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Today in History: June 2, Queen Elizabeth II is crowned at age 27

Today in History: June 1, the Beatles release ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’

Today in History: May 31, the Johnstown Flood kills more than 2000

Today in History: May 30, Joan of Arc burned at the stake

Today in History: May 29, Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Moscow summit

Today in History: May 28, Dionne quintuplets are born in Canada

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Today in History: May 27, the Golden Gate Bridge opens

Today in History: May 26, Obama nominates Sotomayor to Supreme Court

Today in History: May 25, police kill George Floyd

Today in History: May 24, first night game in Major League Baseball

Today in History: May 23, Bonnie and Clyde shot and killed

Today in History: May 22, Lyndon B. Johnson outlines ‘Great Society’

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May 21

Mapping Asian American history in the nation’s capital

Today in History: May 21, Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross

Today in History: May 20, Charles Lindbergh takes off on solo flight to France

Today in History: May 19, Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, beheaded

Today in History: May 18, Mount St. Helens erupts

Today in History: May 17, Brown v Board of Education ruling strikes down legal segregation

Today in History: May 16, Nazis crush Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Today in History: May 15, new state of Israel attacked by 5 nations

Today in History: May 14, state of Israel is proclaimed

Today in History: May 13, Pope John Paul II is shot and wounded

Today in History: May 12, more than 87,000 dead or missing in China earthquake

Today in History: May 11, Bob Marley dies at 36