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• On June 1, 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawerence, said, "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with a British frigate, the HMS Shannon, during the War of 1812.
• On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth 2, of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.
• On June 3, 1888, the poem "Casey at the Bat," by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
• On June 4, the German ocean liner St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, was turned away from the Florida coast by U.S. officials.
• On June 6, 1944, the D-Day invasion of Europe took place during World War 2 as Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.
• On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Viriginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resoolution calling for American independence from Britain.
• On June 8, 1948, the "Texaco Star Theater" made its debut on NBC-TV with Milton Berle guest-hosting the first program. (He was later named the show's permanent host.)
• On June 9, 1978, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
• On June 10, 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio, by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.
• On June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence calling for freedom from Britain.
• On June 13, 1966, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Miranda v. Arizona decision, ruling that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional right to consult with an attorney and to remain silent before being questioned by police.
• On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.
• On June 15, 1844, Charles Goodyear received a patent for his process to vulcanize rubber.
• On June 16, 1858, accepting the Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
• On June 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon's eventual downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex.
• On June 18, 1778, American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War.
• On June 21, 1948, the Republican national conventon opened in Philadelphia.  The delegates ended up choosing Thomas E. Dewey to be their presidential nominee.
• On June 22, 1940, during World War 2, Adolph Hilter gained a stunning victory as France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris.
• On JUne 24, 1948, Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the Western allies to organize the Berlin Airlift.
• On June 25, Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.
• On June 27, 1950, the U,N. Security Council passed a resolution calling on member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North and to "restore international peace and security in the area."
• On June 28, 1914, World War 1 began. Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated while at (what is now known as) Sarajevo, Bosnia.