Saturday, June 16, 2018

History for June 16

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Stan Laurel 1890, Katherine Graham 1917, Erich Segal 1937
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Roberto Duran 1951 - Boxer, Phil Mickelson 1970 - Golf player, Tupac Shakur 1971 - Rapper
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1858 - In a speech in Springfield, IL, U.S. Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved. He declared, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
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1884 - At Coney Island, in Brooklyn, NY, the first roller coaster in America opened.
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1883 - The New York Giants baseball team admitted all ladies for free to the ballpark. It was the first Ladies Day.
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1903 - Ford Motor Company was incorporated.
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1952 - "My Little Margie" debuted on CBS-TV.
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1980 - The movie "The Blues Brothers" opened in Chicago, IL.
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1996 - Russian voters had their first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin was the winner after a run-off.
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2000 - U.S. federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp. The merger created the nation's largest local phone company.
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