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June 17 is the 168th day of the year ... Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board. ... 1867 – John Robert Gregg, Irish-born American educator, publisher, ...
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1374 – An outbreak of dancing mania, in which crowds of people danced themselves to exhaustion, began in Aachen (in present-day Germany) before spreading to other parts of Europe. 1717 – The first Grand Lodge of Freemasonry , the Premier Grand Lodge of England , was founded in London.
1967 - The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb. June 15. 763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. 1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. He transfuses 12 fluid ounces (350 mL) of sheep blood to a 15-year-old boy ...
David L. Cohen (born 1955), senior executive vice president and chief lobbyist for Comcast, chief of staff to Philadelphia Mayor, U.S. ambassador to Canada nominee; Pat Croce (born 1954), entrepreneur, Philadelphia 76ers executive and part-owner, author, and television personality
June 8, 1953: Tornado near Erie, Michigan. Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado killed 115 people in Flint, Michigan (the last in the United States to claim more than 100 lives until the 2011 Joplin tornado). [20] The US radio drama serial Family Skeleton was broadcast for the first time, on CBS. [21]
During the night of June 1–2, American serial killer Oba Chandler raped 36-year-old Joan Rogers and her 17- and 14-year-old daughters Michelle and Christe and then murdered them by throwing them, alive, into Tampa Bay, Florida, weighted with concrete blocks. [4] [5] Born: Hadiza Aliyu, Nigerian actress and filmmaker; in Libreville, Gabon [6]
The British naphtha tanker Alva Cape, whose cargo had exploded and killed 33 people on June 16, was being unloaded of its remaining volatile cargo when a new explosion killed four more people. [146] Born: Mary Stuart Masterson, American film actress (Fried Green Tomatoes); in New York City