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Re: 6/11/2014
« Reply #15 on: June 11, 2014, 02:12:30 AM »

Today is Wednesday, June 11, the 162nd day of 2014. There are 203 days left in the year.
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Re: 6/11/2014
« Reply #16 on: June 11, 2014, 02:13:10 AM »

Today's Highlights in History:

On June 11, 1864, German composer Richard Strauss, known for such operas as "Der Rosenkavalier," ''Salome" and "Elektra" and tone poems like "Also sprach Zarathustra," was born in Munich.
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« Reply #17 on: June 11, 2014, 02:14:12 AM »

In 1509, England's King Henry VIII married his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
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« Reply #18 on: June 11, 2014, 02:15:33 AM »

In 1770, Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it.
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« Reply #19 on: June 11, 2014, 02:16:21 AM »

In 1919, Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing's first Triple Crown winner.
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« Reply #20 on: June 11, 2014, 02:17:25 AM »

In 1938, Johnny Vander Meer pitched the first of two consecutive no-hitters as he led the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-0 victory over the Boston Bees. (Four days later, Vander Meer refused to give up a hit to the Brooklyn Dodgers, who lost, 6-0.)
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« Reply #21 on: June 11, 2014, 02:18:24 AM »

In 1942, the United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend-lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.
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« Reply #22 on: June 11, 2014, 02:18:56 AM »

In 1959, the Saunders-Roe Nautical 1, the first operational hovercraft, was publicly demonstrated off the southern coast of England.
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« Reply #23 on: June 11, 2014, 02:19:53 AM »

In 1962, three prisoners at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay staged an escape, leaving the island on a makeshift raft; they were never found or heard from again.
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« Reply #24 on: June 11, 2014, 02:20:26 AM »

In 1963, a Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc (tihk kwang duk), set himself afire on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem (noh deen dyem).
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Re: 6/11/2014
« Reply #25 on: June 11, 2014, 02:21:32 AM »

In 1977, Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
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« Reply #26 on: June 11, 2014, 02:22:21 AM »

In 1987, Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office as her Conservatives held onto a reduced majority in Parliament.
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« Reply #27 on: June 11, 2014, 02:22:57 AM »

In 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people who commit "hate crimes" motivated by bigotry may be sentenced to extra punishment; the court also ruled religious groups had a constitutional right to sacrifice animals in worship services.
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« Reply #28 on: June 11, 2014, 02:23:53 AM »

In 2001, Timothy McVeigh, 33, was executed by injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
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Re: 6/11/2014
« Reply #29 on: June 11, 2014, 02:25:04 AM »

Ten years ago: The nation bade a lingering goodbye to former President Ronald Reagan at a stately funeral service in Washington, D.C. followed hours later by a hilltop burial ceremony in his beloved California. Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols was again spared the death penalty when jurors who'd convicted him of 161 murder counts in a state trial deadlocked over his sentence. "Prince of high fashion" Egon von Furstenberg died in Rome at age 57.
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