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Events

• 2019 A committee of the US House of Representatives announces that it will hold a hearing next Thursday (June 20) to examine fuel efficiency standards, as the Trump administration presses for a rollback of an Obama-era schedule of 5% reductions in emissions per year. (Reuters)
• 2018 Economy of the United Kingdom: British retail chain Poundworld, which employs thousands of people, collapses into administration. (BBC)
• 2017 Marawi crisis: Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte says he is "not aware" of the United States providing support to the Philippine government's military intervention against Islamists in Marawi. Duterte also said that he "never approached America for help". (Reuters)
• 2016 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): Fighting breaks out between ISIL militants and Afghan police in the Haska Mina District, Nangarhar Province, leaving six police officers and 15 militants dead, according to officials. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
• 2015 Military intervention against ISIL: A US citizen fighting alongside Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) against ISIL is killed in action near Kobani. (Today's Zaman via AP)
• 2014 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): 2014 Mosul offensive: Insurgents continue their offensive, gaining control of the city of Tikrit, the second provincial capital to fall in as many days. At least 500,000 residents of Mosul flee the fighting and head east into Kurdish-controlled territory, while insurgents storm the Turkish Embassy and take 48 Turks hostage, including the Consul General. (Al Jazeera)
• 2013 2013 protests in Turkey:: Turkish police carry off dozens of lawyers, with reports that some have been kicked in the head and subjected to other assaults. (RT) (The Guardian)Police move past the barricades in Istanbul's Taksim Square, occupied by protesters. (AP via CBC News)Riot police fill Taksim Square with tear gas, while clashes between protesters and police continue into the night. (CNN) (Reuters)
• 2012 Arab Spring:
• 2011 At least 4,300 Syrians flee into Turkey amid a government crackdown on protests. (Al Jazeera)
• 2010 RPET5's 20th Birthday!
• 2009 The outbreak of the H1N1 influenza strain, commonly referred to as quotswine fluquot, is deemed a global pandemic,ref name=quotWHO level 6quot becoming the first condition since the Hong Kong flu of 1967ampndash1968 to receive this designation.
• 2008 Kosovo adopts a national anthem named "Europe"; composed by Mendi Menxhiqi, it comes without lyrics in any language to avoid offending the newly independent state's Serbian minority. (International Herald Tribune) (B-92)
• 2007 A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia rules that the United States government cannot indefinitely detain U.S. residents as ampquotenemy combatants.ampquot (AP via CNN)
• 2006 Iraqi eye-witnesses claim Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was briefly interrogated and kicked in the chest by the U.S. military before his subsequent death. (The Sunday Times)
• 2005 The G8 announces the cancellation of the multilateral debt of eighteen of the poorest countries in the world (BBC)
• 2004 Terry Nichols is spared the death penalty by an Oklahoma state court on murder charges stemming from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The decision comes on the third anniversary of the execution of his co-defendant, Timothy McVeigh, in Terre Haute, Indiana.
• 2003 Three 160,000 year old human skulls unearthed in Ethiopia bridge an important gap in the human fossil record and lend support to the ampquotout of Africaampquot single origin theory of human evolution.
• 2002 Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
• 2001 Nintendo launches the Game Boy Advance portable game system in the USA.
• 1998 Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
• 1997 In the United Kingdom, the House of Commons votes for a total ban on handguns.
• 1996 Bob Dole, (Sen-R-KS), resigns from US Senate to run for President
• 1995 65th French Mens Tennis: Thomas Muster beats Michael Chang (75 62 64)
• 1994 126th Belmont: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8
• 1993 Jurassic Park opens, sets box office weekend record of $502 million
• 1992 Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group
• 1991 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
• 1990 Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress
• 1989 7th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Orville Moody
• 1988 Everything Your Heart Desires by Daryl Hall and John Oates peaks at #3
• 1987 Margaret Thatcher is first British Prime Minister in 160 years to win third consecutive term.
• 1986 Amnesty International megaconcert
• 1985 Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
• 1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial of half of his ashes
• 1983 Always Something There To Remind Me by Naked Eyes peaks at #8
• 1982 Movie ET The Extra-Terrestrial is released (highest grossing film).
• 1981 Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student
• 1980 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (San Francisco)
• 1979 Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months
• 1978 Grease starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John opens
• 1977 Dance & Shake Your Tambourine by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93
• 1976 Magnificent Marble Machine, last airs on NBC-TV
• 1975 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
• 1974 Bundy victim Georgann Hawkins disappears from UW, Seattle, Washington
• 1972 18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern
• 1971 US ends ban on China trade
• 1970 US leaves Wheelus Air Force Base Libya.
• 1969 The Ballad Of John andYoko by The Beatles hit #1 in the UK
• 1967 A J Foyt and Dan Gurney drove a Ford to victory in Le Mans
• 1966 I Am A Rock by Simon and Garfunkel peaks at #3
• 1964 Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference
• 1963 Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama
• 1962 President FDR accepted an honorary degree from Yale
• 1961 Winston Churchill, last airs on ABC-TV
• 1960 92nd Belmont: Bill Hartack aboard Celtic Ash wins in 2:29.2
• 1959 US Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book Lady Chatterley's Lover.
• 1958 UN Security council sends observers to Lebanon
• 1956 Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
• 1955 1st magnesium jet airplane flies
• 1951 New York Times reports the NYC subway will auction off things found
• 1950 Ben Hogan wins US Open golf tournament
• 1949 49th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 286 at Medinah Country Club - Illinois
• 1948 The first monkey astronaut, Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.
• 1947 WW II sugar rationing finally endd in US (began May 28, 1942)
• 1944 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
• 1943 British invades Pantelleria (tiny island south of Sicily)
• 1942 German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa
• 1941 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
• 1940 Italy declares war on allies / raids Malta
• 1939 King and Queen of England taste first "hot dogs" at US President Franklin Roosevelt's party.
• 1938 42nd US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 284 at Cherry Hills Denver
• 1937 Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
• 1936 Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia.
• 1934 Disarmament conference in Geneva fails
• 1928 A medical doctors' strike begins in Vienna.
• 1927 59th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6
• 1924 Bene Brak Palestine founded
• 1922 U.S. première of Robert J. Flaherty's ''Nanook of the North'', the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
• 1921 53rd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Grey Lag wins in 2:16.8
• 1920 Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president.
• 1919 23rd US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn Country Club - Massachusetts
• 1917 King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
• 1911 UNIA founded by Garvey
• 1907 Northants all out for 12 vs. Gloucestershire
• 1904 German Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa
• 1903 Group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenovic and his wife queen Draga.
• 1901 Cook Islands annexed and proclaimed part of New Zealand.
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Famous Birthday

• Hugh Laurie

  English actor, comedian, writer,...

• Peter Dinklage

  American actor.

• Gene Wilder

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• Joshua Jackson

  Canadian actor.

• Jacques-Yves Cousteau

  French marine biologist and inventor (d....

• Claire Holt

  TV Actress.

• Ivana Baquero

  Movie Actress.

• Adrienne Barbeau

  American actress and the author of three...

• Ryan Dunn

  American actor.

• Risë Stevens

  American soprano and actress (d. 2013).

• Chad Everett
• William Styron

  American writer, the author of "Sophie's...

• Robert Hutton

  American actor who was a leading man in...

• Pamela Gidley
• Richard Todd

  Ireland -- Actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin...

• Kodak Black

  Rapper.

• Magaly Solier

  Peruvian actress and singer.

• Charlie Tahan

  Movie Actor.

• Shia LaBeouf

  American actor who began his career...

• Shane Meier

  Canadian-American actor.

• John Edwards

  Politician.

• Sessue Hayakawa

  Actor.

• Saxon Sharbino

  Movie Actress.

• María Barranco

  Spanish actress and singer.

• John Bromfield

  South Bend, Indiana -- Actor (Easy to...

• Roscoe Orman

  American actor.

• Gerald Mohr

  NYC, New York -- Actor...

• José Bové

  French farmer and politician.

• Shia Labeouf
• Celso Charuri
• Dan Howell

  YouTube Star.

• Jean Alesi

  Italian-French race car driver.

• Louis Laforge

  French journalist who presented the...

• Queen Fabiola of Belgium
• Buenos Aires (Argentina)
• Joe Montana

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• Christina Crawford

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• Albin Chalandon

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• Mehmet Oz

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• Frank Beard

  American drummer and songwriter (ZZ Top...

• Christophe Lemaitre
• Magloire (actor)
• Cori Nadine
• Barbara Minty

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• Jackie Stewart

  Scottish-American professional race car...

• Jean Meyer (acteur)
• Pascal Hernandez
• Vince Lombardi

  Football coach (Packers), dies at 57 in...

• Chad Everett

  Actor.

• Roland Moreno
• Ray Nagin

  Politician.

• Sylvie Flepp
• Graham Russell

  British-American musician, a singer and...

• Colette Codaccioni
• Frédéric Tristan
• Peter Bergman

  Actor (All My Children, Starland Vocal...

• Richard Loeb

  American homicide.

• Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

  British author of occult books; director...

• Jean-Pierre Chabrol

  French writer and screenwriter.

• Shoshame (mystic)
• Gioia Bruno

  Italian-American singer, a member of the...

• Chuck Adamson

  American Television producer...

• Frédéric Pottecher

  Bussang Journalist.

• José Reyes (shortstop)
• Vanessa Boslak

  French pole vaulter of Polish descent.

• Stephen Schnetzer

  American actor, known for his role as...

• Claude-Annick Tissot
• Erving Goffman

  Sociologist (presentation of self in...

• Buddy Baer

  American boxer, the World Heavyweight...

• Marcus Fox

  Conservative MP / Chairman (1922...

• Steven A Cohen

  American hedge fund manager.

• Maria Barranco

  Spanish actress.

• Roger Frey

  French politician.

• Tiger JK
• Carmen Polo 1st Lady of Meirás
• Richard Nelson

  British politician, born in Germany, who...

• Henry Cisneros

  Latino-American politician, the Mayor of...

• Yves Haumont
• Francisco Marto

  Portuguese child noted for the Miracle...

• Michael A Welsh
• Pierre Peugeot

  French heir and business executive, who...

• Ralph Lee

  American engineer and experimental test...

• Laurence Spivak
• Yui Aragaki

  Japanese actress and singer.

• Terry Williams (drummer)
• Jean-Claude Casanova

  French economist and intellectual.

• Ross Harvey

  Australian pro astrologer who calculated...

• Lucien Degauchy
• Mar Flores
• Michael Neukhar

  American race car driver of go-karts on...

• Lloyd O'Callaghan

  American policeman who was called in on...

• Claude Olievenstein
• Paul Etheredge-Ouzts
• Mira Awad
• Charlotte Consorti
• Joe Racer

  American race-car driver of go-carts.

• Wilma Burgess

  Country-pop singer.

• John Michael Swan
• Paul Cauuet
• Franz (cartoonist)
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Famous Deaths

• Walter Hampden

  American actor, considered the Dean of...

• Enrico Berlinguer

  Italian head of the Communist Party from...

• Karen Ann Quinlan

  American right-to-die activist, dies in...

• Robert E Howard

  Sci-fi Author (Conan the Conqueror),...

• Bruce Shand

  father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall...

• Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann Jr

  Dutch Minister (CHU), dies at 87.

• Sam[uel] de Vries

  Actor (Boefje, In Sobibor), dies at 50.

• Koci Xoxe

  Albanian Vice Premier, executed.

• Oton Zupanic

  Slavs Poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies...

• Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil

  French industrialist, murdered.

• Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Corrado Alvaro

  Italian writer (Poesie grigio-verdi),...

• Quang Duc

  Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a...

• Ethel Clayton

  Actress (Warning Shadows), dies at 82.

• Billy Wells

  Gong striker for Rank Films, dies at 79.

• August Maes

  Flemish actor / director (Farmer that...

• Eppo Doeve

  Dutch graphic artist / cartoonist /...

• Clyde McCoy

  Jazz trumpeter (wah wah sound), dies at...

• Vlastimil Fisar

  Czech actor / President (International...

• Christopher Collins

  Actor (True Identity), dies after...

• Herbert Anderson

  Actor (Henry-Dennis The Menace), dies at...

• Kitty Rosalind Muggeridge

  Author, dies at 90.

• Lovelace Watkins

  Singer, dies at 58.

• Luigi Innocenti

  Designer, dies at 71.

• James Curtis Hepburn

  American missionary and linguist (Born...

• Eurico Gaspar Dutra

  President of Brazil (Born 1883).

• Vo Van Kiet

  former prime minister of Vietnam (Born...

• Frank Laubach of Benton

  Pennsylvania, taught reading through...

• Alexander Obrenovich

  King of Serbia (Born 1876).

• William F Halsey

  Sr.

• Daniel Carter Beard

  founder of the Boy Scouts of America...

• Thich Quang ?uc

  Vietnamese Buddhist monk (Born 1897).

• Adolf Friedrich V

  Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Born...

• Jose Mendes Cabecadas

  95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th...

• William 'Billy Batts' Devino

  American crime figure (Born 1921).

• Al Rinker

  American singer (The Rhythm Boys) (Born...

• Sapfo Notara

  Greek actress (Born 1907).

• Rodel Naval

  Filipino Singer (Born1953).

• Vasco Goncalves

  Portuguese general (Born 1922).

• Neroli Fairhall

  New Zealand archer (Born 1944).

• Miroslav Dvorak

  Czechoslovak ice hockey player (Born...

• Zenani Mandela

  Nelson Mandela's great granddaughter...

• Julius Evola

  Italian philosopher and esotericist.

• Giuseppe Saragat

  Italian politician who was the fifth...

• Jim Konstanty

  baseball player (National League Most...

• Catherine Cookson

  English author and philanthropist (d....

• Sumire

  Japanese fashion model (Born 1987).

• Amalia Mendoza

  Mexican singer and actress (d. 2001).

• Charles Swinnerton Heap

  Composer, dies at 53.

• Lev Vygotsky

  Belarusian-Russian psychologist and...

• Earl Grant

  American pianist, organist and singer...

• Nikolai Bugaev

  Georgian-Russian mathematician and...

• Draga Masin

  Wife of Serbian King Aleksandar I,...

• Georg Adler

  German statehouse head, dies at 45.

• Machmud Shevket Pasha

  Turks grand vizier, murdered.

• Henry Clay Folger Jr

  CEO (Folger Shakespeare Library), dies...

• Aleksandr F Kerenski

  Russian Premier (1917), dies at 89.

• Frank Silvera

  Jamaican actor (High Chaparral), dies at...

• Floro Manuel Ugarte

  Composer, dies at 90.

• Marjorie Newell Robb

  Oldest living survivor of Titantic, dies...

• Marlene Hazlett

  Entertainer, dies of cancer.

• Scotty Sachs

  Actor (Hanoi Hilton), dies of gunshot...

• Muriel C Bradbrook

  English writer (Rise of Common Player),...

• Ray Sharkey

  Actor (Wiseguy, No Mercy, Body Rock),...

• Alan Weeks

  British sports commentator, dies at 72.

• Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim]

  Actress (Gloria), dies at 90.

• Kevin Meadows

  Gay rights activist, dies at 21.

• Lonne Elder

  Playwright / screenwriter, dies at 69.

• Ulysses Dove

  Dancer / choreographer, dies at 49.

• Robert E Howard

  American writer (Born 1906).

• R J (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell

  British aircraft designer (Born 1895).

• John Wayne American film actor starring in over 250 films dies at age 72 after battling cancer for m

  Stagecoach (1939), Fort Apache (1948),...

• Michael Bartosh

  computer expert and author (Born 1977).

• John L Lewis

  formed Congress of Industrial...

• Camille Bombois

  French artist, a primitive painter whose...

• Theodore Dubois

  French musician; a composer and...

• Wallace Ford

  English-American actor and singer (d....

• Nathan Cook

  Actor (White Night), dies of an allergic...

• William Attewell

  English cricketer and umpire (d. 1927).

• Jack Hannah

  Animator, dies at 90.

• Heinrich Hart

  German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit),...

• Ralph Morgan

  Actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London),...

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2017 Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber - Despacito
• 2016 Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla - One Dance
• 2015 Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar - Bad Blood
• 2014 Iggy Azalea Featuring Charli XCX - Fancy
• 2013 Macklemore - Can't Hold Us
• 2012 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
• 2011 Adele - Rolling In The Deep
• 2010 Usher - OMG
• 2009 The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
• 2008 Lil Wayne - Lollipop
• 2007 Rihanna - Umbrella
• 2006 Chamillionaire - Ridin'
• 2005 Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
• 2004 Usher - Burn
• 2003 50 Cent - 21 Questions
• 2002 Ashanti - Foolish
• 2001 Christina Aguilera - Lady Marmalade
• 2000 Santana - Maria, Maria
• 1999 Jennifer Lopez - If You Had My Love
• 1998 Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine
• 1997 Hanson - MMMbop
• 1996 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
• 1995 Bryan Adams - Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?
• 1994 All-4-One - I Swear
• 1993 Janet Jackson - That's The Way Love Goes
• 1992 Kris Kross - Jump
• 1991 Extreme - More Than Words
• 1990 Wilson Phillips - Hold On
• 1989 Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings
• 1988 George Michael - One More Try
• 1987 Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin' On
• 1986 Madonna - Live To Tell
• 1985 Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
• 1984 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
• 1983 Irene Cara - Flashdance...What A Feeling
• 1982 Paul McCartney - Ebony And Ivory
• 1981 Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
• 1980 Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown
• 1979 Bee Gees - Love You Inside Out
• 1978 John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John - You're The One That I Want
• 1977 KC and the Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man
• 1976 Diana Ross - Love Hangover
• 1975 John Denver - Thank God I'm A Country Boy
• 1974 Paul McCartney - Band On The Run
• 1973 Paul McCartney - My Love
• 1972 Sammy Davis Jr. - The Candy Man
• 1971 The Honey Cone - Want Ads
• 1970 Ray Stevens - Everything Is Beautiful
• 1969 The Beatles - Get Back
• 1968 Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
• 1967 Aretha Franklin - Respect
• 1966 The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
• 1965 The Supremes - Back In My Arms Again
• 1964 The Dixie Cups - Chapel Of Love
• 1963 Lesley Gore - It's My Party
• 1962 Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You
• 1961 Roy Orbison - Running Scared
• 1960 The Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown
• 1959 Johnny Horton - The Battle Of New Orleans
• 1958 The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream
• 1957 Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 Imagine Dragons - Believer
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 WALK THE MOON - Shut Up And Dance
• 2014 Paramore - Ain't It Fun
• 2013 Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
• 2012 Linkin Park - Burn It Down
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 Three Days Grace - The Good Life