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On June 23:
1917 - In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire. |
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On June 24:
1997 - The U.S. Air Force released a report on the so-called "Roswell Incident," saying the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were probably life-sized dummies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident |
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On June 25:
1876 - Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were killed by Sioux Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana. |
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1900 : Lord Louis Mountbatten is born
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On June 26:
1976 - The CN Tower opened in Toronto, Canada -- at 1,815 feet, 5 inches high it is the world's tallest freestanding building. |
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June 26: 1945 : U.N. Charter is signed
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On June 27:
1829 - English scientist James Smithson died after a long illness, leaving behind a will which established the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; it provided for a museum, a library, and a program of research, publication, and collection in the sciences, arts, and history. |
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June 27, 1940
Germans get Enigma On this day in 1940, the Germans set up two-way radio communication in their newly occupied French territory, employing their most sophisticated coding machine, Enigma, to transmit information. The Germans set up radio stations in Brest and the port town of Cherbourg. Signals would be transmitted to German bombers so as to direct them to targets in Britain. The Enigma coding machine, invented in 1919 by Hugo Koch, a Dutchman, looked like a typewriter and was originally employed for business purposes. The German army adapted the machine for wartime use and considered its encoding system unbreakable. They were wrong. The Brits had broken the code as early as the German invasion of Poland and had intercepted virtually every message sent through the system. Britain nicknamed the intercepted messages Ultra. |
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1914 : Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated
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June 28 1953:
Workers at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, Michigan, assemble the first Corvette, a two-seater sports car that would become an American icon. The first completed production car rolled off the assembly line two days later, one of just 300 Corvettes made that year. |
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