Kentucky. 1775 - The United Colonies change their name to the United States. 1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence. 1893 - Mohandas K. Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer working in South Africa, refused to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train, his first act of civil disobedience. 1914 - The first vessel passes through the Panama Canal. 1929 - The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence. 1939 - King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, NY, from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch. 1955 - "The $64,000 Question", a summer replacement show, premiered. 1965 - Sony Corporation unveiled the videocassette recorder (VCR). Births 1848 - Paul Gauguin, French post-Impressionist painter. 1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, African-American poet.