06-24-2006, 10:55 AM
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June 24th
1314 ~ Scotland regained its independence in the Battle of Bannockburn, when Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English.
1519 ~ Death of Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara.
1692 ~ Kingston, Jamaica founded.
1901 ~ First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work.
1910 ~ Japan invaded Korea.
1915 ~ Birthday of Fred Hoyle, cosmologist and science fiction author.
1948 ~ Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the U.S. to organize the Berlin Airlift.
1997 ~ The Roswell Incident debunked by the USAF.
2003 ~ Death of Leon Uris, Author.
2004 ~ Federal investigators questioned President Bush in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative's name.
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