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June 6th
1683 ~ Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum opened to the public as the world's first university museum.
1844 ~ The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.
1868 ~ Birthday of Robert Falcon Scott, English Explorer.
1901 ~ Birthday of Sukarno, first President of Indonesia.
1903 ~ Birthday of Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer.
1944 ~ D-Day began with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.
1961 ~ Death of Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist.
1984 ~ Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
1985 ~ Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as that of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted medical experiments on inmates at Auschwitz.
2002 ~ The Wye Oak, Maryland's honorary state tree, was destroyed in a thunderstorm.
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June 7th
1099 ~ Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem.
1848 ~ Birthday of Paul Gauguin, French Impressionist Painter.
1897 ~ Birthday of George Szell, Hungarian Conductor.
1917 ~ Birthday of Dean Martin, Singer & Actor.
1929 ~ Vatican City became a sovereign state.
1942 ~ The U.S. beat the Japanese in the Battle of Midway.
1952 ~ Birthday of Liam Neeson, Northern Irish Actor.
1954 ~ Death of Alan Turing, Mathematician, Computer Scientist.
1981 ~ The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor.
2000 ~ U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft.
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06-08-2007, 05:06 AM
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June 11th
1776 ~ The Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.
1776 ~ Birthday of John Constable, English painter.
1892 ~ The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, opened in Melbourne.
1937 ~ Death of R. J. Mitchell, British aircraft designer, developer of the Spitfire.
1939 ~ Birthday of Jackie Stewart, Race car driver.
1942 ~ The U.S. and the USSR signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in WWII.
1979 ~ Death of John Wayne, Actor.
1987 ~ Margaret Thatcher became the first British PM in 160 years to win a third consecutive term in office.
2001 ~ Death of Timothy McVeigh, terrorist (executed).
2004 ~ Cassini-Huygens made its closest flyby of Phoebe.
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June 14th
1671 ~ Birthday of Tomaso Albinoni, Italian Composer.
1736 ~ Birthday of Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French mathematician. The unit of electrical charge, the coulomb, and Coulomb's law are named after him.
1775 ~ The U.S. Army was founded.
1903 ~ Birthday of Alonzo Church, Mathematician & Logician.
1909 ~ Birthday of Burl Ives, American Folk Singer, Author & Actor.
1919 ~ John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1940 ~ WWII: German troops enter Paris.
1952 ~ The keel was laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
1982 ~ Argentine forces in the capital Port Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces, bringing the Falklands War to an end.
1995 ~ Death of Roger Zelazny, science fiction author.
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June 19th
1623 ~ Birthday of Blaise Pascal, Mathematician.
1865 ~ More two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom.
1896 ~ Birthday of Wallis Warfield, the future Duchess of Windsor.
1934 ~ The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was established.
1937 ~ Death of J.M. Barrie, Author, creator of the character Peter Pan.
1945 ~ Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Politician, recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
1953 ~ Death of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, convicted spies.
1964 ~ The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving a filibuster in the Senate.
1978 ~ First appearance of the comic strip Garfield.
1982 ~ An Italian banker, Roberto Calvi, was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London.
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