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June 5th
1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Scottish Economist.
1883 ~ Birthday of John Keynes, English Economist.
1910 ~ Death of O. Henry, American author.
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.
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.
2004 ~ Death of Ronald Reagan.
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June 6th
1683 ~ Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum opened to the public as the world's first university museum.
1832 ~ Death of Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher.
1844 ~ The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.
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.
1961 ~ Death of Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist.
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 ~ The Wye Oak, Maryland's honorary state tree, was destroyed in a thunderstorm.
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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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06-07-2010, 07:24 PM
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June 8th
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06-08-2010, 07:18 PM
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June 9th
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06-10-2010, 05:36 AM
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jseal asked me to post this, as he's AFK. It almost formatted.
June 11th
1776 ~ The Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.
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 ~ 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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06-12-2010, 01:49 AM
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Continuing jseal's AFK.
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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06-13-2010, 01:16 AM
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06-13-2010, 01:18 AM
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Hey, PantyFanatic, who was the world's second largest producer of Buzz Bombs?
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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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06-14-2010, 04:35 AM
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Many thanks to Oldfart for the postings in my absence! 
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06-14-2010, 05:38 AM
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Gotta keep your high standards running. 
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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 ..."
1978 ~ King Hussein of Jordan married Lisa Halaby, who became Queen Noor.
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.
1912 ~ Birthday of Enoch Powell, British politician.
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.
1976 ~ Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.
1977 ~ Death of Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist.
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