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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1509", "text": "Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1770", "text": "Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1798", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte takes the island of Malta." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1861", "text": "Union forces under General George B. McClellen repulse a Confederate force at Rich Mountain in western Virginia." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1865", "text": "Major General Henry W. Halleck finds documents and archives of the Confederate government in Richmond, Virginia. This discovery will lead to the publication of the official war records." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1895", "text": "Charles E. Duryea receives the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1903", "text": "King Alexander and Queen Draga of Belgrade are assassinated by members of the Serbia army." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1915", "text": "British troops take Cameroon in Africa." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1927", "text": "Charles Lindbergh, a captain in the US Army Air Corps Reserve, receives the first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded, for his solo trans-Atlantic Flight." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1930", "text": "William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, dives to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda, in a diving chamber called a bathysphere." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1934", "text": "The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ends in failure." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1940", "text": "The Italian Air Force bombs the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1943", "text": "The Italian island of Pantelleria surrenders after a heavy air bombardment." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1944", "text": "U.S. carrier-based planes attack Japanese airfields on Guam , Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands, preparing for the invasion of Saipan." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1963", "text": "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1967", "text": "Israel and Syria accept a U. N. cease-fire." },
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+ { "day":"11", "month":"6", "year":"1987", "text": "Margaret Thatcher wins her third consecutive term as Prime Minister." }
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+ { "day":"12", "month":"6", "year":"1812", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte and his army invade Russia." },
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+ { "day":"12", "month":"6", "year":"1849", "text": "The gas mask is patented by L. P. Haslett." },
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+ { "day":"12", "month":"6", "year":"1862", "text": "Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart begins his ride around the Union Army outside of Richmond, Virginia." },
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+ { "day":"12", "month":"6", "year":"1901", "text": "Cuba agrees to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment." },
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+ { "day":"12", "month":"6", "year":"1920", "text": "Republicans nominate Warren G. Harding for president and Calvin Coolidge for vice president." },
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+ { "day":"12", "month":"6", "year":"1921", "text": "President Warren Harding urges every young man to attend military training camp." },
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+ { "day":"12", "month":"6", "year":"1931", "text": "Gangster Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen are indicted for violating Prohibition laws." },
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+ { "day":"12", "month":"6", "year":"1937", "text": "Eight of Stalin’s generals are sentenced to death during purges in the Soviet Union." },
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+ { "day":"12", "month":"6", "year":"1942", "text": "American bombers strike the oil refineries of Ploesti, Rumania for the first time." },
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+ { "day":"12", "month":"6", "year":"1963", "text": "Black civil rights leader Medgar Evers is assassinated by a gunman outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi." },
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+ { "day":"12", "month":"6", "year":"1967", "text": "The Supreme Court rules that states cannot ban interracial marriages." },
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+ { "day":"12", "month":"6", "year":"1977", "text": "David Berkowitz gets 25 years to life for the Son of Sam murders in New York." },
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+ { "day":"13", "month":"6", "year":"1863", "text": "Confederate forces on their way to Gettysburg clash with Union troops at the Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia." },
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+ { "day":"13", "month":"6", "year":"1920", "text": "The U.S. Post Office Department rules that children may not be sent by parcel post." },
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+ { "day":"13", "month":"6", "year":"1923", "text": "The French set a trade barrier between occupied Ruhr and the rest of Germany." },
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+ { "day":"13", "month":"6", "year":"1927", "text": "Charles Lindbergh receives the Distinguished Flying Cross and is treated to a ticker-tape parade to celebrate his successful crossing of the Atlantic." },
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+ { "day":"13", "month":"6", "year":"1940", "text": "Paris is evacuated as the Germans advance on the city." },
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+ { "day":"13", "month":"6", "year":"1943", "text": "German spies land on Long Island, New York, and are soon captured." },
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+ { "day":"13", "month":"6", "year":"1944", "text": "The first Germany V-1 buzz-bomb hits London." },
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+ { "day":"13", "month":"6", "year":"1949", "text": "Installed by the French, Bao Dai enters Saigon to rule Vietnam." },
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+ { "day":"13", "month":"6", "year":"1971", "text": "The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers." },
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+ { "day":"13", "month":"6", "year":"1978", "text": "Israelis withdraw the last of their invading forces from Lebanon." },
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+ { "day":"13", "month":"6", "year":"1979", "text": "Sioux Indians are awarded $105 million in compensation for the 1877 U.S. seizure of the Black Hills in South Dakota." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1381", "text": "The Peasant’s Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxes when rebels plunder and burn the Tower of London and kill the Archbishop of Canterbury." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1642", "text": "Massachusetts passes the first compulsory education law in the colonies." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1645", "text": "Oliver Cromwell’s army routs the king’s army at Naseby." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1775", "text": "The U.S. Army is founded when the Continental Congress authorizes the muster of troops." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1777", "text": "The Continental Congress authorizes the "stars and stripes" flag for the new United States." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1789", "text": "Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrives in Timor in a small boat. He had been forced to leave his ship when his crew mutinied." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1846", "text": "A group of settlers declare California to be a republic." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1864", "text": "At the Battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia, Confederate General Leonidas Polk is killed by a Union shell." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1893", "text": "The city of Philadelphia observes the first Flag Day." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1919", "text": "John William Alcot and Arthur Witten Brown take off from St. John’s, Newfoundland, for Clifden, Ireland, on the first nonstop transatlantic flight." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1927", "text": "Nicaraguan President Porfirio Diaz signs a treaty with the U.S. allowing American intervention in his country." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1932", "text": "Representative Edward Eslick dies on the floor of the House of Representatives while pleading for the passage of the bonus bill." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1940", "text": "German forces occupy Paris." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1942", "text": "The Supreme Court rules that requiring students to salute the American flag is unconstitutional." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1944", "text": "Boeing B-29 bombers conduct their first raid against mainland Japan." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1945", "text": "Burma is liberated by the British." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1949", "text": "The State of Vietnam is formed." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1951", "text": "UNIVAC, the first computer built for commercial purposes, is demonstrated in Philadelphia by Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Prosper Eckert, Jr." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1954", "text": "Americans take part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1965", "text": "A military triumvirate takes control in Saigon, South Vietnam." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1982", "text": "Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom ending the Falkland Islands War." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1985", "text": "Gunmen hijack a passenger jet over the Middle East." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1989", "text": "Congressman William Gray, an African American, is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives." },
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+ { "day":"14", "month":"6", "year":"1995", "text": "Chechen rebels take 2,000 people hostage in a hospital in Russia." }
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1184", "text": "King Magnus of Norway is defeated by his rival, Sverre." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1215", "text": "King John signs the Magna Carta." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1381", "text": "The English peasant revolt is crushed in London." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1389", "text": "Ottoman Turks crush Serbia in the Battle of Kosovo." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1607", "text": "Colonists in North America complete James Fort in Jamestown." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1752", "text": "Benjamin Franklin and his son test the relationship between electricity and lightning by flying a kite in a thunder storm." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1775", "text": "George Washington is named Commander in Chief by Congress." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1779", "text": "American General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, New York." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1836", "text": "Arkansas is admitted into the Union as the 25th state." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1846", "text": "Great Britain and the United States agree on a joint occupation of Oregon Territory." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1849", "text": "James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, dies." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1864", "text": "The Battle for Petersburg begins." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1866", "text": "Prussia attacks Austria." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1877", "text": "Henry O. Flipper becomes the first African American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1898", "text": "The U.S. House of representatives approves the annexation of Hawaii." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1904", "text": "General Slocum Disaster. Fire aboard the paddle steamer General Slocum on New York’s East River kills 1,021, mostly German-Americans." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1916", "text": "President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1917", "text": "Great Britain pledges the release of all Irish captured during the Easter Rebellion of 1916." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1920", "text": "Three African Americans are lynched in Duluth, Minnesota, by a white mob of 5,000." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1928", "text": "Republicans, convening in Kansas City, name Herbert Hoover their candidate for President." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1932", "text": "Gaston Means is sentenced to 15 years for fraud in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1940", "text": "The French fortress of Verdun is captured by Germans." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1944", "text": "U.S. Marines begin the invasion of Saipan in Pacific." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1947", "text": "The All-Indian Congress accepts a British plan for the partition of India." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1958", "text": "Greece severs military ties to Turkey because of the Cyprus issue." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1964", "text": "The last French troops leave Algeria." },
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+ { "day":"15", "month":"6", "year":"1977", "text": "The first general election in Spain since 1936 results in victory for the UCD (Union of Democratic Centre)." }
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+ { "day":"16", "month":"6", "year":"1815", "text": "Napoleon defeats the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny." },
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+ { "day":"16", "month":"6", "year":"1858", "text": "Abraham Lincoln, in accepting the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, declares that, \"A house divided against itself cannot stand.\"" },
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