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19th June 1917 : During the first World War as sentiment against Germany by the British People worsened King George V ordered the British royal family to end using the German-sounding surname, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and to take on the name Royal House of Windsor.
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19th June 1923 : Walls of lava one mile wide are descending Mount Etna towards the town of Lingauglossa in Italy, the lava is travelling slowly giving time for evacuation of the area, another flow of Lava over 50ft high and a mile wide is heading for the town of Giarre with a population of 17,000 the town will be doomed as the lava will cover all buildings in the town.
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19th June 1938 : A flood in Custer Creek in Terry, Montana washes out a bridge over the Custer Creek river used by trains and when the Olympian Special came through, it crashes into the raging waters with the loss of 46 lives.
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19th June 1970 : The conservative party led by Edward Heath wins in the general election. The win was considered unusual because all the opinion polls held in the few days prior to the General Election had predicted an easy win for the labour party led by Harold Wilson.
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19th June 1978 : First Garfield comic strip appears 41 American newspapers.
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19th June 1980 : An attack on the British embassy by attackers, armed with automatic weapons and grenades, ends when three of the attackers are shot dead by Iraqi security forces. No British embassy staff were injured during the attack.
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19th June 1999 : Prince Edward married commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Following the wedding they take the titles of His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex and Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex. Prince Edward is seventh in the line of succession to the British Throne .
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19th June 2000 : The bodies of 58 Chinese illegal immigrants have been found in the back of a Dutch-registered lorry at the English port of Dover during a routine search of the lorry. The illegal trafficking of immigrants has been increasing through British Ports as immigration rules are tightened .
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19th June 2003 : More than 100 People are killed when an explosion on a vandalised pipeline is ignited by a spark from a passing motorcycle in the village of Amaokwe Oghughe. This is now the 5th explosion on state owned Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) over the last 5 years in Nigeria mostly caused by breaks in the pipelined caused by Pipeline looting "scooping" by local villagers hoping to provide additional income
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19th June, 2007 : Vilma Espin, the wife of acting president of Cuba Raul Castro died at the age of seventy-seven. Espin was a figure of the Cuban revolution and headed the Cuban Women's Federation. Usually described as the first lady of Cuba, she died of an undisclosed illness that she had been battling for awhile.
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19th June, 2009 : Sir Allen Stanford, a billionaire from Texas, was charged with several accounts of fraud in an attempt to defraud investors at his bank located in Antigua. Stanford was accused of selling seven billion dollars worth of certificates of deposit and promising unrealistic returns to investors at the Stanford International Bank in Antigua. Stanford was taken into custody by police and charged with conspiracy to obstruct an investigation, obstruction of an investigation, conspiracy to commit money laundering, seven counts of wire fraud, and ten counts of mail fraud. If convicted on all charges he could face up to two-hundred and fifty years in prison.
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19th June, 2010 : Sweden celebrated its first royal wedding since 1976 . The marriage occurred between Crown Princess Victoria and commoner. Thirty-two year old Victoria married her former personal trainer whom she met in 2002, thirty-six year old Daniel Westling. There was an extravagant ceremony attended by 1,200 guests, after which the newly married couple took the royal barge to the royal palace for a banquet.
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19th June, 2011 : Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, Prime Minister of Somalia, announced his resignation. Mohamed stated that he would resign in the interest of the citizens of Somalia after the president and parliament of the country agreed on a UN-sanctioned plan to kick him out of office. Much of the country is controlled by Islamist militants and it has not had an effective government since 1991.
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19th June, 2012 : Ghazala Javed, a popular Pakistani singer, was shot dead in the city of Peshwar along with her father. Her family stated that men broke into the singers house and murdered both Javed and her father
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23rd June 1989 : The movie Batman opened in theaters , starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson
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23rd June 1931 : Wiley Post and his navigator, Harold Gatty, took off for a round the world flight in the single-engine airplane, the "Winnie Mae." from Roosevelt Field, New York. they arrived back at Roosevelt Field on July 1st , completing the trip with a record time of eight days, 15 hours and 51 minutes
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23rd June 1944 : A series of tornadoes across West Virginia and Pennsylvania kill more than 150 people most of the twisters were classified as F3, but the most deadly one was an F4 on the Fujita scale.
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23rd June 1956 : A series of rebel attacks in Algeria are targeting Europeans with French members of the community targeted mostly, in the last 7 days 23 have been killed and over 150 injured mostly in shooting attacks by small commando groups.
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23rd June 1985 : An Air India Boeing 747 disintegrates in mid-air off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 people on board. It is believed it is the work of a terrorist plot to blow up the plane
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23rd June 2000 : A fire at the Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel in the town of Childers, in Queensland, Australia has left 15 backpackers dead after the fire completely destroyed the hostel