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• ... that there are at least 296 historic places listed on the U.S. National Register in Chicago, including a German U-boat (pictured)?
• ... that the North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy was first arrested at age sixteen and sent to a penal colony at eighteen, as a member of the underground communist anti-colonial movement?
• ... that Walter Brennan starred in the 1964–1965 ABC sitcom The Tycoon as an eccentric chairman of the board of the fictitious Thunder Corporation?
• ... that the Espada Cemetery was the first formally sanctioned burial ground in Havana, Cuba?
• ... that Hall of fame coach Al Arbour coached the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League three different times?
• ... that Christopher Smart's Hymns and Spiritual Songs were composed in a mental asylum where the author was held for "religious mania"?
• ... that Madagascar's unique wildlife, such as the Red-bellied Lemur, is one of the country's main tourist attractions?
• ... that the Latham Confederate Monument of Hopkinsville, Kentucky was supposed to honor both Confederate and Union soldiers?
  

• Flooding (rising Des Moines River pictured) continues in the Midwestern United States, leading to the evacuation of thousands of homes.
• Irish voters reject the Treaty of Lisbon in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform program of the European Union.
• Pakistan condemns a United States-led air strike near the border with Afghanistan that allegedly killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops, in clashes that also killed eight Taliban militants.
• Amid an outbreak of tornadoes and derechos in central and eastern North America, a tornado hits a Boy Scout camp in Iowa, killing four.
• Japan's House of Councillors passes a censure motion against Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, the first such motion to be passed since World War II.
• Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes on landing at Khartoum International Airport in Khartoum, Sudan, killing dozens.

June 14: Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Flag Day in the United States

• 1777 – The Second Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States.
• 1807 – In the last major battle in the War of the Fourth Coalition, the French decisively defeated the Russians at the Battle of Friedland near present-day Pravdinsk, Russia.
• 1822 – Charles Babbage (pictured) proposed a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
• 1846 – Settlers in the Town of Sonoma began a rebellion against Mexico, proclaiming the California Republic.
• 1982 – Argentine forces surrendered to the British, ending the Falklands War.
• 1985 – A group with alleged links to Hezbollah hijacked TWA Flight 847 shortly after take-off from Athens.

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