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06-14-2008, 03:03 PM
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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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06-15-2008, 12:41 PM
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June 15th
1215 ~ King John put his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England.
1836 ~ Arkansas became the 25th state.
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.
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06-16-2008, 06:08 AM
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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.
1953 ~ Death of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, convicted spies.
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.
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06-21-2008, 12:49 PM
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Can I add another?
1991: Most Honorable #2 son was born on this day.
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Happy Birthday to Most Honorable #2 son, Scotzoidman-san.
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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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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.
1997 ~ Death of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French Explorer, Scientist & Inventor.
1998 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 unconstitutional.
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