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Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:21:11 -0500
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Monday, June 08, 2009
Only 206 days until the Year 2010
June is:
National Flag Month
On The Way To Today... June 8th
452 Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
536 St. Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
570 Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca
793 Vikings plunder St. Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne
1632 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard
1663 Battle at Amegical: English and Portugese fleet beats Spanish
1694 English troop landing at Brest attack, 300 killed
1761 British fleet occupies Belle Britain
1783 Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
1789 The American Bill of Rights was first proposed by James
Madison.
1786 Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised, Mr Hall, New York
City
1809 The largest ocean going steamboat the "Phoenix", left New York
Harbor for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The boat was built by John
Stevens.
1815 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation
1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1829 1st U.K. municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in
Liverpool
1834 HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn
1846 Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
1856 Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island
1861 People of Tennessee vote to secede from Union
1869 Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner
1872 Congress endorses penny post card
1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604,
discovered
1928 1st U.S. to Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1936 1st parking meters are invented
1937 World's largest flower blooms in New York Botanical Garden,
12' calla lily
1939 British king George VI visits U.S.
1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
1940 Last British troops leave Narvik, Norway
1941 English and French troop overthrow pro-German Syria
1942 Bing Cosby records 'Silent Night'
1944 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy
1944 Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy
1953 Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing
113
1953 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
1959 1st official 'missile mail' lands, Jacksonville, Florida
1959 X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
1963 American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against
cigarettes
1965 U.S. troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1965 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 6; missed Moon
1967 34 U.S. servicemen were killed when Israeli forces raided the
Liberty, a Navy ship stationed in the Mediterranean. Israel called the
attack a tragic mistake.
1968 James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr,
captured
1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
1969 U.S. President Richard Nixon met the South Vietnamese leader
on Midway Island and announced the withdrawal of 25,000 troops.
1969 Nixon says 25,000 U.S. troops would leave Vietnam by end of
August
1971 North Vietnam demands U.S. end aid to South Vietnam
1975 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35
1975 U.S.S.R. launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
1982 Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die
1982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria
1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut
bird collisions by 20%
1996 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
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