May 31st
 

1678 ~ The first Godiva Procession, in commemoration of the legendary ride.

1819 ~ Birthday of Walt Whitman, American Poet.

1889 ~ A dam broke near Johnstown, Pa, drowning more than 2,000.

1916 ~ British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland off Denmark.

1923 ~ Birthday of Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

1927 ~ The Ford Model T assembly line shut down after a production run of 15,007,003.

1938 ~ Birthday of Peter Yarrow, American folk singer ("Peter, Paul and Mary").

1957 ~ Playwright Arthur Miller was convicted of contempt of Congress.

1993 ~ Death of Spuds Mackenzie, the original party animal.

1996 ~ Death of Timothy Leary, LSD advocate.

June 1st
 

1494 ~ :angel: Friar John Cor :angel: recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.

1801 ~ Birthday of Brigham Young, Mormon Church leader.

1804 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer.

1918 ~ The Battle for Belleau Wood began, during which came forth the famous phrase "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" Heroes indeed!

1926 ~ Birthday of Marilyn Monroe, Actress.

1938 ~ Action Comics issued the first Superman comic.

1958 ~ Charles de Gaulle became premier of France.

1968 ~ Death of Helen Keller, American humanitarian.

1967 ~ The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released.

1990 ~ President Bush and General Secretary Gorbachev signed a treaty to end chemical weapon production.

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.

June 3rd
 

1875 ~ Death of Georges Bizet, French composer.

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.

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

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.

1998 ~ Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

June 5th
 

1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Scottish Economist.

1883 ~ Birthday of John Keynes, English Economist.

1944 ~ The first of the three Axis capitals, Rome, was liberated.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

2008 ~ Death of Jim McKay, Sports Announcer.

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.

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.

1910 ~ Death of George Mallory, English mountain climber.

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 9th
 

2009 - Nova Scotia elects its first New Democratic Party government!!!!!!!!!! (And it's a majority government, at that!!!!!!!!!) :thumbs:

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.

June 12th
 

1924 ~ Birthday of George Bush senior, 41st President of the U.S.

1942 ~ Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

1963 ~ Death of Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist.

1967 ~ In Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court declared all state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

1975 ~ Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was convicted on electoral corruption charges.

1979 ~ Bryan Allen flew the man powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel.

1987 ~ Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

1991 ~ Boris Yeltsin was elected the first President of the Russian Federation.

1994 ~ Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California.

2003 ~ Death of Gregory Peck, Actor.

June 13th
 

1865 ~ Birthday of William Butler Yeats, Poet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1923.

1944 ~ Germany launched the first V1 “Buzz Bomb” attack on England.

1966 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them (Miranda v. Arizona).

1967 ~ Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated as the first black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

1970 ~ "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' last #1 song.

1977 ~ Birthday of Alaura Eden, Porn Actress

1985 ~ Birthday of Lela Star, Porn Actress.

1986 ~ Death of Benny Goodman, the ''King of Swing,'.

1995 ~ French president Jacques Chirac announced the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.

2005 ~ A jury acquitted Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch.

June 14th
 

1671 ~ Birthday of Tomaso Albinoni, Italian Composer.

1775 ~ The U.S. Army was founded.

1909 ~ Birthday of Burl Ives, American Folk Singer, Author & Actor.

1919 ~ John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.

1940 ~ WWII: German troops enter Paris.

1942 ~ Anne Frank began her diary.

1952 ~ The keel was laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.

1982 ~ Argentine forces in the capital Port Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces, bringing the Falklands War to an end.

1991 ~ Death of Dame Peggy Ashcroft, British actress.

1994 ~ Death of Henry Mancini, American composer.

June 15th
 

1215 ~ King John put his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England.

1836 ~ Arkansas became the 25th state.

1844 ~ Charles Goodyear received a patent for a process to strengthen rubber.

1843 ~ Birthday of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer.

1904 ~ More than 1,000 people died in a fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum.

1916 ~ President Wilson signed a bill granting a federal charter to the Boy Scouts of America, stating that their purpose is to:

"... promote, through organization, and cooperation with other agencies, the ability of boys to do things for themselves and others, to train them in scoutcraft, and to teach them patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred virtues ..."

1978 ~ King Hussein of Jordan married Lisa Halaby, who became Queen Noor.

1995 ~ Death of John Vincent Atanasoff, computer pioneer.

1980 ~ Birthday Mary Carey, Candidate for Governor of California in 2003 & Porn Actress.

1996 ~ In Manchester, U.K., a terrorist bomb injured over 200 people.

June 16th
 

1829 ~ Birthday of Geronimo, Apache Warrior & Leader.

1858 ~ Abraham Lincoln gave his “House Divided” speach in Springfield, Illinois. A brilliant piece of argument!

1890 ~ Birthday of Stan Laurel, Comedian.

1903 ~ The Ford Motor Company was incorporated.

1912 ~ Birthday of Enoch Powell, British politician.

1933 ~ Start of President Roosevelt’s New Deal.

1938 ~ Birthday of Joyce Carol Oates, novelist.

1963 ~ Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

1976 ~ Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.

1977 ~ Death of Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist.

June 17th
 

1631 ~ Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Shah Jahan I, build her a tomb, the Taj Mahal.

1885 ~ The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York.

1898 ~ Birthday of M.C. Escher, Dutch Artist.

1928 ~ Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.

1929 ~ Birthday of Tigran Petrosian, Georgian chess player.

1945 ~ Birthday of Eddy Merckx, Belgian Cycling Champion.

1818 ~ Birthday of Ken Livingstone, English politician (first Mayor of London).

1961 ~ Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget airport in Paris.

1974 ~ The Irish Republican Army bombed the UK’s House of Parliament.

1996 ~ Death of Thomas Kuhn, Philosopher of science (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions).

June 18th
 

1178 ~ Five Canterbury monks saw what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed on the Moon.

1815 ~ British and Prussian troops defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in Belgium.

1928 ~ Death of Roald Amundsen, Explorer, first to the South Pole.

1942 ~ Birthday of Paul McCartney, Singer & Songwriter.

1942 ~ Birthday of Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.

1948 ~ The UN Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.

1967 ~ Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.

1974 ~ Death of Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union.

1979 ~ Presidents Carter and Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.

1983 ~ Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.

June 19th
 

1623 ~ Birthday of Blaise Pascal, Mathematician.

1865 ~ More two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom.

1896 ~ Birthday of Wallis Warfield, the future Duchess of Windsor.

1934 ~ The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was established.

1937 ~ Death of J.M. Barrie, Author, creator of the character Peter Pan.

1944 ~ First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

1945 ~ Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Politician, recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.

1953 ~ Death of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, convicted spies.

1964 ~ The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving a filibuster in the Senate.

1982 ~ An Italian banker, Roberto Calvi, was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London.

June 20th
 

1819 ~ Birthday of Jacques Offenbach, Composer.

1837 ~ Queen Victoria ascended to the British throne.

1877 ~ Alexander Graham Bell installed the first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario.

1899 ~ Birthday of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance in WW II.

1909 ~ Birthday of Errol Flynn, Actor.

1942 ~ Birthday of Brian Wilson, one of The Beach Boys.

1948 ~ The Ed Sullivan Show, (née Toast of the Town) debuted.

1967 ~ Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating Selective Service laws.

1995 ~ Shell Oil abandoned plans to dump its Brent Spar oil rig at sea.

2002 ~ Death of Erwin Chargaff, biochemist.

June 21st
 

1527 ~ Death of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.

1905 ~ Birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher & Playwright, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1964.

1908 ~ Death of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Composer.

1919 ~ Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney.

1945 ~ The battle for Okinawa ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 83-day campaign.

1964 ~ Three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.

1970 ~ Birthday of Sindee Coxx, Porn Actress.

1989 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that flag burning is protected speech under the Constitution.

2004 ~ SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight.

2005 ~ Death of Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila.

June 22nd
 

1856 ~ Birthday of H. Rider Haggard, Author.

1874 ~ Death of Howard Staunton, English chess master, and inspiration for the standard for tournament chess pieces.

1940 ~ WWII: France forced to sign armistice with Germany.

1941 ~ WWII: Germany invaded the USSR.

1969 ~ Death of Judy Garland, Singer & Actress.

1976 ~ Canadian House of Commons voted to abolish capital punishment.

1986 ~ Diego Maradona scored both the Hand of God goal and the Goal of the Century against England during the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.

1987 ~ Death of Fred Astaire, Dancer & Actor.

1978 ~ Discovery of the first satellite of Pluto, Charon.

2002 ~ Death of Ann Landers, Columnist.

June 23rd
 

1894 ~ Birthday of Alfred Kinsey, Sexologist.

1912 ~ Birthday of Alan Turing, Mathematician.

1927 ~ Birthday of Bob Fosse, Choreographer.

1940 ~ Adolf Hitler toured Paris in now occupied France.

1943 ~ Birthday of Vint Cerf, co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and one of the “Fathers of the Internet".

1947 ~ President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act overridden.

1956 ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt.

1985 ~ An Air India Boeing 747 was blown apart off the coast of Ireland by Sikh extremists.

1993 ~ Lorena Bobbitt sexually mutilated her husband after he allegedly raped her.

1995 ~ Death of Jonas Salk, developer of the Salk polio vaccine.

June 24th
 

1314 ~ Scotland regained its independence in the Battle of Bannockburn, when Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English.

1519 ~ Death of Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara.

1896 ~ Birthday of Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight boxer.

1910 ~ Japan invaded Korea.

1915 ~ Birthday of Fred Hoyle, cosmologist and science fiction author.

1948 ~ Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the U.S. to organize the Berlin Airlift.

1947 ~ Birthday of Mick Fleetwood, Musician (Fleetwood Mac).

1957 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.

1985 ~ STS-51-G Discovery completed its mission, with Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as the Payload Specialist.

1997 ~ The Roswell Incident debunked by the USAF.

June 25th
 

1876 ~ Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out in the Battle of Little Big Horn.

1894 ~ Birthday of Hermann Oberth, Physicist & one of the founding fathers of Rocketry and Astronautics.

1903 ~ Birthday of George Orwell, Writer.

1950 ~ The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea.

1975 ~ Birthday of Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player.

1991 ~ Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.

1993 ~ Kim Campbell became the first female Prime Minister of Canada.

1997 ~ An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory.

1997 ~ Death of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French Explorer, Scientist & Inventor.

1998 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 unconstitutional.

June 26th
 

1824 ~ Birthday of Lord Kelvin, Physicist. In 1900, he gave a lecture titled Nineteenth-Century Clouds over the Dynamical Theory of Heat and Light. Talk about prescient!

1898 ~ Birthday of Willy Messerschmitt, Aircraft Designer.

1933 ~ Birthday of Claudio Abbado, Conductor.

1934 ~ Initial flight of the first practical helicopter, the Focke-Wulf 61. You must scroll down a bit through the Hanna Reitsch page to get to the FW-61 entry, but her write up of her experience it is an interesting read.

1959 ~ Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower inaugurated the St Lawrence Seaway.

1963 ~ President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he offered American solidarity to the citizens of West Germany: "Ich bin ein Berliner".

1964 ~ The Beatles released the album A Hard Day's Night.

1997 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment, and thus unconstitutional.

2003 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.

2007 ~ Liz Claiborne, Belgian born fashion designer.

June 27th
 

1829 ~ Death of James Smithson, English scientist and philanthropist.

1838 ~ Birthday of Paul von Mauser, Weapon Designer.

1880 ~ Birthday of Helen Keller, spokeswoman for the Deaf and Blind.

1905 ~ Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin.

1950 ~ The U.S. decided to send armed forces to fight in the Korean War.

1954 ~ The world's first nuclear power station went on line in Obninsk, near Moscow.

1957 ~ First British Smoking Causes Lung Cancer report released.

1967 ~ The world's first ATM installed in Enfield, London.

1984 ~ Pierre Trudeau won the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.

2001 ~ Death of Jack Lemmon, Actor & Film Director.

June 28th
 

1577 ~ Birthday of Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque Painter.

1712 ~ Birthday of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Franco-Swiss Philosopher.

1880 ~ The Australian bushranger Ned Kelly was captured at Glenrowan.

1914 ~ Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia were killed by a Serbian nationalist, the casus belli of World War I.

1919 ~ The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending World War I.

1926 ~ Birthday of Mel Brooks, Filmmaker.

1992 ~ Death of Mikhail Tal, eighth World Chess Champion.

1996 ~ The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.

2001 ~ Death of Mortimer Adler, Philosopher & co-founder of Great Books of the Western World.

2004 ~ The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government.

June 29th
 

1861 ~ Death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…”

1895 ~ Death of Thomas Henry Huxley, Scientist. "Darwin's Bulldog"

1922 ~ France granted 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".

1963 ~ Birthday of Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violinist.

1971 ~ Birthday of Kaitlyn Ashley, Porn Actress.

1974 ~ Isabel Peron is sworn in as first female president for Argentina.

1995 ~ U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with Russian space station Mir.

1995 ~ The Sampoong Department Store collapse disaster.

2003 ~ Death of Katharine Hepburn, Actress.

2007 ~ Apple released the iPhone.

June 30th
 

1905 ~ During his annus mirabilis, Albert Einstein published the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (PDF) in which he introduced special relativity.

That must have been an exciting period to be a physicist!

1908 ~ Tunguska impact event occurred in Siberia.

1934 ~ Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany took place.

1936 ~ ''Gone with the Wind'' by Margaret Mitchell published.

1943 ~ Birthday of Florence Ballard, American Singer (The Supremes).

1971 ~ The crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft died when the landing capsule depressurized after separating from the main craft.

1990 ~ East and West Germany merged their economies.

1997 ~ The UK returns sovereignty over Hong Kong to the PRC.

2003 ~ Death of Buddy Hackett, American comic.

2007 ~ Death of Ingmar Bergman, Swedish Film-maker.

July 1st
 

1646 ~ Birthday of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German Mathematician & Philosopher.

1863 ~ The American Civil War battle of Gettysburg began.

1906 ~ Birthday of Estée Lauder, Cosmetics Pioneer.

1916 ~ On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 18,000 British soldiers were killed, and 40,000 wounded.

1925 ~ Death of Erik Satie, French Composer.

1963 ~ The British Government admitted that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.

1980 ~ "O Canada" became the national anthem of Canada.

2000 ~ Death of Walter Matthau, Actor.

2004 ~ Cassini-Huygens was successfully inserted into orbit around Saturn.

2004 ~ Death of Marlon Brando, Actor.

July 2nd
 

1906 ~ Birthday of Hans Bethe, German-born Physicist., awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1967.

1937 ~ Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.

1947 ~ Something the Army Air Force later said was a weather balloon crashed near Roswell, N.M. Eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation it might have been an alien spacecraft.

1961 ~ Death of Ernest Hemingway, Author, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1954.

1964 ~ President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.

1966 ~ France began nuclear weapons testing at Moruroa in the South Pacific.

1982 ~ Larry Walters attached 45 helium balloons to a lawn chair and ascended into history and to a height of 11,000 feet.

1997 ~ Death of Jimmy Stewart, Actor.

1999 ~ Death of Mario Puzo, Author (The Godfather).

2007 ~ Death of Beverly Sills, Opera Soprano.

Coincidence? I don't think so...pass the tinfoil hats, please...

:wink:

July 3rd
 

1863 ~ The final day of the battle of Gettysburg.

1883 ~ Birthday of Franz Kafka, Czech-born German author.

1935 ~ Death of André Citroën, Automobile Pioneer.

1938 ~ World speed record, 126 mph, set for a steam railway locomotive, by the Mallard.

1962 ~ Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.

1969 ~ Death of Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones).

1969 ~ A test flight of the Soviet N1 rocket ended in a spectactular failure.

1971 ~ Death of Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors.

1986 ~ Death of Rudy Vallee, Singer, Actor, Bandleader, & Entertainer.

1988 ~ USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf.

July 4th
 

1776 ~ The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.

1845 ~ Henry David Thoreau began a two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond near Concord, Mass.

1855 ~ The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems Leaves of Grass was published.

1885 ~ Birthday of Louis B. Mayer, Movie Executive (one of the M’s in MGM).

1934 ~ Death of Marie Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of he Nobel Prize in Physics 1903.

1971 ~ Birthday of Koko, the sign-language gorilla.

1976 ~ The U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial.

1976 ~ Israeli commandos rescued 100 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda.

1982 ~ Birthday of Hannah Harper, Porn Actress.

2006 ~ North Korea tested four short-range, one medium-range, and a long-range missle over the Sea of Japan.

July 5th
 

1810 ~ Birthday of Phineas Taylor "P. T." Barnum, Circus Owner.

1853 ~ Birthday of Cecil Rhodes, South African Politician.

1911 ~ Birthday of Georges Pompidou, President of France.

1937 ~ Spam was introduced the Hormel Foods Corporation.

1948 ~ British National Health Service (NHS) Act enacted.

1951 ~ William Shockley invented the junction transistor.

1972 ~ Birthday of Letha Weapons, Porn Actress.

1975 ~ Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles' championship.

1989 ~ Oliver North received a $150,000 fine and a suspended prison term for his part in the Iran-Contra affair.

1996 ~ Birthday of Dolly the sheep, first cloned mammal.

July 6th
 

1935 ~ Birthday of Tenzin Gyatso, 14th and current Dalai Lama.

1946 ~ Birthday of Sylvester Stallone, Actor, The Italian Stallion.

1957 ~ Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title.

1964 ~ A Hard Day's Night, the first Beatles film, premiered.

1971 ~ Death of Louis Armstrong, Jazz Musician.

1973 ~ Death of Otto Klemperer, German Conductor.

1974 ~ The radio program A Prairie Home Companion was first broadcast.

1989 ~ The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea was destroyed by explosions and fires killing 167 oil workers.

1997 ~ The rover Sojourner rolled onto the Martian landscape to begin inspecting soil and rocks.

1998 ~ Death of Roy Rogers, Cowboy Actor & Singer.

July 7th
 

1860 ~ Birthday of Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer.

1887 ~ Birthday of Marc Chagall, Russian-born Painter.

1898 ~ The U.S. annexed Hawaii as a territory.

1907 ~ Birthday of Robert Heinlein, Science Fiction Writer.

1930 ~ Death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish Writer.

1940 ~ Birthday of Ringo Starr, Beatle.

1947 ~ The Roswell UFO incident.

1980 ~ Sharia law established in Iran.

1981 ~ President Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the Supreme Court.

2005 ~ Terrorist bombings in London killed 52 victims and four suicide bombers.