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Amador Valley High School is a public high school in Pleasanton, California, a city east of San Francisco. Amador Valley is one of four high schools in the Pleasanton Unified School District, which includes Foothill High School, Village High School, and Horizon High School. The school was founded as Amador Valley Joint Union High School, from which its first class graduated in 1923. The school has been named a California Distinguished School, a National School of Character, and a National Blue Ribbon School. As of 2009, Amador Valley offers its 2,500 students 23 varsity sports, 20 Advanced Placement courses, a program to study local aquatic wildlife, and vocational training. A monthly school publication, the Amadon, reports on athletics, academic and extracurricular issues, and news of the school and community. Student groups, including the Marching Band and Math Team, have toured out-of-state after achieving high rankings in Californian competitions. (more...) Recently featured: Washington quarter – Vidkun Quisling – Nashville Sounds Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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The Socialist Party of President François Hollande (pictured) gains a majority in the French legislative election. In golf, Webb Simpson wins the U.S. Open. New Democracy, led by Antonis Samaras, gains a plurality in the second Greek legislative election of 2012. Marcel Fässler, Benoît Tréluyer, and André Lotterer win the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the race's first victory in a hybrid car. Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud dies in Geneva. Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events...
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June 19: Day of the Independent Hungary; Juneteenth in some parts of the United States 1816 – The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies, engaged in a violent confrontation in present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 1939 – Former American baseball player Lou Gehrig (pictured) was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, now commonly known in the United States as "Lou Gehrig's Disease". 1978 – Garfield, created by American cartoonist Jim Davis, made its debut, eventually becoming one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb at the Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 and injuring 45. 2006 – The ceremonial "first stone" of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a facility established to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds from locations worldwide in an underground cavern in Spitsbergen, Norway, was laid. More anniversaries: June 18 – June 19 – June 20 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now June 19, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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The royal wedding between Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling took place on 19 June 2010 in Stockholm Cathedral. Westling—now known as Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland—became the first commoner to obtain a new title or rank as the spouse of a Swedish princess since the Middle Ages. He is the first Swedish man to use his wife's ducal title.

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