May 30th, 2002In New York, the end of the agonizing clean up at Ground Zero, eight and a half months after the September 11th terrorist attacks. Retired firefighter Tom Steffens says he can hardly believe what he sees where the Twin Towers of the Wor

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June 3rd, 1965. Get back in. OK. come back in now. Astronaut Edward White becomes the first American to walk in space during the Gemini IV mission. 1989, Irans spiritual leader the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dies in Tehran. Khomeinis rise to power i

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June 2nd 1997In Denver, a federal jury convicts Timothy McVeigh of murder and conspiracy in the Oklahoma City bombing. MK is the mother of one of the 168 people killed in the blast at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The emotions have been building

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June 5th, 1968So, my thanks to all of you, and now its on to Chicago, and lets win there. In Los Angeles, Senator Robert F. Kennedy is fatally shot, after claiming victory in California's Democratic Presidential Primary. Reporter Andrew West is there

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June 6th, 1944. Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandie, France, in the D-Day invasion of WWII. Commanding the massive operation General Dwight Eisenhower who tells the troops: You are about to embark upon the great crusade towards which we have

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June 7th, 1998In Jasper, Texas, three white men chain a black man James Byrd, Junior to a pickup truck, then drag him to his death. Two of the men who dragged Byrd are later sentenced to death for the crime. The third receives life in prison. 1948,Th

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June 8th, 632The Prophet Muhammad who founded the religion of Islam dies in Medina, part of what's now Saudi Arabia. Muhammad leaves no arrangement for a successor, creating a rift within Islam which lasts to this day. 1968Authorities announce a capt

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June 9th 1954On Capitol Hill, US Army counsel Joseph Welch confronts Senator Joseph McCarthy over his tactics in fighting Communist version during the Cold War. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? It's

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June 10th, 1967. In the Mideast, the Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors ends with a cease-fire mediated by the United Nations. During the war, Israel seized the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank including East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip an

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June 13th, 1971The New York Times begins publishing The Pentagon Papers --- a leaked, top secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam. President Richard Nixon's administration tries to block further publication in court, citing national security

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June 14th, 1940During World War II, Paris falls into Nazi hands, as German troops enter France's capital. That same day, in German occupied Poland, the Nazis open a concentration camp, at Auschwitz. 1985,Shiite Muslim militants hijack TWA Flight 847

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June 15th, 1215. In Runnymede, England, King John signs the Magna Carta, or Great Charter, granting liberties to his barons. The document shapes concepts ofdemocracy and constitutional law around the world for centuries to come. 1904. In New York Cit

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June 17th, 1972One of Americas greatest political scandals begins to unfold in Washington, D.C.. Five burglars are arrested inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex. Lawrence OBrien at the time the chairman of th

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June 16th, 1858In Illinois, Abraham Lincoln launches his U.S Senate bid with the warning about America's split over slavery , arguing the issue must be resolved. Lincoln says a house divided against itself cannot stand. Three years later, the Civil W

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May 31st, 1889The Johnstown flood swept people on the ground; the Johnstown flood washed away the townIn one of America's worst natural disasters, water sweeps through Johnstown, Pennsylvania after a dam breaks. The flood kills more than 22 hundred p

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June 30th 1934Nazi Germany's dictator Adolf Hitler begins his so-called Blood Purge of political and military rivals known as the Night of the Long Knives. 1906A major step forward for America's food and drug safety as President Theodore Roosevelt si

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June 28th 1914The event that triggers War World I takes place in the Balkans in southern Europe, a third national assassinates Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo and whats now Bosnia Herzegovina. On the same day, five years la

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June 27th, 1950President Harry Truman orders American air and naval forces into the Korean War, on the side of South Korea. That happens after the United Nations urges its members to help repel communist North Korea's invasion of the non-communist So

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June 26th, 1963During the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy visits what's then West Berlin, showing solidarity with its citizens against communism. As a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner. The visit takes place exactly fifteen

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June 18th 1940 In London, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill tells his people to prepare for their struggle against Nazi Germany during World War II. If the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This

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