2019
More than 100,000 people attended a vigil in Hong Kong to commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
2019 marked the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. In 1989 a series of protests led to a brutal crackdown by the Chinese government, which saw hundreds of casualties. Hong Kong is the only Chinese territory where the crackdown is commemorated; the event is completely censored in mainland China.
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2010
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched on its maiden flight.
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1984
American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen released “Born in the USA.”
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1982
The Sci-Fi movie “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” was released in the US.
The Wrath of Khan was voted fourth place in the top sequel movies that are way better than the original by Playboy magazine in 2016.
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1975
Animal fossils found in North Carolina became the oldest known in the US.
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1973
Trio inventors were granted the patent to the ATM.
Don Wetzel had the idea when waiting in line at a bank in Dallas, Texas.
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1969
Armando Socarras Ramirez arrived in Madrid from Havana after hiding inside the wheel pod of a plane.
It’s a miracle he survived the 5,592-mile journey at 29,000 ft high and with little available oxygen!
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1964
The Beatles started their world tour.
The band started in Copenhagen, Denmark, and only ever did one world tour.
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1940
Winston Churchill presented his famous speech “We Shall Fight on the Beaches.”
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1912
The US used a national minimum wage for the first time in Massachusetts.
The change came after many angry workers protested their pay rate, which gave them a very low quality of life.
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1892
Abercrombie & Fitch opened their first store in Manhattan, New York City, US.
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1784
French aviator Élisabeth Thible became the first woman to fly an untethered hot air balloon.
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1411
King Charles VI of France granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the village of Roquefort-Sur-Soulzon.
June is significant in the production of Roquefort cheese as legend tells that Roquefort was invented on June 4, 1070, when a shepherd left his lunch in a cave by accident.
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781 BC
The oldest known recording of a solar eclipse from China was reported.
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