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• ... that the Red Bridge (pictured), one of the former Aar bridges in Berne, was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" because of frequent fatal accidents?
• ... that the Vermont Square, Lincoln Heights, and Cahuenga Branches are the only surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles?
• ... that Bob Beck led the effort to capture and breed the remaining wild Guam Rails, Micronesian Kingfishers and other endangered Guamanian native birds in captivity?
• ... that Christopher Smart's Hymns for the Amusement of Children were finished by the author while in debtors' prison and that he died before receiving notice that the work was a success?
• ... that Widtsoe, Utah was made a ghost town in 1936 by the federal Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program that bought out indebted landowners?
• ... that the Czech castle of Hauenštejn is private property of a descendant of the so-called "Father of the Nation" František Palacký?
• ... that the Church of Daniel's Band, based in Michigan, chose its name from the title of a sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon in London?
• ... that Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk in 1926 produced a firewood powered snow melter?
  

• A magnitude 6.8 M_w earthquake strikes Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures on the Japanese island of Honshū.
• Flooding (rising Des Moines River pictured) continues in the Midwestern United States, leading to the evacuation of thousands of homes.
• NBC journalist Tim Russert dies suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 58.
• Irish voters reject the Treaty of Lisbon in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform program of the European Union.
• The People's Republic of China and Taiwan hold their first formal talks in a decade on improving Cross-Strait relations.
• Pakistan condemns a United States air strike near the Afghan border that killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops, along with eight Taliban militants.
• Amid an outbreak of tornadoes and derechos in central and eastern North America, a tornado hits a Boy Scout camp in Iowa, killing four.

June 17: Icelandic National Day

• 1462 – Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia (pictured) attacked an Ottoman camp at night in an attempt to assassinate Mehmed II.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
• 1789 – French Revolution: The Third Estate of France declared itself the National Assembly.
• 1953 – In Berlin, the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and the Volkspolizei violently suppressed an uprising against the East German government.
• 1972 – Watergate scandal: Five men were arrested for stealing from the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex.

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