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Ted Turner's Cable News Network, headquartered in Atlanta, began 24-hour live news broadcasts this day in 1980 and gained worldwide attention in 1991 for its around-the-clock coverage of the Persian Gulf War.

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1968: Blind and deaf American author Helen Keller died in Westport, Connecticut.

1945: In a speech, Indonesian nationalist leader Sukarno articulated the Pancasila—the Five Principles—that became the founding philosophy of the independent Indonesian state.

1926: American motion-picture star Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles.

1794: The first great naval engagement of the French revolutionary wars, the Battle of the First of June, was fought between England and France in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Morgan Freeman, whose emotional depth and versatility made him one of the most respected performers of his generation and the winner of an Academy Award for his role in Million Dollar Baby (2004), was born this day in 1937.

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Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple religious community that he formed in the 1950s, and some 900 of his followers died this day in 1978 in Guyana in a massive act of murder-suicide known as the Jonestown massacre.

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1941: John Christian Watson, the first Labour prime minister of Australia, died in Sydney.

1905: Prince Charles (Carl) of Denmark was elected king of Norway as Haakon VII.

1903: Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla, representing Panama, met with U.S. Secretary of State John Hay to negotiate the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty, which gave the United States a strip 10 miles (16 km) wide across the Isthmus of Panama for construction of the Panama Canal.

1882: Famed operatic soprano Amelita Galli-Curci was born in Milan.

1814: Brazilian sculptor and architect Aleijadinho, known for his beautiful Rococo statues and his churches, died in Mariana.

1477: William Caxton, a pioneering English printer, published Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers, the first dated book printed in England.