June 2nd
 

1740 ~ Birthday of Marquis de Sade, Famous French Pervert.

1835 ~ Start of P.T. Barnum’s circus’ first tour of the U.S.

1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hardy, Poet & Novelist.

1897 ~ Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, was quoted as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."

1946 ~ Italians voted to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic.

1953 ~ Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

1966 ~ First U.S. Lunar soft landing, by Surveyor 1.

1990 ~ Death of Rex Harrison, English actor.

2003 ~ ESA’s Mars Express was launched.

2005 ~ Death of Chloe Jones, Model & Porn Actress.

You're very welcome, jseal! :boink:

June 3rd
 

1888 ~ The poem Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Thayer, was published in the SF Examiner.

1899 ~ Death of Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer.

1924 ~ Death of Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist.

1926 ~ Birthday of Allen Ginsberg, American poet.

1937 ~ The Duke of Windsor married American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom he had abdicated the British throne.

1965 ~ Edward White became the first American astronaut to walk in space.

1969 ~ The science fiction television series Star Trek aired its final new episode after being canceled by NBC.

1982 ~ The Israeli ambassador to Britain was shot on a London street.

1973 ~ At the Paris Air Show, a Tupolev Tu-144 broke up in mid-flight and disintegrated, killing the six members of the crew and eight bystanders on the ground.

1989 ~ Death of Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader.

I hadn't realized that "Casey at the Bat" was that old. See, ya' learn something everyday ...

Thanks, jseal!

I also like Thayer's nod to Pope's "Essay on Man." Yeah, I know, I'm a pushover for the classics.

June 4th
 

1798 ~ Death of Giacomo Casanova, Italian Lover.

1928 ~ Birthday of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, German-American Sex Therapist.

1940 ~ The Allies completed the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, France.

1944 ~ Birthday of Michelle Phillips, American Singer (The Mamas & the Papas).

1975 ~ Birthday of Angelina Jolie, American Actress.

1984 ~ The album ''Born in the U.S.A.'' by Bruce Springsteen was released.

1919 ~ Birthday of Jenaveve Jolie, Mexican-American Porn Actress.

1986 ~ Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to espionage for selling top secret U.S. military intelligence to Israel.

1989 ~ The Tiananmen Square Massacre.

2010 ~ The maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Two years later, SpaceX acccomplished the first rendezvous of a commercial rocket with the International Space Station (ISS).

June 5th
 

1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Scottish Economist.

1883 ~ Birthday of John Keynes, English Economist.

1947 ~ At a speech at Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall called for economic aid to Europe.

1963 ~ UK Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigned over a sex scandal.

1967 ~ Israel began the “Six Day War” with a pre-emptive attack on Egypt.

1968 ~ Sen. Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles, CA.

1975 ~ Death of Paul Keres, Estonian chess player.

1977 ~ The first practical personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale.

1989 ~ The Unknown Rebel halted a column of tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests.

2004 ~ Death of Ronald Reagan.

June 6th
 

1832 ~ Death of Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher.

1844 ~ The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.

1868 ~ Birthday of Robert Falcon Scott, English Explorer.

1901 ~ Birthday of Sukarno, first President of Indonesia.

1944 ~ D-Day began with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.

1983 ~ Birthday of Gianna Michaels, Porn Actress.

1984 ~ Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

1985 ~ Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as that of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted medical experiments on inmates at Auschwitz.

2002 ~ A Near Earth Object (NEO), estimated at 10 metres diameter, exploded over the Mediterranean Sea. The explosion is estimated to have been roughly equal to that used at Nagasaki.

2002 ~ The Wye Oak, Maryland's honorary state tree, was destroyed in a thunderstorm.

Hmmm ... I don't seem to recall that NEO exploding over the Mediterranean. Interesting. Were any ships in the area? Did anyone get hurt?

It was an instrument only detection they kept very quiet.

June 7th
 

1099 ~ Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem.

1848 ~ Birthday of Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist Painter.

1897 ~ Birthday of George Szell, Hungarian Conductor.

1917 ~ Birthday of Dean Martin, Singer & Actor.

1929 ~ Vatican City became a sovereign state.

1942 ~ The U.S. beat the Japanese in the Battle of Midway.

1954 ~ Death of Alan Turing, Mathematician, Computer Scientist.

1970 ~ Death of E. M. Forster, English author (A Passage to India).

1981 ~ The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor.

2000 ~ U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft.

June 8th
 

632 ~ Death of Muhammad, founder of Islam.

1810 ~ Birthday of Robert Schumann, Composer.

1874 ~ Death of Cochise, Apache leader.

1887 ~ Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator.

1910 ~ Death of Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet.

1916 ~ Birthday of Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS, most noted for being one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962.

1949 ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was published.

1968 ~ James Earl Ray was arrested in London in connection with the murder of Martin Luther King.

1982 ~ An Argentine air attack sank the Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram supply ships in the Falklands.

1998 ~ Charlton Heston assumed the presidency of the National Rifle Association.

June 9th
 

1870 ~ Death of Charles Dickens, English author.

1891 ~ Birthday of Cole Porter, Composer.

1934 ~ Donald Duck debuted in The Wise Little Hen.

1954 ~ Beginning of the end of the McCarthy Era.

1959 ~ The USS George Washington launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles ("Boomers").

1963 ~ Birthday of Johnny Depp, Actor (Edward Scissorhands, Pirates of the Caribbean++).

1970 ~ Assassination attempt on King Hussein of Jordan.

1973 ~ Secretariat won the Triple Crown.

1983 ~ Birthday of Alektra Blue, Porn Actress.

2004 ~ The FCC agreed to a $1.75 million settlement with Clear Channel to resolve indecency complaints against Howard Stern and other radio personalities.

June 10th
 

1829 ~ First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.

1846 ~ The California Republic declared independence from Mexico.

1915 ~ Birthday of Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1921 ~ Birthday of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

1922 ~ Birthday of Judy Garland, Singer & Actress.

1967 ~ End of the Six-Day War.

1971 ~ Death of Michael Rennie, English actor (Klaatu in the classic science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still").

1977 ~ The Apple II personal computer started shipping.

1999 ~ Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its air war.

2004 ~ Death of Ray Charles, Singer & Musician.

June 11th
 

1892 ~ The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, opened in Melbourne.

1937 ~ Death of R. J. Mitchell, British aircraft designer, developer of the Spitfire.

1939 ~ Birthday of Jackie Stewart, Race car driver.

1942 ~ The U.S. and the USSR signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in WWII.

1963 ~ Alabama Governor George Wallace stood at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to prevent two black students from attending that school.

1963 ~ Death of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc by self-imolation in Saigon to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

1979 ~ Death of John Wayne, Actor.

1987 ~ Margaret Thatcher became the first British PM in 160 years to win a third consecutive term in office.

2001 ~ Death of Timothy McVeigh, terrorist (executed).

2004 ~ Cassini-Huygens made its closest flyby of Phoebe.