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1 June 1964
Tonia Campbell, wife of Donald, watches with her fingers crossed, as he flashes past in 'Bluebird'
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2 June 1951
The Festival of Britain as advertised in The Sphere.
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3 June 1965
Ed White, the first American Spacewalker. Pictured as he let go from his Gemini craft for 23 minutes.
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4 June 1940
The last day of evacuation. Small ships including pleasure craft were used to evacuate allied troops from Dunkirk.
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5 June 1968
Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, USA. He died the following day.
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6 June 1955
Coast Guardsman Gene Scarcliff and Nancy Dunn give correct answers to Groucho Marx's on 'You Bet Your Life' Show.
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7 June 1951
Princess Elizabeth represents the King for the ceremony of Trooping the Colour of the Third Battalion Grenadier Guards on Horse Guard Parade.
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8 June 1982
HMS Sir Galahad ablaze after the Argentine air raid on at Bluff Cove near Fitzroy settlement on East Falkland.
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9 June 1951
Ten year old Bryan Frost clutches firmly to the wheel of his Soap Box car 'The Thing' in the London Area Semi-finals of The Scout Soap-Box Derby at Fore Street.
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10 June 1966
Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney on location for the film 'Two for the Road' at the secluded Beauallon Beach near St Tropez.
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11 June 1965
Michael Horovitz at the Royal Albert Hall for the mass reunion of beat poets called 'An assemblage of souls'
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12 June 1958
Jerry Lee Lewis performing on stage during the opening of his show at the Cafe de Paris in New York, USA
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13 June 1948
Babe Ruth waves to the crowd at Yankee Stadium as he is honoured and retired into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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14 June 1800
Battle of Marengo. The assault cost General Louis Desaix his life, but won the day against the Austrians who broke and fled leaving behind 14,000 casualties. The French suffered 7000.
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15 June 1215
The barons demands are met and King John signs The Great Charter on the field at Runnymede.
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16 June 1963
Valentina Tereshkova, becomes the first woman to enter space. Pictured before her flight in Vostok 6
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17 June 1967
China enters the nuclear age by exploding its first H-Bomb.
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18 June 1815
'Scotland for Ever'; the charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo. Immortalised in this famous painting by Lady Elizabeth Butler
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19 June 1936
Joe Louis, once the mighty ' Brown Bomber', shown slumbering on the canvas in the 12th and final round of his bout with Max Schmeling in New York
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20 June 1837
Queen Victoria receiving the news of Her Accession at Kensington Palace.
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21 June 1962
Vava of Brazil scores the third goal as Brazil defeat Czechoslovakia 3-1 to win the World Cup in Santiago, Chile.
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22 June 1948
The Empire Windrush berthed at Tilbury with 417 immigrants on board who came to England in search of jobs after being unemployed on returning to Jamaica after the war.
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23 June 1925
A heatwave in England brought the gaiety of the season to famous Boulter's Lock.
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24 June 1859
The Battle of Solferino was the decisive episode in the struggle for Italian unification.
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25 June 1999
Festival goer with placard walks naked through the crowd at Glastonbury.
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26 June 1925
The Duke and Duchess of York enjoying a ride on the Canadian Pacific Railway Miniature Railway.
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27 June 1965
Miss Ruth First speaks to 800 people at an Anti Apartheid meeting in Trafalgar Square, London.
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28 June 1949
Danger of British Drought - Villagers near Brasted Kent fetch water from a farm's well in kettles saucepans and buckets.
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29 June 1986
Argentina's Diego Maradona kisses the FIFA World Cup trophy after Argentina defeated West Germany 3-2 in the final.
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30 June 1959
115 young soldiers and visitors on a 5-crew tank (nobody was allowed inside) at a charity fete organised by 48 Gurkha Infantry Brigade Group in Hong Kong.
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