06-18-2010, 08:33 PM
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June 19th
1623 ~ Birthday of Blaise Pascal, Mathematician.
1865 ~ More two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom.
1896 ~ Birthday of Wallis Warfield, the future Duchess of Windsor.
1934 ~ The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was established.
1937 ~ Death of J.M. Barrie, Author, creator of the character Peter Pan.
1944 ~ First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1945 ~ Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Politician, recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
1964 ~ The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving a filibuster in the Senate.
1982 ~ An Italian banker, Roberto Calvi, was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London.
1993 ~ Death of William Golding, English writer (Lord of the Flies, etc.), awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1983.
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