Historical Calendar - June

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Historic events for June

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1533 Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s new queen crowned.	1780 Derby horse race run for the first time.	1621 The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands (now known as New York).	1647 The British army seized King Charles I and held him as a hostage.	1939 Margaret Drabble, English novelist, biographer and critic, born	1683 World's first public museum, the Ashmolean, opened by Elias Ashmole in Oxford.	1692 Port Royal, Jamaica, hit by a catastrophic earthquake.
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1783 Iceland’s Laki volcano erupted and continued to spew lava for eight months. 9,350 people were killed and famine started and lasted until 1790.	1870 Charles Dickens, Victorian novelist, dies.	1793 The Jardin des Plantes zoo opened in Paris. It was the first public zoo.	1993 Steven Spielberg's dinosaur themed movie "Jurassic Park" opened. The adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel went on to gross in excess of $900 million and win three Oscars.	1923 Harry Houdini, while suspended upside down 40 feet above the ground, escaped from a strait jacket.	1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted into violence.	1942 Jonathan Raban, British travel writer and novelist, born.
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1215 King John of England put his seal on the Magna Carta.	1784 Holland forbids the wearing of orange clothes.	1579 Sir Francis Drake claimed San Francisco Bay for England.	1815 Napoleon Bonaparte defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by an international army under the Duke of Wellington.	1947 Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist and essayist, born.	1837 The accession to the throne of Queen Victoria.	1798 The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill, during the Irish rebellion of 1798.
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1911 The coronation of George V, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.	1314 Commencement of the Battle of Bannockburn. A significant Scottish victory in the wars of Scottish independence.	1812 Napoleon's army crossed the River Nieman, beginning his invasion of Russia.	1876 The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.	1541 Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, murdered by his former followers.	1759 General James Wolfe initiates the siege of Quebec.	1909 Eric Ambler, English novelist and playwright, born. Writer of thrillers, especially with an espionage background.
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1860 The first iron-pile lighthouse was completed at Minot’s Ledge, Massachusetts.	1908 The Tunguska event. An explosion in Siberia believed to have been caused by a large meteorite or comet.