06-27-2006, 05:29 AM
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June 27th
1838 ~ Birthday of Paul von Mauser, Weapon Designer.
1880 ~ Birthday of Helen Keller, spokeswoman for the Deaf and Blind.
1893 ~ Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1905 ~ Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin.
1931 ~ Birthday of Charles Bronfman, Industrialist & Philanthropist.
1950 ~ The U.S. decided to send armed forces to fight in the Korean War.
1954 ~ The world's first nuclear power station went on line in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1957 ~ First British Smoking Causes Lung Cancer report released.
1967 ~ The world's first ATM installed in Enfield, London.
2001 ~ Death of Jack Lemmon, Actor & Film Director.
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