06-19-2010, 07:28 PM
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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.
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.
2005 ~ Death of Jack Kilby, awarded the The 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for "for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit"
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