Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia) is born (1901) - June 18 (N.S.)
Autustic Pride Day - June 18
Battle of Orgreave (a confrontation between police and picketing miners) occurs at a British Steel coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire (1984) - 6/18
Battle of Patay is the culminating engagement of the Loire Campaign of Hundred Years' War between the French and English under Joan of Arc (1429) - June 18
British Airways Flight 548 (Staines air disaster) occurs when a Trident airliner crashes 2 minutes after takeoff from London Heathrow Airport killing all 118 aboard (1972) - 6/18
United Air force C-124 (Globemaster II) crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129 (1953) - June 18
Checker Taxi puts its first its first taxi on the streets (1923) - June 18
Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families (1900) - 6/18
Franklin Institute has its groundbreaking ceremonies (1930) - June 18
Melbourne CBD shooting is an incident that occurs in the Central Business District of Melbourne, Victoria Australia with 3 people shot (2007) - June 18
Paul McCartney (member of The Beatles) is born in Walton Hospital in Liverpool, England where his mother had worked as a nurse in the maternity ward (1942) - June 18
Republic of Egypt is declared and the monarchy is abolished (1953) - June 18
Roberto Calvi (Italian banker closely associated with the Vatican) is found hanged from the scaffolding beneath the Blackfriars Bridge in London (1982) - 6/18
Henry FitzRoy (bastard son of King Henry VIII of England and Elizabeth Blount) is made Earl of Nottingham and Duke of Richmond and Somerset by his father (1525) - June 18
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) treaty II is signed by the United States and Soviet Union (1979) - June 18
Seychelles National Day - June 18
Space Shuttle program STS-7 (7th space shuttle mission and 2nd mission for The Challenger) Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space (1983) - June 18
Trooping the Colour a guardsman was stretched off the Horse Guards parade ground after fainting during the ceremony (2000) - 6/18
Father's Day (2016) - 6/19
June 19, 2017
Battle of the Philippine Sea (a decisive naval aircraft carrier battle of WWII) is fought between the USA and the Empire of Japan with a decisive American victory (1944) - 6/19
Butterfly Day - June 19
FCC (United States' Federal Communications Commission) is established by the Communications Act of 1934 (1934) - June 19
James VI of Scotland and I of England (son of Mary Queen of Scotts and Henry Stuart, Duke of Albany) is born at Edinburgh Castle (1566) - June 19
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage) are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, NY (153) - June 19
Juneteenth Day (aka Freedom or Emancipation Day) commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas (1865) - June 19
Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom (1961) - June 19
Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Carl of Sweden and Norway (son of King Oscar I) in Stockholm Sweden (1850) - June 19
Maximillian I of Mexico is executed by firing squad in the Cerro de las Campanas (1867) - June 19
Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT - International patent law treaty) is signed in Washington (1970) - June 19
Piers Gaveston (favorite of Edward II) is taken to Blacklow Hill where he is executed by two Welshman who ran him through with a sword before beheading him (1312) - June 19
William Gerald Golding (British novelist best known for his novel Lord of the Flies) died of heart failure in Cornwall, England (1993) - June 19
Edward (youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II) weds Sophie Rhys-Jones at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle (1999) - June 19
World Sauntering Day - June 19
Victoria (Crown Princess of Sweden) marries her trainer Daniel Westling at the Stockholm Cathedral (2010) - June 19
June 20, 2017
National Bald Eagle Day (proclaimed by the 2nd Continental Congress-1782) - June 20
British Garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta (guard room in the old Fort William) after the fort is captured with 123 of the 146 captured dying (1756) - June 20
William IV of England (3rd son of George III and younger brother of George IV) dies from heart failure at Windsor Castle (1837) - June 20
Flight to Varennes occurs during which Louis XVI of France and his family attempt to escape Paris (1791) - June 20
Asteroid 5261 Eureka (a Mars Trojaner sharing the planets orbit around the sun) is discovered at Mt Palomar (1990) - 6/20
Monmouth Rebellion (aka Pitchfork Rebellion) occurs when James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and illegitimate son of Charles II) declares himself King of England (1685) - June 20
Victoria of England becomes Queen of the United Kingdom upon the death of William IV from heart failure (1837) - June 20
Teatro Yaguez in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico is destroyed by fire killing 150 people (1919) - June 20
Tennis Court Oath occurs in a tennis court building near the Palace of Versailles (1789) - 6/20
Toast of the Town (American TV variety show later changed to the Ed Sullivan Show) premieres (1948) - 6/20
University of Oxford receives its charter (1214) - June 20
Great Seal of the United States is submitted to Congress and is accepted on the same day (1782) - June 20
Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean of Asbury Park, NJ killing 74 people (1956) - 6/20
West Virginia is admitted into the union as the 35th state (1863) - June 20
World Refugee Day marks the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention - 6/20
Barbu Catargiu (first Prime Minister of Romania) is assassinated when an unknown assailant shot him at close range when he was leaving a Parliamentary meeting (1862) - June 20
Battle of Chalons occurs between Flavius Aetius and Attila the Hun with the Romans interpreting it as a victory when Attila retreats (451) - June 20
Nicole Kidman (Australian actress, model, singer and humanitarian) is born in Honolulu, Hawaii (1967) - June 20
Midsummer's Eve (2017) - June 20
June 21, 2017
Al Hirschfield (Jewish-American caricaturist best known for his B&W satirical portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars) is born in St. Louis, MO (1903) - June 21
Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City (1948) - June 21
Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as the first female member of the Canadian Cabinet (1957) - June 21
Battle of White Mountain results in twenty-seven of the insurrection noble leaders are executed on the Old Town Square in Prague (1621) - June 21
National Go Skateboarding Day - June 21
Princess Augusta of Bavaria is born in Strassburg, Austria (1788) - June 21
Jean-Paul Sartre (French existentialist philosopher and writer) is born and raised in Paris (1905) - June 21
Johann Christophe Friedrich Bach (9th son of Johann sebastian Back) is born at Leipzig, Germany (1732) - 6/21
Edward III of England dies from complications of a stroke at Sheen Palace, Richmond at age 64 (1377) - June 21
King Wenceslaus II dies in Prague, Czech Republic at age 33 (1305) - June 21
Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of an impending U.S. attack on Queenston, Ontario during the War of 1812 (1813) - June 21
Marie-Joseph Angelique (Portugese-born black slave tried, tortured and convicted of setting fire to her owner's home burning much of Old Montreal) is executed (1734) - June 21
Baby Boomer Recognition Day - June 21
Molly Maguires (members of a secret Irish organization) are executed by hanging with miners arriving with their wives and children to honor them (1877) - June 21
National Aboriginal Day (Canada) - June 21
National Day (Greenland) celebrates the longest day of the year - June 21
New Hampshire enters the union as the 9th state (1788) - June 21
Diana, Princess of Wales, gives birth to Prince William at St Mary's Hospital in London (1982) - 6/21
Manchester SSEM (Small-Scale Experimental Machine) runs the first ever computer program stored in electronic memory (1948) - 6/21
Summer Solstice (2017) - June 21
Typhoon Fengshen hits the Philippines (2008) - 6/21
June 22, 2017
Air France Flight 117 crashes into a forest on a hill at an altitude of about 4,000 feet while attempting to land in the West Indies, killing all 113 aboard (1962) - June 22
Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer (aka Ann Landers) dies at age 83 of multiple myeloma (2003) - 6/22
Charon (largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto) is discovered by astronomer James Christy (1978) - 6/22
Cuyahoga River (Cleveland, OH) catches fire and the attention of Time Magazine, which described the Cuyahoga as the river that "oozes rather than flows" (1969) - June 22
Delta Kappa Epsilon (fraternity) is founded at Yale College (New Haven, CT) by 15 men of the sophomore class (1844) - June 22
Moose (veteran canine Jack Russell Terrier best known for his portrayal of Eddie Crane on the TV sitcom Frasier) dies at age 16 from natural causes at home (2006) - June 22
Laki (volcanic fissure in Iceland) erupts creating a poisonous cloud that reaches LeHavre, France killing thousands of people with its sulfur dioxide gas (1783) - June 22
Fred Astaire (American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor) dies at age 88 from complications of pneumonia in Los Angeles, CA (1987) - June 22
George Carlin (American stand-up comedian noted for his black humor)dies at age 71 in Saint John's Health Center from heart failure (2008) - June 22
George V of the UK (Grandfather of Elizabeth II) is crowned King along with his wife Mary at Westminster Abbey (1911) - June 22
Hammond Circus Train Wreck (Hammond, IN) occurs when a locomotive engineer fell asleep and his train rammed into another killing 86 and injuring 127 (1918) - June 22
HMS Victoria (British battleship) colides with the HMS Camperdown near Tripoli, Lebanon during maneuvers and quickly sank taking 358 crew with her (1893) - June 22
A 6.5 earthquake occurs in northwestern Iran with the epicenter ner Bou'in-Zahra killing at least 261 and injuring 1,500 more with over 20 aftershocks (2002) - June 22
Judy Garland (American actress and Singer for 45 years) dies at age 47 from "an incautious self-overdosage" of barbituates in Chelsea, London (1969) - 6/22
June Days Uprising is a French worker's revolt tht killed over 1,500 people with 15,000 political prisoners deported to Algeria (1848) - June 22
Hitler commences Operation Barbarossa - code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during WWII (1941) - June 22
Dennis Day (Irish-American singer, radio and TV personality born Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty) dies from Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) at age 72 (1988) - June 22
Pat Nixon (wife of Richard Nixon and First Lady of the USA) dies at age 81 from lung cancer in her New Jersey home (1993) - June 22
Battle of Pydna occurs with the Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus ending the 3rd Macedonian War (168 BC) - June 22
Kodak announces that Kodachrome (Kodak's color reversal film) will no longer be manufactured (2009) - June 22
Washington DC Metro Commuter trains collide during the afternoon rush hour results in 9 deaths and 80 injuries (2009) - June 22
June 23, 2017
Air India Flight 182 (Toronto-Montreal-London-Delhi-Bombay route) is blown up midair by a terrorist bomb in Irish airspace killing on 329 on board (1985) - June 23
Battle of Bannockburn begins south of Stirling, Scotland (Scottish victory in the Wars of Scottish Independence) begins (1314) - June 23
Charles II contracts marriage with Catherine of Braganza after seeing this portrait (1661) - 6/23
Edward VIII of England (eldest son of The Duke and Duchess of York) is born at White Lodge in Richmond, England (1894) - June 23
Frederick Douglass becomes the first African American to receive a vote for President of the USA during the Republican National Convention (1888) - June 23
Harriet (Galapagos tortoise reportedly collected by Charles Darwin in 1834) dies at age 175 in Australia (2006) - June 23
Henry VIII of England and Francois I of France sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V in the Field of the Cloth of Gold (1532) - 6/23
Henry Hudson along with his teenage son and eight crewman are set adrift after a mutiny on his ship (1611) - 6/23
James Hansen testifies to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that it is 99% probable that global warming has already begun (1988) - June 23
Jonas Salk (American medical researcher and virologist best known for his discovery of a polio vaccine) dies at age 80 in La Jolla, CA (1995) - June 23
Josephine de Beauharnais (Napoleon's first wife and first Empress of the French) is born in Les Trois-Ilets, Martinique (1763) - June 23
National Day (Luxembourg - official birthday of the Grand Duke) - June 23
Mohawk Airlines Flight 40 Crashes (1967) - 6/23
Southern Peru earthquake (8.4 on the Richter Scale) occurs with a resulting tsunami 75 people are killed 2,687 injured and 64 declared missing (2001) - 6/23
Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for his "type-writer" (1868) - June 23
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane (1931) - June 23
Ed McMahon (American celebrity best known for his work on TV as Johnny Carson's announcer and sidekick on The Tonight Show) dies at age 86 from health problems (2009) - June 23
William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania (1683) - June 23
June 24, 2017
450 metric ton meteorite strikes empty field in Chicora Pa (1938) - June 24
Angora forest fire in CA destroys 200 structures in first 48 hours (2007) - June 24
Columnists Day - 6/24
Cornish Rebellion Leaders are executed at Tyburn London (1497) - June 24
John Cabot discovers Newfoundland and Labrador (1497) - 6/24
Edward de Vere (Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet and patron of numerous writers, aka 17th Earl of Oxford) dies at age 54 (1604) - June 24
Eton College (Boarding school for boys aged 13 to 19 in Windsor, England) is founded by King Henry VI (1441) - June 24
Flying Saucer Day - Kenneth Arnold makes 1ST widely reported UFO sighting (1947) - 6/ 24
Grover Cleveland (24th President of USA) dies from a heart attack at age 71 in Princeton, NJ (1908) - June 24
Hopalong Cassidy (1st TV Western) premieres on NBC (1949) - 6/24
Humber Bridge (World's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years) opens to traffic (1981) - June 24
Jakarta Incident - BA Flight 9 flew into Mount Gulunggung's volcanic ash eruption resulting in total engine failure (1982) - 6/24
Joan of Spain (who ruled Spain as regent while her brother, King Phillip II, went to England to marry Queen Mary I of England) is born (1535) - June 24
John the Baptist's feast day - June 24
Lucrezia Borgia (daughter Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI) dies at age 39 from complications after giving birth to her 8th child (1519) - June 24
Mary Pickford becomes the first female star to receive a million dollar contract (1916) - 6/24
Mount Galunggung erupts throwing dry volcanic ash into the air that kills 68 people and forces 2 planes to make emergency landings at Jakarta (1982) - June 24
Sadi Carnot (5th President of the French Republic) is stabbed by an anarchist (1894) - June 24
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 crashes on its final approach into New York Kennedy due to a thunderstorm wind shear killing 113 of the 124 aboard (1975) - June 24
Robert Dudley (1st Earl of Leicester) is born (1532) - 6/24
A B-52 crashes at Fairchild AFB during an airshow practice flight killing the 4 crew members aboard including the co-pilot who ejected too late (1994) - 6/24
Laylat al-Qadr also known as "The Night of Power" (Islam-2017) - July 24
June 25, 2017
Augsburg Confession (primary confession of faith for the Lutheran Church) given at the Diet of Augsburg (1530) - June 25
Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand) begins (1876) - June 25
The Berlin Airlift (Project to feed Communist-surrounded West Berlin) begins (1948) - June 25
Catfish Day - June 25
Cullinan Diamond (a 3,106.75 carats rough gem-quality diamond) is discovered (1905) - June 25
The Diary of Anne Frank is first published (Dutch-1947) - June 25
Elena Piscopia is the first woman to receive a doctorate in Philosophy (1678) - June 25
George Orwell (English author besk known for his novels Animal Farm and 1984) is born (1903) - June 25
Independence Day (Mozambique from Portugal-1975) - 6/25
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (French naval officer, explorer, scientist and researcher) dies in Paris, France at age 87 (1997) - June 25
Louis Mountbatten (1st Earl of Mountbatten and uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh) is born (1900) - June 25
Mary Tudor (Queen of France and sister of Henry VIII of England) dies at Westhorpe Hall, Suffolk England at age 37 (1533) - June 25
Mir station is struck by a progress cargoship (1997) - June 25
Mormon Extermination Order (issued 10/27/1938) is rescinded (1987) - June 25
Natalia Alexeivna of Russia (1st wife of the future Tsar Paul I) is born (1755) - June 25
Strawberry Parfait Day - June 25
UK Floods cause 400 homes to be evacuated (Lincolnshire-2007) - June 25
Virginia becomes the 10th state in the USA (1788) - June 25
Michael Jackson (American recording artist and entertainer aka "King of Pop") dies at age 50 from a cardiac arrest supposedly brought on by anorexia (2009) - June 25
Farrah Fawcett (American actress best known for her role on the US TV Series Charlie's Angels) dies at age 62 from rare form of anal cancer in Santa Monica, CA (2009) - June 25
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