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In 1937, Joe Louis began his reign as world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Jim Braddock in the eighth round of their fight in Chicago. (A year later on this date, Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in the first round of their rematch at Yankee Stadium.)

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In 1937, Joe Louis began his reign as world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Jim Braddock in the eighth round of their fight in Chicago. (A year later on this date, Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in the first round of their rematch at Yankee Stadium.)

1834: Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent.
1954: The American Cancer Society presented a study.
2021: The longest day.

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In 1947, President Harry S. Truman vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act, which was designed to restrict the power of labor unions, but had his veto overriden by Congress. Gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel was shot dead at the Beverly Hills, California, home of his girlfriend, Virginia Hill, apparently at the

1782: Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States, featuring the emblem of the bald eagle.
1791: King Louis XVI of France and his family attempted to flee in the so-called “Flight to Varennes,” but were caught.

1837: Queen Victoria acceded to the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV.

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In 1945, millions of New Yorkers turned out to cheer Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was honored with a parade.

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Today is Sunday, June 19, the 170th day of 2022. There are 195 days left in the year. This is Juneteenth. (The federal holiday will be observed on Monday, June 20.)

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In 1873, suffragist Susan B. Anthony was found guilty by a judge in Canandaigua, New York, of breaking the law by casting a vote in the 1872 presidential election. (The judge fined Anthony $100, but she never paid the penalty.)

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In 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, “This was their finest hour.” Charles de Gaulle delivered a speech on the BBC in which he rallied his countrymen after the fall o

1943: Army nurse Lt. Edith Greenwood became the first woman.
1954: The American Cancer Society presented a study.
1963: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen.

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On June 17, 1994, after leading police on a slow-speed chase on Southern California freeways, O.J.

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On June 17, 2015, nine people were shot to death in a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina; suspect Dylann Roof was arrested the following morning.

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On June 16, 1858, accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S.

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In 1858, accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S.

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In 1864, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton signed an order establishing a military burial ground which became Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

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In 1864, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton signed an order establishing a military burial ground which became Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

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On June 14, 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg to serve on the U.S.

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In 1911, the British ocean liner RMS Olympic set out on its maiden voyage for New York, arriving one week later. (The ship’s captain was Edward John Smith, who went on to command the ill-fated RMS Titanic the following year.)

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On June 13, 1966, the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v.

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On June 13, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first Black justice on the U.S.

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On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, exhorted Soviet leader Mikhail S.

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In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001.)

1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman slashed to death
2004: Former President Ronald Reagan’s body sealed inside a tomb
2016: 49 killed in Pulse nightclub shooting

1938: Johnny Vander Meer pitcIn.
1919: Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner.

1938: Johnny Vander Meer pitched the first of two consecutive no-hitters.

1971: President Richard M. Nixon lifted a two-decades-old trade embargo on China.
1977: James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.,

1978: Affirmed, ridden by Steve Cauthen, won the 110th Belmont

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In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943, which reintroduced federal income tax withholding from paychecks.

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In 1954, during the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch berated Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., asking: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

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In 1915, U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned over what he viewed as President Woodrow Wilson’s overly bellicose attitude toward Germany following the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

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Today is Sunday, June 14, the 166th day of 2020. There are 200 days left in the year.

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In 1953, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve Blacks. Eight tornadoes struck Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, killing 126 people.

1942: the Battle of Midway ended in a decisive victory for American
1712: Pennsylvania’s colonial assembly voted to ban the further importation of slaves.