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JUNE HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
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Holiday posters index | This Day In History |May | JUNE | July | summer |
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June Observances: |
poster links |
resource links |
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Fireworks Safety Month - June-July 4th |
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National Council on Fireworks Safety |
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Flag Month |
flag posters |
Star Spangled Banner (Smithsonian) |
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Aphasia Awareness Month (impairment in language) |
anatomy posters |
National Aphasia Association |
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Scleroderma Awarness Month (autoimmune disease) |
diseases posters |
Scleroderma Foundation |
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National Dairy Month |
dairy posters |
National Dairy Council |
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Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Month |
food posters |
US Dept of Agriculture |
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Zoo & Aquarium Month proclaimed by President Reagan in 1982, also found listed in April |
animals posters |
American Zoo & Aquarium Assoc |
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Adopt a Shelter Cat Month |
cat posters |
ASPCA Humane Education |
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Men's Health Month |
health posters |
Men's Health Month |
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First Week of June |
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National Cancer Survivors Day, 1st Sunday in June |
cancer poster |
American Cancer Society Calendar |
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Headache Awareness Week |
headache poster |
National Headache Foundation |
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National Boating & Fishing Week |
aquatic posters |
Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation |
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Second Week of June |
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Third Week of June |
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no listings |
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Fourth Week of June |
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Deaf-Blind Awareness Week |
eye posters
hearing posters |
Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youth & Adults |
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Lightning Safety Week |
weather & climate posters |
National Weather Service |
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June Holidays |
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June 5 - Anniversary of UN Conference on the Human Environment |
environmental & ecology education posters |
World Environment Day (WED), UN |
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June 14- Flag Day (1777) - “Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.” |
Library of Congress - American Memory |
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Juneteenth- June 19th is the date in 1865, 2 1/2 years after the proclamation was issued, when slaves in Texas first learned about their freedom from soldiers in the Union army. Black History posters |
Library of Congress - American's Story |
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3rd Sunday- Father's Day |
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June 21 - Summer Solstice (Litha) in the N. Hemisphere, Winter Solstice (Yule) in the S. Hemisphere • astronomy posters • Stonehenge posters |
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June Notable Observances |
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b. 6-1-1265 - Dante Alighieri, author |
Dante Alighieri Resource File |
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d. 6-1-1660 - Mary Dyer, hanged for being a Quaker |
Mary Dyer Resource File |
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• 6-1-1792 - Kentucky, 15th State |
Kentucky History |
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• 6-1-1796 - Tennessee, 16th State |
Tennessee History Classroom |
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b. 6-1-1801 - Brigham Young, religious leader |
Brigham Young Resource File |
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b. 6-1-1804 - Michael Ivanovitch Glinka, composer |
Michael Glinka Resource File |
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b. 6-1-1860 - Hugh Thomson, illustrator |
Hugh Thomson Resource File |
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b. 6-1-1878 - John Masefield, poet |
John Masefield Resource File |
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b. 6-1-1902 - Jia Ruskaja (Evgenija Borisenko), ballet dancer |
Jia Ruskaja Resource File |
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b. 6-1-1926 - William Sloane Coffin, Jr., theologian & peace activist |
William Sloane Coffin Resource File |
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b. 6-1-1926 - Marilyn Monroe, actress |
Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words |
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b. 6-2-1731 - Martha Washington, 1st Lady |
Martha Washington Resource File |
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b. 6-2-1840 - Thomas Hardy, author |
Thomas Hardy Resource File |
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b. 6-2-1857 - Edward Elgar, composer |
Edward Elgar Resource File |
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b. 6-2-1857 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, 1917 Nobel Literature author |
Karl Adolph Gjellerup Resource File |
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b. 6-2-1866 - Edward Penfield, illustrator |
Edward Penfield Resource File |
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b. 6-2-1907 - Dorothy West, author |
Dorothy West Resource File |
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b. 6-2-1930 - Charles “Pete” Conrad, astronaut |
Pete Conrad Resource File |
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b. 6-2-1944 - Marvin Hamlisch, composer |
Marvin Hamlisch Resource File |
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b. 6-3-1664 - Rachel Ruysch, artist |
Rachel Ruysch Resource File |
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b. 6-3-1808 - Jefferson Davis, politician
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Jefferson Davis Resource File |
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b. 6-3-1819 - Johan Jongkind, artist |
Johan Jongkind Resource File |
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b. 6-3-1887 - Roland Hayes, lyric tenor |
Roland Hayes Resource File |
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b. 6-3-1904 - Charles Drew, M.D. |
CP Links for Learning - Drew |
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b. 6-3-1926 - Allen Ginsberg, poet |
Allen Ginsberg Resource File |
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b. 6-3-1931 - Carmen De Lavallade, dancer, choreographer, teacher |
Carmen De Lavallade Resource File |
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b. 6-3-1942 - Curtis Mayfield, musician |
Curtis Mayfield Resource File |
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• 6-3-1960 - Gideon v. Wainwright, the United States Supreme Court rules that all accused persons must be given the right to an attorney. |
Background on Gideon v Wainright |
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d. 6-4-1647 - Canonicus, Narragansett Sachem |
Canonicus Resource File |
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b. 6-4-1898 - Gertrude Lawrence, actress |
Gertrude Lawrence Resource File |
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b. 6-4-1906 - Josephine Baker, dancer & entertainer |
CP Links for Learning - Baker |
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b. 6-4-1916 - Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day founder |
Gaylord Nelson Resource File |
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b. 6-4-1966 - Cecilia Bartoli, opera singer |
Cecilia Bartoli Resource File |
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bap. 6-5-1723 - Adam Smith, philosopher |
Adam Smith Resource File |
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• 6-5-1783 - Montgolfier Brothers 1st balloon flight |
Admendments to the Constitution |
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b. 6-5-1783 - Gabrielle Rejane, actress |
Gabrielle Rejane Resource File |
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b. 6-5-1886 - Kurt Hahn, educator |
Kurt Hahn Resource File |
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b. 6-5-1887 - Ruth Benedict, anthropologist & professor |
Ruth Benedict Resource File |
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b. 6-5-1898 - Federico Garcia Lorca, poet |
Federico Garcia Lorca Resource File |
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• 6-5-1945 - Anniversary of UN Conference on the Human Environment
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b. 6-6-1436 - Regiomontanus, Johannes Müller von Königsberg, mathematician |
Regiomontanus Resource File |
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b. 6-6-1755 - Nathan Hale, patriot spy |
Nathan Hale Resource File |
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b. 6-6-1799 - Aleksandr Pushkin, author |
Aleksandr Pushkin Resource File |
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d. 6-6-1829 - Shanawdithit, last of her tribe |
Shanawdithit Resource File |
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b. 6-6-1860 - William R. Inge, author |
Wm R. Inge Resource File |
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b. 6-6-1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, explorer |
Robert Scott Resource File |
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b. 6-6-1869 - Siegfried Wagner, composer |
Siegfried Wagner Resource File |
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b. 6-6-1875 - Thomas Mann, author |
Thomas Mann Resource File |
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b. 6-6-1893 - Pilar Arcos, actress |
Pilar Arcos Resource File |
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b. 6-6-1898 - Ninette de Valois, dancer |
Ninette de Valois Resource File |
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b. 6-6-1901 - Jan Struther, author |
Jan Struther Resource File |
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b. 6-6-1932 - David Scott, astronaut |
David Scott Resource File |
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b. 6-6-1939 - Marian Wright Edelman, activist |
Marian Wright Edelman Bio |
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• 1944, D-Day - Allied Invasion of Europe WWII |
National D-Day Memorial Foundation |
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b. 6-7-1825 - R. D. Blackmore, author |
R. D. Blackmore Resource File |
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b. 6-7-1845 - Leopold Auer, violinist |
Leopold Auer Resource File |
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b. 6-7-1848 - Paul Gauguin, artist |
Paul Gauguin Resource File |
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b. 6-7-1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect |
Charles Rennie Mackintosh Resource File |
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b. 6-7-1909 - Virginia Apgar, physician |
Virginia Apgar Resource File |
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b. 6-7-1911 - Peter Birkhauser, artist, Jungian |
Peter Birkhauser Resource File |
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b. 6-7-1913 - Robertson Davies, author |
Robertson Davies Resource File |
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b. 6-7-1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, poet |
Gwendolyn Brooks Resource File |
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b. 6-7-1943 - Nikki Giovanni, poet and activist |
Nikki Giovanni Resource File |
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b. 6-7-1952 - Orhan Pamuk, author |
Orhan Pamuk Resource File |
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b. 6-7-1954 - Louise Erdrich, author |
Louise Erdrich Resource File |
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b. 6-8-1625 - Giovanni Cassini, astronomer |
Giovanni Cassini Resource File |
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b. 6-8-1784 - Marie Antoine Careme, chef |
Marie Antoine Careme Resource File |
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b. 6-8-1810 - Robert Schumann, composer |
Robert Schumann Resource File |
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b. 6-8-1863 - Ernst Kraus, tenor |
Ernst Kraus Resource File |
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b. 6-8-1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect |
Frank Lloyd Wright Resource File |
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d. 6-8-1874 - Cochise, Chiricahua chief |
Cochise Resource File |
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b. 6-8-1916 - Francis Crick, physicist, biologist |
Francis Crick Resource File |
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b. 6-8-1916 - Bruce McCandless II, astronaut |
Bruce McCandless II Resource File |
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b. 6-8-1955 - Tim Berners-Lee, computer scientist |
Tim Berners-Lee Resource File |
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b. 6-8-1963 - Kim Clijsters, tennis player |
Kim Clijsters Resource File |
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• 6-9-1772 - British ship Gaspee burned, RI |
Gaspee Resource File |
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b. 6-9-1836 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, activist & physician |
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Resource File |
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b. 6-9-1843 - Bertha von Suttner, pacifist & novelist |
Baroness von Suttner Resource File |
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b. 6-9-1891 - Cole Porter, composer |
Cole Porter Resource File |
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b. 6-9-1915 - Les Paul, guitarist/musician |
Les Paul Resource File |
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d. 6-10-1637 - Luis de Camoes, poet |
Luis de Camoes Resource File |
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b. 6-10-1637 - Jacques Marquette, explorer |
Jacques Marquette Resource File |
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b. 6-10-1833 - Pauline Cushman, actress & Union spy |
Pauline Cushman Resource File |
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b. 6-10-1874 - Violet Oakley, artist |
Violet Oakley Resource File |
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b. 6-10-1891 - Gustave Courbet, artist |
Gustave Courbet Resource File |
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b. 6-10-1895 - Hattie McDaniel, actress |
Hattie McDaniel Resource File |
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b. 6-10-1915 - Saul Bellow, author |
Saul Bellow Resource File |
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b. 6-10-1922 - Judy Garland, actress |
Judy Garland Resource File |
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b. 6-10-1928 - Maurice Sendak, author |
Maurice Sendak Resource File |
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b. 6-10-1929 - James A. McDivitt, astronaut |
James A. McDivitt Resource File |
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b. 6-10-1929 - Edward O. Wilson, biologist & author |
E. O. Wilson Resource File |
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b. 6-10-1982 - Tara Lipinski, figure skater |
Tara Lipinski Resource File |
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b. 6-11-1572 - Ben Jonson, poet |
Ben Jonson Resource File |
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b. 6-11-1760 - Maria Cosway, artist, musician, teacher |
Maria Cosway Resource File |
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b. 6-11-1776 - John Constable, artist |
John Constable Resource File |
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d. 6-11-1799 - Joaquin Toesca, architect |
Joaquin Toesca Resource File |
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b. 6-11-1815 - Julia Margaret Cameron, photographer |
Julia Margaret Cameron Resource File |
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b. 6-11-1847 - Millicent Garrett Fawcett, activist |
Millicent Garrett Fawcett Resource File |
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b. 6-11-1876 - Alfred L. Kroeber, anthropologist |
Alfred L. Kroeber Resource File |
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b. 6-11-1880 - Jeannette Rankin, pacificist |
Jeannette Rankin Resource File |
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b. 6-11-1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer |
Jacques-Yves Cousteau Resource File |
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b. 6-11-1912 - William Baziotes, artist |
William Baziotes Resource File |
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b. 6-11-1913 - Vince Lombardi, football coach |
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b. 6-11-1913 - Risë Stevens, opera |
Risë Stevens Resource File |
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b. 6-11-1921 - Jane Russell, actress |
Jane Russell Resource File |
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b. 6-11-1960 - Mehmet Oz, physician, author, TV personality |
Mehmet Oz Resource File |
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b. 6-12-1802 - Harriet Martineau, author |
Harriet Martineau Resource File |
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b. 6-12-1806 - John Augustus Roebling, builder Brooklyn Bridge |
John Augustus Roebling Resource File |
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b. 6-12-1819 - Charles Kingsley, author & educator |
Charles Kingsley Resource File |
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b. 6-12-1890 - Egon Schiele, Expressionist artist |
Egon Schiele Resource File |
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d. 6-12-1849 - Angelica Catalani, opera singer |
Angelica Catalani Resource File |
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b. 6-12-1899 - Fritz Lipmann, biologist |
Fritz Lipmann Resource File |
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b. 6-12-1924 - George H. W. Bush, 41st US President |
White House Bio - GHW Bush |
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b. 6-12-1929 - Anne Frank, author |
CP Links for Learning - Anne Frank |
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b. 6-12-1941 - Lucille Roybal-Allard |
Lucille Roybal-Allard Resource File |
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b. 6-13-1752 - Fanny Burney, author |
Fanny Burney Resource File |
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b. 6-13-1795 - Thomas Arnold, educator |
Thomas Arnold Resource File |
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b. 6-13-1809 - Heinrich Hoffmann, author & psychiatrist |
Heinrich Hoffmann Resource File |
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b. 6-13-1865 - William Butler Yeats, poet |
William Butler Yeats Resource File |
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d. 6-13-1861 - Henry Gray, anatomist & surgeon |
Henry Gray Resource File |
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b. 6-13-1865 - Luis Alvarez, physicist |
Luis Alvarez Resource File |
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b. 6-13-1889 - Adolphe Pegoud, aviator |
Adolphe Pegoud Resource File |
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6-13-1966, Miranda v. Arizona, the U.S. Supreme Court held that suspects, prior to being interrogated by police, must be informed of their rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution. |
Background on Miranda v Arizona |
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d. 6-14-1594 - Orlande de Lassus, composer |
Orlande de Lassus Resource File |
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b. 6-14-1729 - James Hutton, geologist |
James Hutton Resource File |
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• 6-14-1777 - Flag Resolution |
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b. 6-14-1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author |
CP Links for Learning - Stowe |
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b. 6-14-1855 - Robert M. La Follette, Sr., politician |
Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Resource File |
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b. 6-14-1864 - Alois Alzheimer, psychiatrist & neuropathologist |
Alois Alzheimer Resource File |
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b. 6-14-1884 - John McCormack, tenor |
John McCormack Resource File |
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b. 6-14-1899 - Yasunari Kawabata, author |
Yasunari Kawabata Resource File |
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b. 6-14-1904 - Margaret Bourke-White, photographer |
Margaret Bourke-White Resource File |
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b. 6-14-1928 - Che Guevara, physician and revolutionary |
Che Guevara Resource File |
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b. 6-14-1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, author |
Jerzy Kosinski Resource File |
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b. 6-14-1969 - Steffi Graf, tennis champion |
Steffi Graf Resource File |
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• 6-15-1215 - Magna Carta sealed |
Magna Carta Resource File |
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b. 6-15-1542 - Sir Richard Grenville, sea captain, explorer |
Sir Richard Grenville Resource File |
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b. 6-15-1789 - Josiah Henson, abolitionist, possible model for Uncle Tom |
Josiah Henson Resource File |
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b. 6-15-1834 - Charlotte Despard, feminist, social reformer, author |
Charlotte Despard Resource File |
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• 6-15-1837 - Arkansas, 25th State |
Old State House Museum |
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b. 6-15-1843 - Eduard Hagerup Grieg, composer |
Eduard Hagerup Grieg Resource File |
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b. 6-15-1864 - Guy Ropartz, composer |
Guy Ropartz Resource File |
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b. 6-16-1760 - Louise Françoise Contat, actress |
Louise Françoise Contat Resource File |
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b. 6-16-1829 - Geronimo, Native American chief |
Geronimo Resource File |
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b. 6-16-1899 - Helen Traubel, opera singer |
Helen Traubel Resource File |
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b. 6-16-1902 - Barbara McClintock, scientist |
Barbara McClintock Resource File |
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b. 6-16-1929 - Adrienne Rich, poet & feminist |
Adrienne Rich Resource File |
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b. 6-16-1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, author |
Joyce Carol Oates Resource File |
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b. 6-17-1631- Mumtaz Muhal, Indian Empress |
Mumtaz Muhal Resource File |
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• 6-17-1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill, American Revolutionary War |
Revolutionary War Resource File |
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b. 6-17-1818 - Charles Gounod, composer |
Charles Gounod Resource File |
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b. 6-17-1871 - James Weldon Johnson, author |
James Weldon Johnson Resource File |
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b. 6-17-1882 - Igor Stravinsky, composer |
Igor Stravinsky Resource File |
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b. 6-17-1898 - M. C. Escher, artist |
M. C. Escher Resource File |
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b. 6-17-1907 - Charles Eames, architect |
Charles Eames Resource File |
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b. 6-17-1915 - John Hersey, author |
John Hersey Resource File |
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b. 6-17-1920 - Francois Jacob, biologist |
Francois Jacob Resource File |
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• 6-17-1933 - Kansas City Massacre |
FBI |
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b. 6-17-1980 - Venus Williams, tennis player |
Venus Williams Resource File |
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b. 6-18-1877 - James Montgomery Flagg, artist (Uncle Sam) |
James Montgomery Flagg Resource File |
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b. 6-18-1884 - Sara Martin, blues singer |
Sara Martin Resource File |
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b. 6-18-1903 - Jeanette MacDonald, soprano opera singer, movie star |
Jeanette MacDonald Resource File |
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b. 6-18-1929 - Jurgen Habermas, philosopher |
Jurgen Habermas Resource File |
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b. 6-19-1623 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician |
Blaise Pascal Resource File |
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b. 6-19-1856 - Elbert Hubbard, essayist & founder of Roycroft |
Elbert Hubbard Resource File |
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b. 6-19-1886 - James VanDerZee, photographer |
The James Vanderzee Studio |
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b. 6-19-1910 - Abe Fortas, Supreme Court |
Abe Fortas Resource File |
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b. 6-19-1940 - Shirley Muldowney, drag racer |
Shirley Muldowney Resource File |
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b. 6-19-1945 - Aung San Suu Kyi, activist & 1991 Nobel Peace Prize |
Aung San Suu Kyi Resource File |
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b. 6-19-1947 - Salman Rushdie, author |
Salman Rushdie Resource File |
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b. 6-19-1948 - Phylicia Rashad, actress |
Phylicia Rashad Resource File |
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b. 6-19-1962 - Paula Abdul, dancer & entertainer |
Paula Abdul Resource File |
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d. 6-20-1597 - Willem Barents, explorer |
Willem Barents Resource File |
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b. 6-20-1743 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld, activist |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld Resource File |
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b. 6-20-1819 - Jacque Offenbach-Day, composer |
Jacque Offenbach-Day Resource File |
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b. 6-20-1858 - Charles W. Chestnutt, author |
Charles W. Chestnutt Resource File |
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• 6-20-1863 - West Virginia, 35th state |
West Virginia facts. & Did You Know? |
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b. 6-20-1905 - Lillian Hellman, playwright |
Lillian Hellman Resource File |
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d. 6-21-1631 - Captain John Smith, explorer |
John Smith of Jamestown Resource File |
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• 6-21-1788 - New Hampshire 9th State |
New Hampshire Almanac |
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b. 6-21-1850 - Enrico Cecchetti, ballet dancer |
Enrico Cecchetti Resource File |
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b. 6-21-1859 - Henry Ossawa Tanner, artist |
Henry Ossawa Tanner Resource File |
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b. 6-21-1891 - Pier Luigi Nervi, architect |
Pier Luigi Nervi Resource File |
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b. 6-21-1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, author & philosopher |
Jean-Paul Sartre Resource File |
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b. 6-21-1912 - Mary McCarthy, author |
Mary McCarthy Resource File |
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b. 6-21-1919 - Paolo Soleri, architect |
Paolo Soleri Resource File |
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b. 6-21-1921 - Judy Holliday, actress |
Judy Holliday Resource File |
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b. 6-21-1935 - Francoise Sagan, author |
Francoise Sagan Resource File |
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b. 6-21-1982 - Prince William |
Prince William Resource File |
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b. 6-22-1756 - William Richardson Davie, Revolutionary War |
William Richardson Davie Resource File |
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b. 6-22-1757 - George Vancouver, explorer |
George Vancouver Resource File |
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b. 6-22-1856 - H. Rider Haggard, author, founder “Lost World” genre |
H. Rider Haggard Resource File |
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b. 6-22-1882 - William Mathias Scholl, podiatrist |
Dr. Scholl Resource File |
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b. 6-22-1887 - Julian Huxley, zoologist |
Julian Huxley Resource File |
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b. 6-22-1888 - Alan Seeger, poet |
Alan Seeger Resource File |
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b. 6-22-1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author & aviator |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Resource File |
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b. 6-22-1909 - Katherine Dunham, dancer |
Library of Congress - Katherine Dunham |
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b. 6-22-1949 - Meryl Streep, actress |
Meryl Streep Resource File |
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b. 6-22-1952 - Graham Greene, actor |
Graham Greene Resource File |
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b. 6-22-1953 - Cyndi Lauper, singer/sonwriter |
Cyndi Lauper Resource File |
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b. 6-23-1668 - Giambattista Vico, philosopher |
Giambattista Vico Resource File |
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b. 6-23-1750 - Deodat Gratet de Dolomieu, geologist & teacher |
Deodat Gratet de Dolomieu Resource File |
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b. 6-23-1763 - Josephine de Beauharnais, French empress |
Josephine de Beauharnais Resource File |
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b. 6-23-1810 - Fanny Elssler, ballet dancer |
Fanny Elssler Resource File |
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b. 6-23-1892 - Mieczyslaw Horszowski, pianist |
Mieczyslaw Horszowski Resource File |
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b. 6-23-1912 - Alan Turing, mathematician |
Alan Turing Resource File |
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b. 6-23-1927 - Bob Fosse, dancer & choreographer |
Bob Fosse Resource File |
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b. 6-23-1940 - Wilma Rudolph, athlete |
Wilma Rudolph Resource File |
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b. 6-24-1813 - Henry Ward Beecher, theologian |
Henry Ward Beecher Resource File |
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b. 6-24-1842 - Ambrose Bierce, author |
Ambrose Bierce Resource File |
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b. 6-24-1915 - Norman Cousins, author |
Norman Cousins Resource File |
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b. 6-24-1915 - Fred Hoyle, astronomer |
Fred Hoyle Resource File |
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b. 6-24-1946 - Ellsion Onizuka, astronaut |
Astronomy, Earth & Space posters |
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b. 6-25-1852 - Antonio Gaudi, architect |
Antonio Gaudi Resource File |
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b. 6-25-1865 - Robert Henri, artist & teacher |
Robert Henri Resource File |
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b. 6-25-1874 - Rose O'Neill, artist |
Rose O'Neill Resource File |
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b. 6-25-1881 - Crystal Eastman, author & activist |
Crystal Eastman Resource File |
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b. 6-25-1886 - Henry “Hap” Arnold, aviator |
Henry “Hap” Arnold Resource File |
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b. 6-25-1890 - Charlotte Greenwood, dancer & actress |
Charlotte Greenwood Resource File |
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b. 6-25-1892 - Katherine Kennicott Davis, composer |
Katherine Kennicott Davis Resource File |
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b. 6-25-1903 - George Orwell, author |
George Orwell Resource File |
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b. 6-25-1923 - Sam Francis, artist |
Sam Francis Resource File |
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d. 6-26-1541 - Francisco Pizarro, explorer |
Francisco Pizarro Resource File |
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b. 6-26-1730 - Charles-Joseph Messier, astronomer |
Charles Messier Resource File |
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b. 6-26-1824 - Lord Kelvin, scientist |
Lord Kelvin Resource File |
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b. 6-26-1826 - Adolf Bastian, anthropology, polymath |
Adolf Bastian Resource File |
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b. 6-26-1890 - Jeanne Eagels, actress |
Jeanne Eagels Resource File |
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b. 6-26-1892 - Pearl S. Buck, author |
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1938 |
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b. 6-26-1902 - Bill Lear, aviator |
Bill Lear Resource File |
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b. 6-26-1911 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, athlete |
Babe Didrikson Zaharias Resource File |
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b. 6-26-1914 - Lyman Spitizer, astronomer & theoretical physicist |
Lyman Spitzer Resource File |
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b. 6-26-1915 - Fred Hoyle, astronomer
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Fred Hoyle Resource File |
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b. 6-26-1916 - Virginia Satir, psychotherapist |
Virginia Satir Resource File |
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b. 6-26-1929 - Milton Glaser, artist |
Milton Glaser Resource File |
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b. 6-26-1956 - Bernard Harris, astronaut |
Bernard Harris Resource File |
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b. 6-27-1869 - Emma Goldman, activist |
CP Links for Learning - Emma Goldman |
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b. 6-27-1872 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, author |
Paul Laurence Dunbar Resource File |
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b. 6-27-1892 - Paul Colin, artist |
Paul Colin Resource File |
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b. 6-27-1880 - Helen Keller (d. 6-1-1968) |
CP Links for Learning - Keller |
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b. 6-27-1920 - E. R. Braithwaite, author & educator |
E. R. Braithwaite Resource File |
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b. 6-27-1932 - Anna Moffo, opera singer |
Anna Moffo Resource File |
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b. 6-27-1939 - Kirkpatrick Sale, bioregionlist |
Kirkpatrick Sale Resource File |
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d. 6-28-548 AD - Empress Theodora |
Empress Theodora Resource File |
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b. 6-28-1491 - King Henry VIII |
King Henry VIII Resource File |
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b. 6-28-1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, painter |
Peter Paul Rubens Resource File |
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b. 6-28-1703 - John Wesley, theologian |
John Wesley Resource File |
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b. 6-28-1712 - Jean Jacques Rousseau, author & philosopher |
Jean Jacques Rousseau Resource File |
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b. 6-28-1805 - Napoléon Coste, guitarist & composer |
Napoleon Coste Resource File |
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b. 6-28-1819 - Carlotta Grisi, ballet dancer |
Carlotta Grisi Resource File |
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b. 6-28-1824 - Paul Broca, scientist |
Paul Broca Resource File |
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b. 6-28-1831 - Joseph Joachim, violinist |
Joseph Joachim Resource File |
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b. 6-28-1867 - Luigi Pirandello, author |
Luigi Pirandello Resource File |
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b. 6-28-1873 - Alexis Carrel, biologist |
Alexis Carrel Resource File |
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b. 6-28-1876 - Clara Maass, nurse |
Clara Maass Resource File |
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b. 6-28-1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, author |
Erich Maria Remarque Resource File |
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• 6-28-1914 - Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria |
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b. 6-28-1906 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer |
Maria Goeppert-Mayer Resource Fiel |
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b. 6-28-1940 - Muhammad Yunus, economist & Nobel Peace Prize 2006 |
Muhammad Yunus Resource Fiel |
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b. 6-29-1743 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld, author & educator |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld Resource File |
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b. 6-29-1835 - Celia Laighton Thaxter, poet & author |
Celia Thaxter Resource File |
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b. 6-29-1835 - Julia Lathrop, social reformer |
Julia Lathrop Resource File |
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b. 6-29-1871 - Luisa Tetrazzini, opera singer |
Luisa Tetrazzini Resource File |
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b. 6-29-1873 - Leo Frobenius, ethnologist & archaeologist |
Leo Frobenius Resource File |
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b. 6-29-1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author |
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Resource File |
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b. 6-29-1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinist |
Anne-Sophie Mutter Resource File |
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b. 6-29-1972 - Samantha Smith, peace activist |
Samantha Smith Resource File |
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b. 6-30-1685 - John Gay, poet & dramatist |
John Gay Resource File |
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b. 6-30-1685 - Riccardo Drigo, composer |
Riccardo Drigo Resource File |
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b. 6-30-1814 - Franz von Dingelstedt, poet & dramatist |
Franz von Dingelstedt Resource File |
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b. 6-30-1917 - Lena Horne, singer |
Lena Horne Resource File |
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b. 6-30-1938 - Billy Mills, runner & Olympic Gold Medalist (1964) |
Billy Mills Resource File |
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June Facts & Tidbits |
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June, the sixth month of the year, name derives from the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter. In old Japanese the month is called Minatsuki.
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Astrological Signs |
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Astrology |
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• Gemini: May 21 - June 20 |
• Gemini poster
• Gemini, the Twins Ecard |
mutable, air, personal; "I think," curious, talkative, sociable, duality, mercurial, whimsical, intelligent, hands/arms; logical, inquisitive, superficial. |
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• Cancer: June 21 - July 22 |
• Cancer poster
• Cancer, the Crab Ecard |
cardinal, water, personal; "I feel," sensitive, tenacious, family and home oriented, helpful, nurturing, moody, stomach/breasts; protective, clinging. |
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Birthstones |
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• Alexandrite
• Moonstone - good luck
• Pearl - purity, insure love & happiness |
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• Birthstone (U of Washington)
• Alexandrite Resource File
• Moonstone Resource File
• Pearl Resource File
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Flowers |
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• Rose |
• flower posters
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Rose Resource File |
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