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June 5th
1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Scottish Economist.
1883 ~ Birthday of John Keynes, English Economist.
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.
1977 ~ The first practical personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale.
2004 ~ Death of Ronald Reagan.
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June 6th
1832 ~ Death of Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher.
1844 ~ The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.
1868 ~ Birthday of Robert Falcon Scott, English Explorer.
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.
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 ~ A Near Earth Object (NEO), estimated at 10 metres diameter, exploded over the Mediterranean Sea. The explosion is estimated to have been roughly equal to that used at Nagasaki.
2002 ~ The Wye Oak, Maryland's honorary state tree, was destroyed in a thunderstorm.
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06-09-2009, 08:29 PM
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June 9th
2009 - Nova Scotia elects its first New Democratic Party government!!!!!!!!!! (And it's a majority government, at that!!!!!!!!!) 
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Si à travers nos veines coule encore le sang...
Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.
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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.
1994 ~ Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California.
2003 ~ Death of Gregory Peck, Actor.
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June 13th
1865 ~ Birthday of William Butler Yeats, Poet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1923.
1944 ~ Germany launched the first V1 “Buzz Bomb” attack on England.
1966 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them (Miranda v. Arizona).
1967 ~ Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated as the first black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1970 ~ "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' last #1 song.
1977 ~ Birthday of Alaura Eden, Porn Actress
1985 ~ Birthday of Lela Star, Porn Actress.
1986 ~ Death of Benny Goodman, the ''King of Swing,'.
1995 ~ French president Jacques Chirac announced the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
2005 ~ A jury acquitted Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch.
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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.
1980 ~ Birthday Mary Carey, Candidate for Governor of California in 2003 & Porn Actress.
1996 ~ In Manchester, U.K., a terrorist bomb injured over 200 people.
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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.
1903 ~ The Ford Motor Company was incorporated.
1912 ~ Birthday of Enoch Powell, British politician.
1933 ~ Start of President Roosevelt’s New Deal.
1938 ~ Birthday of Joyce Carol Oates, novelist.
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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