Timothée Chalamet turns 29 today. That's the same age Jason Alexander was in Seinfeld's pilot.
Timeline comparisons! For reference: She was born in 1929. Barbara Walters is 5'5" or 1.65m. We don't want actual scale comparisons though, just timeline comparisons!
June 1995. Only 14% of Americans report actively using the internet.
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June 7, 2000. Jon Stewart interviews Michael Moore.
Post events that occurred exactly 25 years ago! _________________________________________ Relevant subreddits: - /r/100yearsago
[June 7th, 1945] Calais Academy - The Hard Luck Class of 1945
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[June 7th, 1945] America's Truman - No Splendid Isolation for him...
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[June 7th, 1945] The British royals visit the Channel Islands to pay tribute to their resolve under German occupation
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[June 7th, 1945] Norwegian King Haakon returns home after five years in exile
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[June 7th, 1945] The super transport ship, General W.P. Richardson, docks in New York, with veterans of the European war. Many soldiers were veterans of the African campaign, Salerno, Anzio, Cassino and the winter warfare in Italy's mountains.
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World leaders in Schloss Elmau, Germany for the G7 Summit [10YA - Jun 7]
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Tony Blair visits the White House [20YA - Jun 7]
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the premiere of Mr & Mrs Smith [20YA - Jun 7]
June 7, 1995. The first commercial flight operated by the Boeing 777.
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June 7, 1995. Jennifer Aniston and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Leno.
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[June 6th, 1945] German mothers walk their children to school in Aachen, Germany for registration at the first public school to be opened by the U.S. military government after the war.
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[June 6th, 1945] A Soviet spokesman from Georgy Zhukov's staff announces that Adolf Hitler's body had been found and identified in the Chancellery gardens. This box purportedly contains Hitler's burnt body.
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[June 6th, 1945] Japan's government vows that 'Japanese people will fight to extinction rather than surrender'
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[June 6th, 1945] Okinawan boys 'discover' the Jeep
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[June 6th, 1945] Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Konev, President of the Czechoslovak Republic Edvard Beneš, General of the Army Andrei Eremenko and Marshal of the Armored Forces Pavel Rybalko in Prague
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80 years ago today, Shifty won the lottery to go home
The story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord, through V-J Day. Also open discussion of the show The Pacific.
[June 6th, 1945] Easy Company's Darrell 'Shifty' Powers wins a lottery to go home
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‘A man of character’: Obama delivers emotional eulogy for Beau Biden [10YA - Jun 6]
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The Supreme Court rules against medical use of marijuana [20YA - Jun 6]
June 6, 1995. Pearl Jam - “Immortality” released.
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