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Old 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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