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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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June 21st
1527 ~ Death of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.
1905 ~ Birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher & Playwright, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1964.
1908 ~ Death of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Composer.
1919 ~ Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney.
1945 ~ The battle for Okinawa ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 83-day campaign.
1964 ~ Three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.
1970 ~ Birthday of Sindee Coxx, Porn Actress.
1989 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that flag burning is protected speech under the Constitution.
2004 ~ SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight.
2005 ~ Death of Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila.
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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.
1947 ~ Birthday of Mick Fleetwood, Musician (Fleetwood Mac).
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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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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Originally Posted by jseal
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Coincidence? I don't think so...pass the tinfoil hats, please...
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