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Melbourne Castle Multiple people are

was an incomplete injured when a
medieval castle, vehicle is driven into
founded in 1311 by pedestrians near the
Thomas, 2nd Earl of Finsbury Park
Lancaster, in Mosque (pictured) in
Melbourne, Derbyshire. It was built on the site of an London.
In cricket, the ICC
earlier royal manor house that had provided Finsbury Park
Champions Trophy
accommodation for noblemen hunting in a nearby royal Mosque
concludes with
park in the reign of King John. After the earl's execution
Pakistan defeating India in the final.
in 1322 for opposing Edward II, the castle was mainly Wildfires in the Pedrgo Grande
in the possession of the Crown or the Earls and Dukes municipality of Portugal kill at least 63
of Lancaster. Improvements and repairs were made by people.
John of Gaunt and others, and the building was in En Marche! wins an absolute majority
generally good condition throughout the fifteenth and of seats in the French legislative
early sixteenth centuries. John I, Duke of Bourbon, was election.
kept at Melbourne for 19 years after his capture at the In motorsport, Timo Bernhard,
Battle of Agincourt in 1415, and it was considered as a Brendon Hartley and Earl Bamber,
possible prison for Mary Queen of Scots. The castle was driving a Porsche 919 Hybrid, win the
in decline by the end of the reign of Elizabeth I. It was 24 Hours of Le Mans.
purchased in 1604 by Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of
Huntingdon, who had his own castle in nearby Ashby- Ongoing: Battle of Raqqa
de-la-Zouch, and was gradually demolished for its Recent deaths: Otto Warmbier Tim Hague
Baldwin Lonsdale Stephen Furst
building materials. All that remains is a short section of
wall and some foundations. The ruins are grade II listed
On this day...
and the site is a scheduled monument, with no public
access. (Full article...)
June 20
Recently featured: Auriscalpium vulgare 1954
Guatemalan coup d'tat Upper Pine Bottom State Park 1685
Monmouth
Did you know... Rebellion: The
Duke of
Monmouth
... that the ant Cephalotes alveolatus (pictured) is declared
distinguished by its clubbed hairs? himself King The Tennis Court Oath,
... that Soviet economist Dimitri Navachine, of England at depicted by Auguste
assassinated in Paris in 1937, may have been Bridgwater.
killed for possessing documents showing that Couder
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certain Soviet political
prisoners were
innocent?
... that in his Viola
Sonata entitled Sonata
ebraica ("Hebrew
Sonata"), Graham Cephalotes alveolatus
Waterhouse quotes the Yiddish song "Oyfn
Pripetshik"?
... that Frieda Fraser and Edith Williams
corresponded for 24 years before they were able
to acquire a home to live together in 1941?
... that the National Film Awards in various
categories have been presented to the films Doghi
(Other Social Issues), Vastupurush (Best Feature
Film in Marathi), Devrai (Environment
Conservation/Preservation), Samhita (Best
Music Direction), Astu (Best Dialogue) and
Kaasav (Best Feature Film), all by filmmaker
duo Sumitra BhaveSunil Sukthankar?
... that the first tests of the British hydrogen
bomb programme were hailed as a triumph but
in fact were failures?
... that Oscar Lerman produced The Stud, The
Bitch, and two children with Jackie Collins?
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Revolution: Meeting in a tennis court
near the Palace of Versailles, members
of France's Third Estate took the
Tennis Court Oath (pictured),
pledging not to separate until a new
constitution was established.
1921 Workers at the Buckingham and
Carnatic Mills in the city of Madras,
India, began a four-month strike.
1960 The Mali Federation gained
independence from France, but lasted
only two months before dividing into
Senegal and Mali.
2007 Sammy Sosa of the Texas
Rangers became the fifth player in
Major League Baseball history to hit
his 600th career home run.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (b. 1743)
Voltairine de Cleyre (d. 1912) Frank
Lampard (b. 1978)
More anniversaries: June 19 June 20
June 21
NGC 4414 is an unbarred spiral galaxy about
62 million light-years away in the constellation
Coma Berenices. It is a flocculent spiral galaxy,
with short segments of spiral structure but
without the dramatic well-defined spiral arms
of a grand design spiral. NGC 4414 is a very
isolated galaxy, with no signs of past
interactions with other galaxies.
Photograph: Hubble Heritage Team
(AURA/STScI/NASA)
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Red-legged seriema Mrs. Richard Brinsley
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