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On June 16, 1978, President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos signed the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties during a ceremony in Panama City.

On June 16, 1981 – US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor (1934-2015), Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.

On June 12, 2018, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a summit in Singapore to discuss denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

Anne Frank (b. June 12, 1929-1945), diarist/Holocaust victim.

May her memory be a blessing.

On June 10, 1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.

I'm very happy to have these kind words from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Others who commented include Marvin Kalb, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Lt. General and former National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster, and several Vietnam veterans, among others. Daniel Ellsberg RIP.

On June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control reported that five men in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what later became known as AIDS.

Support your local AIDS services agency.

On June 5, 2004, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Ronald Reagan Library, Simi Valley, CA. and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at age 27 at a ceremony in London’s Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

"The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them." -- Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852).

Moore was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist, widely regarded in his lifetime as Ireland's "national bard."