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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #15 on: June 10, 2014, 02:20:31 AM »

In 1692, the first official execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts took place as Bridget Bishop was hanged.
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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #16 on: June 10, 2014, 02:21:04 AM »

In 1864, the Confederate Congress authorized military service for men between the ages of 17 and 70.
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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #17 on: June 10, 2014, 02:21:06 AM »

Well, getting late. BK almost nubbed.  Weather report says I shouldn't ride the motorcycle to work tomorrow.  I'll catch y'all when the sun comes up.
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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #18 on: June 10, 2014, 02:22:04 AM »

In 1907, eleven men in five cars set out from the French embassy in Beijing on a race to Paris. (Prince Scipione Borghese of Italy was the first to arrive in the French capital two months later.)
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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #19 on: June 10, 2014, 02:22:53 AM »

In 1921, President Warren G. Harding signed into law the Budget and Accounting Act, which created the Bureau of the Budget and the General Accounting Office.
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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #20 on: June 10, 2014, 02:23:39 AM »

In 1934, English composer Frederick Delius, 72, died in Grez-sur-Loing, France.
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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #21 on: June 10, 2014, 02:24:30 AM »

In 1940, Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy.
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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #22 on: June 10, 2014, 02:25:04 AM »

In 1942, during World War II, German forces massacred 173 male residents of Lidice (LIH'-dyiht-zeh), Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.
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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #23 on: June 10, 2014, 02:25:46 AM »

In 1944, German forces massacred 642 residents of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane.
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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #24 on: June 10, 2014, 02:26:34 AM »

In 1967, the Middle East War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #25 on: June 10, 2014, 02:27:06 AM »

In 1971, President Richard M. Nixon lifted a two-decades-old trade embargo on China.
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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #26 on: June 10, 2014, 02:27:50 AM »

In 1985, socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, Rhode Island, at his retrial on charges he'd tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow.
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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #27 on: June 10, 2014, 02:28:18 AM »

In 1994, the action thriller "Speed," starring Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper and Sandra Bullock, was released by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #28 on: June 10, 2014, 02:28:48 AM »

Ten years ago: Singer-musician Ray Charles, known for such hits as "What'd I Say," ''Georgia on My Mind" and "I Can't Stop Loving You," died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 73.
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Re: 6/10/2014
« Reply #29 on: June 10, 2014, 02:29:27 AM »

Five years ago: James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist, opened fire in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., killing security guard Stephen T. Johns. (Von Brunn died at a North Carolina hospital in January 2010 while awaiting trial.) Donald Trump fired Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who'd sparked controversy when she said gays shouldn't be allowed to marry, citing contract violations.
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