Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS served as British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 until 1990, being the first and only woman to hold either post.
Thatcher’s tenure as Prime Minister was the longest since that of Lord Salisbury and was the longest […]

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Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until the transfer of its sovereignty to the People’s Republic of China in 1997.
The handover ceremony of Hong Kong in 1997 officially marked the transfer of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People’s Republic of China. It was an internationally televised […]

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Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is a former American world heavyweight boxing champion and is the youngest man to have won a world heavyweight title.
During his prime in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tyson was one of the most recognizable athletes in the world. Nicknamed “Iron Mike Tyson,” “Kid Dynamite” and “The […]

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Loonie is the name Canadians gave the gold-coloured, bronze-plated, one-dollar coin shortly after its introduction in 1987.
The coin, an 11 sided polygon, bears images of a common loon, a well-known Canadian bird, on the reverse, and of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse. The design for the coin was meant to be a voyageur theme, […]

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The Ciaculli massacre on 30 June 1963 was caused by a car bomb that exploded in Ciaculli, an outlying suburb of Palermo, killing seven police and military officers sent to defuse it after an anonymous phone call.
The bomb was intended for Salvatore “Ciaschiteddu” Greco, head of the Sicilian Mafia Commission and the boss of the […]

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The Soyuz spacecraft was launched on June 6, 1971, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in central Kazakh SSR.
Soyuz 11 successfully docked with Salyut 1 on June 7 and the cosmonauts remained on-board for 22 days, setting space endurance records that would hold until the American Skylab 2 mission in May-June 1973. On June 30, 1971, after an […]

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United Airlines Flight 718, Mainliner Vancouver, registration N6324C, was a Douglas DC-7 en route from Los Angeles’s International Airport to Chicago, Newark and Philadelphia on June 30, 1956.
Trans World Airlines Flight 2, Star of the Seine, registration N6902C, was a Lockheed Super Constellation en route from Los Angeles to Kansas City and New York City. […]

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The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car that has been manufactured by Chevrolet since June 1953.
It is built today at a General Motors assembly plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, but in the past it was built in Flint, Michigan and St. Louis, Missouri. It was the first all American sports car built by an American […]

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Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light prior to 1975, GL) is an Emmy award winning American television program credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as being the longest-running soap opera in production and the longest running drama in television history.
The 15,000th televised episode of Guiding Light aired on September 7, 2006. Due […]

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The Battle of Cherbourg was part of the Battle of Normandy during World War II.
The fight for Cherbourg started immediately after the successful Allied landings on June 6, 1944. Cherbourg with its deep-water port which would allow reinforcements to be brought directly from the United States was considered vital to the campaign in Western Europe. […]

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