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04 Jun 1039
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Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor. |
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04 Jun 1070
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Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France
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04 Jun 1133
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Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German Emperor
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04 Jun 1391
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Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds and sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery
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04 Jun 1411
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King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries. |
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04 Jun 1487
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Lord Lovell and John de la Poles army land at Furness Lancashire
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04 Jun 1615
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Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan. |
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04 Jun 1632
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Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Venlo
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04 Jun 1647
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British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner
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04 Jun 1647
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Canonicus Grand Chief Sachem of the Narragansett Indian Tribe dies. He was Chief Sachem of the Narragansett Tribe (rivals to the Wampanoag) at the time of the Pilgrims landing in Plymouth. |
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04 Jun 1664
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Viceroy Willem Frederik conquerors Dijlerschans
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04 Jun 1666
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Battle at Duinkerk: English vs. Dutch fleet
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04 Jun 1741
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Prussia goes to the Covenant of Nymphenburg
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04 Jun 1745
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Frederick the Great (Prussia) defeats Austrians and Saxons
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04 Jun 1745
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Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession. |
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04 Jun 1756
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Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania
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04 Jun 1760
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Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians. |
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04 Jun 1783
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Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)
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04 Jun 1783
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The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon). |
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04 Jun 1784
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Mme Thible becomes 1st woman to fly (in a balloon)
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04 Jun 1784
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Élisabeth Thible bocomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers 4 kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated). |
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04 Jun 1789
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US constitution goes into effect
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04 Jun 1792
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Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
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04 Jun 1792
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Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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04 Jun 1794
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Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers
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04 Jun 1794
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British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti. |
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04 Jun 1800
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White House completed and President and Mrs John Adams move in
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04 Jun 1802
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Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel. |
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04 Jun 1805
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Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute
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04 Jun 1812
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Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
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04 Jun 1812
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Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory. |
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04 Jun 1825
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Unseasonable hurricane hits New York City
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04 Jun 1825
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General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States. |
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04 Jun 1831
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National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium
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04 Jun 1832
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3rd national black convention meets (Philadelphia)
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04 Jun 1845
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Mexican-US war starts
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04 Jun 1850
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Empire Engine Company No 1 organized
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04 Jun 1850
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Self deodorizing fertilizer patented in England
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04 Jun 1855
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Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps. |
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04 Jun 1859
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Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army. |
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04 Jun 1862
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Confederates evacuate Ft Pillow, Tennessee
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04 Jun 1862
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American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee. |
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04 Jun 1868
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Van Bosse / Fock government begins
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04 Jun 1873
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1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname
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04 Jun 1875
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Pacific Stock Exchange opens
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04 Jun 1876
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An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City. |
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04 Jun 1878
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Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes
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04 Jun 1878
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Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title. |
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04 Jun 1884
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18th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Panique wins in 2:42
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04 Jun 1892
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Oil City and Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die
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04 Jun 1892
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Sierra Club forms in San Francisco
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04 Jun 1896
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Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit
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04 Jun 1896
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Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run. |
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04 Jun 1907
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Automatic washer and dryer introduced
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04 Jun 1912
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Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses
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04 Jun 1912
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Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law
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04 Jun 1912
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Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage. |
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04 Jun 1913
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Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness and dies four days later. |
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04 Jun 1916
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Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack
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04 Jun 1916
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World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia. |
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04 Jun 1917
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1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards and Elliott (Julia Ward Howe)
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04 Jun 1917
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American men begin registering for the draft
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04 Jun 1917
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Order of British Empire inaugurated
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04 Jun 1917
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The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World. |
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04 Jun 1919
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US marines invade Costa Rica
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04 Jun 1919
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Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification. |
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04 Jun 1920
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Peace of Trianon between Allies and Hungary
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04 Jun 1920
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Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris. |
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04 Jun 1927
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Johnny Weissmuller set swim records in 100-yard and 200-yard free-style
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04 Jun 1928
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The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents. |
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04 Jun 1929
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George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY)
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04 Jun 1932
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64th Belmont: Tom Malley aboard Faireno wins in 2:32.8
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04 Jun 1932
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Edouard Herriot becomes Premier of France
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04 Jun 1932
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Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'etat establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile. |
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04 Jun 1938
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70th Belmont: James Stout aboard Pasteurized wins in 2:29.6
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04 Jun 1939
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Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps. |
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04 Jun 1940
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1st night game at Forbes Field (Pirates 14, Braves 2)
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04 Jun 1940
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British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
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04 Jun 1940
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German forces enter Paris
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04 Jun 1940
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Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas & oceans"
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04 Jun 1940
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World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends – British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech. |
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04 Jun 1941
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Rep of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z
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04 Jun 1942
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Capitol Record Co opens for business
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04 Jun 1942
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USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
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04 Jun 1942
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World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy. |
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04 Jun 1943
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Race riots in LA
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04 Jun 1943
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A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo. |
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04 Jun 1944
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1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day
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04 Jun 1944
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1st submarine captured and boarded on high seas-U 505
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04 Jun 1944
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French general De Gaulle arrives in London
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04 Jun 1944
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World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century. |
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04 Jun 1944
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World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall. |
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04 Jun 1945
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6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa
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04 Jun 1945
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US, Russia, England and France agree to split occupied Germany
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04 Jun 1946
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Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi / 500,000 km) observed
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04 Jun 1947
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"Louisiana Lady" closes at Century Theater NYC after 4 performances
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04 Jun 1947
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House of Reps approves Taft-Hartley act
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04 Jun 1949
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"Cavalcade of Stars" debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950
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04 Jun 1950
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CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election
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04 Jun 1950
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Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25)
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04 Jun 1951
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Mississippi Valley State University founded
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04 Jun 1953
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Pitts trades outfielder Ralph Kiner and Joe Garagiola to Chic
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04 Jun 1954
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Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
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04 Jun 1954
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France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union
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04 Jun 1955
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Mickey Rooney Show, " TV comedy last airs on NBC
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04 Jun 1956
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Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
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04 Jun 1957
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1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
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04 Jun 1957
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May and Cowdrey make 411 stand vs. WI Ramadhin bowls 98 overs
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04 Jun 1958
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French Premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
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04 Jun 1958
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San Francisco Giants Hank Sauer and B Schmidt are 2nd to hit consecutive pinch HRs
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04 Jun 1961
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Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Western Golf Open
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04 Jun 1961
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In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin. |
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04 Jun 1962
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Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US
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04 Jun 1963
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1st transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio
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04 Jun 1963
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British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler
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04 Jun 1964
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Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark
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04 Jun 1964
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LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Phil Phillies, 3-0
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04 Jun 1964
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Maldives adopts constitution
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04 Jun 1965
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Duane Earl Pope robs the Farmers' State Bank of Big Springs, Nebraska, killing three people execution-style and severely wounding a fourth. The crime later puts Pope on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list. |
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04 Jun 1966
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"Batman & His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70
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04 Jun 1966
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98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6
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04 Jun 1967
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19th Emmy Awards: Mission Impossible, Monkees, Don Knotts and Lucy Ball
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04 Jun 1967
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KTVN TV channel 2 in Reno, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting
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04 Jun 1967
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Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy Series
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04 Jun 1968
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Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings
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04 Jun 1969
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22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft
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04 Jun 1969
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Beatles release Ballad Of John andYoko / Old Brown Shoe, in US
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04 Jun 1969
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Nicky Hopkins quits rock & rolls, Jeff Beck Group
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04 Jun 1970
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43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant
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04 Jun 1970
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SD Padres draft Mike Ivie #1
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04 Jun 1970
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Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from the UK
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04 Jun 1970
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WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting
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04 Jun 1970
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Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days
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04 Jun 1970
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Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom. |
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04 Jun 1971
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J Luns appointed Secretary General of NATO
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04 Jun 1971
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Oakland Athletics beat Washingston Senators, 5-3, in 21 innings
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04 Jun 1972
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Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
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04 Jun 1972
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Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
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04 Jun 1972
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Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3)
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04 Jun 1973
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43rd French Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beats C Evert (67 76 64)
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04 Jun 1974
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10 cent Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field and cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th
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04 Jun 1974
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Never-to-be-repeated 10 cent Beer Night at Cleveland Stadium occurs
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04 Jun 1974
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NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks
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04 Jun 1974
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During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers. |
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04 Jun 1975
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Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in North Carolina
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04 Jun 1975
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The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights. |
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04 Jun 1977
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Apple II, the 1st personal computer, goes on sale
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04 Jun 1977
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Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2
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04 Jun 1978
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"Working" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 25 performances
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04 Jun 1978
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6th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner
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04 Jun 1978
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Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections
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04 Jun 1979
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South-African President Vorster resigns due to scandal
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04 Jun 1979
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Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs. Israel for political reasons
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04 Jun 1979
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Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown. |
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04 Jun 1981
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54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus
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04 Jun 1982
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"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, " released in USA
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04 Jun 1982
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Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
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04 Jun 1983
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53rd French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Mima Jausovec (61 62)
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04 Jun 1984
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18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers
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04 Jun 1984
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Arnold Palmer fails to make US Open golf tournament 1st time in 32 yrs
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04 Jun 1984
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Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA"
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04 Jun 1984
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DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal
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04 Jun 1984
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New York Mets draft Shawn Abner, 17, #1
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04 Jun 1985
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STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad
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04 Jun 1985
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Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
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04 Jun 1986
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Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court
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04 Jun 1986
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Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel. |
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04 Jun 1987
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Danny Harris beats Edwin Moses, ends streak of 122 cons hurdle wins
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04 Jun 1988
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"Cabaret" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 262 performances
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04 Jun 1988
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42nd Tony Awards: M Butterfly and Phantom of the Opera win
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04 Jun 1988
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58th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (60 60)
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04 Jun 1988
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Longest game in Baltimore Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat New York 7-6)
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04 Jun 1988
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Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a New York Yankee
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04 Jun 1988
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Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500. |
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04 Jun 1989
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Beijing cop shoots andwounds Chinese priemer Li Ping
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04 Jun 1989
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Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in the USSR, kills 100s
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04 Jun 1989
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Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary
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04 Jun 1989
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Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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04 Jun 1989
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Red Sox lead Blue Jays 10-0 in 7th, but lose 12-11 in 12 for Blue Jays 12th consecutive victory at Fenway
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04 Jun 1989
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Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. |
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04 Jun 1989
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The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with at least 241 dead. |
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04 Jun 1989
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Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations. |
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04 Jun 1989
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Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline. |
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04 Jun 1990
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24th Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton and Patty Loveless
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04 Jun 1990
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Dr Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die
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04 Jun 1990
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Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy
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04 Jun 1990
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LA Dodger Ramon Martinez strikes out 18 Atlanta Braves
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04 Jun 1990
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New York Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917
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04 Jun 1991
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1st post WWII non-communist government in Albania
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04 Jun 1991
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Pope John Paul II compares abortion with Nazi murders
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04 Jun 1991
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Robert Strauss becomes US ambassador to Soviet Union
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04 Jun 1992
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San Jose voters reject Giants plan to build a new stadium
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04 Jun 1992
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USPO announces young Elvis beats old Elvis stamp
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04 Jun 1994
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Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96)
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04 Jun 1995
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"Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect" closes at Golden NYC at 347 performances
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04 Jun 1995
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49th Tony Awards: Love! Valour! Compassion! and Sunset Boulevard win
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04 Jun 1995
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Dale Eggeling wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
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04 Jun 1996
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The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission. |
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04 Jun 1998
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Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. |
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04 Jun 2001
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Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace. |
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04 Jun 2010
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Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40. |
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04 Jun 2012
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The Diamond Jubilee Concert is held outside Buckingham Palace on The Mall, London. |
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