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Thursday Jun 28th, 2012

Treaty of Versailles signed

28 June 1919
Tuesday Jun 26th, 2012

Berlin Airlift begins

26 June 1948
Sunday Jun 24th, 2012

Pablo Picasso gives first exhibition outside Spain

24 June 1901
Thursday Jun 21st, 2012

Chinese Empress Cixi declares war on foreigners

21 June 1900
Monday
Jun 18th, 2012

Napoleon defeated at the Battle of Waterloo

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Thursday
Jun 14th, 2012

Norway gives women partial suffrage

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Wednesday
Jun 13th, 2012

Boris Yeltsin elected Russia’s first President

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Monday
Jun 11th, 2012

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh executed

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Thursday
Jun 7th, 2012

Crusaders begin the Siege of Jerusalem

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Wednesday
Jun 6th, 2012

Indian forces massacre Sikhs in Amritsar

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Tuesday
May 29th, 2012

Hillary and Tenzing climb Mt. Everest

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Sunday
May 27th, 2012

Kenyatta elected Kenya’s First Prime Minister

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Thursday
May 24th, 2012

The Brooklyn Bridge opens

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Tuesday
May 22nd, 2012

Ortelius publishes first world atlas

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Sunday
May 20th, 2012

Da Gama reaches Calicut, India

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Thursday
May 17th, 2012

Montréal is founded

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