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June 2nd
 Many thanks to dicksbro for publishing yesterday's 'Strange Days'. 
1740 ~ Birthday of Marquis de Sade, Famous French Pervert.
1835 ~ Start of P.T. Barnum’s circus’ first tour of the U.S.
1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hardy, Poet & Novelist.
1897 ~ Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, was quoted as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
1946 ~ Italians voted to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic.
1953 ~ Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1966 ~ First U.S. Lunar soft landing, by Surveyor 1.
1990 ~ Death of Rex Harrison, English actor.
2003 ~ ESA’s Mars Express was launched.
2005 ~ Death of Chloe Jones, Model & Porn Actress.
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06-02-2012, 05:09 AM
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You're very welcome, jseal! 
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06-02-2012, 10:27 PM
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June 3rd
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06-03-2012, 03:58 AM
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I hadn't realized that "Casey at the Bat" was that old. See, ya' learn something everyday ...
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06-03-2012, 07:16 AM
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I also like Thayer's nod to Pope's "Essay on Man." Yeah, I know, I'm a pushover for the classics.
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06-03-2012, 07:56 PM
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06-04-2012, 08:02 PM
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June 5th
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06-05-2012, 07:23 PM
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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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06-06-2012, 04:18 AM
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Hmmm ... I don't seem to recall that NEO exploding over the Mediterranean. Interesting. Were any ships in the area? Did anyone get hurt?
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It was an instrument only detection they kept very quiet.
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06-07-2012, 05:20 AM
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June 7th
1099 ~ Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem.
1848 ~ Birthday of Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist Painter.
1897 ~ Birthday of George Szell, Hungarian Conductor.
1917 ~ Birthday of Dean Martin, Singer & Actor.
1929 ~ Vatican City became a sovereign state.
1942 ~ The U.S. beat the Japanese in the Battle of Midway.
1954 ~ Death of Alan Turing, Mathematician, Computer Scientist.
1970 ~ Death of E. M. Forster, English author (A Passage to India).
1981 ~ The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor.
2000 ~ U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft.
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06-08-2012, 07:14 PM
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06-09-2012, 08:04 PM
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06-10-2012, 08:28 PM
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