Henry VIII (King of England) marries his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon at Greenwich Church (1509) - June 11
Sir Christopher Cockerell's SRN-1 hovercraft design is launched in the Solent off England's south coast (1959) - June 11
Le Mans disaster (France) occurs when a Le Mans racing car, involved in an accident, flew into the crowd, killing the driver and 80 spectators (1955) - June 11
Alexander I of Serbia and his consort Queen Draga are assassinated in their palace, their bodies then mutilated and thrown from 2nd floor window (1903) - June 11
Battle of Jargeau (Joan of Arc's first offensive battle) occurs about ten miles east of Orleans with a decisive French victory (1429) - 6/11
Broad Street Riot (Boston) occurs when a company of Yankee firefighters met with an Irish funeral procession (1837) - June 11
Cologne school massacre occurs in Volkhoven in Germany when Walter Seifert takes a self-made flamethrower into a school killing 8 students and 2 teachers (1964) - June 11
Davis Day is observed in Nova Scotia, Canada to recognize and honor all miners who were killed on job during a strike (1925) - June 11
Eltham Well Hall rail crash occurs when an intoxicated train driver derails on a sharp curve killing 6 people and injuring 126 (1972) - June 11
George I of Great Britain (1st Hanoverian King) dies at age 67 from a stroke he suffered 2 days earlier (1727) - June 11
John Wayne (Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning American film actor, director and producer, born Marion Mitchell Morrison) dies from stomach cancer (1979) - June 11
Karen Ann Quinlan (21 year-old woman in a persistent vegetative state) dies from complications of pneumonia (1958) - June 11
Kamehameha Day (Hawaii public holiday) honors Kamehameha the Great - June 11
Ronald Regan's state funeral is conducted in the Washington National Cathedral and presided over by President George W. Bush (2004) - June 11
Samuel Whitbread (English brewer and Member of Parliament) dies at age 76 (1796) - June 11
Sir Barton (Chestnut throughbred colt) wins the Belmont Stakes becoming the first American Triple Crown winner (1919) - June 11
Timothy McVeigh is executed by lethal injection at the U.S. Federal Penintentiary in Terre Haute, IN at age 33 (2001) - June 11
William Styron (American novelist and essayist best known for his novel "Sophie's Choice) is born in the Hilton Village historic district of Newport News, VA (1925) - 6/11
All Saints Day (Eastern Christianity) celebrated on the Sunday following Pentecost (2017) - 6/11
Red Rose Festival (2nd Sunday in June) last day of the Portland Rose Festival (2017) - June 11
Tony Awards (recognizing achievement in live American theatre) are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League on CBS 8 PM EDT (2017) - June 11
Trinity Sunday (Western Christian) is observed the Sunday after Pentecost (2017) - June 11
June 12, 2017
Cedar Rapids, IA is flooded by the Cedar River with the levee built after the Great Flood of 1929 is submerged in 56" of flood water (2008) - June 12
New Richmond tornado is an unprecented disaster that nearly destroys the village of New Richmond, WI killing 117 and injuring 125 (1899) - June 12
Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, CA, her ex-husband O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the killings (1994) - 6/12
Armagh rail disaster occurs near Armagh, Ireland when a crowded Sunday school excursion train collides with the following train (1889) - June 12
Boris Yeltsin is elected as the 1st President of Russia (1991) - June 12
David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam" killer) is sentenced to six life sentences in the Attica Correctional Facility for the six murders he committed (1967) - June 12
Dia dos Namorados (Day of the Enamored or Lovers' Day) a holiday similar to Valentine's Day in the USA is celebrated in Brazil - June 12
Analog TV Broadcasting ends in the United States with stations all switching over to digital broadcasting (2009) - June 12
Don Herbert (American TV personality aka "Mr. Wizard) dies at age 89 from multiple myeloma at his home in Bell Canyon, CA (2007) - June 12
George H.W. Bush (41st President of the USA) is born in Milton, MA (1924) - June 12
Gossamer Albatross (human-powered aircraft) is piloted by amateur cyclist Bryan Allen across the English Channel winning the 2nd Kremer prize (1979) - June 12
Brenda and Phil Archer in Ellerslie, New Zealand have a 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite crash through the roof of their home (2004) - June 12
Gregory Peck (American film and stage actor) dies in his sleep at age 87 from cardiorespiratory arrenst and bronchial pneumonia in Torrance, CA (2003) - June 12
Russia Day (national holiday of the Russian Federation) celebrates their adopting Declaration on Russia's National Sovereignty (1990) - June 12
John Augustus Roebling (German-born civil engineer most famous for his suspension bridge designs like the Brooklyn Bridge) is born in Muhlhausen, Germany (1806) - 6/12
Jim Nabors (American actor and singer best known for his Gomer Pyle character) is born in Sylacauga, AL (1930) - June 12
Loving Day (U.S. Holiday) celebrates the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Loving vs. Virginia striking down laws forbidding interracial marriages (1967) - June 12
Medgar Wiley Evers (African American civil rights activist and NAACP Field Secretary) is assassinated by a bullet in the back of his head at age 37 in Jackson, MS (1963) - 6/12
Nelson Madela (anti-apartheid activist) is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa (1964) - June 12
Peasant's Revolt (aka Tyler's Rebellion) marks the end of serfdom in medieval England though the revolt itself was a marked failure (1381) - June 12
Venera 4 (probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus) is launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik (1967) - 6/12
Anne Frank (Jewish girl born in Weimar Germany and lived most of her life in Amsterdam) is given a diary for her 13th birthday (1942) - 6/12
Anthony Eden (British Conservative politician who became Prime Minister of England upon Churchill's resignation) is born at Windleston Hall, Durham England (1897) - June 12
Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (2nd son of Frederick William I and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover) dies at Oranienburg, Prussia at age 35 (1758) - June 12
June 13, 2017
al-Askari Mosque (Shi'ah Muslim holy site) suffers another bombing even though it was still closed since the Feb. 22, 2006 bombing, so no fatalities were reported (2007) - 6/13
National Kitchen Klutzes of America Day - June 13
Great Vancouver Fire destroys most of the newly-incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia (1886) - 6/13
Charles I (King of England) marries Henrietta Maria of France at St. Augustine's Church in Canterbury, Kent England (1625) - 6/13
Exxon and the Valez's captain, Joseph Hazlewood, are blamed for recklessness by an Anchorage, Alaska jury allowing victims of the oil spill to seek damages (1994) - June 13
Fanny Burney (British novelist, diaarist and playwright) is born in King's Lynn, England (1752) - June 13
Ludwig II of Bavaria (aka "The Swan King") is found face down in shallow waters of Lake Starnberg. His suspicious death is officially ruled a suicide by drowning (1886) - 6/13
Martin Luther (priest and theology professor) marries Katharina von Bora against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns (1525) - June 13
Pioneer 10 (NASA space craft launced on July 15, 1972) becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system (1983) - June 13
Timothy McVeigh is sentenced to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing (1997) - 6/13
Trooping of the Colour Ceremony is interrupted when a 17-year-old unemployed youth fires six blank shots at the Queen as she was riding down The Mall (1981) - 6/13
Trooping of the Colour Ceremony a guardsman faints while the solider beside him attempts in vain to hold him back (1957) - June 13
USS Jeannette (a gunboat in the Royal Navy) gets caught fast in the ice pack near Wrangle Island and is finally crshed under the presssure of the ice (1879) - June 13
William Butler Yeats (Irish poet and dramatist) is born in Dublin, Ireland (1865) - June 13
June 14, 2017
Iowa Flood (involves most of the rivers in eastern Iowa creating "Iowa's Katrina") putting portions of Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Des Moines under water (2008) - June 14
Liberation Day - Falklands War (fought between Argentina and the UK over the Falkland Islands) ends with the surrender of Argentina (1982) - June 14
Flag Day commemmorates the day that the 2nd Continental Congress of the U.S. passes a flag resolution making it the Flag of the United States (1777) - June 14
Action Comics (Issue #1) introduces Superman (the first major superhero character) in April with a cover-dated issue of June (1938) - June 14
Alcock and Brown take off in a WWI Vickers Vimy from Lester's Field in St. John's Newfoundland for their non-stop transatlantic flight to Ireland (1919) - June 14
U.S. Army (branch of the United States armed forces) is formed with the establishment of the Continental Army by the Continental Congress (1775) - 6/14
Benedict Arnold V (general during American Revolution who switched loyalties from American to the British Empire) dies at age 60 in London England (1801) - 6/14
Elijah Craig (pioneering Baptist preacher) becomes the first person to distill whisky from maize calling it Bourbon for the county were he lived in KY (1789) - June 14
Henry Mancini (Academy Award winnning American composer, conducter and arranger) dies at age 70 in Los Angeles, CA from pancreatic cancer (1994) - June 14
Donald Trump (American business magnate, socialite, TV Personality and author) is born in New York City, NY (1946) - 6/14
Paris (declared an open town) is occupied without resistance by German troops as French and allied forces retreat (1940) - June 14
Giovanni Borgia (2nd Duke of Gandia and brother of Cesare Borgia) is murdered near the Piazza dell Giudecca in Rome (1497) - June 14
Strawberry Shortcake Day - June 14
June 15, 2017
Alcock and Brown land in Ireland in what appeared from the air to be a suitable green field, but turned out to be the bog on Derrygimlagh Moor (1919) - June 15
Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state (1836) - June 15
Flag Day (Denmark) honors the Battle of Lyndanisse when, according to legend, the Danish flag, Dannebrog, fell from the sky giving them renewed hope (1219) - June 15
Duluth Lynchings occur when 3 black circus workers were attacked and lynched by a mob in Duluth, MN (1920) - June 15
Ella Fitzgerald (influential jazz vocalist) dies from diabetes at the age of 79 in Beverly Hills (1996) - June 15
Evelyn Underhill (English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist) dies at age 65 in England (1941) - June 15
S.S. General Slocum (New York City steamboat) catches fire and burns to the water in the East River, killing more than 1,000 (1904) - June 15
George Washington is appointed Commander and Chief of the Continental Army (1775) - June 15
Princess Margaret of Connaught (niece of King Edward VII) marries Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle (1905) - June 15
Jean-Baptiste Denys (French physician) administers the first fully-documented human blood transfusion (1667) - June 15
King Hussein of Jordan marries Lisa Najeeb Halaby in Amman when the bride converted to Islam her first name was changed from Lisa to Noor Arabic for "light" (1978) - 6/15
John I of England puts its seal to the Magna Carta (1215) - June 15
Manchester, England is bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army with over 200 people injured and a large part of the city center is devastated (1996) - June 15
Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight during which he and his companion become the first-ever casualties of an air crash (1785) - June 15
Crown Prince Willhelm II becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II and is the last emperor of the German Empire (1888) - June 15
Fly a Kite Day honors the anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment - 6/15
Princess Margaret of Connaught (niece of King Edward VII) marries Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle (1905) - June 15
Smile Power Day - 6/15
Corpus Christi (Christian feast to honor the Eucharist) transferred from the Thursday to the Sunday after Trinity Sunday in most English-speaking countries (2017) - 6/15
June 16, 2017
Battle of Stoke Field (the last battle of the Wars of the Roses) is fought in East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, England (1487) - 6/16
Ford Motor company is founded by Henry Ford (1903) - June 16
British Woman's Institute is founded (1915) - June 16
George Reeves (American actor best known for playing Superman) dies at age 45 from a gunshot wound to the head in the upstairs bedroom in his CA home (1959) - 6/16
Geronimo (Chiricahua Apache leader) is born near Turkey Creek in modern-day state of New Mexico (1829) - June 16
Pope Pius IX is elected pope during a Papal conclave, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (1846) - June 16
Gustav V of Sweden (eldest son of Oscar II of Sweden and Sophia of Nassau) is born in Drottningholm Palace (1858) - June 16
Henrietta Anne Stuart (youngest daughter of Charles I of England and Henrietta Marie of France) is born at Bedford House, Exeter, England (1644) - June 16 (O.S.)
John Snow (English physician and a leader in the adoption of anathesia and medical hygiene as well as one of the first epidemiologists) dies at age 45 from a stroke (1858) - 6/16
John Churchill (1st Duke of Marlborough) dies in his home at Blenheim Palace from complications due to a stroke (1722) - June 16 (O.S.)
Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir (1586) - June 16
Mortician's Day - 6/16
Roald Amundsen (Norwegian explorer of the polar regions) commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway (1903) - 6/16
Valentina Tereshkova (Soviet Cosmonaut) becomes the first woman to fly in space aboard Vostok 6 (1963) - June 16
Victoria Hall disaster occurs in Sunderland, England at Victoria Hall when 1,000 children run to get promised prizes after a show, killing 183 in the crush (1883) - June 16
Diana Her True Story by Andrew Morton is first published (1992) - June 16
Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikhism) is observed (1606) - June 16
June 17, 2017
Battle of Bunker Hill takes place on Breed's Hill during the Siege of Boston (1775) - June 17
Eat Your Veggies Day - 6/17
Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic (1944) - 6/17
British Parliament is bombed by the IRA causing extensive damage and injuring 11 people (1974) - June 17
Kansas City Massacre (shootout and murder of 4 law enforcement officers) occurs at the Union Station railroad depot in Kansas City, MO (1933) - June 17
Edward Longshanks (Edward I of England, son of King Henry III and Eleanor of Provence) is born at the Palace of Westminster (1239) - June 17
Mumtaz Mahal (3rd wife to Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan I) dies in Barhanpur during the birth of their 14th child for which her husband built the Taj Mahal (1631) - June 17
O.J. Simpson leads the police on a 35 mile per hour slow speed chase through the streets of Los Angeles covered by an LA News Service helicopter (1994) - 6/17
RMS Lancastria (British Cunard liner) is bombed by German Junkers during WWII with the loss of an estimated 4,000 plus lives (1940) - June 17
Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England (1579) - June 17
The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor on board the French frigate Isere (1885) - June 17
The Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct when the last individual of the species dies (1987) - June 17
Eugen Weidmann (born in Frankfurt am Main) charged with murder and robbery becomes the last man publicly executed in France by guillotine (1939) - June 17
The Night Attack is a skirmish fought between forces of Vlad III the Impaler of Wallachia and Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire (1462) - 6/17
United Airlines flight 624 (San Diego to New York City with stops in Los Angeles and Chicago) crashes outside of Aristes, PA killing all on board (1948) - June 17
British Parliament is bombed by the IRA causing extensive damage and injuring 11 people (1974) - June 17
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (1994) - June 17
June 18, 2017
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
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