On This Day: June 14, 2016
Birthdays:
1736 Charles Coulomb, French electrical physicist
1909 Burl Ives, American veteran film Actor
1928 Ernesto (Che) Guevera, Revolutionary hero
1941 Mike Yarwood, Television impressionist
1961 Boy George, Singer with 'Culture Club'
1965 Nigel Short, Chess player
1969 Steffi Graf, German tennis player & Wimbledon winner
Events:
1940 German troops entered the French capital, Paris
1962 Thirty people were arrested in plan to kill the French leader De Gaulle
1964 Nelson Mandella was sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa
1965 The military took over in South Vietnam
1967 The American Mariner 5 spacecraft was launched to the planet Venus
1981 The French Socialist Party won a landslide vote
1982 A ceasefire was agreeed in the Falkland conflict
1984 The Dutch parliament decided to delay installing US cruise missiles by two years
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