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June 13, 2000 

 

JUNE 12 (AP) – Today is Sunday, June 18, the 170th day of 2000. There are 196 days left in the year.

    

Highlights in history on this date:

 

1757 - Holy Roman Empire forces defeat Prussia's King Frederick II at Kollin, Czechoslovakia, and he loses 13,000 of 33,000 troops.

     

1779 - French forces take St. Vincent in West Indies from British.

     

1812 - United States declares war against Britain because of restrictions imposed on shipping during the Napoleonic Wars.

     

1815 - British under Duke of Wellington and Prussians under Gerhard von Blucher defeat France's Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo.

     

1823 - King John VI annuls Portuguese Constitution of 1822 after uprisings against his rule and the loss of Brazil.

     

1900 - With the anti-foreign Boxer Rebellion already under way, the dowager empress of China orders all foreigners killed.

     

1940 - Gen. Charles de Gaulle makes his famous BBC broadcast from London, in which he declares himself leader of the "Free French" and urges compatriots to resist Nazi occupation.

     

1940 - Germans capture French port of Cherbourg.

     

1952 - British plan to unite Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Nyasaland (Malawi) in Central African Federation is announced.

     

1953 - Egypt is proclaimed a republic with General M. Naguib as president; South Korea releases 26,000 North Korean prisoners.

     

1961 - Three princes of Laos meet in Zurich, Switzerland, and agree to form coalition government to unite the war-torn kingdom.

     

1965 - Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky assumes office as Premier of South Vietnam and vows to spur war against Viet Cong.

     

1975 - Prince Faisal Ibn Musaed is publicly beheaded in Riyadh for the murder of his uncle, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.

     

1985 - U.S. space shuttle Discovery, with Saudi Arabian prince aboard as passenger, launches a satellite for Arab world.

 

Today's Birthdays:

Paul McCartney, British singer (1942--); Thabo Mbeki, South African president (1942--); Isabella Rosselini, Italian-born model-actress (1952--).

 

Thought For Today:

Neither beg of him who has been a beggar, nor serve him who has been a servant - Anonymous.

                            


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