| 325 | * | The month-long Council of Nicea closed. Known as the first ecumenical council in the history of the Church, it formulated the Nicene Creed and established the method for calculating Easter. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1586 | * | English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, North Carolina, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1754 | * | Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies & Iroquois indians. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1778 | * | Aaron Burr commands a brigade during the Monmouth campaign in the Revolutionary War. Ref | |
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| 1835 | * | New Orleans gives US govt Jackson Square to be used as a mint. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1848 | * | The first Women's Rights Convention convenes in Seneca Falls, NY. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1861 | * | The Anaheim Post Office established. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1868 | * | Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1875 | * | Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1885 | * | The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City aboard the French ship Isere. (The History Magazine, p.63, May/June 2003) | |
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| 1886 | * | William Howard Taft (later the 27th US president) marries Helen Herron. (Ref: Klapthor, Margaret Brown, "The First Ladies", ©1995, ISBN 0-912308-59-1) | |
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| 1893 | * | (or 20th) A jury in New Bedford, Massachusetts, finds Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother. | Ref: 47 |
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| 1903 | * | The young school teacher, Benito Mussolini, is placed under investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1912 | * | The United States government adopted a new rule for all working folks. It established an 8-hour work day. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1917 | * | During World War I, King George V ordered the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames. The family took the name Windsor. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1919 | | Mustafa Kemal founds the Turkish National Congress at Ankara and denounces the Treaty of Versailles. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1924 | * | Thursday. Dr. R.L. Haines, Rev. Albaugh of Jamestown (OH) Baptist Church, Rev. A.J. Furstengerger, Pastor of the Friends Church in Xenia (OH) and Rev. F.W. Middleton speak for the KKK in a membership rally at the Xenia Opera House. (Ref: Cedarville Herald, 6/20/1924) | |
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| 1933 | * | France grants Leon Trotsky political asylum. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1934 | * | The US Congress established the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The task of the commission was to regulate radio and (later) TV broadcasting. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1934 | * | The National Archives and Records Administration is established. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1951 | * | President Harry S. Truman signs the Universal Military Training and Service Act, which extends Selective Service until July 1, 1955 and lowers the draft age to 18. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1953 | * | Albert W Dent, elected president of Natl Health Council. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Gamal Abdul Nasser becomes premier of newly proclaimed republic of Egypt. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1959 | * | Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Sec of Comm. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day Senate filibuster. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1965 | * | Air Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky becomes South Vietnam's youngest premier at age 34. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1965 | * | KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Over 50,000 people march on Washington, D.C. to support the Poor People's Campaign. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1969 | * | State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Paul VI canonized John Nepomucene Neumann, the first American-born male saint. As fourth Bishop of the Philadelphia Diocese, Neumann is remembered for developing the parochial school system. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, S Africa. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | In a case that galvanized the Asian-American community, Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American was beaten to death outside a nightclub in Highland Park MI by two auto workers who later received probation for manslaughter. (XDG, p 4A, 6/19/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1982 | * | (Chairman, Joint Chiefs) General John W Vessey, USA, becomes chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1987 | * | The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring public schools to teach creationism if they taught evolutionism. The court ruled that the state law violated the First Amendment. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Pablo Escobar, head of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, surrendered to authorities. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1991 | * | Newly elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin lobbied Congress during a Washington visit as he sought closer ties. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1996 | * | Chief executives from seven states, police, state attorneys general and members of Congress met with President Clinton at the White House to discuss ways of stopping the recent torching of black churches. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1996 | * | NY City police announced that a shooting suspect in custody had been linked to the "Zodiac" shootings that terrorized NYers in the early 1990's. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1998 | * | Switzerland's three largest banks offered $600M to settle claims they'd stolen assets of Holocaust victims. Outraged Jewish leaders called the offer insultingly low. (XDG, p 4A, 6/19/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1998 | * | A study published in the British medical journal said smoking more than doubles the risk of developing dementia and Alzheimers' disease. (XDG, p 4A, 6/19/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1998 | * | Pope John Paul II began his third visit to Austria. (XDG, p 4A, 6/19/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1999 | * | Britain's Prince Edward married commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones in Windsor, England. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, barred officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer before football games. | Ref: 70 |
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| -240 | | -BC- Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of Earth using two sticks. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1803 | * | "If there is anything... which would induce you to participate with me in it's fatiegues, it's dangers and it's honors, believe me thre is no man on earth with whom I should feel equal pleasure in sharing them as with yourself." excerpt from a letter from Meriwether Lewis to William Clark. (Time, p 44, 7/08/2002) | |
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| 1931 | * | First photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | First plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova returned to Earth after spending nearly three days as the first woman in space. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1963 | * | 2 Russian space missions return to Earth. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Andrian Nikolayev and Vitalii Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | India's APPLE satellite, first to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1778 | * | General George Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge after a winter of training. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1781 | * | Steuben joined with Wayne and Lafayette, making a total of 1,900 Continentals and about 3,000 militia. | |
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| 1821 | | The Ottomans defeat the Greeks at the Battle of Dragasani. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1861 | * | Virginians, in what will soon be WV, elect Francis Pierpoint as their provisional governor. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1862 | * | President Lincoln signs the Homestead Act prohibiting slavery in the territories. (XDG, p. 4A, 6/19/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1862 | * | President Abraham Lincoln outlines his Emancipation Proclamation. News of the document reaches the South. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1864 | * | The USS Kearsarge sinks the CSS Alabama off the coast of Cherbourg, France. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1865 | * | It took more than two-and-a-half years since Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect for Union troops to land in Galveston, TX. They carried the message of freedom, the resolution of the Civil War between the States, to the many slaves throughout TX. Union Major General Gordon Granger read General Order #3: "The people of TX are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere." The slaves rejoiced with cheers and tears as they learned of their liberation, calling their "day of deliverance", Juneteenth, a day still celebrated by black families and communities throughout the world. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | | The town of Bilbao, Spain, falls to the Nationalist forces. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington D.C. to discuss the invasion of North Africa with President Roosevelt. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | Japanese submarine I-26 torpedoes and damages Canadian freighter Fort Camosun off Canada's west coast. 13 die. | |
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| 1944 | * | The "Marianas Turkey Shoot" occurs as U.S. carrier-based fighters shoot down 220 Japanese planes, while only 20 American planes are lost. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1973 | * | The Case-Church Amendment prevents further US involvement in Southeast Asia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1846 | * | The NY Knickerbocker Club plays the NY Nines in the first baseball game using Cartwright Rules at Elysian Field, Hoboken, New Jersey. NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1867 | * | First Belmont Stakes, Ruthless wins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Max Schmeling KO's Joe Louis in the 12th round of their heavyweight boxing match. The German boxer earned his victory at Yankee Stadium in NY. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Joe DiMaggio goes 3-for-3 against the White Sox to extend his consecutive game hit streak to 32. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1942 | * | Boston Brave Paul Waner singles off Pirate Rip Sewell to collect 3000 hits becoming the seventh major leaguer to accomplish this feat and the first to do it since 1925. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1943 | * | The National Football League approved the merger of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers (the Steagles), a team that lasted one 5-4-1 season; but turned down approval of a similar merger of the Chicago Cardinals and the Bears. The following year the Steelers merged with the Cardinals, another one season combo. The reason teams were merging in the 1940s: so many men were in the armed forces due to WWII, football players were at a premium. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Joe Louis KO's Billy Conn in 8 to retain the heavyweight boxing title in New York City. This was the first televised championship. To see the fight in person, incidentally, would have cost you $100. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Dodger Carl Erskine no-hits the Cubs, 5-0 at Ebbets Field. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1955 | * | Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Roger Maris' 25th HR, a ninth inning shot off KS City ptcher Jim Archer, puts him seven games ahead of Babe Ruth's record pace. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1963 | * | Gates Brown of the Detroit Tigers hits a home run in his first major league at bat. | Ref: 12 |
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| 1963 | * | Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | In different games, Reds' Pete Rose (a single against the Giants) and Dodger Willie Davis (HR off the Braves) both collect their 2,000th career hit. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1973 | * | National Hockey League record-holder Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings jumped leagues to join his sons, Mark and Marty, on the Houston Aeros (of the rival World Hockey Association). In doing so, Howe accepted a $1,000,000, four-year contract. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | * | Pitching his second no-hitter in 14 months, Royals Steve Busby gives up just one walk defeating the Brewers, 2-0. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1977 | * | With five HRs in an 11-1 win against the Yankees, the Red Sox set a major league mark hitting 16 round trippers in three games. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1985 | * | Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Take heart, duffers! Angelo Spagnolo shot an incredible 257 -- that’s two-hundred, fifty-seven strokes -- to win the Worst Avid Golfer’s Tournament held at Ponte Vedra, FL. He earned the title of America’s Worst Recreational Hacker for the effort. He lost 60 golf balls, got a 66 on the 17th hold, and hit 27 balls into the water! | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | | In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | 42 year-old boxing challenger Larry Holmes outpointed by heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1995 | * | Despite the fact he is under a 60-day suspension for drug abuse, Darryl Strawberry signs a one-year contract with the Yankees. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1995 | * | The Richmond Virginia Planning Commission approves plans to place a memorial statue of tennis professional Arthur Ashe. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1996 | * | A Gulf Coast League record crowd of 7,582 are on hand at Al Lang Stadium as the GCL Tampa Bay Devil Rays host their Yankee counterparts in the first Devil Rays game. A 10-1 loss doesn't dampen the festive atmosphere nor the unbridled affection that is showered down on the young Rays. News Radio 970-WFLA and SportsChannel Florida broadcast the game live. Eighteen-year-old right-hander Pablo Oretga throws the first Devil Rays pitch (a ball). Butte infielder Jim Kerr hits the first home run in Devil Rays history in the Copper Kings' Pioneereague opener against Idaho Falls. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1996 | * | Cardinal Ozzie Smith, considered the best all-time defensive shortstop, announces he will retire at the end of the season. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1999 | * | Todd Helton becomes the third Colorado Rockies player to hit for the cycle en route to the NL's Player of the Week award. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2000 | * | The Los Angeles Lakers won their first championship in 12 years, defeating the IN Pacers 116-to-111 in game six of the NBA Finals (the post-game celebration, however, was marred by violent fans). | Ref: 6 |
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| 1889 | * | Fiction: Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Man with the Twisted Lip". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | | The first motion-picture censorship board was established -- in PA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | 1st concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Atlanta, Georgia enacted legislation that disallowed pinball machines in the city, beginning this day. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | "Brenda Starr," first cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | CBS-TV debuted one of television’s most popular hits, I’ve Got a Secret. Garry Moore was the first host, from 1952 to 1964. Steve Allen was next (1964 to 1967) and moderated a syndicated version in the 1972-1973 season. Bill Cullen hosted the attempted comeback of the show in 1976. Panelists included Allen’s wife, Jayne Meadows; Bill Cullen, Henry Morgan, Betsy Palmer, Faye Emerson, Melville Cooper and Orson Bean. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Nine entertainers refuse to answer a congressional committee's questions on communism. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1964 | * | A San Francisco Bar introduces topless dancers. (Carol Doda) | Ref:77 |
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| 1965 | * | I Can’t Help Myself, by The Four Tops, topped the pop and R&B charts. The Motown group got their second and only other number one hit with Reach Out I’ll Be There in 1966. Their other hits include: It’s the Same Old Song, Standing in the Shadows of Love, Bernadette and Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got) (their only million seller). The group called Motown (Detroit, MI) home and got their start in 1953 as the Four Aims. Levi Stubbs, Renaldo ‘Obie’ Benson, Lawrence Payton and Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir placed 24 hits on the charts from 1964 to 1988. They first recorded as The Four Tops for Leonard Chess and Chess Records in 1956; then went to Red Top and Columbia before signing with Berry Gordy’s Motown label in 1963. The Tops, who had no personnel changes in their more than 35 years together were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1967 | * | Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | First Monterey Pop Festival; 50,000 hippies converge; Byrds, Jefferson Airplane perform. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1970 | * | Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | The cartoon "Garfield" by Jim Davis debuts in 41 newspapers around the country. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1981 | | Superman II set the all-time, one-day record for theatre box-office receipts at $5.5 million. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1984 | * | First live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Ben & Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Geffen records sign their first artist (Donna Summer). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | | Batman returned in Batman Returns. He was welcomed by Americans with their wallets open ($45.69 million) that first weekend. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1998 | | The X Files: Fight the Future opened in the US David Duchovny (FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder) and Gillian Anderson (Agent Dana Scully) starred. And they fought despicable demons who were employed by the government, just as they have had to do so often in the TV series. The X Files: Fight the Future opened in 2,629 theaters nationwide, grossing a not-so-despicable $30.14 million the first weekend. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1998 | * | 28-year-old Rick Schroder signed on with ABC’s NYPD Blue as Detective Danny Sorenson. Young Schroder/Sorenson stepped into the opening created by the painful death of Detective Bobby Simone/Jimmy Smits. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | Horror king/author Stephen King was was run down from behind by a van while walking on the shoulder of a road near his house in Maine. Motorist Brian Smith apparently lost control of his Dodge Caravan (he said his dog distracted him). King suffered a collapsed lung, 2 fractures of his right leg below the knee, a broken right hip, a fractured pelvis, 2 broken ribs and a scalp laceration. Now, that’s a horror story! | Ref: 4 |
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| 1566 | * | Birth of James VI of Scotland. Upon the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, he ascended the English throne as James I. He is best remembered for authorizing the publication known today as the 'King James Version' (KJV) of the Bible. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1623 | * | Blaise Pascal mathematician/physicist/religious writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1764 | * | Joseph Gervasio Artigas general/father of Uruguay, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1764 | * | Sir John Barrow England, founded Royal Geographical Society, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1783 | * | Thomas Sully US portrait painter (Queen Victoria), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1816 | * | William Henry Webb, American naval architect and shipbuilder, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1856 | * | Elbert Hubbard US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1861 | * | Earl Douglas Haig, British officer, Commander-in-Chief of expeditionary forces in France, 1915-1919, is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1865 | * | Dame May Whitty Liverpool England, actress (Mrs Minerva), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1877 | * | Charles Coburn Macon Ga, actor (Acad-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1878 | * | James M Kilroe priest of St Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | (James J.) Jimmy Walker politician: NY City mayor [1926-1932]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1889 | * | Enrico Celio pres of Switzerland, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1896 | * | Mrs Simpson [Bessie Wallis Warfield), Duchess of Windsor, divorcee, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1897 | * | Moe Howard (aka Moses Horwitz) (of the 3 Stooges) is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Laura Z(ametkin) Hobson, NYC, TV writer/panelist (I've Got a Secret), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Bandleader Guy Lombardo, leader of the Royal Canadians, is born. | Ref: 24 |
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| 1903 | * | Lou (Henry Louis) Gehrig ‘The Iron Horse’: Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman of the NY Yankees, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1905 | * | George Voskovec Czech, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Earl W. Bascom rodeo showman and inventor: first side-delivery rodeo chute, first hornless bronc saddle, first one-handed bareback rigging; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1908 | * | Mildred Natwick, Baltimore MD, American character actress (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon), is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1908 | * | Quentin N Burdick (Sen-D-NC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | Osamu Dazai Japan, novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Abe Fortas, US Supreme Court Justice [1965-69]: resigned in 1969 after published reports that he had accepted lecture fees and a legal retainer while serving on the Court; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1910 | * | Paul Flory, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1974), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1912 | * | Martin Gabel actor: Smile Jenny You’re Dead, Lady in Cement; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1912 | * | Jerry Jerome Bkln NY, saxophonist (Words & Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Alan Cranston (Sen-D-CA) Pres candidate, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Harry Lauter White Plains NY, actor (Waterfront), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Evelle Jansen Younger prosecutor of Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Pauline Kael, American film critic (NY Times), author, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1919 | * | Louis Jourdan Marselles France, actor (Gigi, Can-Can, Madame Bovary), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Howell Heflin (Sen-D-AL), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Louis Jourdan (Louis Gendre), French actor, is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1922 | * | Aage Neals Bohr Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus (Nobel 1975), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Leo Nomellini NFL defensive tackle (SF 49ers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Shelley Mayfield golf: champ: St. Paul Open [1953], San Francisco Open [1954], Palm Springs Invitational [1955], Baton Rouge Open [1965], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1928 | * | Nancy Marchand Buffalo NY, actress (Beacon Hill, Margaret-Lou Grant), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Gena Rowlands actress: Peyton Place, A Woman under the Influence, Night on Earth; daughter of Wisconsin State Senator, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Marisa Pavan actress (John Paul Jones, Solomon & Sheba, Rose Tattoo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Pier Angeli (Anna Pierangeli), Italy (Sodom & Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Viktor I Patsayev USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Gena Rowlands Cambria Wisc, actress (Gloria, Tempest, Brinks Job), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Tommy DeVito singer: group: The Four Seasons: Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Walk like a Man, Rag Doll, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Charles Gwathmey architect (5 Architects), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Bob (Robert Thomas) Aspromonte baseball: Brooklyn Dodgers, LA Dodgers, Houston Colt .45’s, Houston Astros, Atlanta Braves, NY Mets, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Al Wilson musician: drummer, singer: Show and Tell | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Marlene Warfield Queens NY, actress (Victoria-Maude), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane rocker (Spanky & Our Gang-Lazy Day), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Malcolm McDowell actor (Clockwork Orange, Caligula), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1991), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1945 | * | Tobias Wolff, American writer (This Boy's Life: A Memoir, The Night in Question), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1945 | * | Tim Hovey LA Calif, actor (Queen Bee, Toy Tiger, Man Afraid), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Salman Rushdie novelist (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Phylicia Ayers-Allen Rashad Houston, actress (Clair-Bill Cosby), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Walt McKechnie hockey: NHL: Minnesota North Stars, California Golden Seals, Boston Bruins, Detroit Redwings, Washington Capitals, Cleveland Barons, Toronto Maple Leafs, Colorado Rockies, Detroit Red Wings, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Phylicia (Allen) Rashad actress: The Cosby Show, One Life to Live, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Kathleen Turner Springfield Mo, actress (Peggy Sue Got Married), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Jerry Reuss baseball: pitcher: SL Cardinals, Houston Astros, Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1975], LA Dodgers [all-star:1980/World Series: 1981], California Angels, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Connie Forslund San Diego Calif, actress (Shining Season), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Ann Wilson is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1951 | * | Ann Wilson, San Diego, singer (Heart-What About Love), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1953 | * | Larry Dunn musician: keyboards: group: Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star, Sing a Song, Got to Get You into My Life, After the Love Has Gone, Boogie Wonderland, Let’s Groove, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | Kathleen Turner actress: Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, Serial Mom, Naked in New York, House of Cards, Accidental Tourist, The War of the Roses, The Doctors The Virgin Suicides; voice of Jessica Rabbit in Roger Rabbit, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | Tom Bailey musician, singer, keyboardist: The Thompson Twins: Hold Me Now, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | Mark DeBarge rocker (DeBarge-Who's Johnny), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Alison Moyet singer: group: Yazoo: Only You, Don’t Go; solo: LPs: Alf, Raindancing, Hoodoo, Essex | Ref: 4 |
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| 1962 | * | Paula Julie Abdul Van Nuys CA, singer/choreographer (Straight Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Mia Sara actress: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Timecop, Caroline at Midnight, Bullet to Beijing, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1972 | * | Robin Tunney actress: The Craft, Encino Man, Empire Records, Niagara, Niagara, Vertical Limit, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | Josie Davis actress (Charles in Charge), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Poppy Montgomery actress: Blonde, Devil in a Blue Dress, Dead Man on Campus, The Beat, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1984 | * | Emil Coleman orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Party), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1786 | * | Nathaniel Greene General: American Revolutionary War; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1794 | * | (Declaration of Independence) Richard Henry Lee, farmer, American revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1811 | * | (Declaration of Independence) Samuel Chase, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1867 | * | Maximilian, Mexican emperor, is executed at age 34; Mexican republic restored. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Lord Acton [John E.E. Dalberg], English historian, editor of The Rambler, dies at age 68. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1932 | * | Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Sir James Matthew Barrie, Scotland, novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan, The Little Minister), dies at age 77. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Grace Abbott social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | (Rosenberg) Supreme Court, in special session, vacates Justice Douglas's stay of execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; the Rosenberg's are executed. Julius takes 3 tries, Ethel 5. (XDG, p. 4A, 6/19/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1956 | * | Thomas J. Watson, Sr., the American industrialist who built I.B.M., dies. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1962 | * | Frank Borzage academy award winning director, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Ed Wynn (Isaiah Edwin Leopold) Emmy Award-winning actor: The Ed Wynn Show [1949]; All Star Revue, Mary Poppins, Ziegfeld Follies, Marjorie Morningstar, The Diary of Anne Frank, Cinderfella, Babes in Toyland, The Absent-Minded Professor; actor Keenan Wynn’s father; dies at age 79. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1968 | * | Cassandre, French graphic artist, dies at age 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | (through the 29th) Hurricane Agnes kills 118, 330,000 homeless $3 billion damage in Eastern states. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1973 | * | Roger Delgado actor (Adventures of Sir Francis Drake), dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Sam Giancana, American gangster; led Chicago crime syndicate in 1950's and 1960's, dies at age 67. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1986 | * | Murray P Haydon artificial heart recipient, dies in Louisville, Ky. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias, the second pick in the NBA draft, suffered a fatal cocaine-induced seizure. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1989 | * | Hy Gardner newspaper columnist, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | I.F. Stone author, dies at 81 of heart failure | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Jean Arthur (Gladys Georgianna Greene) actress: Shane, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Devil and Miss Jones, The Jean Arthur Show; dies at age 90. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1992 | * | Kitty Godfree, English tennis player; won Olympic gold medal in 1920, dies at age 96. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Sir William Golding Nobel Prize for literature [1983]; Lord of the Flies; dies at age 81. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2000 | * | Former Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita died in Tokyo at age 76. (TWA, 2001) | Ref: 95 |
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