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1988 - Five workers asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history.
1990 - Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.
June 26, 1950: The President announces that in accordance with the Resolution of the United Nations Security Council, "The United States will vigorously support the effort of the Council to terminate this serious breach of the peace." The principal American decision makers meet again at Blair House.
June 27, 1950: Congressional leaders and the public are informed that the the President has ordered air and sea forces to give the South Korean government troops cover and support.
June 29, 1950: The Commander in Chief in the Far East (CINCFE), General Douglas MacArthur, flies to Korea where the South Koreans are attempting to hold a line at the Han River just south of Seoul.
June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with a length of 30 days The month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera.
However, due to the precession of the equinoxes, June begins with the sun in the astrological sign of Gemini, and ends with the sun in the astrological sign of Cancer.
June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa.
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