06-13-2006, 05:51 AM
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June 13th
1777 ~ Marquis de Lafayette arrived in America to help train its army.
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.
1981 ~ A teen-ager fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth during a parade in London.
1982 ~ Fahd became King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
1995 ~ French president Jacques Chirac announced the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
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06-14-2006, 12:56 PM
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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.
1841 ~ The first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston.
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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06-15-2006, 07:15 AM
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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.
1844 ~ Charles Goodyear received a patent for a process to strengthen rubber.
1843 ~ Birthday of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer.
1904 ~ A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum killed a 1,000 people.
1978 ~ King Hussein of Jordan married 26-year-old Lisa Halaby, who became Queen Noor.
1983 ~ Julia Fischer, German Violinist.
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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06-16-2006, 05:17 AM
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June 16th
1829 ~ Birthday of Geronimo, Apache Warrior & Leader.
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.
1961 ~ Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget airport in Paris.
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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06-17-2006, 05:26 AM
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June 17th
1631 ~ Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Shah Jahan I, built her a tomb, the Taj Mahal.
1775 ~ The Battle of Bunker Hill took place near Boston during the Revolutionary War.
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.
1974 ~ The Irish Republican Army bombed the UK’s House of Parliament.
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06-18-2006, 07:05 AM
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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.
1873 ~ Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
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.
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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06-19-2006, 01:04 PM
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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.
1886 ~ The proposed annexation of Nova Scotia, Canada, by the United States lampooned.
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.
1978 ~ First appearance of the comic strip Garfield.
1982 ~ Roberto Calvi, an Italian banker, was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London.
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06-20-2006, 05:16 AM
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June 20th
1819 ~ Birthday of Jacques Offenbach, Composer.
1837 ~ Queen Victoria ascended to the 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.
1948 ~ The Ed Sullivan Show, (née Toast of the Town) debuted.
1953 ~ Birthday of Cyndi Lauper, singer.
1966 ~ Canada sold 336 million bushels of wheat to the U.S.S.R.
1977 ~ Oil began to flow through the Trans-Alaska pipeline.
2002 ~ Death of Erwin Chargaff, biochemist.
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06-21-2006, 05:31 AM
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June 21st
1527 ~ Death of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.
1749 ~ Halifax, Nova Scotia founded.
1781 ~ Birthday of Siméon-Denis Poisson, Mathematician & Physicist.
1905 ~ Birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher & Playwright, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1964.
1908 ~ Death of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Composer.
1919 ~ Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney.
1965 ~ The Byrds released their debut album “Mr. Tambourine Man”.
1989 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that flag burning is protected speech under the Constitution.
2001 ~ Death of Carroll O'Connor, American Actor.
2004 ~ SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight.
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06-22-2006, 11:57 AM
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June 22nd
1837 ~ Birthday of Paul Morphy, Chess master.
1856 ~ Birthday of H. Rider Haggard, Author.
1940 ~ WWII: France forced to sign armistice with Germany.
1941 ~ WWII: Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
1969 ~ Death of Judy Garland, Singer & Actress.
1976 ~ Canadian House of Commons voted to abolish capital punishment.
1986 ~ Diego Maradona scored both the Hand of God goal and the Goal of the Century against England during the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.
1987 ~ Death of Fred Astaire, Dancer & Actor.
1996 ~ The Quake computer game was released.
2002 ~ Death of Ann Landers, Columnist.
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06-23-2006, 05:23 AM
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June 23rd
1894 ~ Birthday of Alfred Kinsey, Sexologist.
1912 ~ Birthday of Alan Turing, Mathematician.
1927 ~ Birthday of Bob Fosse, Choreographer.
1940 ~ Adolf Hitler toured Paris in now occupied France.
1943 ~ Birthday of Vint Cerf, co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and one of the “Fathers of the Internet”.
1947 ~ President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act overridden.
1956 ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt.
1992 ~ John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in to life in prison.
1993 ~ Lorena Bobbitt sexually mutilated her husband after he allegedly raped her.
1995 ~ Death of Jonas Salk, developer of the Salk polio vaccine.
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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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June 25th
1822 ~ Death of E.T.A. Hoffmann, German Writer, Composer & Painter.
1876 ~ Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out in the Battle of Little Big Horn.
1894 ~ Birthday of Hermann Oberth, Physicist & one of the founding fathers of Rocketry and Astronautics.
1903 ~ Birthday of George Orwell, Writer.
1950 ~ The start of the Korean War.
1991 ~ Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 ~ Kim Campbell became the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1981 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the male-only draft registration was constitutional.
1997 ~ Death of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French Explorer, Scientist & Inventor.
1998 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 unconstitutional.
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06-26-2006, 04:00 PM
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June 26th
1541 ~ Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish Conqueror of Peru.
1824 ~ Birthday of Lord Kelvin, Physicist.
1898 ~ Birthday of Willy Messerschmitt, Aircraft Designer.
1933 ~ Birthday of Claudio Abbado, Conductor.
1934 ~ Initial flight of the first practical helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61.
1959 ~ Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower inaugurated the St Lawrence Seaway.
1963 ~ President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he offered American solidarity to the citizens of West Germany: "Ich bin ein Berliner".
1964 ~ The Beatles released the album A Hard Day's Night.
1975 ~ Death of St. Josemaría Escrivá, creator of Opus Dei.
1997 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment, and thus unconstitutional.
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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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