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Bill Lucey @wplucey

Daily News Gems, my personal blog, reflects my interests: newspaper history, baseball, American politics, and a passionate Royal Family watcher.

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Any NBA prospects from this class? Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) towers high above his fellow graduates during commencement ceremonies at UCLA on June 15, 1969, 57 years ago.
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Cecil Court in central London is known as “Bookseller’s Row” and is home to roughly 20 specialist secondhand and antiquarian bookshops. Cecil Court is a short pedestrian street in London’s West End, running between Charing Cross Road and St Martin’s Lane near Leicester Square.
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June 14 is Flag Day; commemorating the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. Photo: The Star-Spangled Banner Flag House, a museum located in the Jonestown/Old Town of eastern downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
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If it's June 14, it must be National Strawberry Shortcake Day!
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Trooping the Colour, the annual military parade that marks the British monarch’s official birthday. It features over 1,400 soldiers, 200 horses, and more than 400 military musicians from the Household Division in full dress uniform. Photo: Kensington Royal
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Hate to stay it, but the Knicks deserved to win this championship. It all comes down to the final quarter. The Knicks just found a way to out-hustle, out-shoot, and out-rebound the Spurs, time and again, in the 4th. They were hungrier and scrappier.
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A gritty performance from Yoshi, who brought a perfect game into the 8th and a no hitter into the 9th only to see it spoiled. Heartbreaking!!
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We'll never see the likes of this again! Bob Gibson was the only pitcher to win 7 consecutive World Series starts, and each one a complete game. Gibby made 9 World Series starts for the Cardinals (1964, 1967, 1968) and went 7–2 with 8 complete games and a 1.89 ERA.
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"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau A crowd gathers on a street in Soho, London, to watch a man trying to extricate himself from chains, 1937. Photo Credit: Getty Images
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Front Page News! Marilyn Monroe, Central Park, NYC, 1957 Photo by Sam Shaw for Look Magazine
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78 yrs ago, Babe Ruth said his final farewells at Yankee Stadium on June 13, 1948. Nat Fein of the NY Herald Tribune took this iconic photo ( "Babe Ruth Bows Out") of The Babe (leaning on Bob Feller’s bat), earning him a Pulitzer Prize. Babe died on August 16, 1948, age 53.
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June 12, 1977, 49 years ago, members of the Kennedy family participate in the ground-breaking ceremony for the John F Kennedy Library at the University of Massachusetts Harbor campus. Construction of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum was completed in 1979.
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If it's June 12, it must be National Peanut Butter Cookie Day!
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"The Mad Bomber," Caitlin Clark, posted her third career game with at least 30 pts & 10 ast, the most in WNBA history. Aliyah Boston, had 34 points & 12 rebounds, making Boston & Clark the first pair of teammates in WNBA history to have 30-point double-doubles in the same game.
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Original inductees @ Cooperstown, June 12, 1939, include: Front row; Eddie Collins, Babe Ruth, Connie Mack, Cy Young. Back row: Honus Wagner, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Tris Speaker, Napoleon Lajoie, George Sisler and Walter Johnson. Ty Cobb's, train ride from Albany was late.
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Just for the Record! The Cleveland Cavs are the only team in NBA history to come back from a 3–1 deficit in the Finals and win the championship, doing it against the 73–9 GS Warriors in 2016. Teams that go up 3–1 (in the finals) have gone on 2 win the series 37 out of 38 times
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"There ’s beggary in the love that can be reckon’d." --Antony and Cleopatra, Act I. Scene 1, by William Shakespeare
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"There’s no place like home...There's no place like home..." --Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), The Wizard of Oz. The Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz (donated anonymously in 1979) are on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington D.C
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If it's June 11, it must be National German Chocolate Cake Day!
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The Regensburg Cathedral (Germany), 1860 --Rudolf von Alt Regensburg Cathedral, also known as St. Peter’s Cathedral, is a major Gothic landmark in Bavaria and the seat of the Catholic Diocese of Regensburg.
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