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OddlyTrue News Stand — June 14
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Weird history on June 14
1949 First everAlbert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first mammal and first monkey in space.
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1644 First everFirst English Civil War: Prince Maurice abandoned his siege of Lyme Regis in Dorset after learning of the approach of a Parliamentarian relief force.
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1839 First everHenley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
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Vintage clipping · 1910
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette (Starkville, Miss.), July 16, 1910
Page 6 · mentions "weird"
“THE HOME CIRCLE WHEN I HAVE GONE WEIRD WAYS WHEN I HAVE finished with this episode Left the hard uphill road And gone weird ways to seek another load Oh friends regret me not nor weep for me Child of Infinity Nor dig a g…”
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