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June 11. June 11 is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 203 days remain until the end of the year.
February. February 1 – Sundance Channel debuts. February 2 – Frontier Middle School shooting: A gunman kills his algebra teacher and two other students in Moses Lake, Washington. February 6 – 1996 Honolulu hostage crisis: A gunman takes hostages at his former place of employment in Honolulu, Hawaii.
29. 30. Events. 1776 – Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to a committee to draft a declaration of independence. 1788 – Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska. 1805 – A fire consumed large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
World Jewish population around 7.7 million, 90% in Europe, mostly Eastern Europe; around 3.5 million in the former Polish provinces. 1881–1884, 1903–1906, 1918–1920. Three major waves of pogroms kill tens of thousands of Jews in Russia and Ukraine. More than two million Russian Jews emigrate in the period 1881–1920.
1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1924th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 924th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1920s decade.
June 11, 2024 at 9:46 AM In case you missed it, June is Pride Month − a time to celebrate and support the LGBTQ+ community. As Texans partake in the festivities, some may remember key moments in ...
January 20: Bill Clinton becomes the 42nd U.S. president. January 20: Al Gore becomes the 45th U.S. vice president. January 3 – In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. January 5. The state of Washington executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
January 20: George W. Bush becomes the 43rd U.S. president. January 20: Dick Cheney becomes the 46th U.S. vice president. January 1 – A black monolith measuring 270 cm (8.9 ft) tall appears in Seattle 's Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the monolith from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.