| 1170 | * | The coronation of Henry, the Young King (of England) by Roger of York, at Westminster Abbey. To insult Thomas Becket, Henry II used the Archbishop of York in the coronation of his son, Henry. | Ref: 16 |
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| 1381 | * | King arrives at Mile End with mayor of London William Walworth and other dignitaries. Rebels present a petition to abolish the poll tax, end villeinage, and establish fair labor practices; they demand the right to land at 4p an acre and free use of forests. Richard agrees and promises to turn over anyone found a traitor by process of law. | |
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| 1623 | * | First breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, VA files against Cicely Jordan. He loses. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1642 | * | Massachusetts passes the first compulsory education law in the colonies. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1715 | * | Robert Norden became licensed pastor of the Baptist congregation in Prince George County -- the first Baptist church organized within the American colony of Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1777 | * | The Continental Congress authorizes the "stars and stripes" flag for the new United States. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1789 | * | Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrives in Timor in a small boat. He had been forced to leave his ship when his crew mutinied. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1834 | * | World copper markets were thrown into turmoil following disclosure by Sumitomo Corporation that a rogue trader had hidden multi- billion-dollar losses. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1841 | * | First Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1846 | * | A group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of California. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1850 | * | Fire destroys part of San Francisco. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1876 | * | California Street Cable Car Railroad Co. gets its franchise | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | The city of Philadelphia observes the first Flag Day. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1900 | * | Hawaiian Republic becomes the US Territory of Hawaii. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Women in Norway win the right to vote as long as taxes have been paid. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1921 | * | Harry Dolbeare testifies that Vanzetti is the man who was in the back of the get-away car. Two other witnesses, Heron and Tracy, identify Sacco as the man they had seen around East Braintree the day of the robbery. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1924 | * | A San Pedro, California IWW (International Waterfront Workers) hall was raided; a number of children were scalded when the hall was demolished. | Ref: 59 |
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| 1927 | | Nicaraguan President Porfirio Diaz signs a treaty with the US allowing American intervention in his country. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1928 | * | Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | (Scottsboro Boys) The conviction of Haywood Patterson is upheld by the Alabama Supreme Court. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1937 | * | Pennsylvania became the first state in the United States to observe Flag Day as a legal holiday. PA is still the only state doing so (see Flag Day [above]). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Nazis order Jewish owned businesses to register. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1941 | * | Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | The Supreme Court rules that requiring students to salute the American flag is unconstitutional. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1943 | * | The Supreme Court ruled schoolchildren could not be compelled to salute the flag of the United States if doing so would conflict with their religious beliefs. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Canadian Library Association established. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | The state legislature of Missouri adopted The Missouri Waltz as its official state song. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | The State of Vietnam is formed. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1952 | * | Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Americans take part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1954 | * | President Eisenhower signed a congressional resolution which added the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. The last phrase now reads: '...one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.'. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | 106øF, hottest temperature in San Francisco. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | (Mississippi Burning) Andy Goodman and other student volunteers attend training session for Summer Project volunteers in Oxford, Ohio. Also in attendence are CORE members Schwerner and Chaney. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1965 | * | A military triumvirate takes control in Saigon, South Vietnam. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1966 | * | The Vatican announced that its 'Index of Prohibited Books' (created by Pope Paul IV in 1557) had been abolished. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | The Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution opposing the ordination of women for ministry in the Baptist Church. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | The 17-day hijack ordeal of TWA Flight 847 began as a pair of Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists seized the jetliner shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | | 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | ILLWIND, an FBI investigation into widespread corruption in Department of Defense procurement, led to indictments of government officials and private contractors for fraud and bribery in twelve states and the District of Columbia. | Ref: 14 |
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| 1989 | * | Congressman William Gray, an African American, is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1989 | * | Ground breaking begins in Minn on the world's largest mall. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | The US Supreme Court upholds police checkpoints to examine drivers for intoxication. (XDG, p 4A, 6/14/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1992 | | The Earth Summit concluded in Rio de Janaro, Brazil. (XDG, p 4A, 6/14/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1992 | * | Mona Van Duyn is the first woman to be named the nation's poet laureate by the Library of Congress. (XDG, p 4A, 6/14/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1993 | * | President Clinton chooses Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg, an advocate of women's rights, to serve on the Supreme Court, surprising observers who'd predicted Clinton's choice would be Judge Stephen Breyer. (XDG, p 4A, 6/14/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1995 | * | Chechen rebels take 2,000 people hostage in a hospital in Russia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1995 | * | Chechens take hostages at Budennovsk | Ref: 89 |
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| 1996 | * | The FBI disclosed the White House had obtained bureau background reports on at least 408 people without justification. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1999 | * | The US Supreme Court opens the door to full broadcast advertising of casino gambling when it rules that a federal band aimed at protecting compulsive gamblers violated free speech rights. (XDG, p 4A, 6/14/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2000 | * | In the biggest step toward peace since the end of the Korean War, the leaders of North and South Korea signed an agreement pledging to work for reconciliation and eventual reunification. The Southern Baptist Convention declared that women should no longer serve as pastors. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2002 | * | (Elizabeth Smart) Handyman Richard Albert Ricci, who once worked at the Smart home, is arrested on a parole violation unrelated to to the Smart disappearance. Ricci is questioned about the Smart case and is considered the top suspect. (USA Today, p 3A, 3/13/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2002 | * | American Roman Catholic bishops meeting in Dallas adopted a policy to bar sexually abusive clergy from face-to-face contact with parishioners but keep them in the priesthood. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1834 | * | Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, VT. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1834 | * | Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1847 | * | Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1873 | * | Discovery of the ruins of Troy by Heinrich Schliemann. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1881 | * | The player piano was patented by John McTammany, Jr. of Cambridge, MA. It was patent number 242,786. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1919 | * | Captain John William Alcock and Lt. Arthur Whitten Brown take off from St. John's, Newfoundland, for Clifden, Ireland, on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1938 | * | Chlorophyll (chloroform?) patented by Benjamin Grushkin of Philadelphia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | UNIVAC, the first computer built for commercial purposes, is demonstrated in Philadelphia by Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Prosper Eckert, Jr. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1963 | * | Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Launch of Mariner V for Venus fly-by. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Pioneer 10, launched on March 2nd, 1972, leaves the solar system. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1991 | * | The space shuttle "Columbia" returned from a medical research mission. The government reported consumer prices had risen a modest three-tenths of one percent in May. Actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft died in London at age 83. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1381 | * | The Peasant's Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxes when rebels plunder and burn the Tower of London and kill the Archbishop of Canterbury. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1645 | * | Oliver Cromwell's Scots army routs the king's army led by Charles I at Naseby. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1658 | * | French triumph over Spanish at Battle of Dunes (Dunkirk). | Ref: 10 |
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| 1775 | * | The US Army is founded when the Continental Congress authorizes the muster of troops. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1800 | * | Victory of Napoleon over Austrians at Battle of Marengo | Ref: 10 |
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| 1807 | * | Napoleon victorious over Russians in Battle of Friedland. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1863 | * | Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1864 | * | At the Battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia, Confederate General Leonidas Polk is killed by a Union shell. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1917 | * | Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | President Wilson, in his Flag Day Address, declares that the initial American Expeditionary Force will be followed by more soldiers as quickly as possible, and that these soldiers will not be held in the US for training. | |
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| 1935 | | Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Auschwitz, largest of the Nazi concentration camps, was first opened near Krakow, Poland. Before its liberation by the Allies in 1945, over 3 million Jews would be exterminated there. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | In Brest, France, British General Brooke orders Canadian forces to withdraw from France. Much of the Canadian equipment and 216 vehicles are destroyed, to prevent their use by German forces. | |
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| 1940 | * | German troops enter Paris. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1940 | * | Spain sends a 3,000-man force to occupy the former international city of Tangier, a port of Morocco. | |
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| 1941 | * | The United States freezes German and Italian assets in America. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1942 | * | General Electric Co of Bridgeport, Conn produces the first bazooka rocket gun. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Boeing B-29 bombers conduct their first raid against mainland Japan. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1944 | * | French General de Gaulle debarks at Courseulles, France, ready to take control of a Provisional Government of France. | |
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| 1945 | * | Burma is liberated by the British. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1958 | * | French forces withdraw from Morocco. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1982 | * | The large Argentine garrison in Port Stanley (capital and only town in the Falkland Islands) was overrun by British troops, effectively ending the Falklands War . Argentina had invaded the British dependent territory(ies) in April 1982. During the brief war, Argentina suffered 655 killed, while Britain lost 236. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1870 | * | At the Capitoline Grounds in Brooklyn, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, after winning 27 consecutive wins, suffer first loss of the season bowing to the Brooklyn Atlantics, 8-7; the game features the first recorded double play and the first known switch hitter, Brooklyn's Bob Ferguson. In total, Cincinnati won 130 consecutive games, including those that today would be considered exhibition games. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1876 | * | Philadelphia Athletic George Hall becomes first major league player to hit for cycle; the Englishman will also become the first player to be banned along with others for throwing 3 1/2 game lead with 12 games to go 1877. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1901 | * | The first professional open championship to utilize rules of the U.S. Golf Association was held at Hamilton, MA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Joe McCarthy and Lou Gehrig are both thrown out of the game with the Yankee manager being suspended for three games; fortunately the first baseman isn't and his consecutive game streak stays intact at 1,249 games. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1934 | * | Max Baer defeats Primo Carnera in an 11 round bout to win the Heavyweight Boxing title in Long Island City. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | In a 3-1 loss, Boston Braves lefty Warren Spahn whiffs 18 Cubs in 15 innings tying Jim Whitney's NL record of 18 strikeouts. On the same day, Braves scout Dewey Griggs signs a Mobile, AL youth named Henry Aaron. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1953 | | Seven former Southern Conference university sports teams established a new alliance: The Atlantic Coast Conference. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | Before 74,708 fans, the Yankees sweep the Indians (6-2 and 3-0) to extend the team's winning streak to eighteen consecutive games. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1963 | * | In a 10-3 win over the Reds at Crosley field, Met outfielder Duke Snider hits his 400th carrer homer off of Bob Purkey. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1965 | * | At Crosley Field, Jim Maloney no-hits the Mets for ten innings but loses 1-0 when Johnny Lewis connects for a homer in the eleventh. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1967 | * | Dean Chance of the Minnesota Twins pitched five innings of perfect baseball, leading his team to victory over the Boston Red Sox. Chance was only the third player to pitch a shortened, perfect game. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Hitting two HRs, two doubles and a single, A's Reggie Jackson drives in ten runs as Oakland routs the Red Sox, 21-7. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1974 | * | In 12 innings, Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox batters including whiffing Cecil Cooper six consecutive times. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1976 | * | 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Giant first baseman Willie McCovey hits his 513th round tripper establishing him as the NL all-time left-handed HR leader. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1985 | * | Earl Weaver returned to manage the American League Baltimore Orioles, after a 2-1/2-year retirement. Weaver is said to have turned down 11 managing offers, but said “Yes” to Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, the owner of the Orioles, when asked to return to take over the reins of the team. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | LA Lakers win NBA title with a 106-93, victory over the Celtics. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Pistons sweep LA for NBA title, Kareem Abdul Jabber's final NBA game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Detroit Pistons beat Portland, 4 games to 1 for NBA championship. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Leroy Burrell of USA sets the 100m record (9.90) in NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | The Chicago Bulls win the NBA championship defeating the Portland Trailblazers 97-93 in game 6. (XDG, p 4A, 6/14/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1994 | * | In a 13 inning game, Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7and drives in the winning run beating the Cubs, 4-3. The Giant infielder sets a major league record by getting 14 hits in three games. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1996 | * | Cal Ripken sets a new consecutive games world record by playing in his 2,216th consecutive game; the previous mark of 2,215 was held by Hiroshima Carp third baseman Sachio Kinugasa playing in the Japanese Central League. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1998 | * | The Chicago Bulls clinch their 6th NBA championship, defeating the Utah Jazz in game 6 played in Salt Lake City, 87-86. (XDG, p 4A, 6/14/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2001 | * | Mike Gartner, Jari Kurri, Vyachelslav Fetisov and Dale Hawerchuk are elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. (XDG, p 4A, 6/14/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2002 | * | Due to 14 interleague contests all played in National League parks, a designated hitter is not used in a full slate of major league games for the first time since 1972. Visiting hurlers will get plenty of opportunities to swing the bat as there isn't a home game scheduled in American League park for the 10 consecutive days. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2003 | * | After being activated from the disabled list by the Dodgers, first baseman Fred McGriff bats cleanup and goes 2-for-4 in his return against the Padres. It was the Crime Dog's first trip to the diabled list during his 18-year career. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1922 | * | Warren G. Harding became the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcast his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1923 | * | It was the beginning of the country music recording industry. Ralph Peer of Okeh Records recorded Fiddlin’ John Carson doing The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane -- and the first country music recording was in the can. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | | Dorothy Lathrop wins the first Caldecott Medal (kid books author). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | | The Motion Picture Mothers, Inc., formed by the mothers of movie stars. | Ref: 73 |
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| 1942 | * | Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | | After 13 years on the radio, Harold Peary played the leading role of The Great Gildersleeve one final time. Willard Waterman took Peary’s place in the role for the next eight years on radio and for several years on TV as well. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | Elvis Presley graduated from L.C. Humes High School in Memphis, TN. Within three years, the truck driver-turned-singer had his first number-one record with Heartbreak Hotel. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | Elvis Presley has first number one hit in Britain All Shook Up. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1965 | * | Beatles release the album "Beatles VI". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | America reached the top spot on the "Billboard" pop music chart with "Sister Golden Hair". The group had previously (March, 1972) taken "A Horse With No Name" to the number one spot. The trio of Dan Peek, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell had received the Best New Artist Grammy in 1972. America recorded a dozen hits that made it to the popular music charts in the 1970s and 1980s. Though number one, "Sister Golden Hair" did not qualify for gold record (million-seller) status. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | * | Janis Ian releases "At 17". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | The Beatles were awarded a gold record for the compilation album of past hits titled, Rock ’n’ Roll Music. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1976 | * | "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Rock group "Little Feat" disbands | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was arrested for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1991 | | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves opened, collecting $25.63 million from audiences at 2,369 US theaters. Kevin Costner is Robin of Locksley, Morgan Freeman plays Azeem, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is Marian, and Christian Slater stars as Will Scarlett. The mean old Sheriff of Nottingham is played by the spooky Alan Rickman. It takes awhile (143 minutes), but the good guys/gals do live happily ever after. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1995 | * | Michael Jackson and wife, Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson, were interviewed by Diane Sawyer on ABC-TV’s PrimeTime Live. Sawyer questioned the couple about how they got to know each other, how Michael proposed, etc. The hour long interview, at the old MGM set at Sony Pictures, Hollywood, was seen by 60 million US viewers and millions more around the world. Selected snippets from the interview: Do they have sex? “Yes, yes, yes.” Prenuptial agreement? “Yes.” Regarding accusations of child molestation? “Never ever! I could never harm a child, or anyone. It’s not in my heart. It’s not how I am. I am not even interested in that!” Would Michael like to be as black as he once was? “I love black.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | A 1939 comic book featuring the first appearance of Batman was auctioned off for $68,500 by Sotheby's in New York. (XDG, p 4A, 6/14/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2160 | * | Fiction: Montgomery Edward Scott, Aberdeen, Scotland (Star Trek) is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1736 | * | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1811 | * | Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Harriet Beecher Stowe is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1820 | * | John Bartlett US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1821 | * | Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian lyric poet and dramatist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1855 | * | Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette, reform movement leader, Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator and Progressive Party presidential candidate, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1856 | * | Andrey Markov Russia, mathematician (Markov Chain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1864 | * | Dr. Alois Alzheimer psychiatrist, pathologist: first to describe the disease named after him: Alzheimer’s Disease is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1868 | * | Karl Landsteiner, Austrian-born immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1874 | * | Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1884 | * | John McCormack, Irish tenor, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1901 | * | Hap (Clarence) Day (Hockey Hall-of-Famer: Univ. of Toronto, Toronto St. Patricks, Toronto Maple Leafs [Stanley Cup: 1931-32], NY Americans; referee; coach: Toronto Maple Leafs [won five Stanley Cups, including three in a row]; manager: Toronto Maple Leafs) is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1906 | * | Margaret Bourke-White, first woman photojournalist attached to US Armed Forces in WWII, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1906 | * | Carl Esmond Wien (Vienna) Austria, actor (Smash-Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Gil Lamb Minneapolis, actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | John Scott Trotter Charlotte NC, orch leader (George Gobel Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | Burl (Icle Ivanhoe) Ives, Hunt Ill, (singer: A Holly Jolly Christmas, A Little Bitty Tear, Funny Way of Laughin’, Call Me Mr. In-Between; Academy Award winning actor: The Big Country [1958], Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, East of Eden, Smokey, Our Man in Havana, The Bold Ones, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; radio series: The Wayfaring Stranger [1944]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1910 | * | Nappy (Hilton Napoleon) Lamare (musician: guitar: group: Bob Cats; solo: Nickel in the Slot) is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1910 | * | Rudolf Kempe Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-72), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Henry Banks (auto racer: PPG Indy Car World Series champ [1950]; first president of American Racing Drivers Club [ARDC] [1939]), is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1916 | * | Actress Dorothy McGuire is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Lash La Rue Gretna La, cowboy actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Dorothy McGuire Omaha Neb, actress (Old Yeller, Summer Magic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Sam Wanamaker Chic Ill, actor (Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Gene Barry (Eugene Klass) actor: Bat Masterson, Burke’s Law, The Name of the Game, War of the Worlds, A Cry for Love, Our Miss Brooks, La Cage aux Folles | Ref: 4 |
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| 1921 | * | Gene Barry NYC, actor (Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke's Law), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Kevin Roche (architect: Kevin Roche & Associates: Columbus Circle Redevelopment, New York NY; NationsBank Plaza, Atlanta GA; Oakland Museum, Oakland CA), is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | Pierre Salinger newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John Kennedy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Don (Donald) ‘Newk’ Newcombe baseball: pitcher: Brooklyn Dodgers [Rookie of the Year: 1949/Cy Young Award: 1956/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1956/World Series: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1955/all-star: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1955], Cincinnati Redlegs, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1928 | | Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, guerrilla leader and revolutionary, is born in Argentina | Ref: 17 |
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| 1929 | * | Cy Coleman [Seymour Kaufman], songwriter (Witchcraft, Sweet Charity), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Marla Gibbs Chicago Ill, actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227), is born. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1933 | * | Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American novelist (The Painted Bird, Being There), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1934 | * | Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, American critic, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1939 | * | Tom Matte (football: Baltimore Colts running back: Super Bowl III) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Ben Davidson LA Calif, actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Jack Bannon LA Calif, actor (Art-Lou Grant, Trauma Center), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Muff Mervyn Winwood singer (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Rod Argent (keyboard: group: Argent: Hold Your Head Up; group: The Zombies: She’s Not There, Tell Her No, Time of the Season), is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | (Trump) Real estate developer Donald Trump is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Ralph McAllister Ingersol II NYC, newspaper publisher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Pete Donnelly (hockey: Vancouver Blazershockey: WHA: NY Raiders, Vancouver Blazers, Quebec Nordiques), is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Bob Frankston programmer (VisiCalc), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Alan White (musician: drummer: group: Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart; group: Plastic Ono Band), is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Rochelle Firestone Kansas City MO, actress (Hellhole), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Bill (William Roger) Fahey (baseball: catcher: Washington Senators, Texas Rangers, SD Padres, Detroit Tigers), is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Eddie Mekka (Edward Mekjian), Worcester Mass, actor (Carmine-Laverne & Shirley), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Jim Lea (musician: bass, violin, keyboards, vocals, songwriter: group: Slade: Get Down and Get With It, Coz I Love You, We’ll Bring Home the Dawn, My Oh My, Run Run Away), is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | Will Patton Charleston SC, actor (No Way Out, Ballzaire the Cajun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Eric Heiden Wisc, .5/1/1.5/5/10K speed skater (Olympic-5 golds-1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Carina Persson Stockholm Sweden, playmate (August, 1983), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | | Sir Antony Sher is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1961 | * | Sam Perkins (‘The Big Smooth’: basketball: Univ. of North Carolina [all-American], Olympic gold medalalist [1984], Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers, Seattle SuperSonics, Indiana Pacers), is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Boy George (George Alan O’Dowd) androgynous rock musician & druggie (Culture Club), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Yasmine Bleeth (actress: Nash Bridges, Baywatch, Titans) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Steffi Graf West Germany, tennis player (Grand Slam 1988), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Simone Fleurice Eden Arcadia Ca, playmate (Feb, 1989), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1648 | * | First U.S. Witchcraft trial: Margaret Jones of Charlestown, Mass. hanged for being a witch. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1768 | * | James Short, English optician and astronomer, dies at age 58. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1801 | * | Benedict Arnold Revolutionary War general/traitor, dies in London at age 60. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1825 | * | Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French engineer who designed the layout of Washington D.C. dies at age 70. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1828 | * | Charles Duke of Prussia, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1837 | * | Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet, scholar and philosopher, dies at age 38. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1877 | * | Mary Carpenter, American philanthropist and social reformer, dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1883 | * | Edward Fitzgerald author: translated Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat; dies at age 74. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1914 | * | Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 23rd Vice President of the U.S. [1893-1897]; grandfather of U.S. presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson [1952, 1956], dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1920 | * | Max Weber German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism), dies at age 56. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1926 | * | Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist painter and printmaker, dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1928 | * | Emmeline Pankhurst, British founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1931 | * | French "St Philbert" overturned off St Nazaire France, drowns 450. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Representative Edward Eslick dies on the floor of the House of Representatives while pleading for the passage of the bonus bill. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1936 | * | Maxim Gorky [Aleksei Peshikov], Russia, writer, playwright (The Lower Depths, Night Asylum), dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1936 | * | Gilbert Keith Chesterton author: created Father Brown crime-fiction series; The Man Who was Thursday, English Men of Letters; dies at age 62. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Edward Bowes, American radio personality, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1946 | | John Logie Baird dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1956 | * | G. Donald Harrison, English-born American organ designer and builder, dies at age 67. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1962 | * | Anna Sleasers first Boston Strangler victim. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | H.V. Kaltenborn newscaster (Who Said That?), dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Nobel Prize-winning poet (1959), critic and translator, dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1971 | * | Carlos Garcia, Philippine president (1957-61), dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1977 | * | Robert Middleton (Samuel Messer) actor: Harrad Experiment, The Law and Jake Wade, Court Jester, Desperate Hours, Career; dies at age 66. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1977 | * | Alan Reed actor (Mr Adams & Eve/voice (Fred Flintstone), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Marjorie Bennett actress (Blossom-Dobie Gillis), dies at 87 of cancer. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, TX | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Marlin Perkins "Wild Kingdom" host, dies near St Louis at 81 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Alan Jay Lerner Broadway librettist, dies in NY at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Jorge Luis Borges Argentine author, dies in Geneva at 86. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Dame Peggy (Edith Margaret Emily) Ashcroft (Academy Award-winning actress: Passage to India [1984]; The Heat of the Day, The Jewel in the Crown, Secret Ceremony, The Nun’s Story, The 39 Steps; British Olivier Award [lifetime achievement - 1991]), dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1994 | * | Henry Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini) Academy Award-winning composer: Moon River [1961], Days of Wine and Roses [1962], Breakfast at Tiffany’s score [1961], Victor/Victoria score [1982]; composed themes for The Pink Panther, Mr. Lucky, Peter Gunn, Charade, NBC Mystery Movie, NBC Nightly News, Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet; 20 Grammy Awards; dies at age 70. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | Richard (Hanley) Jaeckel actor: Come Back Little Sheba, The Devil’s Brigade, The Dirty Dozen, The Drowning Pool, Sands of Iwo Jima, Starman, Walking Tall, Part 2, Supercarrier, Spenser: For Hire, Frontier Circus, Baywatch; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2002 | * | A suicide bomber blows up a truck at the US consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 14 Pakistanis. (XDG, p 4A, 6/14/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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