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June 23, 1974 - The Groove Tube, brought to you by The Uranus Corporation, premieres in New York City...

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June 23, 1972 - Hurricane Agnes becomes America's costliest natural disaster (at the time), affecting 15 states...

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June 23, 1943 - The Nazis staged a tour of the Theresienstadt concentration camp for the International Red Cross and a Danish delegation, attempting to present a false picture of conditions... Most of the children from the 3rd picture would see their final days a year later at Auschwitz...

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June 23, 1938 - Marineland opens in Florida as Marine Studios; first Oceanarium...

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June 23, 1920 - NFL's oldest rivalry, the Cardinals vs. Bears, began with a game between the Racine Cardinals and the Decatur Staleys (now the Chicago Bears). The Cardinals won the first game 7-6.

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June 23, 1865 – US Civil War: At Fort Towson, General Stand Watie, a contentious Cherokee leader, surrenders the last sizeable Confederate army...

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June 23, 930 - World's oldest parliament, the Icelandic Parliament is established; the Alþingi (anglicized as Althing or Althingi)...

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June 22, 1955 - Lady and the Tramp, the 15th Disney animated feature film, is released to theaters. It was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen film process...

Fun Fact! Lady's house is given as 2137 Park Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut..

https://movies.disney.com/lady-and-the-tramp

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June 22, 1934 - On his 31st birthday, John Dillinger is informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One...

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June 22, 1925 - The Lost World, a silent fantasy monster adventure film adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name, is released by First National Pictures.

This was the first feature-length film made in the United States, possibly the world, to feature model animation as the primary special effect, or stop motion animation in general. It is also the first dinosaur-oriented film... 🦖

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June 22, 1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck (Ivanhoe, Illinois)...

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June 22, 1611 - English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and seven others set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery and never seen again...

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TiH! June 21st!

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TiH! June 20th!

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June 20, 1980 - ''It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses...''

The Blues Brothers is released by Universal...

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June 20, 1969 - Aoxomoxoa, the third studio album by the Grateful Dead, is released on the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts label. The album represents several significant firsts for the Bay Area band. The group's first self-produced set, it would be their first recorded on 16-track tapes and the first whose lyrics were entirely penned by frequent collaborator Robert Hunter. It was also the first with cover art by the great Rick Griffin...

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/grateful-dead/aoxomoxoa

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June 20, 1969 - The Newport '69 Festival begins. Attended by an estimated 200,000 fans the three-day festival was the largest pop concert up to that time...