General events not linked to a day
National Candy Month
National Dairy Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
National Iced Tea Month
National Papaya Month
First Friday in June: National Donut Day
1 June
National Hazelnut Cake Day
Donut Day
1935 Compulsory Driving Test is introduced for all drivers in England
1938 Superman Appears For The First Time in D.C. Comics
1967 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Released By The Beatles
1980 The first 24-hour news television station – CNN is launched in Atlanta, Georgia
2 June
National Rocky Road Day
National Rotisserie Chicken Day
1896 Radio Patented
1924 The Indian Citizenship Act is passed in Congress.
1953 Queen Elizabeth II is formally crowned as The Queen in England
3 June
National Chocolate Macaroon Day
National Egg Day
1937 Former King OF England King Edward VIII marries Wallis Warfield Simpson, the American divorcee
1965 First U.S. Space Walk
2008 GM / General Motors Closes Plants
4 June
National Cheese Day
Aesop’s Birthday
1896 First Ford built
1919 The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote , passed by Congress
1940 The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk ends as German forces capture the beach.
1942 The Battle of Midway ( World War II ) Begins
1989 Tiananmen Square Protests Ended when Chinese Troops Kill Hundreds
5 June
National Ketchup / Catsup Day
Gingerbread Day (S.A)
Richard Scarry’s Birthday
World Environment Day
1783 First Hot Air Balloon Flight
1967 Six-Day War in the Middle East War begins when Israel launches simultaneous attacks against Egypt and Syria
1968 Senator Robert Kennedy Assassinated
6 June
National Gingerbread Day (U.S.A)
1933 The first drive in movie theater is opened in Camden, NJ
1944 World War II Operation Overlord / D-Day
1975 UK has it’s first nationwide referendum over continued membership of the European Economic Community.
1984Indian government sends army troops into the Golden Temple compound where they kill at least 500 Sikh rebels.
7 June
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
1494 Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal divide the new world along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa
1576 Martin Frobisher, English navigator, departed England in his quest to find a Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. He reached Labrador and Baffin Island and also discovered the bay that was named after him
1628 English King Charles I, ratifies the Petition of Rights
1654 Louis XIV, crowned as French King
1832 the Reform Act of 1832 came into affect, the 1st of the British parliamentary bills that expanded the electorate for the House of Commons. Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, wrote it
1848 Paul Gauguin, French painter, was born
1893 MK Ghandi is forcibly removed from a white only train carriage
1905 James J Braddock, American boxer, was born
1909 Jessica Tandy, English American actress, was born (died 11 September 1994)
1917 Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, was born. She wrote about everyday urban life of the African American people and was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize in 1949
1917 Dean Martin, American singer and songwriter, was born
1929 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1940 Tom Jones, Welsh singer, was born
1942 Muammar Gaddaffi, Libyan leader for 42 years, was born (died 20 October 2011)
1952 Liam Neeson, Northern Irish American actor, was born
1953 Johnny Clegg, South African musician, was born
1954 Alan Turing, computer scientist, died of suspected cyanide poisoning. The Imitation Game was inspired by the work and influence he had in winning World War II
1958 Prince, American singer, songwriter, producer and musician, was born (died 21 April 2016)
1965 contraception by married couples were legalised in the US after a Supreme Court ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut
1970 EM Forster, British novelist, essayist and social & literary critic, died in Coventry, Warwickshire. England
1975 Allen Iverson, American basketball player, was born
1982 Graceland, Elvis Presley’s home in Tennessee, was opened to the public
1990 South African president, FW de Klerk, lifts the four year long state of emergency
2002 Department of Homeland Security Announced
2005 severed human leg drops off a SAA plane!!
8 June
National Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day
World Ocean’s Day
1191 Richard I joined the Third Crusade in Acre. He conquered Cyprus on his way there!
1504 Michelangelo’s David statue believed to be installed in the cathedral in Florence
1867 Franz Joseph was crowned king of Hungary
1867 Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, born
1916 Biophysicist Francis Crick was born. He received the Novel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962 alongside James Dewey Watson and Maurice Wilkins
1933 Joan Rivers, American entertainer was born
1955 Sir Tim Berners-Lee, British scientist was born
1966 The National Football League and The American Football League announced their merger
1966 Julianna Margulies, American actress was born
1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Last Speech Before Assassinated
1970 Gabrielle Giffords, American politician was born
1977 Kanye West, rapper and American producer, born
1991 South African Airways received permission to fly over the bulge of Africa as negotiations to abolish apartheid, progress
1992 Agenda 21, a new UN body was approved. It was tasked with monitoring environmental treaties compliance
1997 The Cobra militia of former Republic of Congo president Denis Sassou-Nguesso, takes control of Brazzaville
1997 Bafana Bafana, the South African soccer team, beats Slovenia 1 – 0
1998 Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha suddenly died of a heart attack, opened the way for democracy
2002 Serena Williams defeated her sister Venus Williams in the final of the French Open, her first French Open title
2002 Bafana Bafana, the South African soccer team, beats Zambia 3 – 0
2004 Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian athlete, broke the 10000m world record in 26 minutes 20.32 seconds
9 June
National Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Day
1672 Peter the Great Born
1934 Donald Duck makes his first film appearance, in The Wise Little Hen, a short by Walt Disney.
1973 Secretariat horse racing’s first Triple Crown Winner
1983 Margaret Thatcher wins in a landslide victory in British General Elections
10 June
National Iced Tea Day (U.S.A.)
Ball Point Pen Patented
1940 Italy declares war on France and Great Britain
1967 Middle East Six Day War Ends
11 June
National German Chocolate Cake Day
E.T. Movie premiered
1770 Great Barrier Reef Discovered
1910 Jacque Cousteau’s Birthday
1944 The five Allied landing groups, made up of some 330,000 troops, converge in Normandy
1959 The “Hovercraft”, has it’s official launch at the Solent on the South Coast of England
1979 Film star John Wayne , also known as the “Duke,” died of cancer
2001 Timothy McVeigh executed by lethal injection for bombing Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City
2009 The World Health Organization declares H1N1 influenza strain, referred to as “swine flu”, as a global pandemic
2016 The Queen’s 90th Birthday
2016 Winnie the Pooh also turned 90!
12 June
National Peanut Butter Cookie Day
International Falafel Day
1917 King Constantine I of Greece , abdicates his throne
1929 Anne Frank’s Birthday
1964 The leader of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa, Nelson Mandela, is jailed for life for sabotage
1994 O.J. Simpson Police Car Chase following the murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson
13 June
Cupcake Lover’s Day
1865 William Butler Yeats Birthday (1865 – 1939)
1933 Great Depression Home Owners Refinancing Act passed in Congress
1944 Germany V1 rockets / Doodlebugs Crash On London
1966 Chief Justice Earl Warren delivers The Supreme Court landmark Miranda vs. Arizona decision, ( Miranda warning ).
1991 Boris Yeltsin wins first Russian elections for Russia’s first popularly-elected president
14 June
National Strawberry Shortcake Day
Flag Day
World Juggling Day
1940 German tanks rolled into Paris and took control of the city
1942 Anne Frank began her diary after she receives it for her 13th birthday
1954. President Eisenhower signed a bill to add the words “under God” to the United States Pledge of Allegiance
1954 Atomic Emergency Civil Defense Drill
1982 The Falkland Islands War ends when Argentina surrenders to Great Britain after a war lasting 6 weeks
15 June
National Lobster Day
1215 Magna Carta Signed
1752 Benjamin Franklin’s Kite Experiment
1904 The General Slocum, burst into flames on New York’s East River with the loss of over 1000 lives.
1935 New Deal Legislation Passes
16 June
National Fudge Day
Father’s Day
1967 Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey International Pop Music Festival
1976 Youth Day, South Africa
1978 The Movie Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John opened
17 June
National Apple Strudel Day
National Cherry Tart Day
1885 The French gift to the United States “The Statue of Liberty” arrives in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
1898 M.C.Escher’s Birthday
1930 President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff bill which raised duties on imports into the U.S.A.
1972 5 men arrested for breaking into Watergate Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C.
1973 Secretariat horse racing’s first Triple Crown Winner
18 June
International Picnic Day
National Cheesemakers Day
1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
1948 Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new long-playing phonograph record, the 33 1/3, in New York City
1976 Rioting in South Africa spreads throughout the country
1979 President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the Salt-II agreement
2000 Tiger Woods wins the 100th US Open at Pebble Beach, California winning by an unheard of 15 strokes
19 June
National Martini Day
1846 First Organized Baseball Game in New Jersey
1905 The world’s first nickelodeon opened
1923 Walls of lava one mile wide descend from Mount Etna towards the town of Lingauglossa in Italy and bury the town
1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing Prison.
1968 50,000 people participated in ” The Poor Peoples March ” organised by Martin Luther King Jr.
1978 Garfield’s Birthday
20 June
National Vanilla Milkshake Day
International Picnic Day
Bald Eagle Day
1893 A jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.
1910 The First Father’s Day was celebrated for the first time in Spokane, Washington
1963 Hot Line Established Between US and Soviet Union
1975 The summer blockbuster movie “Jaws” is released
1977 Crude oil from North Alaska begins flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline to the port of Valdez, Alaska
21 June
National Peaches & Cream Day
1877 Ten members of the Irish Miners Group The “Molly Maguires” were hanged for murder,
2001 General Pervez Musharraf Takes Power in Pakistan
2003 JK Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” is released and becomes the fastest selling book ever.
22 June
National Chocolate Eclair Day
National Onion Ring Day
1937 Joe Louis wins the world heavyweight boxing title defeating Jim Braddock in an eighth-round knockout.
1941 Germany launches Operation Barbarossa the invasion of Russia,
1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the GI bill of Rights Bill
1970 President Nixon signed a bill to lower the voting age to 18 for all federal, state and local elections
23 June
National Pecan Sandy Day
1931 Wiley Post and his navigator, Harold Gatty, took off for a round the world flight in the single-engine airplane
1989 The movie Batman opened in theaters , starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson
1999 Landmark Tobacco Settlement agreed
2000 Fire at the Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel in Childers, Queensland, Australia has left 15 backpackers dead
24 June
National Pralines Day
U.F.O. Day
2010 Julia Gillard became Australia’s first female prime minister
1948 Soviets blockade West Berlin blocking off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin.
25 June
National Strawberry Parfait Day
National Catfish Day
1876 Custer’s Last Stand during the Battle of the Little Bighorn
1903 George Orwell’s Birthday (1903-1950)
1929 Eric Carle’s Birthday
1943 Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower takes command as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
1950 North Korea Attack South Korea starting the Korean War.
1967 The Beatles record “All You Need Is Love” in front of an international television audience
2002 The world’s largest lollipop was made. It was as tall as a Giraffe(15 feet tall) and about the weight of 23 full grown tigers and Cherry flavored.
26 June
National Chocolate Pudding Day
1498 Toothbrush Invented
1819 Bicycle Patented
1906 The first French Grand Prix the first race of it’s kind to be held anywhere was staged in Le Mans,
1945 50 nations sign the United Nations Charter, establishing the world body as a means of helping to stop another World War happening
1948 United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of West Berlin
1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway has it’s official opening
1963 President John F. Kennedy makes famous speech in front of the Berlin Wall when he declared to the crowd, “Ich bin ein Berliner”
2009 Michael Jackson ( the King of Pop ) dies
27 June
National Orange Blossom Day
1859 Happy Birthday Song
1880 Helen Keller Born
1944 Allied forces liberate Cherbourg as the first step to liberating France and the beginning of the end for World War II.
1967 The world’s first recorded Ebola virus epidemic
28 June
National Tapioca Day
National Insurance Day
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Paul Bunyan Day
1577 Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
1914 WWI Began
1919 Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles with the Allies, officially ending World War I.
1997 Mike Tyson bites Evander Holyfield’s Ear
29 June
National Almond Buttercrunch Day
Camera Day
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act to create 41,000 miles of Interstate Highways
1995 US shuttle Atlantis delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts to the Russian Mir space station
30 June
National Mai Tai Day
Meteor Day
1937 999 emergency service is started in London
1997 JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book UK “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” released in the UK.
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