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Today is the 165th day of 2013 and the 87th day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1775, the U.S. Army was established.

In 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.

In 1900, Hawaii became a territory of the United States.

In 1982, Argentine troops surrendered their last stronghold in the Falkland Islands to the British, ending the Falklands War.

In 2007, Palestine's Fatah-Hamas unity government was dissolved after Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), novelist; Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), physician; Burl Ives (1909-1995), singer/actor; Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967), revolutionary leader; Donald Trump (1946- ), businessman; Pat Summitt (1952- ), basketball coach; Boy George (1961- ), singer; Steffi Graf (1969- ), tennis player; Diablo Cody (1978- ), screenwriter; Kevin McHale (1988- ), actor.

TODAY'S FACT: The highest rank in the Army, General of the Armies, was created for John Pershing in 1911. The rank was awarded posthumously to George Washington in 1976.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1876, Philadelphia's George Hall became the first Major League Baseball player to hit for the cycle: a single, double, triple and home run in the same game.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "Friendships are discovered rather than made." -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

TODAY'S NUMBER: 1,426 -- billionaires in the world as of March 2013, which set a new record both for number of billionaires worldwide and for their total net worth ($5.4 trillion).

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (June 8) and first quarter moon (June 16).

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Today is the 164th day of 2013 and the 86th day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1934, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini met in Venice, Italy, prompting Mussolini to later refer to Hitler as "a silly little monkey."

In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African-American Supreme Court justice.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), poet/dramatist; Harold "Red" Grange (1903-1991), football player; John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928- ), mathematician; Christo (1935- ), artist; Ban Ki-moon (1944- ), U.N. secretary-general; Stellan Skarsgard (1951- ), actor; Tim Allen (1953- ), actor; Chris Evans (1981- ), actor; Kat Dennings (1986- ), actress; Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen (1986- ), actresses.

TODAY'S FACT: Snigdha Nandipati, a 14-year-old from San Diego, won the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2012 by correctly spelling the word "guetapens," a French-derived word that means "ambush, snare or trap."

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1948, Babe Ruth appeared at Yankee Stadium for the last time, on the occasion of the New York Yankees' Silver Anniversary Day, during which his No. 3 jersey was ceremonially retired.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind." -- William Butler Yeats

TODAY'S NUMBER: 73.7 million -- estimated combined population of North and South Korea in mid-2013.

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (June 8) and first quarter moon (June 16).

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Today is the 163rd day of 2013 and the 85th day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Miss.

In 1978, David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" serial killer, was sentenced to 365 years in prison.

In 1987, President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" in a speech delivered in divided Berlin.

In 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of professional football player O.J. Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman were murdered in Los Angeles.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: George H.W. Bush (1924- ), 41st U.S. president; Anne Frank (1929-1945), diarist/Holocaust victim; Jim Nabors (1930- ), actor; Marv Albert (1941- ), sportscaster; Chick Corea (1941- ), musician; Hideki Matsui (1974- ), baseball player.

TODAY'S FACT: Assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers' brother, Charles Evers, was the first African-American since Reconstruction to be elected a mayor in Mississippi, in 1969.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1939, the Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, N.Y.

TODAY'S QUOTE: " I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains." -- Anne Frank

TODAY'S NUMBER: 28 -- years the Berlin Wall stood separating East and West Berlin.

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (June 8) and first quarter moon (June 16).