06-23-2011, 07:31 PM
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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.
1896 ~ Birthday of Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight boxer.
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.
1947 ~ Birthday of Mick Fleetwood, Musician (Fleetwood Mac).
1957 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
1985 ~ STS-51-G Discovery completed its mission, with Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as the Payload Specialist.
1997 ~ The Roswell Incident debunked by the USAF.
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