June
June 1,1971
Ed Sullivan's final tv show airs on CBS
June 2,1863
Harriet Truman leads union guerillas into Maryland freeing slaves
June 3,1875
Alexander Graham Bell makes first voice transmission.
June 4,1977
Apple II, the first personal computer goes on sale.
June 5,1968
Senetor Robert F. Kennedy shot by Sirhan Sirhan, dies june 6.
June 6,1944
US and Allied forces invade Europe at Normandy, the greatest amphibious landing in history.
June 7,1654
Louis XIV crowned king of France.
June 8,1886
First Civil rights act passes
June 9,1883
First commercial electric railway line begins operation (Chicago El)
June 10,1793
First public zoo opens in Paris
June 11,1509
King Henry VII marries his first wife Catherine of Aragon
June 12,1812
Napoleon invades Russia
June 13,1983
Pioneer 10 is first man-made object to leave solar system
June 14,1940
Auschwitz concentration camp, where 3 million people were killed, opens
June 15,1215
King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England
June 16,1775
Battle of Bunker Hill
June 17,1928
Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly across Atlantic
June 18,1812
War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
June 19,1953
Julius and Ethel Rosenburg executed for espionage
June 20,1793
Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin
June 21,1945
Us defeats Japanese forces on Okinawa during WWII
June 22,1772
Slavery outlawed in England
June 23,1611
Henery Hudson set adrift on his ship in Hudson Bay by mutineers, never to be seen again
June 24,1509
Henry VII crowned King of England
June 25,1630
Fork introduced to American dining by Govenor Winthrop
June 26,1843
Hong Kong proclaimed a british crown colony
June 27,1942
FBI captures eight Nazi saboteurs off NY's Long Island
June 28,1914
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and wife assasinated in Sarajevo, precipitating WWI
June 29,1964
Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes after 83-day filibuster in Senate
June 30,1894
London Tower Bridge opens
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