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Jun 1	1958	Charles de Gaulle became prime minister of France
Jun 2	1988	Steven Venables became the first Briton to climb Mount Everest without oxygen
Jun 3	1956	Third class rail travel was abolished in the UK
Jun 4	1970	Tonga became independent
	1958	The first Duke of Edinburgh awards were presented
	1940	The evacuation from Dunkirk was completed
	1913	Suffragette Emily Davidson was fatally injured when she tried to stop the King's Horse during the Derby
Jun 5	1975	The Suez canal was re-opened after eight years of closure
	1916	Lord Kitchener was lost at sea
Jun 6	1978	The world's largest hedge maze was opened at Longleat, Wiltshire
Jun 7	1942	The first UK 'massed start' bicycle race on open roads was held
Jun 8	1968	James Earl Ray was arrested and charged with the murder of Martin Luther King
	1924	The mountaineer George Mallory disappeared on Mount Everest
	1376	Edward the Black Prince died
Jun 9	1940	The Duke of Windsor was appointed Governor of the Bahamas
Jun10	1968	The last original episode of Round the Horne was broadcast
	1909	The SOS distress signal was transmitted for the first time
	1829	The first Oxford and Cambridge University boat race took place
Jun12	1837	Sir William Cooke and Sir Charles Wheatcroft patented the first electric telegraph
Jun13	1991	Leningrad reverted to its pre-revolutionary name of St Petersburg
Jun14	1968	The Basil Brush Show was first seen on television
Jun15	1919	Alcock and Brown completed the first non-stop Atlantic crossing by aeroplane