
06-20-2006, 05:16 AM
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June 20th
1819 ~ Birthday of Jacques Offenbach, Composer.
1837 ~ Queen Victoria ascended to the throne.
1877 ~ Alexander Graham Bell installed the first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario.
1899 ~ Birthday of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance in WW II.
1909 ~ Birthday of Errol Flynn, Actor.
1948 ~ The Ed Sullivan Show, (née Toast of the Town) debuted.
1953 ~ Birthday of Cyndi Lauper, singer.
1966 ~ Canada sold 336 million bushels of wheat to the U.S.S.R.
1977 ~ Oil began to flow through the Trans-Alaska pipeline.
2002 ~ Death of Erwin Chargaff, biochemist.
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