June is...

Accordion Awareness Month
Adopt-A-Shelter-Cat Month
Black Music Month
Cancer from the Sun Month
Candy Month
National Dairy Month
Fireworks Safety Month (through July 31)
National Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Month
National Safety Month
Rose Month

- Sun Safety Week June 1 - 7, 2009

- Hurricane Season Starts 2009

- Kentucky became the fifteenth state in the union. (1792)

- Tennessee became the sixteenth state in the union. (1796)

- Cherokee Nation was annexed by Georgia . (1830)

- First U.S. seismograph was installed at Lick Observatory in California to help detect earthquakes. (1888)

- "New York's Finest" parade occurred in Union Square, New York. (1899)

- Charles de Gaulle called out of retirement to become Premier of France. (1958)

- Oscar the Grouch’s birthday. 1969

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- P.T. Barnum started his first circus tour. (1835)

- Thomas Hardy, author, was born near Dorchester, England . (1840)

- Native Americans born within the borders of the United States were granted American citizenship by Congress. (1924)

- Queen Elizabeth II was coronation in Westminster Abbey. (1953)

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- Hannah Kent Schoff, reformer and PTA founder, was born. (1853)

- The first Civil War land battle occurred. (1861)

- Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first wireless telephone message on his newly invented "photophone." (1880)

- Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor) married an American divorcee, which led him to give up the British throne. (1936)

- The reflecting Hale telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California was dedicated. (1948)

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- First total solar eclipse was recorded in China . (780 B.C.)

- Aesop's birthday (620 B.C.)

- Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain . (1792)

- 19^th Amendment to the Constitution (women's suffrage) was approved by the U.S. Congress. (1919)

- Battle of Midway (World War II) began. (1942)

- Tonga gained independence from Britain . (1970)

- Tiananmen Square Revolt took place in Beijing, China , where democracy demonstrators were suppressed. (1989)

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- World Environment Day 2009

- Ben Franklin flew his famous kite to study electricity. (1752)

- Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, began to appear in serial form. (1851)

- Stephen Crane, author (The Red Badge of Courage), died. (1900)

- The Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt , Syria , and Jordan began. (1967)

- Robert Kennedy, Presidential candidate and brother of the late John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. (1968)

- Ronald Reagan died at age 93 (2004)

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- National Fishing & Boating Week June 6 - 14, 2009

- National Trail Day 2009 (first Saturday in June)

- President Andrew Jackson became the first President to ride a train, or "Iron Horse." (1833)

- Theodore Roosevelt Jr. received the Congressional Medal of Honor. (1944)

- D-day began in the early morning hours. (1944)

- James H. Meredith, the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, was shot by a sniper shortly after beginning a civil rights march through the South. He survived. (1966)

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- Full Moon 2009

-National Cancer Survivor’s Day 2009 (first Sunday in June)

- Daniel Boone became the first frontiersman to see the forests and woodlands of present-day Kentucky. (1769)

- Paul Gauguin, French painter known for his colorful series from Tahiti and many other impressionist paintings, was born. (1848)

- Mahatma Gandhi initiated his first act of civil disobedience. (1893)

- King George VI became the first British monarch to visit the United States . (1939)

- E. M. Forster, British author (A Passage to India ), died. (1970)

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- World Oceans Day

- Prophet Muhammad (Mohammed), founder of Islam and unifier of Arabia, died. (632 C.E.)

- Frank Lloyd Wright, known for his organic architecture and use of cement and rock, was born. (1867)

- Mark Twain embarked on the journey through Europe to the Holy Land that would inspire The Innocents Abroad. (1867)

- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published. (1949)

- James Earl Ray was arrested in London for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968)

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- Jacques Cartier became the first European explorer to discover the St. Lawrence River in present-day Quebec, Canada . (1534)

- Peter the Great, Russian Emperor, was born. (1672)

- Charles Dickens, author (Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Oliver Twist), died. (1870)

- Cole (Albert) Porter, composer and lyricist of Broadway shows (Kiss Me Kate), was born. (1891)

- Yo-Yo Manufacturing Company started up in Santa Barbara, California. (1928)

- Donald Duck made his film debut. (1934)

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- Salem witch trials hanged Bridget Bishop as a witch in Salem Village. (1692)

- Guantánamo Bay, Cuba , was occupied by U.S. Marines, the beginning of the end of Spanish colonial rule in the Western Hemisphere. (1898)

- Saul Bellow, author (The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Henderson the Rain King), was born. (1915)

- Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator (Chicken Soup with Rice and Where the Wild Things Are), was born. (1928)

- Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in New York City by two recovering alcoholics. (1935)

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- Kamehameha Day is celebrated in Hawaii.

- King Henry VIII of England married Catherine of Aragón, the first of six wives he would have. (1509)

- Gerasim Izmailov, Russian explorer, reaches Alaska. (1788)

- Jeannette Pickering Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, was born on a ranch near Missoula, Montana Territory. (1880)

- Jacques Yves Cousteau, marine explorer and co-inventor of the Aqua-Lung, was born. (1910)

- Charles Lindbergh awarded the first Distinguished Flying Cross. (1927)

- George Wallace, governor of Alabama, made his "stand in the schoolhouse door" at the University of Alabama, blocking the admission of two African-American students. (1963)

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- Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer of Heidi, was born. (1827)

- Philippines were formally annexed from Spain . (1898)

- George Bush, 41st U.S. President and father of 43rd President George W. Bush, was born. (1924)

- Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany . Thirteen years later, she would receive a diary for her birthday and would begin to write the memoirs of World War II for which she is remembered. (1929)

- Indira Gandhi, former prime minister of India , was found guilty of electoral corruption in her successful 1971 campaign. (1975)

- Russian National Sovereignty Declaration Day ( Russia Day). (1990)

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- William Butler Yeats, Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist, was born in Sandymount, Dublin. (1865)

- The first women’s golf tournament was held at Royal Lytham, England . (1893)

- The Yukon was separated from the Northwest Territories in Canada and given separate territorial status. (1898)

- Miranda v. Arizona case decided by Supreme Court. (1966)

- Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the Supreme Court. (1967)

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- Flag Day is celebrated in the United States .

- United States Army was created. (1775)

- Harriet Beecher Stowe, American writer (Uncle Tom's Cabin), was born. (1811)

- Caldecott Book Medal first awarded. (1938)

- UNIVAC was dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau as the world's first commercially produced electronic digital computer. (1951)

- Eric Heiden, winner of 5 Olympic gold medals for speed skating in the 1980 Winter Olympics, was born. (1958)

- Falkland Islands War ended with Argentina surrendering to Great Britain . (1982)

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- Magna Carta, the Great Charter, received royal seal from King John. (1215)

- Arkansas was admitted to the Union as the 25th state. (1836)

- U.S. - Canadian border was established at the 49th parallel of north latitude by the Oregon Treaty. (1846)

-  Henry O, Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy. (1877)

- Hawaii annexation was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives and forwarded to Senate. (1897)

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- Fudge Day

- Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space. (1963)

- Wernher von Braun, German-U.S. rocket engineer, died. (1977)

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- Francis Drake, English seaman, anchored in a harbor just north of present-day San Francisco, California, and claimed the territory for Queen Elizabeth I. (1579)

- The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought between American and British troops in Boston. (1775)

- Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky, composer, was born. (1882)

- M.C. Escher, Dutch artist widely known for his use of tessellations and geometric shapes in his drawings and woodcuts, was born. (1898)

- Iceland becomes independent from Denmark and forms a republic. (1944)

- Watergate affair began when five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. (1972)

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- Eat Your Vegetables (and Fruits) Day

- The War of 1812 began when President James Madison signed the declaration into law.

- Napoleon Bonaparte suffered defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo in Belgium . (1815)

- Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly in an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. (1928)

- (James) Paul McCartney, musician and member of the Beatles, was born. (1942)

- Dr. Sally Ride became the first American female astronaut. (1983)

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- Juneteenth is celebrated. It is the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery.

- Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, installed as Emperor of Mexico by French Emperor Napoleon III in 1864, was executed. (1867)

- Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States , arrived in New York City's harbor. (1885)

- Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom . (1961)

- Garfield (the cartoon cat) was "born." (1978)

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- World Refugee Day 2009

- West Virginia was admitted into the Union as the 35th state. (1863)

- The Boxer Rebellion was launched in China in response to perceived widespread foreign encroachment upon China 's national affairs. (1900)

- Muhammad Ali, boxing champion, was convicted of refusing induction into U.S. armed services. (1967)

- Trans-Alaska pipeline was opened. (1977)

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- Father's Day 2009

- Summer Solstice 2009

- Helen Keller Deaf - Blind Awareness Week June 21 – 27, 2009

- Lightning Safety Awareness Week June 21 - 27, 2009

- U.S. Constitution was ratified when New Hampshire became the last necessary state to ratify. (1788)

- Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, brought the United States and Mexico closer to war when Mexican government troops attacked U.S. Brigadier General John J. Pershing's force at Carrizal, Mexico . (1916)

- Okinawa, a Pacific Island, was surrendered by Japanese troops to the United States after one of the longest and bloodiest battles of World War II. (1945)

- Prince William, son of England 's Prince Charles and Princess Diana, was born. (1982)

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- National Pollinator Week, June 22 - 28, 2009

- Wimbledon 2009 (June 22 - July 5, 2009)

- Ann Morrow Lindbergh, aviator, author (Gift from the Sea), and wife of Charles Lindbergh, was born. (1907)

- Joe Louis won the world heavyweight boxing title when he defeated American Jim Braddock in an eighth-round knockout. (1937)

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- Henry Hudson, English navigator, was set adrift on his ship Discovery, in Hudson Bay by mutineers; he was never seen again. (1611)

- Banff, Canada 's first National Park, was created. (1887)

- The Antarctic Treaty, signed by twelve nations in 1959, took effect. (1961)

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- John Cabot, Italian navigator and explorer, claimed North America for England . (1497)

- Pablo Picasso's first major art exhibition opened at a gallery in Paris. (1901)

- John Ciardi, poet, was born in Boston. (1916)

- The term flying saucer became a common term after a pilot reported seeing strange objects in the sky that looked like "saucers skipping across the water." (1947)

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- Virginia was admitted to the Union. (1788)

- Custer's Last Stand claimed the lives of George Armstrong Custer and the 265 men under his command in the Battle of Little Big Horn. (1876)

- George Orwell, author (Animal Farm and 1984), was born at Motihari in Bengal, India . (1903)

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- Take Your Dog to Work Day 2009

- Eye Safety Awareness Week June 26 - July 6, 2009

- Francisco Pizarro, governor of Peru and conqueror of the Inca civilization, was assassinated in Lima by Spanish rivals. (1541)

- Bicycle maker W.K. Clarkson received the first American patent for an early bicycle, which he called a "swift-walker." (1819)

- Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize-winning author (The Good Earth), was born. (1892)

- 14,000 U.S. infantry troops landed in France at the port of Saint Nazaire. (1917)

- United Nations was founded when delegates from 50 nations signed the United Nations Charter, establishing the world body as a means of saving "succeeding generations from the scourge of war." (1945)

- St. Lawrence Seaway officially opened, creating a navigational channel from the Atlantic Ocean to all the Great Lakes. (1959)

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- The yen became the new form of currency in Japan . (1871)

- Mildred J. Hill composes "Happy Birthday to You" melody. (1829)

- Helen Keller, author, educator and advocate for the blind, was born. (1880)

- U.S. forces were sent to South Korea by President Harry S. Truman to aid in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea . (1950)

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- The name Coca-Cola was trademarked by John S. Pemberton. (1887)

- Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (Treasure Island), left San Francisco on his first voyage to the South Seas. (1888)

- Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo, an event that would lead to the start of World War I. (1914)

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- The Globe Theatre caught fire and burned to the ground during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII. (1613)

- Henry Clay, known as "the Great Compromiser" for his feats of legislative reconciliation between the North and the South, died. (1852)

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, aviator and author (Night Flight and The Little Prince) was born in Lyon, France . (1900)

- Argentina's Vice President Isabela Martinez de Perón, wife of dying President Juan Peron, was sworn in as the leader of the South American country. (1974)

- Iceland elected Vigdis Finnbogadottir as president, Europe’s first democratically elected female head of state. (1980)

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- Indian Removal Act was signed by Andrew Jackson. (1830)

- Niagara Falls was crossed on a tightrope by daredevil Jean-François Gravelet, a Frenchman known professionally as Émile Blondin. (1859)

- Yosemite was declared a national park by President Abraham Lincoln. (1864)

- Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind was published by Macmillan. The novel would set a record in October when 50,000 copies were sold in one day. (1936)

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