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Events for the 17th of June from Wikipedia:
• 1929: The town of Murchison, New Zealand is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison,_New_Zealand
• Birth (1821) of E. G. Squier, American archaeologist and journalist (d. 1888) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._G._Squier
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