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	Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell published	30-06-1936
	Death of Simon Peter Aposlte of Jesus Christ	29-06-69 A.D.
	Death of Emperor Xiaozong of Song China	28-06-1194
	Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia.	27-06-1998
	Birth of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay	26-06-1838
	Independence of Mozambique	25-06-1975
	Birth of Caesarion	23-06-467 B.C.
	An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale	22-06-2002
	Queen Victoria takes the British throne at age 18, beginning a reign of 63 years	21-06-1873
	General Pervez Musharraf becomes the President of Pakistan	20-06-2001
	Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom	19-06-1961
	All pakistan federation of united trade unions arrests	18-06-1999
	Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth	17-06-1631
	Death of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das	16-06-1925
	Birth of Ibn-e-Insha	15-06-1927
	The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb	14-06-1967
	Death of St. Anthony of Padua	13-06-1231
	100 years of Philippines Independence	12-06-1998
	Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito married commoner Masako Owada	09-06-1993
	Death of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)	08-06-632
	Troops raid Golden Temple and Assassination of Indira Gandhi	07-06-1984
	Birth of Ferdinand Braun	06-06-1850
	Henry Ford test-drives his first automobile, the Quadricycle	05-06-1896
	Earthquake in Southern Sumatera, Indonesia	04-06-2000
	3rd June Plan	03-06-1947
	Death of Helen Keller	01-06-1968
	The Union of South Africa was formed under British dominion	31-05-1910
	French military leader Joan of Arc is burned as a heretic in Rouen, France	30-05-1431
	Ottoman forces under Sultan Muhammad II storm Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire	29-05-1453
	Pakistan announced that it had successfully conducted five nuclear tests	28-05-1998
	Death of India's First Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru	27-05-1964
	Granville T. Woods received a patent for an Electric Railway	26-05-1903
	PIA Boeing 707 Plane crashes at Cairo airport	25-05-1965
	24th May 1844, The first telegraph message was sent by Samuel Morse	24-05-1844
	Benjamin Franklin describes his latest invention, bifocal eyeglasses	23-05-1785
	Wars of the Roses	22-05-1445
	American Red Cross was Founded	21-05-1881
	Death of Lawrence of Arabia	19-05-1935
	Birth of Pope John Paul II	18-05-1920
	First Academy Awards Ceremony	16-05-1929
	Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.	24-04-2005
	1992 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese Singer-Song Writer (b. 19650)	25-04-1992
	Death of Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (b. 1922)	26-04-1987
	Ramakant Desai	26-04-1998
	Jawaid	29-04-1982
	Nizar Qabbani	30-04-1998
	May Day	1-05-20th Century
	Bhumibol Adulyadej	4-05-1950