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OddlyTrue News Stand — June 25

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Classic headline

Milk Drinkers Are Turning to Powder

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Headline 16 of 27 in the Hall of Fame rotation.

Weird history on June 25

1848 First ever
A photograph of the June Days uprising becomes the first known instance of photojournalism.
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1678 First ever
Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
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2013 Weird
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the CIA acknowledged the existence of Area 51 (diagram pictured), a secretive U.S. Air Force facility in Nevada and a subject of various UFO, and other, conspiracy theories.
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Vintage clipping

Vintage clipping · 1910

New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), June 25, 1910

Page 13 · mentions "monster" · printed on this very day

“NEWYORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATUR af AND STEEL BOOM a 3 Branches of Industry Flooded A with Orders pio rrmasly DO The Tribune jene 24A genuine boom has ui the iron and steel in ually increasing orders have Corporation and inde…”

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