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1945 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur announced the liberation of the whole of the Philippines in World War Two.
1945 - John Curtin, prime minister of Australia during most of World War Two, died.
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Reuters 1918 - New Sultan of Turkey proclaimed at Constantinople. 1934 - Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, died. 1943 - Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish statesman and prime ministe
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Reuters 1904 - Theodor Herzl, Hungarian-born Zionist leader, died. In 1897 he became first president of the World Zionist Organisation. 1928 - John Logie Baird transmitted the world's first colour tel
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Reuters 1915 - Porfirio Diaz, Mexican soldier and president from 1877-1911, died in Paris. 1937 - Amelia Earhart and co-pilot Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific while trying to fly around the world.
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Reuters 1916 - British and French forces launched the Somme Offensive in World War One. 1917 - 50th anniversary of Confederation of Canada. 1942 - Sevastopol in Crimea fell to German forces after an ei
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Reuters Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 26: 1945 - The United Nations Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, creating a successor to the League of Nations
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Reuters Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 25: 1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea, heralding the beginning of the Korean War. 1975 - Mozambique became independent and S
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Reuters Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 24: 1901 - The first exhibition by the 19-year-old painter Pablo Picasso opened in Paris to critical acclaim. 1908 - Grover Cleve
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Reuters Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 19: 1937 - The Scottish dramatist and novelist J.M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan, died. 1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were ex
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Reuters Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 18: 1928 - The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was lost in flight over the Arctic Ocean. 1953 - Egypt was proclaimed a republic
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Reuters Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 17: 1925 - Twenty-nine countries signed the Geneva Protocol that prohibited the use of poisonous gases in war. 1994 - Former Hall
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Gernot Laganda Thomson Reuters Foundation As livelihoods are stretched to their breaking point, with a staggering 130 million additional people at risk of slipping into severe hunger before the end of t
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Reuters Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 12: 1917 - King Constantine of Greece stepped down in favour of his son, Prince Alexander. 1935 - Bolivia and Paraguay signed a t
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Reuters Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 11: 1903 - King Alexander I and Queen Draga of Serbia were murdered in a coup. 1955 - Eighty people were killed when three cars c
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Reuters Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 10: 1924 - The Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was kidnapped and murdered by Fascists. 1925 - Duke of York opens secon
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Reuters Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 5: 1916 - Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener of Khartoum, Irish soldier, statesman and conqueror of Sudan, was lost at sea when his ship
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Reuters Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 4: 1937 - The first supermarket trolleys were introduced in Oklahoma City. 1941 - Kaiser Wilhelm II, ninth king of Prussia and th
