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June 7th
1099 ~ Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem.
1848 ~ Birthday of Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist Painter.
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.
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.
2006 ~ British Houses of Parliament were temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.
2008 ~ Death of Jim McKay, American sportscaster.
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June 12th
1924 ~ Birthday of George Bush senior, 41st President of the U.S.
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.
1991 ~ Boris Yeltsin was elected the first President of the Russian Federation.
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.
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.
1985 ~ Birthday of Lela Star, Porn Actress.
1986 ~ Death of Benny Goodman, the ''King of Swing,'.
1995 ~ French president Jacques Chirac announced the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
1998 ~ Death of Reg Smythe, British comic artist (Andy Capp)
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.
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.
1991 ~ Death of Dame Peggy Ashcroft, British actress.
1994 ~ Death of Henry Mancini, American composer.
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June 15th
1215 ~ King John put his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England.
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.
1916 ~ President Wilson signed a bill granting a federal charter to the Boy Scouts of America, stating that their purpose is to:
" ... promote, through organization, and cooperation with other agencies, the ability of boys to do things for themselves and others, to train them in scoutcraft, and to teach them patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred virtues ..."
1980 ~ Birthday of Mary Carey, Porn Actress & Political Aspirant.
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.
2002 ~ Near earth asteroid 2002 MN missed the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km).
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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.
1933 ~ Start of President Roosevelt’s New Deal.
1938 ~ Birthday of Joyce Carol Oates, novelist.
1961 ~ Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget airport in Paris.
1963 ~ Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
1967 ~ The first widely promoted and heavily attended rock festival, the Monterey Pop Festival, began in Monterey, California.
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.
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.
1818 ~ Birthday of Ken Livingstone, English politician (first Mayor of London).
1974 ~ The Irish Republican Army bombed the UK’s House of Parliament.
1994 ~ After a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson was arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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1818 ~ Birthday of Ken Livingstone, English politician (first Mayor of London).
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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.
1944 ~ First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1945 ~ Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Politician, recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
1964 ~ The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving a filibuster in the Senate.
1982 ~ An Italian banker, Roberto Calvi, was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London.
1993 ~ Death of William Golding, English writer (Lord of the Flies, etc.), awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1983.
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