7th June 1952:
Actor Liam Neeson was born on this day 71 years ago.
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#OnThisDay 1971, The only crewed mission Soyuz 11
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7th June 1965:
Artist Damien Hirst was born on this day 58 years ago.
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7th June 1970:
Actress Helen Baxendale was born on this day 53 years ago.
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#OnThisDayinHistory Overhead Line test coach Mentor ADB975091 (CM&EE Test Car 3) is seen here with its pantograph raised getting ready to depart from Motherwell on the 6th June 1985, the Class 37 locomotive is 37184. #trainspotting #testtrain #railvehicletesting #class37
#otd 10 June 1719 – Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.
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#otd 3 June 1839 – In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
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7th June 1958:
Singer songwriter Prince was born on this day 65 years ago.
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#otd 11 June 980 – Vladimir the Great consolidates the Kievan realm from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea. He is proclaimed ruler (knyaz) of all Kievan Rus'.
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#Woodcuts showing bowed and plucked #stringinstruments from Musica instrumentalis deudsch, 1528, written by Martin Agricola who died #otd 1556.
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#otd 7 June 1832 – The Great Reform Act of England & Wales receives royal assent.
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53 years ago on this day June 12, 1970 Doc Ellis threw a no-hitter on LSD #dockellis #nohitter #acid #pittsburghpirates #sandiegopadres #onthisday #onthisday inhistory #neverforget #MLB
#OnThisDayInHistory American soldier and spy Nathan Hale was born. He should be honored with a cameo in an epic blockbuster movie based on 1776 by David McCullough youtube.com/watch?v=U9egeu…
7th June 1974:
TV adventurer Bear Grylls was born on this day 49 years ago.
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#OnThisDayInHistory : 1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
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#otd 9 June 1923 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom died (b.1846)
She was the third daughter & fifth child of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert.
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Apparently the 1st Wednesday in June is National Tailors Day, so this dance seems appropriatefor today.
The Taylor's Hop (or Kitt Cucumber)
From the Dancing Master, 1718
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7th June 1940:
Welsh singer Tom Jones was born on this day 83 years ago.
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#otd 7 June 1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
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