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June 17th In Pop Culture History |
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1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempted to assassinate Mehmed II, forcing him to retreat from Wallachia, in Romania. 1631 - Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, spent the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal. June 17, 1703 (fiction) Lumuel Gulliver was trapped in Brobdingnag, Gulliver's Travels, Book 1837 - Charles Goodyear obtained his first rubber-processing patent (#240). The success of his company came after he died in 1860. 1852 - W.H. Fancher and C.M. French of Waterloo, N.Y. received a patent (#35,600) for a combined plow and gun. Yes, you rwad that correctly. 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor. 1944 - Iceland declared independence from Denmark and becomes a republic. 1989 #1 Hit June 17, 1989 - June 23, 1989: New Kids on the Block
- I'll Be Loving You (Forever) 2006 #1 Hit June 17, 2006 - June 30, 2006: Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie |
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Barry Manilow (1943) Venus Wiliams (1980) David Michael Navarro (1967) Joe Piscopo (1951) Jason Patric (1966) Jello Biafra (1958) Ralph Bellamy (1904) Setsuko Hara (1920) Bif Naked (1971) Greg Kinnear (1963) Jon Gries (1957) |
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