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Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden and Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland China kills at least 132 people, leaving at least 80 missing and thousands displaced. *Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden and Daniel Westling (both pictured)* marry at a ceremony in Stockholm. Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago dies at the age of 87. In basketball, the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Boston Celtics in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, winning their second consecutive championship. Heavy rainfall in the Var, France, kills at least 25 people during the region's worst floods since 1827. Soyuz TMA-19, carrying three members of the Expedition 24 crew, launches on the one-hundredth flight to the International Space Station. The Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday finds that the British Army was "unjustified" in shooting 27 civilians in 1972. Recent deaths – More current events...**
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National Aboriginal Day in Canada United Irish rebels, marking a turning point in the Irish Rebellion . 1813 – Peninsular War: The Marquess of Wellington's combined British, Portuguese, and Spanish allied army defeated the French near Vitoria, Spain. Maniots at the fortifications of Vergas. Spain . Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (replica pictured), the world's first stored-program computer, ran its first computer program . landmark case Miller v. California, establishing the "Miller test" for determining what is obscene material . More anniversaries: June 20 – June 21 – June 22 List of historical anniversaries It is now June 21 2010 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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The prickles of a rose plant. Prickles, which are needle-like extensions of the cortex and epidermis, are often confused with thorns, which are modified branches or stems, and spines, which are modified leaves. All three are hard structures with sharp, pointy ends, which are generally used by plants to protect themselves from herbivores. Thorns likely first evolved as a defense mechanism in plants growing in sandy environments which provided inadequate resources for fast regeneration.

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