 They made the Great Lakes, did you know? It was on this date in 1969, an incident that would later become associated with the birth of the gay rights movement. Patrons at New York City's Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, clashed with police. And on 1970, a year later to the day Gay Pride Day was first observed, President Biden will be at Stonewall today. 1985, a dark day in U.S. history, Route 66 was decertified as a U.S. highway.