June 1 - U.S. President James Buchanan died in 1868.
June 2 - Children’s author Norton Juster was born in 1929.
June 3 - Ransom Eli Olds, founder of Olds Motor Vehicle Works
(later known as Oldsmobile), was born in 1864.
June 4 - The United States Congress approved the Woman’s Suffrage
Amendment by joint resolution in 1919.
June 5 - The first United Nations Conference on the Human
Environment began in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972.
June 6 - American and British forces landed on the shores of
Normandy, France in 1944 in what was known as the D-day
invasion.
June 7 - Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi committed his first act of
civil disobedience in 1893.
June 8 - Architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland
Center, Wisconsin, in 1867.
June 9 - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito married commoner Masako
Owada in 1993.
June 10 - The Six-Day War, fought between Israel and several Arab
nations, ended in 1967.
June 11 - Capt. James Cook, commander of the British ship
Endeavour, discovered the Great Barrier Reef off
Australia by running onto it.
June 12 - Anne Frank was born in 1929.
June 13 - LaMarcus Thompson’s Switchback Railway, an early roller
coaster, opened on Coney Island in 1884.
June 14 - The Continental Congress approved the design for our
national flag on this day in 1777, and today is now
celebrated as Flag Day.
June 15 - HAPPY FATHERS'DAY
Benjamin Franklin performed his famous kite experiment
in 1752.
June 16 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the
West in 1961.
June 17 - Plans were announced in 1952 for the construction of
Southdale, the U.S.’s first enclosed shopping mall.
June 18 - Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in
1983.
June 19 - French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal was
born in 1623.
June 20 - The Boxer Rebellion began in China in 1900.
June 21 - Psychologist and pediatrician Arnold Gesell was born in
1880.
June 22 - Entomologist Filippo Silvestri was born in 1873.
June 23 - Virologist Dr. Jonas Salk, the first scientist to
create a vaccine for polio, died in 1995.
June 24 - The U.S. Senate repealed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in
1970.
June 25 - The first color television broadcast took place in
1951.
June 26 - Scientists announced in 2000 that they had completed a
rough map of the human genetic code.
June 27 - Helen Keller, author and advocate for the deaf and
blind, was born in 1880.
June 28 - Nobel Prize winning chemist Mario Molina published his
famous ozone paper in the journal Nature in 1974.
June 29 - Mesa Verde National Park, home to the spectacular
Anasazi Ruins, was created in 1906.
June 30 - The Union Jack was lowered for the last time over
Government House in Hong Kong in 1997.
