1964 Ringo Starr collapses from tonsilitis &pharyngitis

1964 Rolling Stones begin first US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro &Bobby Vee)

1965 Gemini 4 launched; 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt &White)

1966 Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford &Cernan)

1976 Queen's Bhoemian Rhapsody goes gold

1976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta

1979 The oil rig Ixtoc I in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled

1980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35

1980 ESPN begins televising college world series games

1980 Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination

1981 Pope John Paul II released from hospital after attempt on life

1986 E F Helin discovers asteroid #3767

1989 Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing

1989 Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone

1989 Troops in China shoot &kill 100s of students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing

1991 Mount Unzen erupts in Japan. Worst eruption in Japanese history

1098 Crusaders take Antioch, considered the first Christian city and now located in Turkey.

1940 Paris suffers heavy bombing from German aircraft

1974 Yitzhak Rabin takes over from Golda Meir as Israels premier

1989 The Chinese government sends military troops to Tianamen square, in an effort to repress pro-democracy protesters.

1865 The birth of King George V

1925 The birth of Tony Curtis, American film actor

2006 Montenegro declares independence after a may 21 referendum. The state union of Serbia and Montenegro is dissolved on jun 5 leaving Serbia as the successor state.

2006 Seventeen men are arrested in the Greater Toronto Area for alleged ties to a terrorist plot to blow up targets in the region.

2007 The Valley of Geysers in Russia was destroyed by a mudflow.[14]

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