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3 National Cancer Survivors Day
Egg Day
“Casey at the Bat” published (1888)
First U.S. Space Walk (1965)
Dutch West India Company receive charter for territory now known as New York (1621)
Ransom E. Olds (1864)
Jefferson Davis (1808)
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4 Aesop’s Day
Pulitzer Prize first awarded (1917)
First supermarket carts (1937)
Gold discovered in Alaska’s Indian Creek (1911)
King George III (1738)
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5 U.N. World Environment Day
Gingerbread Day
First Hot-Air Balloon Flight (1783)
First PC, the Apple II went on sale (1977)
Stephen Crane (1900)
Adam Smith (1723)
John Maynard Keynes (1883) |
6 National Hunger Awareness Day
D-Day 1944
First Drive-in Movie (1933)
Basketball Association of American founded (1946)
Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for voting (1872)
John F. Kennedy died (1968)
Nathan Hale (1765)
Cynthia Rylant
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7 National Family Day
National Day-Sweden
VCR introduced (1975)
Lee’s Resolution presented to Congress by Richard Henry Lee (1776)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917)
Nikki Giovanni (1943)
Paul Gauguin (1848) |
8 World Oceans Day
Ice Cream first sold in U.S. (1786)
Cochise died (1874)
Barbara Bush (1925)
Giovanni Cassini (1625)
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867)
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First U.S. book copyrighted (1790)
First performance of London Symphony (1904)
Alice Huyler becomes first woman to drive across U.S. (1909)
Donald Duck (1934)
Peter the Great (1672)
Cole Porter (1893) |
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10 Race Unity Day
Begin National Flag Week
Ballpoint pen patented (1943)
First recorded tornado (1682)
First mint in America opened by John Hull (1652)
Edward O. Wilson (1929)
Hattie McDaniel (1889)
Judy Garland (1922)
Maurice Sendak |
11 Kamehameha Day - Hawaii
Begin Little League Baseball Week
U.S. warships head for Cuba- Spanish American War (1898)
Mount Pinatubo volcano erupted (1991)
Soviet occupation of East Germany ended (1994)
Jacque Cousteau (1910) |
12 Diary Day
Magic Day
Baseball invented (1839)
Caroline Shoemaker discovered her 14th comet (1988)
Philippines declared independence from Spain (1898)
Medgar Evers assassinated (1963)
President Reagan makes “tear down this wall” speech (1987)
George Bush (1924)
Anne Frank (1929) |
13 National Juggling Day
Thurgood Marshall appointed to U.S. Supreme Court (1967)
Pioneer 10 became first manmade object to leave Solar System (1983)
William Butler Yeats (1865)
Winfield Scott (1786) |
14 Flag Day
Betsy Ross’ flag accepted (1777)
U.S. Army established by Congress (1775)
Sandpaper invented (1834)
UNIVAC computer unveiled (1951)
Warren G. Harding makes first presidential radio broadcast (1922)
Margaret Bourke-White (1906)
John Bartlett (1820)
Alois Alzheimer (1864)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811)
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15 Native American Citizenship Day (1924)
Arkansas Admission Day (1836)
Fly a Kite Day
Ben Franklin’s kite experiment (1752)
Celluloid discovered (1869)
Magna Carta signed (1215)
Rachel Donelson Jackson (1767)
Edward Grieg (1843)
Brian Jacques (1939)
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Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space (1963)
First roller coaster in U.S. begins operation (1884)
Stan Laurel (1890)
John Griffin (1920) |
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17 Father’s Day
Statue of Liberty arrived in U.S. (1885)
Watergate break-in (1972)
First National Spelling Bee held (1925)
Death of Mumtaz Mahal (1631)
M.C. Escher (1893)
Igor Stravinsky (1882)
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18 International Picnic Day
War of 1812 authorized by Congress (1812)
Sally Ride becomes first woman on space shuttle (1983)
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo (1815)
Bartolomeo Ammanati (1511)
Greg Mallory (1886)
Chris Van Allsburg |
19 Juneteenth (1865)
Dragon Boat Festival- China
Begin National Veterans Wheelchair Games- Milwaukee, WI
First Official Game of Baseball (1846)
Rosenberg executions (1953)
Lou Gehrig (1903)
Tasmanian Devil (1954) |
20 Bald Eagle Day
West Virginia Admission Day (1863)
Great Seal of the U.S. adopted (1782)
Toast of the Town (Ed Sullivan Show) debuts (1948)
Audie Murphy (1924) |
21 First Day of Summer
(Summer Solstice)
Longest Day National Holiday- Greenland
3 Mississippi civil rights workers murdered (1964)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1908)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905)
Prince William (1982)
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Pledge of Allegiance recognized by Congress (1942)
U.S. Department of Justice Created (1870)
GI Billed signed into law (1944)
Charon discovered (1978)
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23 United Nations Public Service Day
Jonas Salk tested Polio vaccine (1952)
Typewriter patented (1868)
Mutiny against Henry Hudson took place (1611)
Last formal surrender of Civil War (1865)
Johannes Gutenberg (1400) |
