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Magna Carta, Juneteenth & the Birth of the Blockbuster | Jun 15–21
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This week in history spans eight centuries of turning points: the sealing of the Magna Carta, the birth of Juneteenth, Valentina Tereshkova in space, the Battle of Waterloo, and the summer Jaws changed Hollywood forever. Ten events, ten stories, one extraordinary week.
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On June fifteenth, twelve fifteen, at Runnymede in England, King John of England pressed his royal seal into wax on a document that would echo through centuries of law. Rebellious barons had forced his hand, and the result was the Magna Carta — the Great Charter — which declared, for the first time in English history, that even the king was bound by the law of the land.
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