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• On June 1, 1861,  Capt. John  Quincy Marr, CSA, was killed during a skirmish with Union cavalrymen near Fairfax Court House in Virginia; he is widely regarded as the first Confederate officer killed in the Civil War.
• On June 2, 1981,  the Japenese video arcade game "Donkey Kong" made its U.S. debut.
• On June 3, 1888,  the poem "Casey at the Bat," by Ernest Lawerence Thayer, was first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
• On June 6, 1944,  during World War 2, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on "D-Day," beginning the liberation of German-occupied western Europe.
• On June 7, 1939,  King Gerge VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, N.Y., from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
• On June 8, 1953,  the Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.
• On June 9, 1909,  Alice Huyler Ramsey, 22, set out from New York to become the first woman to drive across the United States.  She arrived in San Francisco on Aug. 7.
• On June 10, 1898,  U.S. Marines landed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  For the next month, American troops fought a land war in Cuba that resulted in the end of Spanish colonial rule in the Western Hemisphere.
• On June 13, 1966,  the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda vs. Arizona that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights to consult with an attorney and to remain silent.
• On June 14, 1777,  the Continential Congress resolved, that the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation.
• On June 15, 2002,  the asteroid 2002 MN missed the Earth by 75,000 miles, about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
• On June 16, 1911,  the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. was incorporated in New York State; it later became known as International Business Machines, or IBM.
• On June 20, 1893,  a jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden not guilty of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.
• On June 21, 1982,  John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of  U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
• On June 22, 2009,  Eastman Kodak Co. announces that it will discontinue sales of the Koda-chrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.
• On June 23, 1967,  President Lyndon Johnson met with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, N.J., for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
• On June 27, 1942,  the FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore in Flordia and Long Island, N.Y.
• On June 28, 1919,  the Treaty of Versailles was signed in Paris, formally ending World War 1 between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria-Hungary on the other side.
• On June 29, 1974,  Mikhail Barysh-nikov defected from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with Bolshoi Ballet.
• On June 30, 1953,  the first Chevrolet Covette rolled off the assembly lines in Flint, Mich.