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May 30th
1431 ~ Death of Joan of Arc, Condemned Heretic (burned at the stake in Rouen, France).
1778 ~ Death of Voltaire, French philosopher & Author.
1912 ~ Death of Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer, the elder of the Wright Brothers.
1926 ~ Birthday of Christine Jorgensen, transsexual activist.
1942 ~ 1,047 British bombers launched a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1964 ~ Death of Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist.
1982 ~ Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr played the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak ended on September 20, 1998.
1989 ~ The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue was unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1997 ~ Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka - a case that inspired ''Megan's Law", which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
2001 ~ Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas was convicted of corruption. Interestingly, that month, prosecutors dropped their case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn – a former finance minister in Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's cabinet, and the same DSK who has now been charged in NYC with sexual assault - for forgery and misappropriation of funds.
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May 31st
1678 ~ The first Godiva Procession, in commemoration of the legendary ride.
1819 ~ Birthday of Walt Whitman, American Poet.
1889 ~ A dam broke near Johnstown, Pa, drowning more than 2,000.
1916 ~ British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland off Denmark.
1923 ~ Birthday of Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
1927 ~ The Ford Model T assembly line shut down after a production run of 15,007,003.
1938 ~ Birthday of Peter Yarrow, American folk singer ("Peter, Paul and Mary").
1957 ~ Playwright Arthur Miller was convicted of contempt of Congress.
1993 ~ Death of Spuds Mackenzie, the original party animal.
1996 ~ Death of Timothy Leary, LSD advocate.
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05-31-2011, 07:51 PM
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June 1st
1494 ~  Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1804 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer.
1918 ~ The Battle for Belleau Wood began, during which came forth the famous phrase "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" Heroes indeed!
1926 ~ Birthday of Marilyn Monroe, Actress.
1938 ~ Action Comics issued the first Superman comic.
1958 ~ Charles de Gaulle became premier of France.
1968 ~ Death of Helen Keller, American humanitarian.
1967 ~ The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released.
1990 ~ President Bush and General Secretary Gorbachev signed a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
2009 ~ General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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06-01-2011, 08:03 PM
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June 2nd
1740 ~ Birthday of Marquis de Sade, Famous French Pervert.
1835 ~ Start of P.T. Barnum’s circus’ first tour of the U.S.
1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hardy, Poet & Novelist.
1897 ~ Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, was quoted as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
1946 ~ Italians voted to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic.
1953 ~ Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1966 ~ First U.S. Lunar soft landing, by Surveyor 1.
1990 ~ Death of Rex Harrison, English actor.
1994 ~ Death of David Stove, Australian philosopher of Science.
2003 ~ ESA’s Mars Express was launched.
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06-02-2011, 07:20 PM
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June 5th
1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Scottish Economist.
1883 ~ Birthday of John Keynes, English Economist.
1944 ~ The first of the three Axis capitals, Rome, was liberated.
1947 ~ At a speech at Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall called for economic aid to Europe.
1961 ~ Death of Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist.
1963 ~ UK Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigned over a sex scandal.
1967 ~ Israel began the “Six Day War” with a pre-emptive attack on Egypt.
1968 ~ Sen. Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles, CA.
1975 ~ Death of Paul Keres, Estonian chess player.
1977 ~ The first practical personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale.
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June 6th
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.
1944 ~ D-Day began with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.
1956 ~ Birthday of Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player.
1983 ~ Birthday of Gianna Michaels, Porn Actress.
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 ~ A Near Earth Object (NEO), estimated at 10 metres diameter, exploded over the Mediterranean Sea. The explosion is estimated to have been roughly equal to that used at Nagasaki.
2002 ~ The Wye Oak, Maryland's honorary state tree, was destroyed in a thunderstorm.
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June 11th
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.
1963 ~ Alabama Governor George Wallace stood at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to prevent two black students from attending that school.
1963 ~ Death of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc by self-imolation in Saigon to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
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
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.
1994 ~ Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California.
2003 ~ Death of Gregory Peck, Actor.
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