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2012 Event - Ending a 50-year ban on veiled female news presenters, Egypt's state television gives its female presenters a choice of wearing, or not wearing, a veil

2012 Event - Ending an extensive study on the wooly mammoth, scientists conclude that they were wiped out by multiple things, including climate change, human hunters, and shifting habitats

2012 Event - The planet Venus makes its last transit of the 21st century beginning at 22:09 UTC June 5, and ending 4:49 UTC June 6

2012 Event - Imprisoned Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is moved to a hospital after a political compromise, ending her hunger strike

2011 Event - NBA team owners and players reach an agreement, ending the 149-day NBA lockout; the new NBA season will begin Christmas day

2011 Event - Famed 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling leaves her agent, Christopher Little, ending their 15-year working relationship

2010 Event - In China, 23 elder members of the Communist Party of China call for ending the country's restrictions on free speech

2005 Event - Syria withdraws troops from Lebanon, ending its 29 year military occupation

1997 Event - Cubs beat New York Mets ending NL worst opening, lost 14 straight games

1996 Event - Yankees lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24

1996 Event - Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war

1995 Event - Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement

1994 Event - Miami Heat beat New York Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak

1993 Event - New York Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games

1991 Event - Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war

1991 Event - Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule

1990 Event - Reds beat A's 7-0, ending Oakland's 10-game post-season winning streak

1987 Event - Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive

1987 Event - Brewers lose, ending AL season-opening winning streak at 13 games

1987 Event - Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts

1986 Event - Atlanta's Dale Murphy doesn't play ending consecutive streak at 740

1984 Event - Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard touchdown (Hail Mary Pass) to end game and beat Miami 47-45

1982 Event - Aggrement reached ending 57 day football strike

1982 Event - AT and T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day

1980 Event - Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"

1980 Event - Oak A's Rick Langford is removed with 2 outs in 9th inning ending his consecutive complete-game streak at 22

1979 Event - Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games without a shutout

1976 Event - Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career

1975 Event - Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career

1973 Birthday - Barret Oliver, actor, Never Ending Story, Secret Garden

1973 Event - U.S. and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest U.S. war and military draft

1972 Event - Jim Ryan (U.S.) and Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide and fall in qualifying competitions for 1,500m finals, ending Ryan's chances for gold

1971 Event - Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak

1962 Event - Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis

1962 Birthday - Diego Perez, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, professional tennis player, won ATP Tour singles title and three doubles titles in his career, ending in 1996

1960 Event - Yankees win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, and record 193 home runs

1960 Event - Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses

1957 Birthday - Paul Kagame, born in Ruhango, Rwanda, politician, President of the Republic of Rwanda, formerly led the Rwandan Patriotic Front ending the Rwandan genocide

1954 Event - Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh

1953 Event - Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yankees lose ending 18 game win streak and also ending St. Louis Brown 14 game losing streak

1951 Event - Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom

1950 Birthday - Beth Anderson, born in Lexington, Kentucky, composer, singer, neo-romantic genre, invented swales, a musical form based on collages, samples of newly composed music vs. existing music, famous for singing with Limahl on 'The Never Ending Story' film title song

1946 Event - Indians play their final game in League Park, ending a 55-year stay

1946 Event - Cubs Claude Passeau makes his 1st error since September 21, 1941, ending pitcher's fielding record of 273 consecutive errorless chances

1945 Event - Japan surrenders ending WW II (U.S. date, 9/2 in Japan)

1942 Event - Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway

1940 Event - Reds beat Tigers ending NL's 10-game World Series losing streak

1939 Event - Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra and Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I

1933 Event - U.S. Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition

1925 Event - Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak

1919 Event - Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)

1919 Event - Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed in France

1918 Event - Germany surrenders ending WW I, Allies and Germany sign armistice

1914 Event - Giants outfielder Red Murray is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball, ending 21 inning game, Giants win 3-1

1913 Event - Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War

1900 Event - 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion

1886 Event - Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war

1877 Event - Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perce War

1874 Event - Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction

1861 Event - 1st transcontinental telegram sent ending Pony Express

1861 Event - Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality

1856 Event - Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War

1848 Event - Mexico gives Texas to U.S., ending the war

1837 Event - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901

1789 Event - French National Meeting ending feudal system

1783 Event - Treaty of Paris signed (ending U.S. Revolutionary War)

1697 Event - Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Netherlands/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War

1648 Event - Spain and Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending Tachtigjarige War

1527 Event - Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance

1146 Event - European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending war for all time

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