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1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxauFryr_Q8
1936 - Director Ken Loach is born. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Loach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhn5_gUcO5E
1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_states https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKXeDgwL2Uo
1961 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West while his troupe was in Paris. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/june-17/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZN-7-lzZzE
