Thursday, June 16, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY



June 16

1487:The Battle of Stoke ended the Wars of the Roses.

1858:Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln declared, "a house divided against itself cannot stand."

1933:President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act.

1963:Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman in space.


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