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10 June 1190
Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.

Friday June 10th...My last day at work before I Jet off for sunnier climes. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> I am off to Kos Island tomorrow. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Nice Spick <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />.

June 10 2005: My last day in school for this year (schoolyear that is). No I'll have a holiday (or is it vacation <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />) til August 22 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />.

Übereil

Isn't this ironic. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

June 10 1692 - Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".

@ Üb
You are already finished with school, while here they still have to start their finals <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> It's not fair <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" />

10 June 1935
- Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio. This is the traditional date of the first day of sobriety of Dr. Bob Smith, AA's cofounder. (later they had to search for more members <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> you can't call it a club untill there are at least 5 members in it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> )

hmm June the 11th .....

kilroy was here

ooh some ppl maybe too young to remember this phenomonem <astounding that that really is a word <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />



edit ps; heh strange how the mind fades I actually typed in the wrong name <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

June 11 1509 - Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Katherine of Aragon.

12 June 1963
Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.

It's still June 11th here <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> , so:

Kamehameha Day, official state holiday of Hawai'i, United States, in honor of its first monarch.

12 june 1964
- Anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison by the South African government.

12 june 1987
- U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

June 12 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.

June 13, 2005 - Michael Jackson not guilty on all counts
Singer acquitted in alleged child molestation case

@ Lady Sarah
You took the words out of my mouth!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

Now it is preserved forever on this forum Gal! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

June 14
1942 - Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.

1937 - Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.

1993 - A weeklong product tampering scare, later proven to be a hoax, occurs as customers throughout the USA discover syringes in unopened cans of Diet Pepsi Cola.

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15 june 1752
- Benjamin Franklin conducted an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm.

15 june 763 BC
- Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

June 15

1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He transfuses 12 fluid ounces (350 ml) of sheep blood to a 15-year-old boy. The boy later dies and Baptiste is accused of murder.

1969 - Hee Haw debuts on CBS television, quickly becoming an institution.

16 June
1976 - Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.

June 17 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.

June 17 1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean She was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic.

June 17 1994 - Following a televised highway chase and a failed attempt at suicide, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

20 June
451 The Battle of Chalons, Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun.

June 20 Birthdays

1946 - Bob Vila, handyman
1949 - Lionel Richie, musician
1952 - John Goodman, U.S. actor
1954 - Michael Anthony, musician, Van Halen
1960 - John Taylor, musician, Duran Duran