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23		1 U.S. President James Buchanan died in 1868.	2 Childrens author Norton Juster was born in 1929.	3 Ransom Eli Olds, founder of Olds Motor Vehicle Works (later known as Oldsmobile), was born in 1864.	4 The United States Congress approved the Woman's Suffrage Amendment by joint resolution in 1919.	5 The first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972.	6 American and British forces landed on the shores of Normandy, France in 1944 in what was known as the D-day invasion.
24	7 Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi committed his first act of civil disobedience in 1893.	8 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in 1867.	9 Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito married commoner Masako Owada in 1993.	10 The Six-Day War, fought between Israel and several Arab nations, ended in 1967.	11 Capt. James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it.	12 Anne Frank was born in 1929.	13 LaMarcus Thompsons Switchback Railway, an early roller coaster, opened on Coney Island in 1884.
25	14 The Continental Congress approved the design for our national flag on this day in 1777, and today is now celebrated as Flag Day.	15 Benjamin Franklin performed his famous kite experiment in 1752.	16 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West in 1961.	17 Plans were announced in 1952 for the construction of Southdale, the first U.S. enclosed shopping mall.	18 Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983.	19 French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal was born in 1623.	20 The Boxer Rebellion began in China in 1900.
26	21 Psychologist and pediatrician Arnold Gesell was born in 1880.	22 Entomologist Filippo Silvestri was born in 1873.	23 Virologist Dr. Jonas Salk, the first scientist to create a vaccine for polio, died in 1995.	24 The U.S. Senate repealed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 1970.	25 The first color television broadcast took place in 1951.	26 Scientists announced in 2000 that they had completed a rough map of the human genetic code.	27 Helen Keller, author and advocate for the deaf and blind, was born in 1880.
27	28 Nobel Prize winning chemist Mario Molina published his famous ozone paper in the journal Nature in 1974.	29 Mesa Verde National Park, home to the spectacular Anasazi Ruins, was created in 1906.	30 The Union Jack was lowered for the last time over Government House in Hong Kong in 1997.

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