06-06-2004, 07:32 AM
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June 6th
1622 ~ Birthday of Claude-Jean Allouez, Jesuit missionary and explorer.
1683 ~ Oxford University’s Ashmolean Museum opened as the world's first university museum.
1756 ~ Birthday of John Trumbull, Painter.
1844 ~ The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.
1903 ~ Birthday of Aram Khachaturian, Composer.
1933 ~ The first drive-in theater opened, in Camden, New Jersey.
1935 ~ The Birthday of the current and 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.
1944 ~ Operation Overlord commenced with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.
1956 ~ The Birthday of Björn Borg, tennis player.
1984 ~ Indian Armed Forces attacked the Golden Temple in Amritsar, following an order from Indira Gandhi.
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