June:
Today in History, Holidays, and Fun Facts
| NATIONAL CARIBBEAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH: Celebrate! | |
| 1 | 1792 - Kentucky Became a State 1796 - Tennessee Became a State 1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) Launched |
| 2 | 1924 - United States Citizenship Granted to
Native American Indians by Congress 1953 - Coronation of Elizabeth II |
| 3 | 1937 - Duke of Windsor (previously Edward VIII of Great Britain) and Wallis Simpson Married |
| 4 | 1989 - Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, China |
| 5 | 1933 - Gold Standard Abandoned by the United
States 2004 - Death of Former American President Ronald Reagan |
| 6 | 1844 - Founding of the Young Men's Christian
Association (YMCA) in London, England 1944 - D-Day Invasion: Allied Troops Landed in Normandy, France 2002 - Department of Homeland Security Proposed by President George W. Bush |
| 7 | 1494 - Treaty of Tordesillas Signed by
Portugal and Spain 1654 - Coronation of France's Louis XIV 1929 - Vatican City Became Independent |
| 8 | 632 C.E. - Muhammad, Islam's Prophet, Died 1861 - Tennessee Seceded from the United States |
| 9 | 1944 - Iceland Became Independent 1978 - Men of African Descent Permitted o Become Clergy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) |
| 10 | 1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous Founded 1946 - Italy Became a Republic |
| 11 | 1509 - Henry VIII Married Catherine of Aragon |
| 12 | 1898 - Emiliano Aguinaldo Declared the Philippines' Independence from Spain |
| 13 | 1900 - Start of China's Boxer Rebellion 1966 - Miranda Rights Set Forth in the Miranda v. Arizona U.S. Supreme Court Decision |
| 14 | 1775 - Founding of the United States Army 1777 - Adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the U.S. Flag 1940 - Auschwitz Concentration Camp Opened in Poland |
| 15 | 1215 - Magna Carta Sealed by England's King
John 1752 - Benjamin Franklin Performed His Famous Experiment, Tying a Key to the End of a Kite to Verify the Existence of Electricity 1836 - Arkansas Became a State |
| 16 | 1487 - Battle of Stoke 1775 - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mandated by the Continental Congress 1963 - Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova Became the First Woman in Space |
| 17 | 1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill 1944 - Iceland Independent 1994 - O.J. Simpson's Low-Speed Police Chase Broadcast Live on American Television |
| 18 | 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte Defeated at
Waterloo 1983 - Sally Ride Became First American Woman in Space |
| 19 | 1934 - Creation of the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) JUNETEENTH: Emancipation (or Freedom) Day Honoring the End of the Enslavement of African Americans |
| 20 | 1863 - West Virginia Became a State 1893 - Lizzie Borden Found Not Guilty of Her Parents' Axe Murder |
| 21 | 1834 - Patent Granted for Cyrus McCormick's
Mechanical Reaper 1997 - Debut of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) |
| 22 | 1870 - Creation of the United States Justice
Department 1944 - G.I. Bill of Rights Signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 23 | 1868 - Patent Issued for Christopher Sholes's Typewriter |
| 24 | 1509 - Coronation of England's Henry VIII 1948 - Start of the Berlin Blockade |
| 25 | 1788 - Virginia Became a State 1950 - Start of the Korean War |
| 26 | 1819 - Patent Issued for W.K. Clarkson's
Bicycle 1843 - Hong Kong Became a Crown Colony of Great Britain 2000 - Completion of the First Map of the Human Genome |
| 27 | 1969 - Stonewall Incident in New York City
Sparked the Gay Rights Movement 2003 - Opening of the National Do-Not-Call Registry |
| 28 | 1894 - Congress Declared Labor Day a Federal
Holiday 1914 - Assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand 1919 - Treaty of Versailles Formally Ended World War I |
| 29 | 1767 - Townshend Act approved by Great Britain's Parliament |
| 30 | 1971 - Ratification of the 26th Amendment |
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