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    1381 – Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
    1418 – An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
    1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
    1550 – The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
    1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
    1653 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
    1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
    1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
    1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
    1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
    1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
    1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
    1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
    1889 – Eighty are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
    1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
    1899 – New Richmond Tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
    1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded: The Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
    1932 – A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War
    1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
    1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
    1940 – World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
    1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
    1943 – Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
    1944 – American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.
    1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
    1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
    1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
    1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
    1967 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).
    1972 – The fast food restaurant chain Popeyes is founded in Arabi, Louisiana.
    1978 – David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
    1979 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
    1987 – The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bιdel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
    1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
    1990 – Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
    1991 – Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
    1991 – 1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
    1993 – An election takes place in Nigeria which and is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida.
    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 wrongful death civil suit.
    1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
    1996 – In Philadelphia, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
    1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
    1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
    2009 – A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world.


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    Today's Canadian Headline....

    1947 ON KING! ON YOU HUSKIES!!
    New York City -First broadcast of radio show Sergeant Preston of The Yukon; about a Canadian Mountie and his trusty dog, King; continued until 1955 (and on TV from 1955-1958); show created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, originators of The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet.

    1758
    Louisbourg Nova Scotia -
    James Wolfe takes possession of the Light-House Point, destroyed and abandoned by Governor Drucour after the British landing on June 8; at 2 am, Major Scott marches with 500 Light Infantry and Rangers, making a sweep through the woods, in order to take the Light-House battery; Wolfe follows at 5 am, with four companies of Grenadiers, and 1200 men detached from the line; he will secure the area, bring in artillery by sea, and open fire on Louisbourg's Island battery on the night of the 19th.



    In Other Events....

    1995 Quebec Quebec -Jacques Parizeau sets up Common Front for the Referendum with Lucien Bouchard of the Bloc Quebecois and Mario Dumont of the Liberal splinter group Parti de l'Action Democratique; Quebec Premier wants another sovereignty referendum in the Autumn; Bouchard insists on having a political and economic partnership with Canada as part of the question.
    1992 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer 1934- and his CRTC rule 4-1 to let Unitel, BCRL compete in $7.5 billion long-distance market with phone companies; Chairman of Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.
    1991 Toronto Ontario - US Trade Representative Carla Hills opens trilateral talks for North American Free Trade zone; Michael Wilson says culture will not be on the table.
    1991 Ottawa Ontario - Monique Landry announces $3 million bailout of World University Service of Canada; partly a CIDA loan; WUSC founded 1939 to send teachers to third world.
    1991 Winnipeg Manitoba - Cree lawyer Ovide Mercredi beats Phil Fontaine, leader of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, on the fourth ballot, to become the new national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, representing Canada's 500,000 status Indians; replaces George Erasmus in $85,000-a-year post; member of First Nations Circle on the constitution; Manitoba vice-chief since 1989.
    1990 Montreal Quebec - Journalist Lise Bissonnette named Director (editor) of the Montreal daily Le Devoir.
    1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - Elijah Harper uses rules of procedure to block the introduction of the resolution ratifying the Meech Lake Accord in the Manitoba legislature; a Cree and NDP MLA, Harper forces the legislature to delay opening debate on the constitutional agreement, which eventually dies.
    1990 Toronto Ontario - Patricia Starr charged along with the National Council of Jewish Women (Toronto section) of 71 counts of violating Ontario's election spending law; exceeding maximum allowed; former Liberal fund-raiser.
    1986 Ontario - Ontario MDs strike to protest a government ban on extra-billing.
    1985 Montreal Quebec - National Hockey League Celebration of Excellence awards Wayne Gretsky his sixth Hart Trophy as MVP.
    1984 Toronto Ontario - Premier William Davis says Ontario to give Roman Catholic separate schools the same status and funding as Ontario's public education system to Grade 13; previously only to Grade 10.
    1983 Hollywood California - Norma Shearer dies at age 80; movie actress, model, born Edith Shearer at Montreal Aug. 10, 1902. Shearer's major role was in The Divorcee; she was the wife of studio executive Irving Thalberg.
    1979 Toronto Ontario - Bobby Orr, Harry Howell and Henri Richard named to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
    1978 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts constitutional program entitled 'A Time For Action'; proposes charter of rights; plus repatriation of the constitution and an amending formula.
    1969 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Progress Club sponsors 2-day Canadian Special Olympics for handicapped athletes.
    1968 Toronto Ontario - Hall & Dennis issue Living and Learning report; suggest abolishing grades, percentage marks, corporal punishment; committee to examine Ontario educational system.
    1961 Ottawa Ontario - DND buys 66 F-101 Voodoos in exchange for US control of Pinetree Line, plus a Mutual Air Program for purchase of 200 Canadian-built F-104 Starfighters.
    1958 Ottawa Ontario - Harold Macmillan British Prime Minister addresses Parliament during visit to Ottawa.
    1952 British Columbia - W. A. C. Bennett 1900-1979 invited to form a Social Credit minority government after BC provincial election.
    1950 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and the U.S. sign two agreements to avoid double taxation of their citizens and to prevent income tax evasion.
    1944 France - D-DAY +6; Canadian 3rd Division is withdrawn from battle for three weeks, until July 4, after mauling in Normandy.
    1927 London England - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council dismisses appeal by Roman Catholics for separate schools in Ontario.
    1903 Niagara Falls Ontario - Niagara Falls incorporated as a city.
    1901 Montreal Quebec - City of Montreal passes by-law making indoor toilets compulsory.
    1846 Montreal Quebec - Fire in a Montreal theatre kills 200 people.
    1811 London England - Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk 1771-1820 completes purchase of 300-thousand square km of Red River land from the Hudson's Bay Company; at a price of 10 shillings a year rent on the land; five times bigger than his native Scotland.
    1799 Toronto Ontario - Third session of second Parliament of Upper Canada meets until June 29; provisions for education and support of orphans.
    1793 Portage Lake BC - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 reaches the Continental Divide at Portage Lake; his party first Europeans to cross Divide north of Spanish territories.
    1690 Churchill Manitoba - Henry Kelsey c1667-1724 sets out from York Factory with party of Stone and Assiniboine Indians on journey lasting two years; Hudson's Bay Company employee will record first European description of grizzly bears and buffalo.
    1670 Ontario - Daniel de Remy de Courcelle 1626-1698 gets Iroquois to stop war against Algonquins.
    1647 Quebec Quebec - Jesuits lay cornerstone of College at Quebec.
    1611 Hudson Bay NWT - Hendrick Hudson d1611 starts return voyage, but his ship Discovery is again locked in spring ice.

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