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Gander Green Lane, where the match took place

A 7 January 1989 match between Sutton United and Coventry
City took place as part of the third round of the 1988–89 FA
Cup association football competition. Coventry City were in the Ganymede
top tier of English league football, while Sutton United were in the
fifth. Coventry, the away team, started as strong favourites. The  The Juno spacecraft performs a flyby of
home side took the lead three minutes before half-time when Jupiter's moon Ganymede (pictured).
a corner towards the near post was missed by the  Using a compromised encrypted device
Coventry goalkeeper and volleyed into the goal by Tony Rains. network, a multinational sting
Seven minutes into the second half, David Phillips was able to operation results in hundreds of arrests
shoot past the Sutton goalkeeper to make it 1–1. In the 59th and the seizure of several tons of illegal
minute, a short corner kick was crossed to Matthew Hanlan who drugs.
volleyed in to give Sutton the lead once again. Despite numerous  Two trains collide in Sindh, Pakistan,
late chances for Coventry, the match ended 2–1. One of the most killing at least 63 people.
famous "giant-killings" in the competition's history, the match has
 At the British Academy Television
been described as "the biggest shock in the history of the FA Cup
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On this day
June 11

Fanny Howie

 ... that New Zealand singer Fanny

Howie (pictured) composed the song "Hine E Hine",
which aired on New Zealand television every night
from 1981 to 1994?
 ... that between 1979 and 1994 the Gilbert Islands in
Kiribati were a full day ahead of the country's
eastern Phoenix and Line Islands?
 ... that despite not identifying as Jewish, Michael
George Levy was denied a Military Cross due to his
commanding officer's antisemitic views?
 ... that Japanese manga artist Riyoko Ikeda was
awarded the Legion of Honour by the French
government for her manga series The Rose of
Versailles?
 ... that Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were
married at Saint John's Methodist Episcopal
Church after eloping in 1939?
 ... that in his debut first-class cricket season, Jack
Carson took the most wickets of any Sussex player
in the 2020 Bob Willis Trophy?
 ... that radio station WDOV missed its own sign-on
date because a boiler failure cut power to the entire
city of Dover, Delaware?
 ... that John Coster-Mullen discovered that the Little
Boy was actually a girl?
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Alexander of Greece
 806 – Arab–Byzantine wars:
The Abbasid army departed Raqqa in
northern Syria to begin an
invasion of Byzantine-controlled Asia
Minor.
 1776 – The Second Continental
Congress established the Committee of
Five to draft a declaration of
independence for the Thirteen Colonies.
 1917 – Alexander (pictured) was
crowned King of Greece, succeeding his
father Constantine I, who had abdicated.
 1955 – The deadliest accident in
motorsport history occurred when two
cars collided during a running of
the 24 Hours of Le Mans, causing 84
deaths.
 2012 – Two earthquakes struck northern
Afghanistan, triggering a massive
landslide that buried a village and killed
75 people.
 Benjamin Ingham (b. 1712)
 R. A. Hardie (b. 1865)
 Gene Wilder (b. 1933)
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Topographical map of Borneo

Endemic birds on the island of Borneo include one endemic bird family, three endemic bird genera and
fifty-six endemic bird species. All but one of the latter are forest dwellers, with most restricted to the spine of
hills and mountains running down the middle of the island. Borneo's avian endemism has been shaped by
its geological history. The island sits on a continental shelf; during glacial periods, when water levels were
lower, Borneo was linked with other islands on the shelf and with the Malay Peninsula in a large landm
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