06-15-2005, 07:07 AM
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June 15th
1215 ~ King John of England put his seal to the Magna Carta.
1330 ~ Birthday of Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales.
1752 ~ Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning is electricity.
1844 ~ Charles Goodyear received a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
1843 ~ Birthday of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer.
1914 ~ Birthday of Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1916 ~ U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.
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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06-16-2005, 05:27 AM
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June 16th
1829 ~ Birthday of Geronimo, Apache warrior and leader.
1890 ~ Birthday of Stan Laurel, Comedian.
1912 ~ Birthday of Enoch Powell, British politician.
1938 ~ Birthday of Joyce Carol Oates, novelist.
1948 ~ The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by the Cathay Pacific airline, marked the first skyjacking of a commercial plane.
1961 ~ Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget airport in Paris.
1963 ~ Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
1977 ~ Death of Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist.
1977 ~ Leonid Brezhnev became president of the USSR.
1983 ~ Yuri Andropov became president of the USSR.
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06-17-2005, 05:11 AM
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June 17th
1631 ~ Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years to build her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
1775 ~ Battle of Bunker Hill - The British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
1818 ~ Birthday of Charles Gounod, French Composer.
1882 ~ Birthday of Igor Stravinsky, Russian Composer.
1885 ~ The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor.
1898 ~ Birthday of M. C. Escher, Dutch Artist.
1942 ~ Birthday of Mohamed El Baradei, IAEA Director.
1945 ~ Birthday of Eddy Merckx, Belgian Cycling Champion.
1972 ~ Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives were arrested while burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
1974 ~ The Irish Republican Army bombed the U.K.’s House of Parliament.
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06-18-2005, 05:37 AM
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June 18th
1178 ~ Five Canterbury monks saw what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed.
1815 ~ Battle of Waterloo lead to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second, final time.
1873 ~ Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1915 ~ Birthday of Red Adair, Firefighter.
1928 ~ Death of Roald Amundsen, Explorer, first to the South Pole.
1942 ~ Birthday of Paul McCartney, Singer & Songwriter.
1945 ~ William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was charged with treason.
1967 ~ Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.
1979 ~ U.S. President Jimmy Carter and U.S.S.R. leader Leonid Brezhnev signed Salt II.
1983 ~ Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
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06-19-2005, 05:29 AM
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June 19th
1623 ~ Birthday of Blaise Pascal, Mathematician.
1865 ~ Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom.
1896 ~ Birthday of Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor.
1912 ~ Establishment of the 8-hour work day in the U.S.
1934 ~ The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was established in the United States.
1937 ~ Death of J. M. Barrie, Author, creator of the character Peter Pan.
1945 ~ Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Politician & recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1953 ~ Death of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, convicted spies.
1978 ~ First appearance of the comic strip Garfield.
2005 ~ Father’s Day (U.S.)
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06-20-2005, 05:28 AM
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June 20th
1819 ~ Birthday of Jacques Offenbach, Composer.
1837 ~ Queen Victoria ascended to the British throne.
1877 ~ Alexander Graham Bell installed the first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario.
1899 ~ Birthday of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance in WW II.
1909 ~ Birthday of Errol Flynn, Actor.
1948 ~ The Ed Sullivan Show, (née Toast of the Town) debuted.
1953 ~ Birthday of Cyndi Lauper, singer.
1966 ~ Canada sold 336 million bushels of wheat to the U.S.S.R.
1977 ~ Oil began to flow through the Trans-Alaska pipeline.
2002 ~ Death of Erwin Chargaff, biochemist.
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06-21-2005, 05:33 AM
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June 21st
1527 ~ Death of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.
1749 ~ Halifax, Nova Scotia founded.
1781 ~ Birthday of Siméon-Denis Poisson, Mathematician & Physicist.
1905 ~ Birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher & Playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1964.
1908 ~ Death of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Composer.
1940 ~ World War II: France surrendered to Germany.
1965 ~ Folk rock band The Byrds released their debut album Mr. Tambourine Man.
1989 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that flag burning is protected speech under the United States Constitution.
2001 ~ Death of Carroll O'Connor, American Actor.
2004 ~ SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight.
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06-22-2005, 05:04 AM
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June 22nd
1825 ~ British Parliament abolished feudalism in British North America.
1837 ~ Birthday of Paul Morphy, Chess phenomenon.
1856 ~ Birthday of H. Rider Haggard, Author.
1936 ~ Birthday of Kris Kristofferson, Singer, Songwriter, Actor, & Rhodes scholar.
1941 ~ Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
1969 ~ Death of Judy Garland, Singer & Actress.
1976 ~ Canadian House of Commons voted to abolish capital punishment.
1987 ~ Death of Fred Astaire, Dancer & Actor.
1996 ~ The Quake computer game was released.
2002 ~ Death of Ann Landers, Columnist.
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06-23-2005, 05:03 AM
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June 23rd
1894 ~ International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) was founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1894 ~ Birthday of Alfred Kinsey, Sexologist.
1912 ~ Birthday of Alan Turing, Mathematician.
1927 ~ Birthday of Bob Fosse, Choreographer.
1940 ~ German leader Adolf Hitler toured Paris in now occupied France.
1943 ~ Birthday of Vint Cerf, co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and one of the Fathers of the Internet.
1944 ~ Thomas Mann became a US citizen.
1956 ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt.
1958 ~ The Dutch Reformed Church accepted women ministers.
1995 ~ Death of Jonas Salk, developer of the Salk polio vaccine.
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June 24th
1314 ~ Scotland regained its independence in the Battle of Bannockburn, where Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeat Edward II of England.
1497 ~ John Cabot landed in Newfoundland, the first European discovery of the region since the Vikings.
1519 ~ Death of Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara.
1692 ~ Kingston, Jamaica founded.
1901 ~ First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work.
1910 ~ Japan invades Korea.
1915 ~ Birthday of Fred Hoyle, cosmologist and science fiction author.
1948 ~ Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union made land travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
1995 ~ The New Jersey Devils swept the Detroit Red Wings in four games in the NHL Stanley Cup finals.
2003 ~ Death of Leon Uris, Author.
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06-25-2005, 05:09 AM
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June 25th
1822 ~ Death of E.T.A. Hoffmann, German Writer, Composer & Painter
1876 ~ Battle of the Little Big Horn & death of Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
1894 ~ Birthday of Hermann Oberth, Physicist & one of the founding fathers of Rocketry and Astronautics.
1903 ~ Birthday of George Orwell, Writer.
1950 ~ The start of the Korean War.
1991 ~ Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 ~ Kim Campbell became the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1995 ~ Death of Warren Burger, United States Supreme Court justice.
1997 ~ Death of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French Explorer, Scientist & Inventor.
1998 ~ In Clinton v. City of New York, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 unconstitutional.
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06-26-2005, 04:31 AM
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June 26th
1541 ~ Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish Conqueror of Peru.
1824 ~ Birthday of Lord Kelvin, Physicist.
1898 ~ Birthday of Willy Messerschmitt, Aircraft Designer.
1933 ~ Birthday of Claudio Abbado, Conductor.
1934 ~ Initial flight of the first practical helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61.
1975 ~ Death of St. Josemaría Escrivá, creator of Opus Dei.
1948 ~ The Western allies began the Berlin Airlift, after the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin.
1964 ~ The Beatles released the album A Hard Day's Night.
1997 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment, and thus unconstitutional.
2003 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.
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June 27th
1759 ~ General James Wolfe began the siege of Quebec.
1838 ~ Birthday of Paul von Mauser, Weapon Designer.
1880 ~ Birthday of Helen Keller, spokeswoman for the Deaf and Blind.
1893 ~ Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1905 ~ Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin.
1931 ~ Birthday of Charles Bronfman, Industrialist & Philanthropist
1954 ~ World's first nuclear power station went on line in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1967 ~ World's first ATM installed in Enfield, London.
1979 ~ Muhammad Ali announced his retirement from boxing.
2001 ~ Death of Jack Lemmon, Actor & Film Director.
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