| 1064 |
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Coimbra, Portugal falls to Ferdinand, king of Castile. |
| 1534 |
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Jacques Cartier sails into the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in Canada. |
| 1790 |
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Civil war breaks out in Martinique. |
| 1861 |
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Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke begins working in Union hospitals. |
| 1863 |
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At the Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, Union and Confederate cavalries clash in the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War. |
| 1923 |
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Bulgaria’s government is overthrown by the military. |
| 1931 |
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Robert H. Goddard patents a rocket-fueled aircraft design. |
| 1942 |
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The Japanese high command announces that "The Midway Occupation operations have been temporarily postponed." |
| 1945 |
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Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declares that Japan will fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender. |
| 1951 |
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After several unsuccessful attacks on French colonial troops, North Vietnam’s General Vo Nguyen Giap orders Viet Minh to withdraw from the Red River Delta. |
| 1954 |
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At the Army-McCarthy hearings, attorney Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency?" |
| 1959 |
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The first ballistic missile-carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, is launched. |
| 1972 |
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American advisor John Paul Vann is killed in a helicopter accident in Vietnam. |
| 1986 |
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NASA publishes a report on the Challenger accident. |
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Born on June 9 |
| 1640 |
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Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 1672 |
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Peter I, Russian Czar (1682-1725). |
| 1781 |
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George Stephenson, English engineer, inventor of the steam locomotive. |
| 1791 |
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John Howard Payne, American playwright and actor. |
| 1865 |
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Carl Nielsen, Danish composer. |
| 1877 |
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Meta Vaux Warrick, sculptor. |
| 1891 |
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Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist. |
| 1901 |
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George Price, cartoonist. |
| 1915 |
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Les Paul, American guitarist and electric guitar innovator. |
| 1916 |
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Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense under presidents Kennedy and Johnson. |
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