JUNE 7!
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ExplosiveGerbil, 48
DeadManWalking, 41
EPIK, 23
Gow, 23
TheDemiGod, 21
Your day in History:
1654 Louis XIV was crowned king of France in Rheims.
1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
1848 Postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin was born in Paris.
1864 Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term as president at the Republican Party convention in Baltimore.
1892 Homer Plessy was arrested when he refused to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans. The case led to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
1972 The musical "Grease" opened on Broadway.
1981 Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1996 The Clinton White House acknowledged it had obtained the FBI files of prominent Republicans, calling it "an innocent bureaucratic mistake."
1998 James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old African-American man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas.
2000 A federal judge ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp.
2002 A yearlong hostage crisis in the Philippines involving three Americans came to a bloody end as Filipino commandos managed to save only one of the captives.
2003 In a national first, New Hampshire Episcopalians elected an openly gay man, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, to be bishop.
2006 The U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed by a U.S. airstrike.
2007 Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her pioneering campaign for the presidency and endorsed fellow Democrat Barack Obama.
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You share birthdays with:
Liam Neeson, 57
Pope Gregory XIII, 1508-1585
Jessica Tandy
Paul Gauguin, French painter
Ecstacy, the rapper
Dave Navarro, musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Bill Hader, comedian (SNL)
Anna Kournikova
Larisa Oleynik, the girl from Nickelodeon's show Secret Life of Alex Mack
Michael Cera, actor (Juno, Superbad)
Allen Iverson, basketball player
Eric Kretz, musician (Stone Temple Pilots)
galbaldy
ExplosiveGerbil, 48
DeadManWalking, 41
EPIK, 23
Gow, 23
TheDemiGod, 21
Your day in History:
1654 Louis XIV was crowned king of France in Rheims.
1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
1848 Postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin was born in Paris.
1864 Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term as president at the Republican Party convention in Baltimore.
1892 Homer Plessy was arrested when he refused to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans. The case led to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
1972 The musical "Grease" opened on Broadway.
1981 Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1996 The Clinton White House acknowledged it had obtained the FBI files of prominent Republicans, calling it "an innocent bureaucratic mistake."
1998 James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old African-American man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas.
2000 A federal judge ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp.
2002 A yearlong hostage crisis in the Philippines involving three Americans came to a bloody end as Filipino commandos managed to save only one of the captives.
2003 In a national first, New Hampshire Episcopalians elected an openly gay man, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, to be bishop.
2006 The U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed by a U.S. airstrike.
2007 Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her pioneering campaign for the presidency and endorsed fellow Democrat Barack Obama.
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You share birthdays with:
Liam Neeson, 57
Pope Gregory XIII, 1508-1585
Jessica Tandy
Paul Gauguin, French painter
Ecstacy, the rapper
Dave Navarro, musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Bill Hader, comedian (SNL)
Anna Kournikova
Larisa Oleynik, the girl from Nickelodeon's show Secret Life of Alex Mack
Michael Cera, actor (Juno, Superbad)
Allen Iverson, basketball player
Eric Kretz, musician (Stone Temple Pilots)
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