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June 16th, 1971: American rapper Tupac Shakur (2Pac) was born.

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June 15th, 763: BCE: A solar eclipse is recorded by Assyrians. This is one of the cardinal events from which chronologies have determined other important dates in Mesopotamian history.

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June 15th, 1928: Che Guevara was born.

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June 13th, 1865: Irish poet W. B. Yeats was born.

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June 12th, 1929: Jewish-German diarist Anne Frank is born.

June 12th, 1942: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. She and her family would go into hiding from Nazis less than a month later.

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June 11th, 1933: American actor Gene Wilder was born.

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June 10th, 1863: French forces capture Mexico City, in an invasion attempting to overthrow the Mexican republic and instal a monarchy.

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June 9th, 68: Roman Emperor Nero dies. He had been popular in his day, modern opinion of him is disastrous being largely influenced by accounts from his political enemies.

Popular legend had it that Nero didn’t truly died, and he would one day return. At least three people in history have pretended to be Nero reborn.

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June 8th, 1504: Michelangelo’s David is installed in Florence.