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June 16Fans of The Beatles music shouldn’t miss the tribute band concert The Bootleg Beatles Live in Bangkok. Expect to hear many classic Fab Four hits at 6 pm at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center. Tickets are 1,000 to 5,000 baht at Thai Ticketmajor. For more information, call 02 565 3456. In 1903, the Ford Motor Company is incorporated. |
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June 17In 1631, in India, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I starts building the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died during childbirth. In 1994, following a televised highway chase, a retired American football star O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. |
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June 18In 1996, Odelay, the fifth album by American rock artist Beck, is released. The album has appeared in numerous publications’ lists of the greatest records of the 1990s. In 1983, during NASA’s STS-7 Space Shuttle mission, astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. |
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June 19Until August 10 at 100 Tonson Gallery on Ploenchit Road, see GENTLE WAR, a joint exhibition by Belgium artist Peggy Wauters and Israeli artist Nir Segal. The gallery is open Thursday to Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm. For more details, call 02 684 1527. In 1978, Garfield makes its debut. It eventually becomes the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip. |
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June 20Birthday wishes go out to Australian actress Nicole Kidman (1967). In 2009, the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece opens to the public. The museum contains artifacts found at the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. |
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June 21Happy Birthday to English singer-songwriter and The Kinks leader Ray Davies (1944). In 1948, Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. |
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June 22In 2009, after 74 years as a photography icon, Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film. In 1906, the flag of Sweden is adopted.. |
