06-10-2004, 06:01 PM
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June 11th
1509 ~ Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Katherine of Aragon.
1572 ~ Birthday of Ben Jonson, Dramatist.
1770 ~ Captain James Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1776 ~ Birthday of John Constable, Painter.
1864 ~ Birthday of Richard Strauss, Composer & Conductor.
1901 ~ New Zealand annexed the Cook Islands.
1910 ~ Birthday of Jacques Cousteau, Explorer.
1963 ~ The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside.
1979 ~ Death of John Wayne, Actor & Icon.
2004 ~ Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe.
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