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June 20 1863:
West Virginia became the 35th state. |
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June 21 1985:
Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele. |
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On June 25:
1876 – Black Hills War: United States Army Colonel George Armstrong Custer was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in present-day Big Horn County, Montana. |
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^Went by Little Big Horn today, re-enactment goin' on!^
June 25 1868: Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union. |
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June 30 1859:
French acrobat Blondin crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope as 5,000 spectators watched. |
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On June 30:
1908 – A massive explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, knocking over 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometres (830 sq mi). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event |
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Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden dead at 97
R.I.P. |
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July 2 1776:
The Continental Congress voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.. |
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May 22 1954:
80th Preakness: Johnny Adams aboard Hasty Road wins in 1:57.4 |
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