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Mormon Extermination Order (issued 10/27/1938) is rescinded (1987) - June 25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
June 26, 2017
Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (Queen Consort to King Christian IV of Denmark) is born (1575) - June 26
Christmas is declared a US Federal Holiday by President Ulysses S. Grant (1870) - June 26
CN Tower (Toronto Canada) is opened to the public (1976) - June 26
The Cyclone (Coney Island, NYC rollercoaster) opens (1927) - June 26
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (3rd daughter of Nicholas II and his empress Alexandra) is born (1899) - June 26
Independence Day (Madagascar from France-1960) - June 26
JFK's Ich bin ein Berliner speech (1963) - June 26
Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand) ends with a decisive Indian victory (1876) - June 26
Pied Piper of Hamlin (led 130 children or rats away from Hamelin-Legend 1284) - June 26
Francisco Pizarro (Spanish confquistador) is assassinated by Almagro supporters (1541) - June 26
Plesetsk Cosmodrome (Russia) has an accident with a Cosmos 3-M rocket that kills 9 (1973) - June 26
Richard III of England becomes King (1483) - June 26
Saint Lawrence Seaway (series of canals that connect the Atlantic to the Great Lakes) opens (1959) - June 26
Sunthorn Phu Day (Thailand) - June 26
Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia (son of Peter the Great) is flogged to death on his father's order (1718) - June 26
UN against Drug Abuse Day - June 26
UN International Day in support of victims of torture - June 26
Veronica Guerin (Irish journalist) murdered by Irish drug dealers (1996) - June 26
UPC Code is scanned for the first time for a purchase of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, OH (1974) - June 26
The Yorkshire ripper (an English serial killer) claims his 4th victim and the 1st who is not a prostitute, 16 year-old Jayne MacDonald in Leeds (1977) - June 26
Air Canada Flight 189 (flight from Ottawa to Vancouver via Toronto and Winnipeg) crashed on takeoff in Toronto killing two passengers (1978) - June 26
Leonard Peltier is arrested for the June 26 Pine Ridge Shootout (1975) - June 26
Princess Alexia of the Netherlands is born (2005) - June 26
Nora Ephron (American screenwriter, director and novelist) dies from pneumonia as a complication of acute myloid leukemia at age 71 (2012) - June 26
Eid-ul-Fitr (Muslim Festival of the Purification) marks the end of Ramadan (2017) - June 26
June 27, 2017
The world's First ATM is installed (Enfield, London-1967) - June 27
First mid-air refueling occurs (1923) - June 27
Air France flight 139 is hijacked (1976) - 6/27
Antoinette Perry (Broadway's Tony Awards are named for her) is born (1888) - June 27
Battleship Potemkin uprising (1905) - 6/27
Charles IX of France is born (1550) - June 27
Dark Shadows (Gothic soap opera) premieres (1966) - June 27
US "Do Not Call" Registry is established (2003) - June 27
Happy Birthday song Day - June 27
Helen Keller (US author and lecturer who was deafblind) is born (1880) - June 27
National HIV Testing Day - June 27
Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in LA and TX (1957) - June 27
Jo Frost (TV's Supernanny) is born (1970) - June 27
Joseph Smith, Jr. (Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement) is attacked and shot while in jail (1844) - June 27
Louis XII of France is born (1462) - June 27
NY Stock Exchange crash (1893) - June 27
US Route 66 is officially decommissioned (1985) - June 27
Sunglasses Day - 6/27
Jack Lemmon (American actor) dies from colon cancer and mestatic cancer of the bladder at age 76 (2001) - June 27
Kuala Lumpur International Airport Opens (1998) - June 27
Philippine Airlines Flight 206 crashes into a mountain killing all 50 aboard (1987) - June 27
June 28, 2017
Edward IV of England is crowned King at Westminster Abbey (1461) - June 28
Elian Gonzales returns to Cuba with his father (2000) - June 28
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo starting WWI (1914) - June 28
Freedom Tower final design is unveiled (2006) - June 28
Gilda Radner Wilder (Emmy award-winning American comedienne) is born (1946) - June 28
Giselle (ballet by Adolphe Adam) premieres in Paris (1841) - June 28
Henry VIII of England is born (1491) - June 28
Holyfield-Tyson II (boxing match where Tyson bit Holyfield's ear-1997) - June 28
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French philosopher) is born (1712) - June 28
John Wesley (Leader of the Methodist Movement) is born (1703) - June 28
King and I (film starring Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner) premieres (1956) - 6/28
Labor Day becomes an official US Holiday (1894) - June 28
Matsumoto Incident - Japan's 1st sarin attack occurs when the Aum Shinrikyo cult (Shoko Asahara their leader above), releases sarin killing 7 and injuring 660 (1994) - June 28
Mianus River Bridge collapse occurs on I95 in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich, CT when a 100' section of its northbound span collapses killing 3 people (1983) - 6/28
Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish Baroque Painter) is born (1577) - June 28
Sigma Chi fraternity is founded at Miami Univ OH (1855) - June 28
Treaty of Versailles is signed ending WWI (1919) - June 28
Victoria of England is crowned Queen at Westminster Abbey (1838) - June 28
June 29, 2017
Apple releases its iPhone in the US Market (2007) - June 29
Canada House in London opens (1917) - June 29
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Victorian Poet) dies at age 55 in Florence, Italy (1861) - 6/29
Israel in Egypt (Oratorio by Handel) was the earliest recorded music (1888) - June 29
Katherine Hepburn (iconic American actress) dies at age 93 of natural causes in her Connecticut home (2003) - June 29
Lady Margaret Beaufort (mother of Henry VII of England) dies at age 66 in the Westminster Abbey Deanery, just 2 months after her son (1509) - June 29
Remote Control Day - June 29
Sampoong Department Store collapse (South Korea-1995) - June 29
Thomas Henry Huxley (English biologist) died (1895) - June 29
Solemnity of Peter and Paul - June 29
Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the MIR space station (1995) - June 29
The Globe Theatre in London burned down (1613) - June 29
Sir Roger Casement is arrested for his part in the Easter Rebellion (1916) - June 29
Total solar eclipse is chronicled by monks (512) - June 29
Two car bombs are discovered in London's theatre district (2007) - June 29
June 30, 2017
Charles Blondin (French tight-rope walker) walks across Niagara Falls (1859) - June 30
Charles J. Guiteau is hanged for the assassination of US President James A. Garfield (1882) - 6/30
Canada issues a $1.00 coin in bronze nicknamed the "Loonie" due to the loon design on the reverse (1987) - June 30
Tech Support Appreciation Day - 6/30
The first Chevy Corvette rolls off the assembly line (1953) - June 30
Warren G. Harding appoints former US President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice (1921) - June 30
Henrietta Anne Stuart (daughter of Charles I and Henrietta Marie as well as wife of Philippe I, Duc de Orleans) dies (1670) - June 30
Henry II of France is seriously hurt jousting (1559) - June 30
Independence Day (Congo from Belgium-1960) - June 30
John Gay (English Poet and Dramatist best known for "The Beggar's Opera"-1728) is born (1685) - June 30
Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister, joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven (1992) - 6/30
Historic Debate about evolution at Oxford Univ Museum of Natural History in England (1860) - June 30
Regina Cyclone (an F4 category tornado that killed 28 people and damaged 500 buildings-1912) - 6/30
Soyuz 11 (Russian Space mission) crew died upon re-entry due to a faulty valve releasing their oxygen (1971) - June 30
The Night of the long knives (Hitler's ordered purge of the SA, a paramilitary organization, in Nazi Germany-1934) - June 30
Tunguska impact (Russia - large airburst from a meteor or comet fell over 600 trees-1908) - June 30
UA Flight 718 (Douglas DC-7) collides in mid-air with TWA Flight 2 (Super Constellation) 1956 - June 30
UK transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China (2007) - June 30
Take Your Dog to Work Day - Last Friday in June (2017) - June 30
July 1, 2017
Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 collides with DHL flight 611 in mid-air over Germany (2002) - July 1
Boeing Air Transport (later United Airlines) begins service with one registered nurse per flight as a stewardess (1931) - July 1
Princes William and Harry through a memorial concert on what would have been their mother's 46th birthday (2007) - July 1
Diana, Princess of Wales, is born (1961) - July 1
Ghana becomes a Republic separate from the UK (1960) - July 1
President Grover Cleveland undergoes secret surgery for cancer of the jaw (1893) - July 1
Harriet Beecher Stowe (American Author best known for "Uncle Tom's Cabin") dies at age 85 in Hartford, CT (1896) - July 1
Independence Day (Burundi from Belgium-1962) - July 1
Independence Day (Rwanda from Belgium-1962) - July 1
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) introduces the PG-13 Rating (1984) - July 1
Oresund Bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark opens for traffic (2000) - July 1
Russian State Library (National library of Russia in Moscow) is founded as Moscow's 1st free public library (1862) - July 1
Independence Day (Somalia from Italy) (1960) - July 1
Sony introduces the Walkman in Japan (1979) - July 1
The US Dept. of Justice officially begins operations (1870) - 7/1
ZIP Codes are introduced for U.S. Mail (1963) - July 1
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave (1958) - 7/1
Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day - 7/1
July 2, 2017
Benjamin Lane patents the first self-contained gas mask (1850) - July 2
AbioCor self-contained implantable artificial heart is created (2001) - July 2
Amelia Earhart (American aviation pioneer and author) disappears near Howland Island located in the Pacific Ocean near the equator (1937) - July 2
African captives aboard La Amistad (American built/Spanish owned two masted schooner traveling between two Cuban ports) revolt and take over the ship (1839) - July 2
First Zeppelin flight was the ascent of the LZ 1 over Lake Constance (the Bodensee) in Germany (1900) - July 2
James A Garfield (20th President of the USA) is assassinated by Charles Guiteau in a Washington, D.C. railroad station (1881) - July 2
Hajj (annual pilgrimage to Mecca) has disastrous results when a stampede in a pedestrian tunnel results in 1,426 pilgrim deaths (1990) - July 2
Incident at Xangwu Gate (China) where Li Shimin, in fear of assassination, kills his two brothers (626) - July 2
Independence Day - State of Bahia in Brazil from Portugese rule (1823) - July 2
Kinkaku-ji (The Golden Pavillion a Zen Budhist temple in Japan) is burned down by a monk (1950) - July 2
Nazi Massacre at Lubart Fortress in Lutsk Ukraine (1941) - July 2
Mururoa in French Polynesia was the site of France's first Nuclear Test (1966) - July 2
Mullet Day (Hairstyle that is short on the top front and sides but long in the back) - July 2
Susan B. Anthony silver dollar is released (1979) - July 2
Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine (1698) - July 2
Suspected UFO Crash at Roswell New Mexico (1947) - July 2
Violin Lovers Day - 7/2
First Wal-Mart discount store is opened in Bentonville, AR (1962) - July 2
