Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| << | Selected anniversaries for June | >> | ||||
| Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa |
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| An archive of historical anniversaries that appeared on the Main Page 2007 day arrangement |
||||||
June 1: International Children's Day, Madaraka Day in Kenya.
- 1495 - Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.
- 1779 - Benedict Arnold (pictured) was court-martialed for malfeasance.
- 1922 - A police force in Northern Ireland called the Royal Ulster Constabulary was founded.
- 1938 - The first Superman comic was published.
- 1980 - The Cable News Network began broadcasting.
Recent days: May 31 – May 30 – May 29
- 455 - The Vandals plundered Rome.
- 1774 - The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, was reenacted.
- 1946 - Birth of the Italian Republic: Italy became a republic and abolished the monarchy, exiling King Umberto II.
- 1953 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom was crowned.
- 1966 - Surveyor 1 (pictured) landed on the Moon, becoming the first US spacecraft to soft land on another world.
Recent days: June 1 – May 31 – May 30
- 1889 - The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States was constructed between Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon (pictured).
- 1937 - The Duke of Windsor married Wallis Simpson.
- 1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ended with a German tactical victory.
- 1944 - Charles de Gaulle became Prime Minister of France.
Recent days: June 2 – June 1 – May 31
June 4: Queen's Birthday in New Zealand (2007); Independence Day in Tonga (1970)
- 1615 - Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu took Osaka Castle in Japan.
- 1792 - Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound for Great Britain.
- 1920 - The Kingdom of Hungary was split into five countries with the signing of the Treaty of Trianon in Paris.
- 1942 - The Battle of Midway began with a massive Imperial Japanese strike on Midway Atoll (pictured).
- 1989 - The People's Liberation Army cracks down on the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.
Recent days: June 3 – June 2 – June 1
June 5: UN World Environment Day; Whit Monday in Christianity (2006)
- 1849 - Denmark became a constitutional monarchy.
- 1947 - George Marshall called for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
- 1967 - The Six-Day War began with an Israeli Air Force attack on Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
- 1968 - Sirhan Sirhan mortally shot Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles.
- 1995 - A new phase of matter, the Bose–Einstein condensate was produced for the first time. (pictured)
Recent days: June 4 – June 3 – June 2
June 6: National holiday of Sweden observed.
- 1654 - Charles X Gustav succeeded his cousin Christina to the Swedish throne.
- 1925 - The Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Chrysler.
- 1944 - The Battle of Normandy began with 155,000 Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in the largest amphibious military operation in history. (pictured)
- 1971 - The Ed Sullivan Show, a top rated variety show that introduced the United States to Elvis Presley and The Beatles, went off the air after twenty-three years.
- 1982 - A war in Lebanon began when Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon to root out PLO militants.
Recent days: June 5 – June 4 – June 3
- 1099 - Members of the First Crusade reached Jerusalem and began a five-week siege of the city.
- 1905 - The Norwegian parliament dissolved the Union between Sweden and Norway.
- 1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway (pictured), Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government left Tromsø for exile in London, following the WWII German invasion.
- 1948 - Rather than sign a Constitution making his nation a Communist state, Edvard Beneš chose to resign as President of Czechoslovakia.
- 1981 - The Israeli Air Force attacked and destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor.
Recent days: June 6 – June 5 – June 4
- 632 - Muhammad, founder of Islam, died in Medina.
- 1887 - Herman Hollerith (pictured) received a patent for his punch card calculator.
- 1949 - George Orwell's dystopian political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published.
- 1966 - One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed.
- 2004 - Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele broke the world record for outdoor 10,000 m in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Recent days: June 7 – June 6 – June 5
June 9: St. Colmcille's Day in Ireland
- 68 - Roman Emperor Nero (pictured) committed suicide after he was deposed by the Senate.
- 1815 - Congress of Vienna ended, redrawing the political map of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon.
- 1885 - The end of the Franco-Chinese War. China gave up Tonkin and Annam (most of present day Vietnam).
- 1934 - Donald Duck debuted in The Wise Little Hen.
- 1986 - The Rogers Commission released its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Recent days: June 8 – June 7 – June 6
June 10: National holiday of Portugal observed: Camões (pictured), who wrote the national epic The Lusiads, died in 1580.
- 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in a river in Anatolia while leading an army to Jerusalem.
- 1829 - Oxford beat Cambridge in the first Boat Race.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Confederates defeated a much larger Union force at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads.
- 1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio. This is the traditional date of the first day of sobriety of Dr. Bob Smith, AA's cofounder.
Recent days: June 9 – June 8 – June 7
June 11: Kamehameha Day in Hawaii; Trinity Sunday in Western Christianity (2006)
- 1770 - Captain James Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef (pictured).
- 1892 - The Salvation Army's Limelight Department, one of the world's earliest film studios, was officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
- 1937 - Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and several senior officers of the Red Army were convicted in the Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization, a secret trial during the Great Purge in the Soviet Union.
- 1955 - More than 80 people were killed after Pierre Levegh and Lance Macklin collided at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race.
- 1963 - The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside after a stand in the schoolhouse door.
Recent days: June 10 – June 9 – June 8
June 12: Independence Day in the Philippines (1898) and the Russian Federation (1990), Dia dos Namorados in Brazil
- 1864 - Union General Ulysses S. Grant pulled his troops out of the Battle of Cold Harbor.
- 1889 - The Armagh rail disaster killed 88 people near Armagh, Northern Ireland.
- 1942 - Anne Frank began keeping her diary during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
- 1964 - Anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison by the Pretoria Supreme Court.
- 1979 - A human-powered aircraft named Gossamer Albatross (pictured) flew across the English Channel.
Recent days: June 11 – June 10 – June 9
- 1898 - Yukon Territory was formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
- 1935 - In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
- 1966 - The Miranda v. Arizona ruling established the Miranda warning.
- 1971 - Vietnam War: The New York Times began to publish the Pentagon Papers.
- 1983 - Pioneer 10 (pictured) became the first man-made object to pass the orbit of Pluto. Recent days: June 12 – June 11 – June 10
June 14: Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1982); Flag Day in the United States
- 1381 - King Richard II of England met the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt.
- 1777 - The Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States.
- 1822 - Charles Babbage (pictured) proposed a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
- 1940 - Paris was occupied by Nazi Germany (see History of Paris).
- 1985 - TWA Flight 847 was hijacked by Hezbollah militants.
Recent days: June 13 – June 12 – June 11
June 15: Corpus Christi in Roman Catholicism and Anglo-Catholicism
- 1215 - King John (pictured) of England put his seal to Magna Carta.
- 1389 - In the Battle of Kosovo, Turks defeated Serbs and Bosnians.
- 1752 - Benjamin Franklin conducted an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm.
- 1904 - The General Slocum burned in New York's East River, killing over 1,000 people.
- 1954 - The Union of European Football Associations was founded in Basel, Switzerland.
Recent days: June 14 – June 13 – June 12
June 16: Bloomsday in Dublin, Ireland; Youth Day in South Africa
- 1487 - The Battle of Stoke Field, the final battle of the Wars of the Roses, was fought.
- 1745 - During King George's War, British colonial forces led by William Pepperrell captured the French stronghold at Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island after a six-week siege.
- 1846 - Pius IX was elected pope, beginning the longest reign of all popes (not counting the Apostle St. Peter).
- 1963 - Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.
- 1976 - Police in Soweto, South Africa opened fire on schoolchildren protesting against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in township schools, triggering a series of nationwide demonstrations, strikes, riots and violence.
Recent days: June 15 – June 14 – June 13
June 17: Independence Day in Iceland (1944)
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
- 1789 - French Revolution: The Third Estate of France declared itself the National Assembly.
- 1961 - Canada's New Democratic Party was founded with the merger of the CCF and organised labour.
- 1972 - Watergate scandal: Five men were arrested for stealing from the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Hotel (pictured).
- 1994 - O.J. Simpson was chased down and arrested on suspicion of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Recent days: June 16 – June 15 – June 14
- 1812 - The U.S. declared war against the U.K., officially beginning the War of 1812.
- 1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo.
- 1858 - Charles Darwin received a manuscript by Alfred Russel Wallace (pictured) on evolution, which prompted him to publish his theory.
- 1873 - Woman suffrage activist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 U.S. presidential election.
- 1979 - The SALT II treaty was signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Recent days: June 17 – June 16 – June 15
June 19: Juneteenth in some parts of the United States
- 1846 - The first baseball game (using modern rules) was played in Hoboken, New Jersey.
- 1867 - Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire (pictured) was executed by firing squad in Querétaro.
- 1953 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed as Soviet spies.
- 1961 - Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1978 - Garfield made his debut in a comic strip.
Recent days: June 18 – June 17 – June 16
June 20: Father's Day in Bulgaria (2007), Flag Day in Argentina (since 1938)
- 451 - The Battle of Chalons against Attila the Hun is the last major battle of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1756 - A garrison of the British army in India was imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
- 1789 - 577 deputies of the French National Assembly took the Tennis Court Oath, starting the French Revolution.
- 1837 - Queen Victoria succeeded to the British throne.
- 1863 - West Virginia (flag pictured) becomes the 35th U.S. state.
- 1947 - A Mafia hitman murdered gangster Bugsy Siegel in Beverly Hills, California, United States.
Recent days: June 19 – June 18 – June 17
June 21: Summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and Winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere (12:26 UTC), Midsummer in northern Europe
- 1734 - A black slave known as Marie-Joseph Angélique, after having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city of Montreal, was tortured and then hanged in New France.
- 1788 - New Hampshire ratified the U.S. Constitution and was admitted as the 9th U.S. state.
- 1813 - Laura Secord set out to warn British forces of an impending American attack at Queenston, Ontario.
- 1864 - New Zealand land wars: The Tauranga Campaign ended.
- 1985 - Greenland officially adopted its own flag (pictured), adding support to its independence movement.
- 2000 - The controversial amendment known as Section 28 was repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
Recent days: June 20 – June 19 – June 18
- 168 BC - In the Battle of Pydna, Roman forces defeated and captured Macedonian King Perseus.
- 1854 - The British Parliament abolished feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
- 1937 - Camille Chautemps (pictured) became Prime Minister of France in the second Popular Front ministry.
- 1941 - Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa.
- 1986 - Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored both the Hand of God goal and the Goal of the Century against England during the quarter-final match of the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.
Recent days: June 21 – June 20 – June 19
June 23: Victory Day in Estonia, Jani held in ancient Latvia, Saint Jonas' Festival in Lithuania.
- 1713 - After Queen Anne's War, French residents of Acadia were given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia.
- 1887 - Banff National Park (pictured) was created, becoming Canada's first national park.
- 1894 - The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
- 1941 - Lithuanian 1941 independence: Members of Lithuanian Activist Front declared independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1985 - A bomb destroyed Air India Flight 182 above the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 329 on board.
Recent days: June 22 – June 21 – June 20
June 24: Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821), Fête nationale du Québec (Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day) in Québec, Canada
- 1128 - Alfonso I of Portugal fought the Battle of São Mamede, the first step toward Portuguese independence.
- 1314 - Scotland regained independence as forces led by Robert the Bruce defeated Edward II of England in the Battle of Bannockburn (pictured).
- 1440 - Eton College in Berkshire, England, was founded by King Henry VI to provide free education to poor students who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge.
- 1535 - The Anabaptist state of Münster was conquered and subsequently disbanded.
- 1597 - The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reached Bantam on Java.
- 1947 - First widely-reported post-WWII sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold saw nine luminous disks in the form of saucers flying above the U.S. state of Washington.
Recent days: June 23 – June 22 – June 21
June 25: Statehood Day in Slovenia
- 1865 - Stand Watie was the last Confederate general to surrender in the United States Civil War.
- 1876 - Colonel George Armstrong Custer (pictured) was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
- 1950 - The Korean War, between North and South Korea, began.
- 1991 - Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
- 1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, left 19 U.S. servicemen dead.
Recent days: June 24 – June 23 – June 22
June 26: Flag Day in Romania; Sunthorn Phu Day in Thailand
- 1409 - Western Schism: Pope Alexander V was crowned after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Avignon Pope Benedict XIII in Avignon.
- 1940 - Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union gave Romania an ultimatum requiring it to cede territory.
- 1945 - The United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco, California.
- 1959 - The Saint Lawrence Seaway, a system of canals connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, was officially opened.
- 1963 - John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.
- 1976 - The CN Tower (pictured), the tallest freestanding structure on land, was opened to the public in Toronto.
- 678 - Saint Agatho began his reign as Pope.
- 1846 - Irish potato famine: An Irish newspaper ran a story about a new potato blight.
- 1954 - The world's first large-scale nuclear power plant opened in Obninsk, in the Soviet Union.
- 1967 - The world's first electronic automatic teller machine was installed in Enfield Town, London.
- 1969 - The Stonewall riots began in New York City, starting the modern gay rights movement.
- 1979 - Muhammad Ali (pictured) announced his retirement from boxing.
- 1986 - The International Court of Justice ruled against the United States in Nicaragua v. United States.
- 1991 - The Ten-Day War starts in Slovenia, two days after that country's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia.
- 1880 - Australian outlaw and folk hero Ned Kelly was captured in Glenrowan, Victoria.
- 1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (pictured) was killed by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip in the Assassination in Sarajevo, catalysing the outbreak of World War I.
- 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending World War I.
- 1978 - The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978), barred quota systems in college admissions but affirmed the constitutionality of programs giving advantage to minorities.
- 1990 - Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.
Recent days: June 27 – June 26 – June 25
June 29: Holy Day of Obligation of Saints Peter and Paul (Roman Catholicism)
- 1880 - Tahiti became a French territory.
- 1922 - France granted 100 hectares at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
- 1956 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, officially creating the U.S. Interstate Highway System.
- 1995 - During the STS-71 mission, the Space Shuttle Atlantis became the first space shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir (pictured).
- 1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapsed in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
June 30: Independence Day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960)
- 1864 - U.S. National Parks: Abraham Lincoln granted Yosemite Valley to California for "public ... recreation".
- 1905 - Albert Einstein (pictured) published the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" and introduced the theory of special relativity.
- 1908 - The Tunguska impact event occurred in Siberia.
- 1934 - Adolf Hitler violently purged his political rivals on the Night of the Long Knives.
- 1971 - The Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurised during reentry, killing cosmonauts Vladislav Volkov, Georgi Dobrovolski and Viktor Patsayev.
Wikipedija:Izabrane godišnjice/lipanj
