Today is Friday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2013. There are 193 days left in the year.
On June 21, 1963, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen during a conclave of his fellow cardinals to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope took the name Paul VI.
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