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Saturday, June 05, 2010

Today In History...

"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"
George Santayana

  • 1988 1st Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000.
  • 1981 Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays, AIDS.
  • 1968 Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day.
  • 1967 6 day war between Israel and Arab neighbors begin.
  • 1959 Bob Dylan graduates Hibbing HS in Minnesota
  • 1876 Bananas become popular in U.S., at Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
  • 1661 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge.

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