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June 4
Helen Timlin-Kilgallen was born.
Victoria Barber was born.
Jessica McCormick was born.
1896 – Henry Ford took his first car out for a test drive.
2003 – Martha Stewart was indicted on charges of insider trading.
June 5
Annie Egan Lawler was born
Jen Hynes Sullivan was born.
Regina Murphy was born.
Maureen McElhinney was born.
Beverly Hegarty was born.
1752 – Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.
1968 – Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot by an assassin and died the next day.
June 6
Brian Mullen was born.
Pat Gallagher was born.
1944 – Thousands of Allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy, France, on D-Day.
2002 – Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home.
June 7
Janet Deering was born.
Liz Corso was born.
1776 – Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Second Continental Congress proposing independence for the American colonies.
1929 – Vatican City became a sovereign state.
June 8
1968 – James Earl Ray, who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr., was arrested.
1982 – President Ronald Reagan became the first American president to address a joint session of Britain’s Parliament.
June 9
Phillis Rogoff was born.
Amanda Ryan was born.
Mary O’Loughlin Gallagher was born.
Tara Vasselman was born.
1934 – Donald Duck made his screen debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1973 – Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes and became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.
June 10
Ryan Frontera was born.
Alex Moule was born.
1935 – Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by “Bill W.”
1967 – The Six-Day War between Israel and Syria, Egypt, and Jordan ended.
1978 – Affirmed won the Belmont Stakes and horseracing’s Triple Crown.
