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June 17th
1631 ~ Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Shah Jahan I, build her a tomb, the Taj Mahal.
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.
1818 ~ Birthday of Ken Livingstone, English politician (first Mayor of London).
1974 ~ The Irish Republican Army bombed the UK’s House of Parliament.
1994 ~ After a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson was arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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06-17-2010, 07:54 PM
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06-18-2010, 08:33 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.
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.
1944 ~ First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1945 ~ Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Politician, recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
1964 ~ The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving a filibuster in the Senate.
1982 ~ An Italian banker, Roberto Calvi, was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London.
1993 ~ Death of William Golding, English writer (Lord of the Flies, etc.), awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1983.
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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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06-21-2010, 07:18 PM
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06-22-2010, 08:03 PM
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06-23-2010, 09:03 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.
1949 ~ The first episode of Hopalong Cassidy was aired on NBC.
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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06-24-2010, 07:17 PM
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June 25th
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 Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
1975 ~ Birthday of Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player.
1991 ~ Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 ~ Kim Campbell became the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1997 ~ An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory.
1998 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 unconstitutional.
2009 ~ Death of Michael Jackson, Pop Icon.
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1838 ~ Birthday of Paul von Mauser, Weapon Designer. (by popular demand. )
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06-28-2010, 07:02 PM
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