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... that the Port of Pvoa de Varzim (pictured) in Portugal has 1000 years of recorded history and continuous use? ... that Bert Sincock, born in a gold rush boomtown in 1887, was the first British Columbia native to play Major League Baseball? ... that shoe salesman Hamid Ghassemi-Shall was sentenced to death because of an alleged e-mail? ... that an inscription discovered at Milecastle19 of Hadrian's Wall is one of only 60 known dedications to the mother goddess known in Roman Britain? ... that Albert Einstein once played violin with the Zoellner Quartet, which earlier had played by invitation for Helen Keller? ... that Egyptian writings about the myth of Osiris do not clearly describe Osiris' death because the Egyptians feared that doing so might negatively affect the world? ... that the Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad was split along state lines in 1894?

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alt=Jonathan Quicklink=File:Jonathan Quick.jpg In ice hockey, the Los Angeles Kings defeat the New Jersey Devils to win the Stanley Cup (Conn Smythe Trophy awardee Jonathan Quick pictured). The United Nations evacuates non-essential staff from Burma's Rakhine State after riots kill at least seven people. In tennis, Maria Sharapova and Rafael Nadal win the women's and men's singles titles, respectively, at the French Open. Timothy Bradley defeats Manny Pacquiao to win the World Boxing Organization welterweight championship. At least 55 people are killed in a massacre in a village near Hama, Syria.

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June 12: Independence Day in the Philippines; Russia Day in the Russian Federation; Dia dos Namorados in Brazil

1864 Union General Ulysses S. Grant pulled his troops out of the Battle of Cold Harbor in Hanover County, Virginia, ending one of the bloodiest, most lopsided battles in the American Civil War. 1889 Runaway passenger carriages collided with a following train near Armagh, present-day Northern Ireland, killing 88 people. 1942 On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank (statue pictured) began keeping her diary during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. 1987 Cold War: During a speech at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate by the Berlin Wall, U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" 2001 Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month long letter bomb campaign against the British supermarket chain Tesco. [1]

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A 1907 advertising poster for the play Arizona by American playwright Augustus Thomas. The play tells the story of the affection between a young cavalry man and a rancher's daughter. The young cavalryman is accused of theft, forced to resign, and then accused of murder. It opened in Chicago on June 12, 1899, with a cast led by Theodore Roberts and sets and costumes designed by Frederic Remington. Poster: U.S. Lithograph Co.; Restoration: Jujutacular Recently featured: Laser towards the Milky Way Opium poppy Solid model of a jack inside a cube

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