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• ... that the diet of the Crescent Honeyeater (pictured) changes from nectar and invertebrates to wholly insects during the breeding season?
• ... that Eleanor King was a principal dancer and choreographer in the early days of American modern dance?
• ... that the Yūshūkan, a Japanese military and war museum owned and operated by Yasukuni Shrine, has been at the center of an international controversy?
• ... that Ryan Fleck produced his short film Gowanus, Brooklyn as a sample feature to attract potential financiers to its extended feature film screenplay, Half Nelson?
• ... that the Hungarian Communist Party, despite losing badly in the 1945 election and doing just slightly better in 1947, held absolute power by 1949?
• ... that the statue of Daniel Webster that sits on top of the Daniel Webster Memorial in Washington, D.C. was a gift by the founder of the Washington Post?
• ... that instead of discarding runes in favour of the Latin alphabet, the Scandinavians developed the extended medieval runes?
• ... that Johan Santana led Major League Baseball in 2006 with an earned run average of 2.77?
  

• 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 (pictured), 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.
• IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory break a processing speed record with the world's first general-purpose petaflop computer, Roadrunner.

June 13:

• 1525 – Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora (pictured), against the celibacy discipline decreed by the Roman Catholic Church on priests.
• 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria was found dead in Lake Starnberg near Munich under mysterious circumstances.
• 1898 – The Yukon Territory was formed in Canada, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
• 1966 – The Miranda v. Arizona landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court established the Miranda warning, requiring law enforcement officials to advise a suspect in custody of his rights to remain silent and to obtain an attorney.
• 1971 – The New York Times began to publish the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page top-secret United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.

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