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June 25 Through the Years
1788- Virginia ratifies the Constitution
1906- Harry Thaw murders Stanford White in Pittsburgh
1940- France surrenders to Germany
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June 24 Through the Years
1374- An Outbreak of St. John's Dance breaks out in Aachen, Germany
1779- Great Siege of Gibraltar
1813- Battle of Beaver Dams
1880- First performance of "O Canada"
1916- Mary Pickford signs a Millionaire Dollar Contract
1939- Siam is renamed Thailand
1947- Kenneth Arnold makes first UFO sighting
1950- Apartheid begins in South Africa
2012- Lonesome George Dies
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June 23 Through the Years
1683- William Penn sign Friendship pact with the Lenni Lenape
1810- John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company
1894- IOC formed
1926- 1st SAT administered
1969- Warren Butger is sworn in as Justice for US Supreme Court
2013- Nik Wallenda crosses the Grand Canyon
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June 22 Through the Years
1870- Justice Department created
1918- Hammond Circus Train wreck kills 86
1941- Germany starts the invasion of Soviet Union known as Operation Barbarossa
1942- Pledge of Allegiance adopted
1944- FDR creates the GI Bill
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June 21 Through the Years
1734- The slave Marie-Joseph Angelique is put to death for burning much of Montreal
1768- James Otis Jr. Offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Assembly
1898- US captures Guam
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June 20 Through the Years
1782- The Great Seal of the United States is adopted
1787- Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Constitutional Convention to call the new government The United States
1837- Queen Victoria takes the throne
1840- Samuel receives a patent for the telegrapgh
1863- West Virginia joins the Union
1877- Alexander Graham Bell installs the 1st Commercial telephone
1893- Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murder
1945- Werhner von Braun joins Operation Paperclip
1975- Jaws premieres
1979- ABC journalist Bill Stewart is killed in Nicaragua
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June 19 Through The Years
1862- Congress nullifies Dred Scott
1910- First Father's Day
1943- Eagles and Steelers merge
1853- The Rosenbergs are executed
1964- Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved
1979- Garfield debuts
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June 18 Through the Years
1684- Massachusetts Bay Colony charter revoked
1778- British troops abandon
Philadelphia
1812- US declares war on the United Kingdom
1873- Susan B. Anthony is fined for trying to vote in the 1872 election
1923- Checker Taxi starts
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June 17 Through the Years
1579- Sir Francis Drake claims Nova Albion(California) for England
185- The Statute of Liberty arrives in the New York Harbor
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June 16 Through the Years
1774- Harrodsburg, Kentucky founded
1858- Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech
1903- Ford Motor Company incorporated
1911- IBM is created
1944- George Stinney is executed at 14
1961- Rudolf Nureyev defects to the west
1981- Reagan honors Ken Taylor
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June 15 Through the Years
1775- George Washington is named Commander-in-Chief
1836- Arkansas joins the Union
1844- Charles Goodyear receives his patent for Vulcanization
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June 14 Through the Years
1777- The Stars and Stripes is adopted
1900- Hawaii becomes a US Territory
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June 13 Through the Years
1805- Meriwether Lewis and 4 Companions see the Great Falls of the Missouri
1777- Lafayette lands in America
1893- Grover Clevelandhas successful cancer surgery
1966- Miranda Rights begin
1967- Thurgood Marshall nominated to Supreme Court
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June 12 Through the Years
1550- The City of Helsinki is founded
1776- The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted
1939- Baseball Hall of Fame opens
1942- Anne Frank receives a diary for her birthday
1994- Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are murdered
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June 11 Through the Years
1776- The Continental Congress appoints the Committee of Five(Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston) to draft the Declaration of Independence
2001- Timothy McVeigh executed
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June 10 Through the Years
1692- Bridget Bishop is first person executed in the Salem Witch Trials
1944- Fifteen Year Old Joe Nuxhall becomes youngest player to debut in the MLB
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June 9 Through the Years
AD 68- Nero commits suicide
1534- Jacques Cartier discovers the St. Lawrence River
1732- James Oglethorpe is granted a charter for Georgia
1930- Reporter Jack Lingle is killed by Leo Vincent Brothers
1934- Donald Duck debuts
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June 8 Through the Years
632- Muhammad dies in Medina
1861- Tennessee succeeds from the Union
1912- Universal Pictures is incorporated
1949- Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni, and Edward G. Robinson named members of the Communist Party by the FBI
1949- Nineteen Eighty-Four is published
1966- NFL-AFL merger announced
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June 7 Through the Years
1654- Louis XIV becomes Jing of France
1776- Richard Henry Lee proposes the "Lee Resolution" that sets stage for the Declaration of Independence
1862- The Lyons-Seward Treaty suppresses the Slave Trade
1892 Homer Plessy is arrested for not giving up his seat setting stage for the Plessy vs Ferguson case
1899- Carrie Nation starts her rampage
1955- The Lux Radio Theater ends its 21 year run
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June 6 Through the Years
1586- Francis Drake invades St. Augustine
1844- The YMCA is formed
1892- Chicago's L opens up
1933- First Drive In Theater opens
1934- FDR forms the SEC
1939- Judge Crater is declared dead
1942- Battle of Midway
1944- DDay
1946- Basketball Association of America is formed
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June 5 Through the Years
1829- HMS Pickle captures slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba
1837- Houston incorporated by the Republic of Texas
1851- Uncle Tom's Cabin debuts in The National Era
1916- Louis Brandeis becomes first Jewish United States Supreme Justice
1968- RFK is assassinated in LA
