06-16-2006, 05:17 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Maryland
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June 16th
1829 ~ Birthday of Geronimo, Apache Warrior & Leader.
1890 ~ Birthday of Stan Laurel, Comedian.
1912 ~ Birthday of Enoch Powell, British politician.
1933 ~ Start of President Roosevelt’s New Deal.
1938 ~ Birthday of Joyce Carol Oates, novelist.
1948 ~ The Miss Macao passenger seaplane became the first skyjacking of a commercial plane.
1961 ~ Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget airport in Paris.
1963 ~ Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
1976 ~ Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.
1977 ~ Death of Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist.
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