06-07-2005, 05:29 AM
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Location: Maryland
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June 7th
1099 ~ Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem.
1329 ~ Death of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.
1848 ~ Birthday of Paul Gauguin, French impressionist painter.
1862 ~ The U.S. and U.K. agreed to suppress the slave trade.
1897 ~ Birthday of George Szell, Hungarian conductor.
1914 ~ The first vessel passed through the locks of the Panama Canal.
1917 ~ Birthday of Dean Martin, Singer & Actor.
1929 ~ Vatican City became a sovereign state.
1954 ~ Death of Alan Turing, mathematician, computer scientist.
1981 ~ The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor.
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