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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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June 8th

632 ~ Death of Muhammad, founder of Islam.

1810 ~ Birthday of Robert Schumann, Composer.

1876 ~ Death of George Sand, Author.

1887 ~ Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator.

1910 ~ Birthday of John W. Campbell Jr., Science Fiction Writer, Publisher, & Editor.

1916 ~ Birthday of Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS, most noted for being one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962.

1949 ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was published.

1968 ~ James Earl Ray was arrested in London in connection with the murder of Martin Luther King.

1982 ~ An Argentine air attack sank the Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram supply ships in the Falklands.

1998 ~ Charlton Heston assumed the presidency of the National Rifle Association.
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June 9th

1810 ~ Birthday of Otto Nicolai, Composer.

1870 ~ Death of Charles Dickens, English author.

1891 ~ Birthday of Cole Porter, Composer.

1916 ~ Birthday of Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense, former president of the World Bank.

1934 ~ Donald Duck debuted in The Wise Little Hen.

1954 ~ Beginning of the end of the McCarthy Era.

1959 ~ The USS George Washington launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles ("Boomers").

1970 ~ Assassination attempt on King Hussein of Jordan.

1973 ~ Secretariat won the Triple Crown.

2004 ~ The FCC agreed to a $1.75 million settlement with Clear Channel to resolve indecency complaints against Howard Stern and other radio personalities.
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June 10th

1829 ~ First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.

1836 ~ Death of André-Marie Ampère, French physicist.

1846 ~ The California Republic declared independence from Mexico.

1915 ~ Birthday of Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1921 ~ Birthday of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

1922 ~ Birthday of Judy Garland, Singer & Actress.

1967 ~ End of the Six-Day War.

1977 ~ The Apple II personal computer started shipping.

1999 ~ Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its air war.

2004 ~ Death of Ray Charles, Singer & Musician.
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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 12th

1897 ~ Birthday of Anthony Eden, British P.M.

1942 ~ Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

1963 ~ Death of Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist.

1967 ~ In Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court declared all state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

1975 ~ Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was convicted on electoral corruption charges.

1979 ~ Bryan Allen flew the man powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel.

1987 ~ Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

1994 ~ Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles.

1997 ~ Major league baseball began interleague play.

2003 ~ Death of Gregory Peck, Actor.
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June 13th

1865 ~ Birthday of William Butler Yeats, Poet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1923.

1892 ~ Birthday of Basil Rathbone, Actor.

1944 ~ Germany launched the first V1 “Buzz Bomb” attack on England.

1966 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them (Miranda v. Arizona).

1967 ~ Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated as the first black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

1970 ~ "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' last #1 song.

1982 ~ Fahd became King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

1986 ~ Death of Benny Goodman, the ''King of Swing,'.

1995 ~ French president Jacques Chirac announced the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.

2005 ~ A jury acquitted Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch.
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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 15th

1215 ~ King John put his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England.

1752 ~ Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning is electricity.

1836 ~ Arkansas became the 25th state.

1844 ~ Charles Goodyear received a patent for a process to strengthen rubber.

1843 ~ Birthday of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer.

1904 ~ More than 1,000 people died in a fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum.

1978 ~ King Hussein of Jordan married Lisa Halaby, who became Queen Noor.

1995 ~ Death of John Vincent Atanasoff, computer pioneer.

1996 ~ In Manchester, U.K., a terrorist bomb injured over 200 people.

1996 ~ Death of Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz singer.
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June 16th

1829 ~ Birthday of Geronimo, Apache Warrior & Leader.

1858 ~ Abraham Lincoln gave his “House Divided” speach in Springfield, Illinois. A brilliant piece of argument!

1890 ~ Birthday of Stan Laurel, Comedian.

1912 ~ Birthday of Enoch Powell, British politician.

1933 ~ Start of President Roosevelt’s New Deal.

1938 ~ Birthday of Joyce Carol Oates, novelist.

1948 ~ The Miss Macao passenger seaplane became the first skyjacking of a commercial plane.

1963 ~ Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

1976 ~ Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.

1977 ~ Death of Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist.
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June 17th

1631 ~ Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Shah Jahan I, build her a tomb, the Taj Mahal.

1818 ~ Birthday of Charles Gounod, French Composer.

1882 ~ Birthday of Igor Stravinsky, Russian Composer.

1885 ~ The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York.

1898 ~ Birthday of M.C. Escher, Dutch Artist.

1928 ~ Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.

1929 ~ Birthday of Tigran Petrosian, Georgian chess player.

1945 ~ Birthday of Eddy Merckx, Belgian Cycling Champion.

1961 ~ Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget airport in Paris.

1974 ~ The Irish Republican Army bombed the UK’s House of Parliament.
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June 18th

1178 ~ Five Canterbury monks saw what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed on the Moon.

1815 ~ British and Prussian troops defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in Belgium.

1915 ~ Birthday of Red Adair, Firefighter.

1928 ~ Death of Roald Amundsen, Explorer, first to the South Pole.

1942 ~ Birthday of Paul McCartney, Singer & Songwriter.

1945 ~ William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was charged with treason.

1948 ~ The UN Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.

1967 ~ Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.

1979 ~ Presidents Carter and Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.

1983 ~ Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
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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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June 20th

1819 ~ Birthday of Jacques Offenbach, Composer.

1837 ~ Queen Victoria ascended to the British 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.

1942 ~ Birthday of Brian Wilson, one of The Beach Boys.

1948 ~ The Ed Sullivan Show, (née Toast of the Town) debuted.

1967 ~ Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating Selective Service laws.

1995 ~ Shell Oil abandoned plans to dump its Brent Spar oil rig at sea.

2002 ~ Death of Erwin Chargaff, biochemist.
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