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June 20
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University of Oxford receives its charter. 1756 - English garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. 1789 - Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath 1819 - The US vessel Savannah arrives at Liverpool. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail. 1837 - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne. 1863 - West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state. 1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton Ontario. 1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. 1939 - Benny Goodman's Song School ends its radio series. 1948 - Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts. 1956 - A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashed
June 13
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Emperor and king of the West Franks (+ 877) 1786 - Winfield Scott, United States general (+ 1866) 1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (+ 1896) 1865 - William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1923 (+ 1939) 1870 - Jules Bordet, physicist and microbiologist (+ 1961) 1887 - Bruno Frank, author (+ 1945) 1892 - Basil Rathbone, actor (+ 1967) 1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers, author (+ 1957) 1897 - Paavo Nurmi, runner (+ 1973) 1903 - Harold 'Red' Grange, American football player (+ 1991) 1913 - Kid Azteca, boxer (+ 2002) 1913 - Ralph Edwards, television host 1915 - Don Budge, tennis player (+ 2000) 1926 - Paul Lynde, actor (+ 1982) 1933 - Tom King, British politician 1935 - Christo, artist 1943
July 10
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(+ 1564) 1830 - Camille Pissarro, painter and graphic artist (+ 1903) 1834 - James McNeil Whistler, painter: Study in Gray and Black 1842 - Adolphus Busch (brewer: founder of Anheuser-Busch, the world's largest beer brewery). 1871 - Marcel Proust, writer: A la recherche de temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) (+ 1922) 1888 - Giorgio Chirico, painter (+ 1978) 1895 - Carl Orff, composer: Carmina Burana (+ 1982) 1897 - John Gilbert (Pringle) (silent film star). 1899 - John Gilbert, actor (+ 1936) 1902 - Kurt Alder, chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1950 (+ 1958) 1903 = John Wyndham, Author 1914 - Joseph 'Joe' Schuster, cartoonist 1915 Saul Bellow (novelist: Herzog, The Bellarosa Connecticut). Milt Buckner (musician: piano, organ, composer: Hamp's Boogie Woogie, The Lamplighter, Count's Basement).
June 17
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1971) 1898 - M. C. Escher, artist (+ 1972) 1900 - Martin Bormann, Nazi official (+ 1945) 1904 - Ralph Bellamy, actor (+ 1991) 1907 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (+ 1978) 1910 - Red Foley, country musician (+ 1968) 1914 - John Hersey, author (+ 1993) 1917 - Lena Horne, singer 1917 - Dean Martin, singer (+ 1995) 1923 - Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, American football star 1943 - Newt Gingrich, American politician 1945 - Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London 1945 - Eddy Merckx, Belgian cycling champion 1946 - Barry Manilow, musician 1946 - Peter Rosei, writer 1958 - Jello Biafra, musician, politician 1964 - Michael Gross, swimmer 1966 - Jason Patric, actor 1980 - Venus Williams, tennis player Deaths 1696 - John III Sobieski, king of Poland 1898
June 14
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Alzheimer, physician (+ 1915) 1877 - Jane Bathori, opera singer (+ 1970) 1901 - Clarence Day, ice hockey player 1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist 1909 - Burl Ives, musician (+ 1995) 1919 - Dorothy McGuire, actress (+ 2001) 1919 - Sam Wanamaker, actor (+ 1993) 1919 or 1921 - Gene Barry, actor 1925 - Pierre Salinger, political operative 1926 - Don Newcombe, baseball player 1926 - Hermann Kant, author 1928 - Ernesto (Che) Guevara, revolutionary (+ 1967) 1929 - Cy Coleman, composer 1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, author (+ 1999) 1940 - Ben Davidson, American football player 1943 - Newt Gingrich, United States politican 1945 - Jörg Immendorf, painter 1945 - Rod Argent, musician ("The Zombies") 1946 - Donald Trump, business tycoon 1946 - Marla Gibbs, actress 1949 - Harry Turtledove, science
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