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June 1
1868: James Buchanan, 15th president of the United
States from 1857-1861, died near
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA at age 77.
1941: In WWII British army set back from Crete island with heavy losses.
3,000 Australians died in the evacuation as well. 1943: All
passengers and crew including British actor And director, Leslie Howard,
aboard a commercial airplane from Lisbon to London were killed, when it was shot down by
German
aircraft over the Bay of Biscay.
1946: Ion Antonescu, Romanian general and dictator of Romania during
WWII, was executed.
1968: Helen Keller, famous for publishing her journal in 1938,
died. She was deaf, mute, and blind from birth.
1997: Betty Shabazz, the widower of Malcolm X, died during a
fire accident, set by her 12 year old grandson in her apartment in Yonkers, NY,
USA .
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June 2
1941: Lou Gehrig, American baseball player, "the
Iron Horse", died in New York of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
disease. 1961: George S. Kaufman, American playwright
and twice Pulitzer Prize winner,
died.
1987: Andres Segovia, Spanish classical guitarist, died.
1990: Rex Harrison, British actor, famous for
Professor Higgins role in the musical "My Fair Lady", died.
1997: Helen Jacobs, American tennis player and four successive
winner of U.S. titles from 1932 to 1935, died at age 88. She was ranked number one in the
world in 1936.
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June 3
1657: William Harvey, British physician and researcher,
died. He discovered that heart works as a pump and circulate blood.
1864: 7,000 American Union troops were killed or wounded during Civil
War in Cold Harbor, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
1875: Georges Bizet, French composer, died.
1899: Johann Strauss Jr, Austrian conductor and composer of "The Blue
Danube", died. 1924: Franz Kafka, Austrian modern writer of
"Trial'' and "Metamorphosis", died
1963: Pope John XXIII died at the age of 81. He was succeeded by Pope Paul
VI. 1973: 15 crew aboard a Soviet Tupolev 144, the supersonic
plane to compete with Anglo-French Concorde plane, died in an air show
in Paris. 1989: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, spiritual leader of Iran, died
in a hospital in Tehran at 86.
1991: 40 people were killed when the Mount Unzen volcano in southern Japan
erupted. 2000: William Simon, US retierd Treasury Secretary, died in Santa Barbara,
California, at age 72.
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June 4
1798: Giovanni Casanova, Italian diplomat and spy, died.
1941: Kaiser Wilhelm II, 9th king of Prussia and 3rd German emperor from
1888-1918, died in exile in the Netherlands. 1989: Hundreds of students
were killed in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, when the Chinese army tried to
crush the demonstration. 2000: More than 100 people were killed
when a powerful earthquake
struck Sumatra island in Indonesian.
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June 5
1826: Carl Maria von Weber, German pianist and composer, died.
1916: Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Irish general and conqueror of Sudan, was lost at sea when his ship struck a mine
near
Orkneys.
1921: Georges Leon Jules Marie Feydeau, French actor and farce playwright,
died. 1968: Senator Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles,
during Democratic presidential primary, by Palestinian Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. He died the next day. 1976:
11 people were killed when the Teton Dam in Idaho burst.
1999: Mel Torme, American jazz singer, died in Los Angeles at
age 73.
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June 6
1861: Camillo Benso Cavour, who made Italy united under the House of
Savoy, died.
1891: John A. Macdonald, first prime minister of Canada, died. 1941: Louis Chevrolet, American car designer, died.
1961: Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychologist and author of
sociology, died. 1976:
John Paul Getty, American billionaire and oil business man, died.
1985: Authorities in Brazil exhumed the body
of Dr. Josef Mengele, of the Nazi Holocaust. 1991: Stan Getz, Jazz
saxophonist, died in Malibu, California, USA, at age 64.
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June 7
1937: Jean
Harlow, American actress of such 30's films like ``Hell's
Angels,'' died at the age of 26. 1967: Dorothy Parker, American
author and critic, died in New York City. 1970: Edward Morgan Forster,
British author of "A Passage To India", died. 1980: Henry Miller,
American author, died 1998: James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old
black man, was chained to a pickup truck by three white men in Jasper,
Texas. They dragged him until he died.
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Politicians who died June 7
June 8
1809: Thomas Paine, English political journalist and a founding father of
American independence, died in New York. 1845: Andrew
Jackson, seventh president of the United States from1828-36, died in Nashville,
Tennessee, USA. 1876: George Sand, French novelist and composer
Chopin's companion, died in Nohant,
France. 1913: Emily Davison, British feminist activist, died.
She ran in front of the King's horse during the Derby horse race on June
4. 1940: Over 1,500 British crewmen were killed in three
ships in a battle with two German ships in the
Arctic off Norway.
1967: 34 U.S. servicemen were killed when Israeli forces
attacked a Navy ship called "Liberty" in the Mediterranean.
1969: Robert Taylor, Hollywood actor in such films as
"Camille"
and "Ivanhoe", died.
2000: Stephen Saunders, British Brigadier and NATO defense
attache, was assassinated by 2 Yugoslav members of November 17
terrorist group in Athens, Greece.
2000: Jeff
MacNally, Pulitzer Prize winner and cartoonist, died in Baltimore, Maryland,
USA, at age 52.
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June 9
0068: Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide. 1870:
Charles Dickens, author of "Great Expectations" and
"David Copperfield", died in Godshill, England. 1874:
Cochise, the Chiricahua Apache Indian chief, died. He was one of the
leaders of Indian resistance to white settlers in southwestern America. 1953:
100 people died in Worcester, Massachusetts by a tornado struck. 1958:
Robert Donat, British actor and Oscar winner for acting in "Goodbye Mr.
Chips", died. 1976: Dame Sybil Thorndike, British actress, died.
1991: Claudio Arrau, Pianist and composer, died in Austria at age 88. 2000:
Jacob
Lawrence, American Painter, died in Seattle, Washington, USA, at age 82.
2000: George
Segal, American Sculptor, died at his house in New Jersey, USA, at age 75.
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June 10
1190: During the crusades, Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor,
drowned trying to cross the
Saleph River in Cilicia, Turkey. 1836:
Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist, died. He developed a measuring techniques
for electricity for the first time. 1934: Frederick Delius,
British composer, died. 1942:
173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, were massacred by German Gestapo,
in retaliation for the assassination of one Nazi official. 1944:
All residents of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, were killed by Nazi troops
to revenge against the French resistance activities. 1946:
Jack Johnson, first black American boxer to hold the World heavyweight
boxing championship, died. 1967: Spencer Tracy, Hollywood actor, died.
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June 11
1727: King George I, first Hanoverian king of Great Britain from
1714 to 1727, died.
1847: John
Franklin, British naval officer and North Arctic explorer, died in Canada when
he was attempting to discover the Northwest Passage.
1903: Serbian King Alexander I and his wife, Queen Draga, were murdered in a coup.
1955: 8 people were killed and more than 100 injured when 3 race
cars crashed and broke into audience stand on the Le Mans racetrack in France.
1963: Quang Duc, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, set fire to himself on a Saigon street
to protest the South Vietnamese regime ruled by President Ngo Dinh Diem.
1970: Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky, Russian politician and prime
minister of pre-soviet era,
died. He fled to France when Bolsheviks took power in 1917. He immigrated
to the
United States later.
1977: Six South Mouluccan guerrillas
and two hostages were killed at Assen, Netherland, when Dutch forces broke into a train
in which guerrillas had been holding more than 50 hostages for 19 days. 1979:
John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison), world famous Hollywood star, died at age
72 in Los Angeles. He won an Oscar for
best actor in "True Grit". 1985: Karen Ann Quinlan, a comatose patient
who fought in court for his right for dying by choice, died in Morris Plains,
New Jersey, USA, at
age 31.
1999: DeForest Kelley, American TV actor who played in the
"Star Trek" TV series as Dr. " McCoy", died.
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Politicians who died June 11
June 12
1957: Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, died.
1963: Medgar Evers, civil rights leader, was shot in front of his
home in Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
1994: Menachem Schneerson, the ultra Orthodox Lubavitch movement
leader for Judaism, died in New York.
1995: Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian greatest
pianists of the 20th century, died.
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June 13
323 B.C.: Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia, died in Babylon.
1886: Louis II (Ludwig II), King of Bavaria from 1864 to 1886, died.
He drowned himself at Starnberger See in Germany.
1917: 162 people were killed in London when 14 German Gotha
airplanes bombed the city for the first time in history of Aviation. The only previous aerial
bombing were done by zeppelins.
1958: Pierre-Etienne Flandin, French prime minister from 1934 to
1935, died.
1986: Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, died. He was one of
the first to hire black musicians for his band. 1991: One
golf spectator died by a lightning struck in the first round of the U.S.
Open golf tournament.
1998: Lucio Costa, Brazilian architect, on of the Latin American modernist
architects who planned Brasilia, died at age 96.
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Politicians who died June 13
June 14
1801: Benedict Arnold, American Revolutionary War General, died in
London. 1883: Edward Fitzgerald, British poet and translator
of "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", died.
1936: Maxim Gorky, Soviet writer and novelist, died.
1946: John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor of
television, died.
1986: Alan Jay Lerner, American playwright and lyricist, died.
1991: Dame Peggy Ashcroft, British actress, died in London at age 83.
1994: Henry Mancini, American composer, famous for
"Breakfast at Tiffany" and "Pink Panther" soundtracks, died.
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Politicians who died June 14
June 15
1849: James Polk, 11th president of the United States, died in
Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
1904: 1,000 people, mostly women
and children, died in New York's East River when steamboat
General Slocum caught fire and sank.
1996: Ella Fitzgerald, first lady of jazz, died in Beverly Hills,
California, at age 78 or 79.
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June 16
1722: John Churchill, British Duke of Marlborough, died.
1869: Charles Sturt, British explorer who did several expeditions in Australia, died.
1930: Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor of gyroscopic compass, died.
1958: Imre Nagy, Hungarian prime minister whose government fell by Soviet
army in 1956, was hanged for treason.
1969: Earl Alexander, British army general during WWII,
died.
1989: More than 250 thousands gathered in Budapest's
streets in an emotional funeral for Imre Nagy, Hungarian prime minister who was
hung by pro soviet government on the same date in 1958.
1996: Mel Allen, TV sports reporter, died in Greenwich,
Connecticut, USA, at age 83.
2000: Raynard Johnson, a 17 year old boy, hung himself from a tree in Marion County,
Mississippi, USA.
2000: Nagako, widow of Japan's Emperor
Hirohito, died in Tokyo at age 97.
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June 17
656: Caliph Uthman ( Osman in Arabic), third caliph after the death of the Prophet
Mohammad, was assassinated at his home in Medina by Muslim rebels from
Mesopotamia.
1696: John III Sobieski, king of Poland, died.
1719: Joseph Addison, British poet and writer, died. 1940:
2800 British crewmen died when Lancastria troop ship was sunk by German
army carrying British troops being evacuated from France. 1948:
43 people on board of a United Air Lines DC-6 died when it crashed near Mount Carmel,
Pennsylvania, USA.
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June 18
1902: Samuel Butler, British novelist who wrote his famous autobiographical
novel, died.
1928: Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, was lost in a flight over the Arctic
Ocean.
1959: Ethel Barrymore, Hollywood actress, died.
1996: 6 crewmen were killed and 33 injured when two US army transport helicopters collided and crashed during
a training exercise
near Fort Campbell, Kentucky, USA.
2000: Nancy Marchand, TV actress, died in Stratford,
Connecticut, USA, at age 72.
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June 19
1867: Maximilian, Mexico's Emperor, was executed by republican revolutionary
party. 1937: J.M. Barrie, Scottish creator of Peter
Pan, died. 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American couple spying for the Soviet
Union, were executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in
Ossining, New York, USA.
1991: Jean
Arthur, film actress, died at age 90.
1993: William Golding, Nobel Prize-winning author of "Lord
of the Flies", died. 2000: 58 illegal Chinese
immigrants were found dead by British customs officers. They had been locked in
a truck at the port of Dover, England.
2000: Noboru Takeshita, Japanese Prime Minister, died in Tokyo at age 76.
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June 20
1756: More than 20 British soldiers died in
suffocating cell of "Black Hole of Calcutta" prison.
1900: Baron von Ketteler, German ambassador in Peking, was assassinated
by Chinese troops.
1923: Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary leader, was assassinated on his
farm. 1943: 30 blacks were killed in a riot in Detroit. 1944:
4000 Japanese navy crew were killed during the battle of Philippine Sea. 1947:
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Las Vegas visionary casino owner, was shot
to death at his girlfriend's Beverly Hills mansion in California.
1979: Bill Stewart, ABC TV News reporter was shot to death in Managua,
Nicaragua, by a member of President Anastasio Somoza's national guard.
1997: John Akii-Bua, Uganda's Olympic gold medallist for 400-metre hurdles
in 1972 Munich Olympics, died.
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June 21
1527: Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer and philosopher, died.
1652: Inigo Jones, British painter and architect, died. 1908: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov,
Russian composer of "Scheherezade", died. 1945:
Mitsuru Ushijima's body, a Japanese commander during WWII, were found by
American soldiers on Okinawa. 1964: Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James
E. Chaney, civil rights activists, disappeared in Philadelphia, Mississippi,
USA. 6 weeks later their bodies were found.
1969: Maureen Connolly, American tennis player known as Little
Mo, died.
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June 22
1922: Henry Wilson, chief of the British
Imperial General Staff, was shot
by the Irish Republican Army and later died at his Belgravia house in London.
1945: 234,183 people
were officially killed in the Okinawa battle between American and Japanese army
in World War Two, when it ended
after 81days. 1969: Judy Garland, world famous singer and
Hollywood star of "The Wizard of Oz" and "A Star is
Born" died in London at age 47. 1974 - Darius Milhaud, French
musician who used jazz themes in his "La Creation du Monde"
ballet, died.
1984 - Joseph Losey, American film director of "The
Servant" and "The Go-Between" died. 1987 - Fred Astaire,
American dancer, singer, and actor of famous Hollywood musicals, died. He
co-danced with Ginger Rogers in many stage
musicals and films. 1993: Pat Nixon, wife of American
president Nixon died in Park Ridge, New Jersey, at age 81.
2000: More than 130 people were killed in a ferry accident in the Yangtze River near the city of Luzhou in Sichuan
province in China.
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June 23
1945: Lt Gen Ushijima, Japanese commander, committed suicide at
Okinawa site, a day after they surrendered to American forces
in the bloodiest battle of the Asian Pacific.
1980: Sanjay Gandhi, Indira Gandhi's eldest son, was
killed his plane crashed.
1985: 329 passengers and crew aboard an Air India Boeing 747 on a flight from Canada
were killed when it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean over 100 miles off the coast of
Ireland. It was never cleared if a bomb caused the crash.
1995: Jonas Salk, medical scientist who developed a vaccine to halt the crippling
attack of polio, died in La Jolla, California, USA, at age 80.
1996: Andreas Papandreou, Greek Prime Minister of socialist
party, died at age 77 after a long illness. 1998: Maureen
O'Sullivan, stage and film actress, staring in Tarzan films, David Copperfield
and woody Allen's Hannah
and her Sisters, died.
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June 24
1908: Grover Cleveland, who was U.S. president twice (22nd and 24th presidential
term), died in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, at age 71.
1975: 113 of the 124 people aboard a U.S. Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 were killed
when it crashed during a thunder storm near New York's Kennedy
International Airport. 1987: Jackie
Gleason, American comedian and actor, died at his home in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, USA, at age 71.
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June 25
1876: Colonel Custer died along with
his 264 U.S. 7th Cavalry men At the Battle of the Little Big Horn against Chief Crazy
Horse of Sioux Indians. 1906: Stanford White, New York building's
designer, was shot to death
by Harry Thaw, husband of Evelyn Nesbit in Madison Square
Garden.
1968: Tony Hancock, the British comedian, committed suicide in a Sydney hotel room
in Australia.
1976: Johnny Mercer, American song writer and actor, died. 1988:
Mildred Gillars, a Nazi propaganda broadcaster called "Axis
Sally, died in Columbus, Ohio, USA, at
age 87.
1995: Warren Burger, chief justice of the United States, died in
Washington DC at age 87.
1996: 19 Americans were killed and nearly 400 injured when a truck bomb
exploded behind the wall of a Saudi Arabian military complex housing
foreigners. 1997: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, world famous French oceanographer, died aged 87.
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June 26
1541: Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of South America and Peru, was assassinated in his
palace in Lima.
1810: Joseph Michel Montgolfier, the French inventor of the hot air balloon, died.
1977: Elvis
Presley appeared on his last concert at Indianapolis just two months before his
sudden death.
1978: Salim Rubai Ali, South Yemen president, was executed
after a a coupe.
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June 27
1829: James Lewis Macie Smithson, founder of the Washington Smithsonian Institution, died in Genoa, Italy.
1844: Joseph Smith, Mormon leader and founder of the Mormon
Church, and his brother, Hyrum, was killed in a jail in Carthage, Illinois,
USA. 1957: 500 people were killed in a Hurricane
through Louisiana and Texas.
1988: Hillel Slovak, the California rock band guitarist, the Red
Hot Chili Peppers, died of a heroin overdose at age 26.
1999: George Papadopoulos, Greek military dictator, died at age 80.
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June 28
1836: James Madison, 4th U.S. president from 1809 to 1817, died in
Montpelier, Virginia, USA.
1914: Franz Ferdinand, Austro-Hungarian Archduke, and his wife, Sofia,
were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist in an event that triggered
WWI. 1981: 74 people, including Minister of Justice Ayatollah Beheshti
and Dr. Diyalameh, were
killed by a briefcase bomb attack on the headquarters of the Islamic Republican
Party in Tehran, Iran.
2000: 2 people were killed and 7 wounded when a gunman took 40
hostages in the offices of the U.N. Food and Agriculture
Organization in Baghdad.
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June 29
1921: Randolph Churchill (Jennie Jerome), mother of Winston Churchill
who was born in USA, died in London, England. 1941: Ignaci Jan Paderewski, Polish
musician who became Poland Prime Minister in 1919, died in
New York at age 80.
1967: Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jayne Palmer), Hollywood sex idle
and actress, died in a car crash near New Orleans.
1978: Bob
Crane, American TV star, was murdered mysteriously at age 49.
1982: Pierre Alexandre Balmain, French fashion designer for Queens
& Empresses, died n Paris.
1995: 502 people died in South Korea died when a department store in Seoul collapsed.
1995: Lana Turner, Hollywood blonde actress of great classicals,
died at age 75. 2000: 500 Indonesian immigrants fleeing from Maluku
islands died when an overloaded ship sank in Asian Pacific.
2000: Vittorio
Gassman, world famous Italian Actor, died in Rome at age 77.
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June 30
1520: Montezuma II, last Aztec emperor, was killed by Spanish
during Mexico exploration. 1971: 3 astronauts of the Soviet Soyuz II spacecraft died
when they were coming back from their endurance record of 571 hours of
space travel.
1974: Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther
King, American civil right activist, was assassinated in a church.
1996: American President, Bill Clinton, attended memorial services at Eglin Air Force Base
and Patrick Air Force Base in Florida to pay tribute to 19 people who were killed
in a truck bomb
attack in Saudi Arabia in June 25, 1996.
2000: 9 people died in a rock festival stampede in Roskilde,
Denmark.
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June 1999: 50 people, including six officers, died when a
Sudanese military plane crashed as a result of an unspecified technical
problem in the eastern state of Kassala, near Ethiopia.
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