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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.
1997 ~ Major league baseball began interleague play.
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!
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.
1990 ~ Death of Megan Leigh, Porn Actress.
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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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1856 ~ Birthday of H. Rider Haggard, Author.
King Solomon's Mines and She were great books, then movies.
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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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Mick Fleetwood a pensioner?
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