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Events on the 6th of June in history

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06 Jun 1002 German King Henry II the Saint crowned
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06 Jun 1242 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris
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06 Jun 1391 Inhabitants of Seville Spain massacres 5,000 Jews
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06 Jun 1508 Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops
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06 Jun 1513 Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs. Valois
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06 Jun 1513 Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
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06 Jun 1520 France and England sign treaty of Scotland
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06 Jun 1523 Gustavus I becomes King of Sweden (Swedish National Day)
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06 Jun 1523 Gustav Vasa, the Swedish regent, is elected King of Sweden, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union. This is the Swedish national day.
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06 Jun 1586 Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.
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06 Jun 1639 Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
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06 Jun 1644 The Qing dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming dynasty.
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06 Jun 1654 Queen Christina of Sweden resigns and converts to Catholicism
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06 Jun 1654 Queen Christina abdicates the Swedish throne and is succeeded by her cousin Charles X Gustav.
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06 Jun 1660 Denmark and Sweden signs peace treaty
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06 Jun 1664 New Amsterdam renamed New York City
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06 Jun 1665 Battle at Monte Carlo: English and Portuguese army beat Spain
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06 Jun 1673 France and Brandenburg sign peace treaty
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06 Jun 1674 Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, is crowned.
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06 Jun 1683 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
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06 Jun 1716 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana
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06 Jun 1744 France and Prussia sign peace treaty
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06 Jun 1752 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1 / 3 of city destroyed
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06 Jun 1752 A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
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06 Jun 1762 British forces begin a siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city in the Battle of Havana.
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06 Jun 1772 Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago
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06 Jun 1795 Fire destroy 1 / 3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured
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06 Jun 1797 Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic
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06 Jun 1801 Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal
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06 Jun 1808 Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte, is crowned King of Spain.
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06 Jun 1809 Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established
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06 Jun 1809 Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of enlightened absolutism. At the same time, Charles XIII is elected to succeed Gustav IV Adolf as King of Sweden.
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06 Jun 1813 US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont)
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06 Jun 1813 War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
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06 Jun 1822 Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.
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06 Jun 1831 2nd national black convention (Philadelphia)
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06 Jun 1832 The June Rebellion in Paris is put down by the National Guard.
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06 Jun 1833 Andrew Jackson becomes the first U.S. President to ride on a train.
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06 Jun 1844 The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
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06 Jun 1850 Levi Strauss made his 1st blue jeans
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06 Jun 1857 Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden–Norway.
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06 Jun 1859 Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
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06 Jun 1862 Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered
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06 Jun 1862 Skirmish at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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06 Jun 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Memphis – Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
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06 Jun 1864 Battle of Lake Chicot, AR (Dutch Bayou)
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06 Jun 1872 Susan B Anthony is fined for trying to vote
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06 Jun 1875 Netherlands goes on the gold standard
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06 Jun 1882 Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000
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06 Jun 1882 Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, New York City
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06 Jun 1882 More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed when a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
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06 Jun 1882 The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
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06 Jun 1885 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43
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06 Jun 1889 Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
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06 Jun 1889 The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
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06 Jun 1890 United States Polo Association forms, New York City
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06 Jun 1892 The Chicago "L" commuter rail system begins operation
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06 Jun 1894 Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
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06 Jun 1896 21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins in 1:51
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06 Jun 1896 George Samuelson leaves New York harbor to row across Atlantic
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06 Jun 1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey
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06 Jun 1909 French troops capture Abéché (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.
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06 Jun 1911 Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
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06 Jun 1912 The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
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06 Jun 1913 Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times
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06 Jun 1914 1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
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06 Jun 1916 Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage
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06 Jun 1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WWI
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06 Jun 1918 World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Château-Thierry.
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06 Jun 1919 Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910
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06 Jun 1919 Finland declares war on bolsheviks
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06 Jun 1919 The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
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06 Jun 1920 Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army
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06 Jun 1921 Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
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06 Jun 1924 28th US Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills Country Club - Michigan
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06 Jun 1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca is 8 months old)
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06 Jun 1926 Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms
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06 Jun 1931 "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy Lombardo hits #1
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06 Jun 1931 Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians
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06 Jun 1932 Carlos Davila coup against President Juan Montero of Chile
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06 Jun 1932 Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg
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06 Jun 1932 US Federal gas tax enacted
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06 Jun 1932 The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1⁄4¢/L) sold.
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06 Jun 1933 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ)
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06 Jun 1933 US Employment Service created
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06 Jun 1933 The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
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06 Jun 1934 Securities and Exchange Commission established
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06 Jun 1934 Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
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06 Jun 1934 New Deal: the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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06 Jun 1936 40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol Golf Club - New Jersey
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06 Jun 1936 68th Belmont: James Stout aboard Granville wins in 2:30
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06 Jun 1936 Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New Jersey
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06 Jun 1937 Phillies trailing 8-2 to St. Louis, forfeit game
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06 Jun 1938 Sigmund Freud arrives in London
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06 Jun 1939 New York Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning
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06 Jun 1939 New York Supreme Court Justice J F Crater legally declared dead
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06 Jun 1939 Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead.
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06 Jun 1941 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
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06 Jun 1941 Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time
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06 Jun 1942 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
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06 Jun 1942 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2
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06 Jun 1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
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06 Jun 1942 Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
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06 Jun 1942 World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
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06 Jun 1944 Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion
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06 Jun 1944 D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
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06 Jun 1944 Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad
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06 Jun 1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor
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06 Jun 1944 U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje
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06 Jun 1944 World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
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06 Jun 1945 "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam
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06 Jun 1946 11 Basketball of America Association teams meet to schedule 1st season
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06 Jun 1946 Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
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06 Jun 1946 Martin Kresses begins publishing "Eric the Viking" comic strip
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06 Jun 1946 The National Basketball Association is created with eleven teams.
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06 Jun 1947 Treaty drawn for establishment of International Patent Institute
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06 Jun 1949 "It Pays To Be Ignorant, " game Show, debut on CBS-TV
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06 Jun 1949 WKY (now KTVY) TV channel 4 in Oklahoma City, OK (NBC) 1st broadcast
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06 Jun 1950 German DR and Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border
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06 Jun 1954 Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
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06 Jun 1955 Bill Haley & His Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
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06 Jun 1958 Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger
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06 Jun 1958 Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
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06 Jun 1960 Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
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06 Jun 1960 Steve Allen Show, " last airs on NBC-TV
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06 Jun 1962 Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums
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06 Jun 1963 Gasunie established
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06 Jun 1964 96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6
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06 Jun 1964 Beatles arrive in the Netherlands
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06 Jun 1964 Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume.
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06 Jun 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational
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06 Jun 1965 Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive HRs beating White Sox 12-0
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06 Jun 1966 Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
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06 Jun 1966 Claus Von Bulow and Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed
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06 Jun 1966 Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
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06 Jun 1966 NFL and AFL announce their merger
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06 Jun 1966 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
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06 Jun 1967 Israeli troops occupy Gaza
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06 Jun 1968 WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Jun 1968 Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John F. Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5.
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06 Jun 1969 Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar
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06 Jun 1970 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34
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06 Jun 1971 "Ed Sullivan Show" last broadcasts on CBS-TV
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06 Jun 1971 Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die
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06 Jun 1971 John Lennon andYoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in New York City
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06 Jun 1971 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
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06 Jun 1971 WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBN) begins broadcasting
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06 Jun 1971 Willie Mays hits record 22nd and last extra inning HR
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06 Jun 1971 Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched.
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06 Jun 1971 A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives.
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06 Jun 1971 Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.
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06 Jun 1972 David Bowie releases "Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust"
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06 Jun 1972 Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
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06 Jun 1972 US bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed
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06 Jun 1974 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte
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06 Jun 1974 A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
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06 Jun 1975 British voters decide to remain in Common Market
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06 Jun 1975 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
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06 Jun 1976 30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
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06 Jun 1976 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
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06 Jun 1977 "Washington Post" reports US has developed neutron bomb
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06 Jun 1977 Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic and Concert for United Way
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06 Jun 1977 Joseph L Howze installed as Bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss)
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06 Jun 1977 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
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06 Jun 1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
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06 Jun 1979 Josef Mengeles corpse excavated in Brazil
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06 Jun 1979 Royal Air force receives 1st F-16
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06 Jun 1979 Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 HRs in the majors
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06 Jun 1981 113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29
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06 Jun 1981 51st French Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64)
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06 Jun 1981 Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
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06 Jun 1981 Bihar train disaster: a passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the death toll is closer to 1,000.
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06 Jun 1982 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO
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06 Jun 1982 36th Tony Awards: Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and Nine win
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06 Jun 1982 52nd French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats G Vilas (16 76 60 64)
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06 Jun 1982 Bernard Glassman, installed as abbot of Zen Center of New York
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06 Jun 1982 The 1982 Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
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06 Jun 1982 A British Army Air Corps Gazelle helicopter is destroyed in a friendly fire incident, resulting in the loss of four lives.
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06 Jun 1983 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins and Roy Acuff
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06 Jun 1983 Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland
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06 Jun 1983 Emmy 10th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 4th time
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06 Jun 1983 Li Xiannian becomes President / Deng Xiaoping Supreme Commander of China PR
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06 Jun 1983 Nicaragua expels 3 US diplomats
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06 Jun 1983 Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1
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06 Jun 1984 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
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06 Jun 1984 Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is first released in the USSR.
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06 Jun 1985 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75)
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06 Jun 1985 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
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06 Jun 1985 Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located and exhumed
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06 Jun 1985 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba
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06 Jun 1985 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 Cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
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06 Jun 1985 The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
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06 Jun 1986 Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself
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06 Jun 1987 119th Belmont: Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2
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06 Jun 1987 57th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (64 46 86)
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06 Jun 1987 New York Yankees play their 13,000th game
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06 Jun 1988 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis and Statler Brothers
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06 Jun 1988 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant
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06 Jun 1988 George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WWII
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06 Jun 1988 Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
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06 Jun 1989 Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4
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06 Jun 1990 2nd International Rock Awards
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06 Jun 1990 For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game
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06 Jun 1990 Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as New York Yankee manager
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06 Jun 1991 Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball
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06 Jun 1991 Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store
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06 Jun 1991 NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992
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06 Jun 1992 124th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard AP Indy wins in 2:26
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06 Jun 1992 62nd French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (62 36 10-8)
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06 Jun 1992 Ben Vereen suffers injuries when hit by a car
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06 Jun 1992 David Bowie and model Iman marry in Switzerland
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06 Jun 1992 New York Met Eddie Murray sets RBI record by a switch hitter
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06 Jun 1992 WLAF World Bowl 2: Sacramento beats Orlando 21-17 (Montreal)
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06 Jun 1992 The Fantoft Stave Church in Norway is destroyed by Varg Vikernes. This was the first in a string of church arsons in the Early Norwegian black metal scene
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06 Jun 1993 47th Tony Awards: Angels in America and Kiss of the Spider Woman win
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06 Jun 1993 63rd French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats Jim Courier (64 26 62 36 63)
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06 Jun 1993 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
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06 Jun 1993 Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as President of Mongolia
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06 Jun 1993 Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
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06 Jun 1994 28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Ray Stevens
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06 Jun 1994 6.0 earthquake / avalanche destroys Toez Colombia (about 1000 killed)
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06 Jun 1994 Brian Lara scores 501 not out for Warwickshire vs. Durham
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06 Jun 1994 CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade
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06 Jun 1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed
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06 Jun 1994 Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham
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06 Jun 1995 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
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06 Jun 1997 Prom Mom incident: While attending her senior prom in Lacey Township, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler gives birth in a bathroom stall, leaves the baby to die in a trash can and then returns to the prom.
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06 Jun 1998 130th Belmont
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06 Jun 1998 68th French Womens Tennis
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06 Jun 2002 Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
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06 Jun 2004 Tamil is established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
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06 Jun 2005 In Gonzales v. Raich, the United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana.
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