06-06-2005, 05:03 AM
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June 6th
1683 ~ Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum opened as the world's first university museum.
1844 ~ The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.
1859 ~ Queen Victoria made Queensland into a separate colony.
1868 ~ Birthday of Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer.
1901 ~ Birthday of Sukarno, first President of Indonesia.
1903 ~ Birthday of Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer.
1944 ~ D-Day (Operation Overlord) began with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.
1961 ~ Death of Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist.
1972 ~ David Bowie released The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
1985 ~ The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" was exhumed; the remains found were later shown to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz' "Angel of Death".
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