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1509 England's King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon.
1776 The Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.
1919 Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing's first Triple Crown winner.
1963 Gov. George Wallace confronted federal troops at the University of Alabama in an effort to defy a federal court order to allow two black students to enroll at the school.
1963 Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
1977 Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
1979 Actor John Wayne died at age 72.
1985 Karen Ann Quinlan, a comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision, died in Morris Plains, N.J., at age 31.
1986 A divided Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania abortion law while reaffirming its 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion.
1987 Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term in office.
1990 The Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting desecration of the American flag.
1992 The Supreme Court ruled that people who commit hate crimes may be sentenced to extra punishment.
1996 Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., left the Senate to concentrate on his campaign for the presidency.
2001 Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
2002 Rock musician Paul McCartney married Heather Mills in a remote Irish castle. (The couple is currently going through a divorce.)
2003 Pioneering broadcast journalist David Brinkley died at age 82.
2004 The nation bade farewell to former President Ronald Reagan at a stately funeral in Washington, D.C. Hours later he was laid to rest in California.
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1776 The Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.
1919 Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing's first Triple Crown winner.
1963 Gov. George Wallace confronted federal troops at the University of Alabama in an effort to defy a federal court order to allow two black students to enroll at the school.
1963 Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
1977 Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
1979 Actor John Wayne died at age 72.
1985 Karen Ann Quinlan, a comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision, died in Morris Plains, N.J., at age 31.
1986 A divided Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania abortion law while reaffirming its 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion.
1987 Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term in office.
1990 The Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting desecration of the American flag.
1992 The Supreme Court ruled that people who commit hate crimes may be sentenced to extra punishment.
1996 Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., left the Senate to concentrate on his campaign for the presidency.
2001 Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
2002 Rock musician Paul McCartney married Heather Mills in a remote Irish castle. (The couple is currently going through a divorce.)
2003 Pioneering broadcast journalist David Brinkley died at age 82.
2004 The nation bade farewell to former President Ronald Reagan at a stately funeral in Washington, D.C. Hours later he was laid to rest in California.
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Wednesday, June 11th
The 163rd day of 2008.
There are 203 days left in the year.
The 163rd day of 2008.
There are 203 days left in the year.
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