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From Wikipedia's newest articles:

• ... that Pinnacle@Duxton (model pictured), at 50 floors, is set to be the tallest public housing in Singapore upon completion?
• ... that Captain Juan de Amezquita defended Puerto Rico from an invasion by the Dutch in 1625?
• ... that each chapter of the 2005 chick lit romantic comedy novel The Thing About Jane Spring begins with a quote from a Doris Day film?
• ... that Viking warrior Šimon is honoured in the cave monastery of Kiev?
• ... that the 1900 Carpenter Gothic Wadsworth Chapel has separate Catholic and Protestant chapels under one roof?
• ... that T. V. Sundaram Iyengar laid the foundation for the motor transport industry in South India, when he started a bus service in Madurai, Madras Presidency in 1912?
• ... that having reached peak windspeed on September 6, 1959, Hurricane Patsy is the earliest known Category 5 Pacific hurricane?
• ... that while serving in World War II, baseball player Eddie Kazak spent 18 months in hospitals recovering from a bayonet wound to his left arm and his right elbow being shattered by shrapnel?
  

• Turkey's Constitutional Court reinstates a ban on the hijab (example pictured) in universities, citing the constitution's secular principles.
• The Detroit Red Wings win ice hockey's Stanley Cup after defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game Six of the Finals.
• Zimbabwean police briefly detain opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai during campaigning in the second round of the Zimbabwe presidential election.
• In the U.S. Presidential campaign, Senator Barack Obama obtains a predicted majority of delegates needed to become the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee, the first African-American ever to do so.
• The United Nations Security Council unanimously passes a declaration allowing foreign naval vessels to enter Somali territorial waters to deal with pirates.

June 6: National holiday of Sweden observed

• 1523 – Gustav Vasa became King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union.
• 1683 – Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, the world's first university museum, opened.
• 1933 – The first ever drive-in theater opened in Pennsauken, New Jersey, United States.
• 1944 – World War II: The Invasion of Normandy, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France (pictured).
• 1982 – A war in Lebanon began when Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon to root out members of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• 2005 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its landmark legal decision in Gonzales v. Raich, allowing the U.S. Congress to ban medical marijuana even in states that approve its use.

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