Jun/
1:
HELEN KELLER DIES:
June 1, 1968
Helen Keller dies in Westport, Connecticut, at the age of 87. Blind and deaf from infancy, Keller circumvented her disabilities to become a world-renowned writer and lecturer
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1:
Events that occurred on this day:
1941 Crete falls to German forces
1958 De Gaulle reassumes French leadership
1990 Superpowers to destroy chemical weapons
1917 Liberty Leland
1864 Battle of Cold Harbor begins
1977 Soviets charge Shcharansky with treason
1779 Benedict Arnold is court-martialed
1949 Lawrence Welk's band debuts on High Life Review
1809 Coleridge begins to publish The Friend
1871 John Wesley Hardin arrives in Abilene
1964 Top U.S. officials meet in Honolulu
1812 Madison to the Brink of Panic
1942 News of death camp killings becomes public for first time
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Jun/
2:
CORONATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II:
June 2, 1953
Queen Elizabeth II is formally crowned monarch of the United Kingdom in a lavish ceremony steeped in traditions that date back a millennium. A thousand dignitaries and guests attended the coronation at London's Westminster Abbey, and hundreds of millions listened on radio and for the first time watched the proceedings on live television. After the ceremony, millions of rain-drenched spectators cheered the 27-year-old queen and her husband, the 30-year-old duke of Edinburgh, as they passed along a five-mile procession route in a gilded horse-drawn carriage.
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Jun/
2:
Events that occurred on this day:
1865 American Civil War ends
1886 President Cleveland marries in White House
1924 The Indian Citizenship Act
1997 McVeigh convicted for Oklahoma City bombing
1970 The Mighty McLaren
1815 Philip Kearny is born
1954 McCarthy charges communists are in the CIA
1985 Duo-serial killers' spree is put to an end
1912 Universal founded
1977 Raymond Carver quits drinking
1823 Ashley's fur trappers attacked by Indians
1965 First contingent of Australian combat troops arrives
1985 Mergers and Vanilla Wafers
1944 United States begins "shuttle bombing" in Operation Frantic
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Jun/
3:
DUKE OF WINDSOR WEDS:
June 3, 1937
In France, the duke of Windsor--formerly King Edward VIII of Great Britain and Northern Ireland--marries Wallis Warfield, the American divorcýe for whom he abdicated the British throne in December 1936.
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Jun/
3:
Events that occurred on this day:
1800 President Adams settles in new capital
1965 An American walks in space
1989 Crackdown at Tiananmen begins
1864 Ransom
1864 Union disaster at Cold Harbor
1990 Bush and Gorbachev end second summit meeting
1960 The right to an attorney is established
1906 Josephine Baker born
1936 Larry McMurtry is born
1936 Western author Larry McMurtry is born
1970 Nixon calls Cambodian operation a success
1996 Ambulance Chasers Catch GM
1940 Germans bomb Paris
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Jun/
4:
DUNKIRK EVACUATION ENDS:
June 4, 1940
The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk on the Belgian coast ends as German forces capture the beach port. The nine-day evacuation, the largest of its kind in history and an unexpected success, saved 338,000 Allied troops from capture by the Nazis.
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Jun/
4:
Events that occurred on this day:
1919 Congress passes the 19th Amendment
1972 Angela Davis acquitted
1896 Ford's Quadricycle
1862 Confederates evacuate Fort Pillow
1989 Tiananmen Square massacre takes place
1987 Pollard admits to selling top-secret information to Israel
1967 Bill Cosby wins Emmy
1940 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers is published
1876 Express train crosses the nation in 83 hours
1961 Kennedy and Khrushchev agree on neutrality for Laos
1910 Enter Robert Anderson
1942 The Battle of Midway begins
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Jun/
5:
PROFUMO RESIGNS IN SEX SCANDAL:
June 5, 1963
British Secretary of War John Profumo resigns his post following revelations that he had lied to the House of Commons about his sexual affair with Christine Keeler, an alleged prostitute. At the time of the affair, Keeler was also involved with Yevgeny "Eugene" Ivanov, a Soviet naval attachy who some suspected was a spy. Although Profumo assured the government that he had not compromised national security in any way, the scandal threatened to topple Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government.
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Jun/
5:
Events that occurred on this day:
1967 Six-Day War begins
1968 Robert F. Kennedy shot
1951 Tee Top Designer
1864 Battle of Piedmont, Virginia
1947 George Marshall calls for aid to Europe
1968 Bobby Kennedy is assassinated
1956 Elvis creates uproar
1949 Ken Follett is born
1922 Discoverer of Klondike Gold dies
1968 Robert Kennedy shot after California primary
1883 Money, Employment, and John Maynard Keynes
1944 Allies prepare for D-Day
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Jun/
6:
INDIAN ARMY STORMS SIKH'S GOLDEN TEMPLE:
June 6, 1984
In a bloody climax to two years of fighting between the Indian government and Sikh separatists, Indian army troops fight their way into the besieged Golden Temple compound in Amritsar--the holiest shrine of Sikhism--and kill at least 500 Sikh rebels. More than 100 Indian soldiers and scores of nonbelligerent Sikhs also perished in the ferocious gun and artillery battle, which was launched in the early morning hours of June 6. The army also attacked Sikh guerrillas besieged in three dozen other temples and religious shrines throughout the state of Punjab. Indian officials hailed the operation as a success and said it "broke the back" of the Sikh terrorist movement.
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Jun/
6:
Events that occurred on this day:
1683 The Ashmolean opens
1833 President Jackson rides the Iron Horse
1918 Battle of Belleau Wood begins
1966 James Meredith shot
1933 Drive-In
1862 Battle of Memphis
1977 Vance affirms Carter's interest in human rights
1997 A teenage mother gives birth and murders her baby at the prom
1958 Truth or Consequences goes off air
1949 George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four is published
1865 William Quantrill killed by Union soldiers
1972 South Vietnamese forces clear Kontum of communist troops
1934 The Post-Crash Regulatory Bash
1944 D-Day
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Jun/
7:
BATTLE OF MIDWAY ENDS:
June 7, 1942
The Battle of Midway--one of the most decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan--comes to an end. In the four-day sea and air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers with the loss of only one of its own, the Yorktown, thus reversing the tide against the previously invincible Japanese navy.
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Jun/
7:
Events that occurred on this day:
1893 Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience
1939 British king visits U.S.
1954 The Immortal Edsel
1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, Louisiana
1948 Czechoslovakian president Benes resigns
1971 Vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment
1955 Lux Radio Theater's last broadcast
1954 Louise Erdrich is born
1866 Chief Seattle dies near the city named for him
1965 Westmoreland requests 44 battalions
1955 The $64,000 Question
1942 Japanese land troops on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians
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Jun/
8:
ROBERT KENNEDY BURIED:
June 8, 1968
Three days after falling prey to an assassin in California, Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, just 30 yards from the grave of his assassinated older brother, President John F. Kennedy.
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Events that occurred on this day:
632 Founder of Islam dies
1967 Israel attacks USS Liberty
1968 King assassination suspect arrested
1986 Waldheim elected Austrian president
1986 Remembering Tim Richmond
1862 Battle of Cross Keys
1949 FBI report names Hollywood figures as communists
1913 Forensic evidence captures a murderous father
1935 Joan Rivers born
1999 Hannibal by Thomas Harris hits bookstores
1874 Apache Chief Cochise dies
1965 U.S. forces are available for ground support
1998 Cracker King Eyes the Bottom Line
1941 Allies invade Syria and Lebanon
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Jun/
9:
SECRETARIAT WINS TRIPLE CROWN:
June 9, 1973
With a spectacular victory at the Belmont Stakes, Secretariat becomes the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win America's coveted Triple Crown--the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes. In one of the finest performances in racing history, Secretariat, ridden by Ron Turcotte, completed the 1.5-mile race in 2 minutes and 24 seconds, a dirt-track record for that distance.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1534 Cartier discovers St. Lawrence River
1772 British vessel burned off Rhode Island
1916 Whiz Kid
1863 Battle of Brandy Station
1954 Joseph McCarthy meets his match
1990 As Nasty As They Wanna Be causes store owner's arrest
1934 Donald Duck debuts
1956 Patricia Cornwall is born
1856 Mormon handcart pioneers depart for Salt Lake City
1972 South Vietnamese soldiers reach An Loc
1943 Pay As You Go
1944 The Red Army invades Karelian Isthmus in Finland
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Jun/
10:
MANDELA WRITES FROM PRISON:
June 10, 1980
In South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) makes public a statement by Nelson Mandela, the long imprisoned leader of the anti-apartheid movement. The message, smuggled out of Robben Island prison under great risk, read, "UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!"
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Jun/
10:
Events that occurred on this day:
1692 First Salem witch hanging
1935 Alcoholics Anonymous founded
1940 Norway surrenders to Germany
1947 Say Hello To Saab
1864 Battle of Brice's Crossroads
1953 Eisenhower rejects calls for U.S. "isolationism"
1714 A pirate to be reckoned with makes her mark
1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? approved
1881 Tolstoy disguises himself as a peasant and leaves on a pilgrimage
1885 Arizona Deputy Sheriff Billy Daniels is killed
1965 Battle begins at Dong Xoai
1998 Mitsubishi Repents
1940 Italy declares war on France and Great Britain
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Jun/
11:
SIX-DAY WAR ENDS:
June 11, 1967
The Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors ends with a United Nations-brokered cease-fire. The outnumbered Israel Defense Forces achieved a swift and decisive victory in the brief war, rolling over the Arab coalition that threatened the Jewish state and more than doubling the amount of territory under Israel's control. The greatest fruit of victory lay in seizing the Old City of Jerusalem from Jordan; thousands of Jews wept while bent in prayer at the Second Temple's Western Wall.
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11:
Events that occurred on this day:
1509 Henry VIII marries first wife
1880 Jeannette Rankin born
1944 D-Day landing forces converge
1963 University of Alabama desegregated
1939 The Flying Scotsman
1864 Battle at Trevilian Station
1989 China issues warrant for Tiananmen dissident
1962 Alcatraz proves escapable for three men
1979 John Wayne dies
1925 William Styron is born
1788 Russian explorer Izmailov arrives at Yakutat Bay, Alaska
1963 Buddhist immolates himself in protest
1998 Boffo Times for Boob Tube's Big Guide
1940 Britain strikes back at Italy
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Jun/
11:
Ray Charles Died
Ray Charles, the innovative singer and pianist whose combinations of blues and gospel pioneered soul music and earned him the nickname "the Genius," has died at age 73.
Additional information on the death of Ray Charles
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Jun/
12:
PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE DECLARED:
June 12, 1898
During the Spanish-American War, Filipino rebels led by Emilio Aguinaldo proclaim the independence of the Philippines after 300 years of Spanish rule. By mid-August, Filipino rebels and U.S. troops had ousted the Spanish, but Aguinaldo's hopes for independence were dashed when the United States formally annexed the Philippines as part of its peace treaty with Spain.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1963 Medgar Evers assassinated
1975 Indira Gandhi convicted of election fraud
1952 The First American Sports Car
1862 J.E.B. Stuart rides around the Union army
1987 Reagan challenges Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall
1994 O.J. Simpson is accused of killing ex-wife Nicole, and Ron Goldman
1962 George Lucas in near-fatal car wreck
1942 Anne Frank receives a diary
1876 Journalist headed for Little Big Horn files dispatch
1972 Lavelle testifies before Congress
1915 The Baby Rockefeller
1940 Paris on the verge of invasion
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Jun/
13:
TUTU MEETS WITH BOTHA:
June 13, 1986
Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize for Peace, meets with South African President P.W. Botha to discuss the nationwide state of emergency declared by Botha in response to the anti-apartheid protests. "This is not likely to help restore law and order and peace and calm," Tutu said of the government crackdown after the meeting. "If we do have any calm, it will be very brittle, it will be superficial, it will be sullen, and at the slightest chance, it will be broken again."
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13:
Events that occurred on this day:
323 B.C. Alexander the Great dies
1381 Peasant army marches into London
1967 Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court
1983 Pioneer 10 departs solar system
1978 Break-Up
1864 Grant swings toward Petersburg
1971 "Pentagon Papers" damage credibility of Cold War policy
1939 "Doc" Barker is killed by prison guards as he attempts to escape
1946 Major Bowes dies
1893 Dorothy Sayers is born
1805 Meriwether Lewis reaches the Great Falls
1971 The New York Times publishes the "Pentagon Papers"
1933 One Million Mortgages
1944 Germans launch V-1 rocket attack against Britain
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Jun/
14:
Events that occurred on this day:
1777 Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes
1789 Bounty mutiny survivors reach Timor
1982 Falkland Islands War ends
1928 Miller Special
1863 Battle of Second Winchester
1954 First nationwide civil defense drill held
1985 TWA flight 847 is hijacked by terrorists
1996 Ella Fitzgerald dies
1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe is born
1846 California's Bear Flag revolt begins
1968 Dr. Spock convicted for aiding draft resisters
1946 The Donald
1940 Germans enter Paris
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Jun/
14:
UNIVAC COMPUTER DEDICATED:
June 14, 1951
The U.S. Census Bureau Continued
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Jun/
15:
MAGNA CARTA SEALED:
June 15, 1215
Following a revolt by the English nobility against his rule, King John puts his royal seal on the Magna Carta, or "Great Charter." The document, essentially a peace treaty between John and his barons, guaranteed that the king would respect feudal rights and privileges, uphold the freedom of the church, and maintain the nation's laws. Although more a reactionary than a progressive document in its day, the Magna Carta was seen as a cornerstone in the development of democratic England by later generations.
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Jun/
15:
Events that occurred on this day:
1846 U.S. - Canadian border established
1864 Battle of Petersburg begins
1877 First African American graduate of West Point
1986 A Royal Milestone
1863 Lincoln calls for help
1946 The United States presents the Baruch Plan
1933 George "Machine Gun" Kelly's first attempt at kidnapping is foiled when his wife gets drunk and blabs his plan.
1945 Judy Garland marries Vincente Minnelli
1300 Dante is named prior of Florence
1846 Francis Parkman arrives at Fort Laramie
1964 Johnson decides against submitting resolution to Congress
1993 The Treasurer from Texas
1943 The "Blobel Commando" begins its cover-up of atrocities
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Jun/
16:
Bloomsday
Dublin is celebrating the 101th anniversary of Bloomsday:
The fictitious 24 hours celebrated in James Joyce's classic novel Ulysses. People from all over the world celebrate Bloomsday with literary walks and celebrations.
James Joyce met and fell in love with Nora Barnacle. The day of their first walk together, 16 June 1904, was immortalized as Bloomsday, during which the entire narrative of his masterpiece Ulysses takes place. To this day, Dubliners celebrate Bloomsday with literary walks and celebrations.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1958 Leader of Hungarian uprising executed
1977 Brezhnev is Soviet president
1917 Golden Submarine
1862 Battle of Secessionville
1961 Russian ballet star Nureyev defects
1966 The Miranda rights are established
1890 Stan Laurel born
1904 James Joyce meets his future wife, Nora
1890 Alaskan explorer Fred Fickett leaves Army
1961 Kennedy agrees to send instructors to train troops
1998 Keyboard Claim Hits the Rocks
1940 Marshal Petain becomes premier of occupied France
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Jun/
17:
WATERGATE BURGLARS ARRESTED:
June 17, 1972
In the early morning of this day, five men are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate, an office-hotel-apartment complex in Washington, D.C. In their possession were burglary tools, cameras and film, and three pen-size tear gas guns. At the scene of the crime, and in rooms the men rented at the Watergate, sophisticated electronic bugging equipment was found. Three of the men were Cuban exiles, one was a Cuban American, and the fifth was James W. McCord, Jr., a former CIA agent. That day, the suspects, who said they were "anti-communists," were charged with felonious burglary and possession of implements of crime.
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17:
Events that occurred on this day:
1579 Drake claims California for England
1775 The Battle of Bunker Hill
1940 France to surrender
1994 O.J. Simpson arrested after flight from justice
1923 Ferrari And The Horse
1837 Union Colonel Strong Vincent is born
1953 Soviets crush antigovernment riots in East Berlin
1972 Nixon's re-election employees are arrested for burglary
1986 Kate Smith dies
1972 Watergate break-ins set the stage for All the President's Men
1876 Indians hammer U.S. soldiers at the Battle of the Rosebud
1969 North Vietnamese reoccupy Ap Bia Mountain
1930 Smoot-Hawley to the Rescue?
1940 British and Allied troops continue the evacuation of France, as Churchill reassures his countrymen
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Jun/
18:
NAPOLEON DEFEATED AT WATERLOO:
June 18 1815
At Waterloo in Belgium, Napoleon Bonaparte suffers defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington, bringing an end to the Napoleonic era of European history.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1778 British abandon Philadelphia
1812 Second Anglo-American War begins
1983 First American woman in space
1923 Checker Cabs started
1864 Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is wounded at Petersburg
1979 Carter and Brezhnev sign the SALT-II treaty
1942 Paul McCartney born
1937 Novelist Gail Godwin is born
1847 Alexander Murray departs for the Yukon
1965 SAC B-52s are used for the first time in South Vietnam
1998 Mickeyys Portal
1940 Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich
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Jun/
19:
CSS ALABAMA SUNK OFF FRANCE:
June 19, 1864
Off the coast of Cherbourg, France, the Confederate raider CSS Alabama loses a ship-to-ship duel with the USS Kearsarge and sinks to the floor of the Atlantic, ending an illustrious career that saw some 68 Union merchant vessels destroyed or captured by the Confederate raider.
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19:
Events that occurred on this day:
1856 First Republican national convention ends
1867 Emperor of Mexico executed
1885 Statue of Liberty arrives
1949 NASCAR staged its first Grand National event at the Charlotte Fairgrounds
1864 C.S.S. Alabama sinks
1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed
1892 A bloody fingerprint elicits a mother's evil tale in Argentina
1905 First nickelodeon opens
1934 Nathanael West's "A Cool Million" is published
1868 Father De Smet talks peace with Sitting Bull
1965 Ky becomes premier of South Vietnam
1934 Silver Strike on Capital Hill
1944 United States scores major victory against Japanese in Battle of the Philippine Sea
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Jun/
20:
OIL FLOWS IN ALASKA:
June 20, 1977
With a flip of a switch in Prudhoe Bay, crude oil from the nation's largest oil field begins flowing south down the trans-Alaska pipeline to the ice-free port of Valdez, Alaska. The steel pipeline, 48 inches in diameter, winds through 799 miles of Alaskan wilderness, crossing three Arctic mountain ranges and hundreds of rivers and streams. Environmentalists fought to prevent its construction, saying it would destroy a pristine ecosystem, but they were ultimately overruled by Congress, who saw it as a way of lessening America's dependence on foreign oil. The trans-Alaska pipeline was the world's largest privately funded construction project to that date, costing $8 billion and taking three years to build.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1789 Third Estate makes Tennis Court Oath
1863 West Virginia enters the Union
1900 Boxer Rebellion begins in China
1945 Going On Safari
1863 West Virginia enters the Union
1963 United States and Soviet Union will establish a "hot line"
1947 Bugsy Siegel, organized crime leader, is killed
1939 Benny Goodman's Song School goes off the air
1905 Lillian Hellman is born
1875 Mountain man Joe Meek dies
1964 Westmoreland becomes Commander of MACV
1931 Hoover vs. the Depression
1943 Britain launches Operation Bellicose
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Jun/
21:
Summer Solstice
The summer solstice is the longest day of the year, respectively, in the sense that the length of time elapsed between sunrise and sunset on this day is a maximum for the year.
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21:
CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS DISAPPEAR:
June 21, 1964
In Neshoba County in central Mississippi, three civil rights field workers disappear after investigating the burning of an African American church by the Ku Klux Klan. Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both white New Yorkers, had traveled to heavily segregated Mississippi in 1964 to help organize civil rights efforts on behalf of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The third man, James Chaney, was a local African American man who had joined CORE in 1963. The disappearance of the three young men garnered national attention and led to a massive FBI investigation that was code-named MIBURN, for "Mississippi Burning."
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21:
Events that occurred on this day:
1788 U.S. Constitution ratified
1813 French defeated in Spain
1916 Pershing attacked by Mexican troops
1982 Hinckley not guilty by reason of insanity
1947 Mille Miglia First road race from Brescia to Rome and back (1,000 mile course.)
1864 Grant extends the Petersburg line
1963 French withdraw navy from NATO
1964 The KKK kills three civil rights activists
1920 Pickford and Fairbanks mobbed by fans
1956 Arthur Miller refuses to name communists
1892 Lot Smith, Mormon soldier, is killed by Indians
1966 Rolling Thunder raids continue
1877 Murder and the Molly Maguires
1942 Allies surrender at Tobruk, Libya
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Jun/
22:
LOUIS BECOMES CHAMP:
On June 22, 1937 In Chicago's Comiskey Park, Joe Louis wins the world heavyweight boxing title when he defeats American Jim Braddock in an eighth-round knockout. Louis was the first African American heavyweight champ since Jack Johnson, who lost the title in 1915. During his subsequent reign, the longest in the history of the heavyweight division, Louis successfully defended his title 25 times, scoring 21 knockouts.
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22:
Events that occurred on this day:
1611 Hudson set adrift by mutineers
1945 Battle of Okinawa ends
1934 Porsche's Dream
1864 Lee strikes back at Petersburg
1989 Cease-fire established in Angolan civil war
1664 Colonial America Transgressions
1965 David O. Selznick dies
1906 Anne Morrow Lindbergh is born
1876 General Santa Anna dies in Mexico City
1972 New troops sent to An Loc
1775 Continental Currency Hits the Streets
1941 Germany launches Operation Barbarossa--the invasion of Russia
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Jun/
23:
NASSER ELECTED PRESIDENT:
June 23, 1956
99.95 percent of Egyptian voters mark their ballots to elect Gamal Abdel Nasser as the first president of the Republic of Egypt. Nasser, who toppled the Egyptian monarchy in 1952 in a military coup, was the only presidential candidate on the ballot. In the same ballot, Nasser's new constitution, under which Egypt became a one-party socialist state with Islam as the official religion, was approved by 99.8 percent of voters.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1959 Klaus Fuchs released
1992 Teflon Don sentenced to life
1996 Zanardi's Resurgence
1862 Lee confers with his generals before the Seven Days' Battles
1967 Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Aleksei Kosygin
1934 Even without the corpse, a murderer is uncovered
1984 John Lennon auction raises $430,000
1929 Michael Shaara, author of The Killer Angels, is born
1878 Frontiersman Martin Sweeny is murdered
1964 Johnson announces new ambassador to South Vietnam
1810 The Furious Furrier, the Pacific Fur Company was established.
1940 Hitler takes a tour of Paris
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24:
PICASSO EXHIBITED IN PARIS:
June 24, 1901
The first major exhibition of Pablo Picasso's artwork opens at a gallery on Paris' rue Lafitte, a street known for its prestigious art galleries. The precocious 19-year-old Spaniard was at the time a relative unknown outside Barcelona, but he had already produced hundreds of paintings. The 75 works displayed at Picasso's first Paris exhibition offered moody, representational paintings by a young artist with obvious talent.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1675 King Philip's War begins
1812 Napoleon's Grande Armýe invades Russia
1973 Eamon de Valera resigns
1900 Motorized Parks
1862 Lincoln consults Winfield Scott
1948 Soviets blockade West Berlin
1853 A frontier bandit's head is placed on display
1971 McCabe and Mrs. Miller debuts
1935 Pete Hamill is born
1864 Colorado Governor orders Indians to Sand Creek
1970 Senate repeals Tonkin Gulf Resolution
1998 AT&T Goes Local, Again
1945 Russians enjoy a victory parade
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25:
EISENHOWER TAKES COMMAND:
June 25, 1942
Following his arrival in London, Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower takes command of U.S. forces in Europe. Although Eisenhower had never seen combat during his 27 years as an army officer, his knowledge of military strategy and talent for organization were such that Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall chose him over nearly 400 senior officers to lead U.S. forces in the war against Germany. After proving himself on the battlefields of North Africa and Italy in 1942 and 1943, Eisenhower was appointed supreme commander of Operation Overlord--the Allied invasion of northwestern Europe.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1993 Kim Campbell takes office
1956 The Last Packard
1864 The construction of a tunnel begins at Petersburg
1950 Korean War begins
1910 The U.S. attempts to enforce national morality
1993 Last night of Late Night with David Letterman
1857 Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal is published
1876 Indians defeat Custer at Little Big Horn
1969 U.S. Navy turns boats over to South Vietnamese Navy
1921 Gompers Again
1900 Lord Louis Mountbatten is born
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26:
U.N. CHARTER SIGNED:
June 26, 1945
In the Herbst Theater auditorium in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations sign the United Nations Charter, establishing the world body as a means of saving "succeeding generations from the scourge of war." The Charter was ratified on October 24, and the first U.N. General Assembly met in London on January 10, 1946.
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26:
HURRICANE AUDREY
Sixth Deadliest Hurricanes
Southwest Louisiana, Northeast Texas
June 26 1957
Death toll: 390
The Category 4 storm hit during the night of June 26, 1957, flooding the low-lying areas of coastal Louisiana. Many of its victims thought they had a day left to leave the area, but the storm accelerated. A 12-foot storm surge moved water as far as 25 miles inland.
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27:
TRUMAN ORDERS U.S. FORCES TO KOREA:
June 27, 1950
President Harry S. Truman announces that he is ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea. The United States was undertaking the major military operation, he explained, to enforce a United Nations resolution calling for an end to hostilities, and to stem the spread of communism in Asia. In addition to ordering U.S. forces to Korea, Truman also deployed the U.S. 7th Fleet to Formosa (Taiwan) to guard against invasion by communist China and ordered an acceleration of military aid to French forces fighting communist guerrillas in Vietnam.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1829 Smithson's curious bequest
1844 Mormon leader killed by mob
1990 NASCAR's Thunder
1864 Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
1950 U.N. approves armed force to repel North Korea
1921 Four-time thief escapes Baumes law
1939 "Frankly, My Dear..."
1953 Alice McDermott's birthday
1874 Buffalo hunters and Indians clash at Adobe Walls
1968 U.S. forces begin to evacuate Khe Sanh
1905 The Wobblies
1940 Germans get Enigma
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28:
KEYNES PREDICTS ECONOMIC CHAOS:
June 28, 1919
At the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles with the Allies, officially ending World War I. The English economist John Maynard Keynes, who had attended the peace conference but then left in protest of the treaty, was one of the most outspoken critics of the punitive agreement. In his The Economic Consequences of the Peace, published in December 1919, Keynes predicted that the stiff war reparations and other harsh terms imposed on Germany by the treaty would lead to the financial collapse of the country, which in turn would have serious economic and political repercussions on Europe and the world.
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28:
Events that occurred on this day:
1519 Charles elected Holy Roman emperor
1914 Archduke Ferdinand assassinated
1969 The Stonewall Riot
1914 Wrong Turn
1862 Confederates capture the St. Nicolas
1948 Yugoslavia expelled from COMINFORM
1975 A teenage girl's boyfriend murders her parents
1916 Lasky Co. and Famous Players Co. merge
1888 Robert Louis Stevenson sets sail for the South Seas
1857 Western writer Emerson Hough is born
1965 U.S. forces launch first offensive
1894 Feds Honor Labor Day
1940 Britain recognizes General Charles de Gaulle as the leader of the Free French
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29:
GERMANS ADVANCE IN USSR:
June 29, 1941
One week after launching a massive invasion of the USSR, German divisions make staggering advances on Leningrad, Moscow, and Kiev.
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29:
Events that occurred on this day:
1966 Vietnam air war escalates
1972 Supreme Court strikes down death penalty
1974 Isabela Peron takes office as Argentine president
1902 Renault
1862 Battle of Savage's Station
1989 Congress votes new sanctions against China
1993 A serial rapist strikes in Allentown
1933 Fatty Arbuckle dies
1613 The Globe Theater burns down
1835 Texan William Travis prepares for war with Mexico
1970 U.S. ground troops return from Cambodia
1906 Hepburn Act
1941 Germans capture Lvov-and slaughter ensues
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30:
SPANISH RETREAT FROM AZTEC CAPITAL:
June 30, 1520
Faced with an Aztec revolt against their rule, forces under the Spanish conquistador Hernyn Cortys fight their way out of Tenochtitlyn at heavy cost. Known to the Spanish as La Noche Triste, or "the Night of Sadness," many soldiers drowned in Lake Texcoco when the vessel carrying them and Aztec treasures hoarded by Cortys sank. Montezuma II, the Aztec emperor who had become merely a subject of Cortys in the previous year, was also killed during the struggle; by the Aztecs or the Spanish, it is not known.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1859 Daredevil crosses Niagara Falls on tightrope
1934 Night of the Long Knives
1971 Soviet cosmonauts perish in reentry disaster
1953 Little White Corvette
1862 Battle of Glendale (White Oak Swamp)
1950 Truman orders U.S. forces to Korea
1981 A first-time offender ends up on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List
1923 Sidney Bechet's first record
1936 Gone with the Wind is published
1876 Soldiers are evacuated from the Little Big Horn by steamboat
1967 Thieu becomes president
1957 Farewell to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
1943 Operation Cartwheel is launched
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