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Andrea Doria

Two Andrea Doria-class dreadnought battleships were built for the Royal Italian Navy. Completed during World War I, Andrea Doria (pictured) and Caio Duilio displayed incremental improvements over the preceding Conte di Cavour class. Like the earlier ships, they were armed with a main battery of thirteen 305-millimeter (12.0 in) guns. The two ships were based in southern Italy during World War I to help contain the Austro-Hungarian Navy surface fleet in the Adriatic, but neither vessel saw combat during the conflict. After the war, they cruised the Mediterranean and were involved in several international incidents, including at Corfu in 1923. In 1940, when Italy was engaged in World War II, they were moored when the British launched a carrier strike on the Italian fleet. In the resulting Battle of Taranto, Caio Duilio was hit by a torpedo and forced to beach to avoid sinking. (Full article...)

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In golf, Brooks Koepka wins the U.S. Open at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club (pictured).
At least twenty-one people die in a stampede after a tear-gas canister detonates in a Caracas nightclub.
Saudi-backed troops begin an attack on Houthi forces in the port of Al Hudaydah, Yemen.
In association football, FIFA awards hosting rights for the 2026 World Cup to a joint bid from Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump meet in Singapore.

On this day

June 21: June solstice (10:07 UTC, 2018); Fête de la Musique; National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada

Replica of the Manchester Baby

1734 – A black slave known as Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of Montreal, was tortured and then hanged in New France.
1854 – Crimean War: During the first Battle of Bomarsund, Irish sailor Charles Davis Lucas threw an artillery shell off his ship before it exploded, earning him the first Victoria Cross.
1898 – In a bloodless event during the Spanish–American War, the United States captured Guam from Spain.
1948 – The Manchester Baby (replica pictured), the world's first stored-program computer, ran its first computer program.
1963 – Italian cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was elected as Pope Paul VI.

Salomon Schweigger (d. 1622) · Claude Auchinleck (b. 1884) · Maureen Connolly (d. 1969)

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A portrait of a female bare-faced curassow (Crax fasciolata), taken at the Pantanal in Brazil. This species of bird in the family Cracidae is found in eastern-central and southern Brazil, Paraguay, eastern Bolivia, and extreme northeast Argentina. Its natural habitats are tropical and subtropical dry and moist broadleaf forests.

Photograph: Charles J. Sharp

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