Today is the 172nd day of 2024 and the first day of summer. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1863, West Virginia was admitted as the 35th U.S. state. In 1893, Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother. In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion began in China, as the Imperial Chinese army began a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing. In 1963, the Soviet Union and the United…