Historical Events In June - 17

1965 28.14 cm (11.08") of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record)

1967 Barbra Striesand A Happening in Central Park performed

1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power

1971 C U Cesco discovers asteroid #2399 Terradas

1972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate Oh what a tangled web we weave

1972 Looking Glass releases "Brandy"

1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroids #2997 ఋ

1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US

1980 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2586 Matson

1982 Pres Reagan first UN Gen Assembly address ("evil empire" speech)

1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat in the Falklands War with Britian

1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched

1986 Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated

1988 Bruce Springsteen seperates from Juliette Phillips

1988 Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0 (think Windows)

1988 The Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens

1989 US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup

1991 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78

1944 Iceland becomes an independent republic

1946 War crime trial of Emperor Hirohito of Japan begins

1953 Soviet tanks deployed against rioting East Germans

1967 China explodes its first H-bomb

1970 Polaroid camera patented

1882 The birth of Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer and conductor

1917 The birth of Dean Martin, American film actor and singer

1934 The birth of Donald Sutherland, Canadian born film actor

2005 A 6.7 aftershock, which followed a 5.3 earthquake the previous day, hits California making it the fourth earthquake since June 12 in California. (California earthquakes of June 205)

2005 Because of "quadruple-witching" options and futures expiration, the New York Stock Exchange sees the heaviest first-hour trading on record. 704 million shares were traded between 9:30-10:30 A.M. 1.92 billion shares were traded for the day.

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