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On May 21, 1927- Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean
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On May 22nd 1868- The Great Train Robbery took place near Marshfield, Ind., as seven members of the Reno gang made off with $96,000 in cash, gold and bonds.
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Also on May 22, 1938, Susan Strasberg was born...
Susan Strasberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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Also on May 23rd, 1934- Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, La.
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On May 25th, 1844- The first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, appeared in the Baltimore Patriot.
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On May 26th, 1521- Martin Luther was declared an outlaw and his writings were banned by the Edict of Worms.
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Also on May 26, 1966, Helena Bonham-Carter was born...
Helena Bonham Carter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On May 27th, 1941- The British navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of more than 2,100 lives.
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Also on May 27, 1957, Eddie Hersch of The Black Crowes was born...
The Black Crowes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On May 28th, 1998- Comic actor Phil Hartman of "Saturday Night Live" and "NewsRadio" fame was shot to death by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself.
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Also on May 29th, 1953- Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit.
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On May 30, 1939, Michael J. Pollard was born...
Michael J. Pollard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Also on May 30th, 1883- A rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing triggered a stampede that led to the trampling deaths of 12 people.
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On June 1, 1926, Norma Jeane Mortenson (Marilyn Monroe) was born...
Marilyn Monroe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Why did I know Phil was going to post that this morning?
Also on June 1st, 1813- The Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with a British frigate. So the motto of "don't give up the ship" began when we lost a ship? My Navy experience makes a lot more sense now. |
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Om June 2nd, 1897- Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration."
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Also on June 3, 1965, astronaut Edward White became the first American to ``walk'' in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.
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On June 4, 1989, Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square in Beijing to crush the pro-democracy movement; hundreds - possibly thousands - of people died
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Also on June 4, 1975, Angelina Jolie Voight was born...
Angelina Jolie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded just after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested.
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On June 6, 1944, the D-Day invasion of Europe took place during World War II as Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France
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On June 7th, 1776- Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
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Also on June 7, 1981, Anna Kournikova was born... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kournikova |
On June 8th, 1948- The "Texaco Star Theater" made its debut on NBC-TV with Milton Berle as guest host
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On June 8, 1966, Julianna Margulies was born...
Julianna Margulies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On June 9, 1954, Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army Hearings over McCarthy's attack on a member of Welch's law firm, Frederick G. Fisher. Said Welch: ``Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?''
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Also on June 9, 1981, Natalie Portman was born...
Natalie Portman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On June 10, 1967, the Six-Day War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
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On June 11th, 1979- Actor John Wayne died at age 72.
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On June 12, 1987, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, President Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to ''tear down this wall.''
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On June 13th, 2008- Tin Russert of NBC News and life long Buffalo Bills fan passed way.
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Also on June 15th, 1969- The variety show "Hee Haw" premiered on CBS.
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On June 16th, 1967- The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival - which catapulted Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Janis Joplin to stardom - opened in northern California.
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On June 17, 1928, Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman. She flew from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours.
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Also on this day in 1775, the battle of Bunker Hill began.
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Also on June 18th, 1983- Astronaut Sally K. Ride became America's first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
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On June 19th, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
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On June 20, 1967, boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court.
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On June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. Eight members of the Ku Klux Klan went to prison on federal conspiracy charges; none served more than six years.
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Also on June 21, 1947, Meredith Baxter Birney was born...
Meredith Baxter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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Also on June 22nd, 1945- The World War II battle for Okinawa ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 83-day campaign.
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Also on June 23rd, 1993- Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Va., sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.
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Also on June 24th, 2003- President Vladimir Putin arrived in London on the first state visit to Britain by a Russian leader since the 19th century.
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On June 25th, 1868- Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
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Jun 25 1950 marked the start of the Korean war.........will it kick back up again?
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On June 26, 1963, President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he made his famous declaration: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner).
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Also on June 26, 1909, Col. Tom Parker was born...
Colonel Tom Parker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On June 27th, 1844- Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.
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Also on June 28th 1914-Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist. The event triggered World War I.
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On June 29, 1995, the shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth
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Also on June 29, 1960, Evelyn "Champagne" King was born...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_King_(singer) |
On June 30, 1997, in Hong Kong, the Union Jack was lowered for the last time over Government House as Britain prepared to hand the colony back to China after ruling it for 156 years
And all I got was a t-shirt... and a watch... and some shoes and two custom made suits... oh and a little drunk. |
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Today in History - June 30. Hawaii has 1st swine flu death...
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Also on July 1st, 1867- Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain.
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On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.
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On July 3, 1863, the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended after three days in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated.
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Also on July 4th, 1826- Death claimed the second and third presidents of the United States: John Adams died at age 90 in Braintree, Mass., while Thomas Jefferson died at 83 at Monticello, his home near Charlottesville, Va.
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Also on July 5, 1975, Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a Wimbledon singles title as he defeated Jimmy Connors.
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...also, on July 5, 1946...the bikini was re-introduced
in Paris, France (it was a roman invention) ...on July 5, 1996...Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell ...on July 5, 1999...Bill Clinton imposed trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan I have a question about the last one...is that what triggered 911's attack on our economic foundation at the World Trade Center? :sad: |
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Also on July 6th, 1957- Teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time at a church in Liverpool, England, following a performance by Lennon's band, the Quarrymen.
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On July 7th, 1846- U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.
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