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- #: Monthly stuff
- 6:National Accordion Awareness Month.
- #: Events depending on weekdays
- S(6/11):Belmont Stakes (fifth Saturday after Kentucky Derby).
- S(6/14):Past 80 Party (second Saturday).
- S(6/14):Trooping the Colour (England) (second Saturday).
- M(6/14):Hug Holiday (second Monday).
- U(6/14):Children's Day (second Sunday).
- U(6/14):Father's Day (France) (second Sunday).
- U(6/14):Festival of the Red Rose (second Sunday).
- U(6/14):Military Music Festival (Belgium) (second Sunday).
- U(6/14):Race Unity Day (second Sunday).
- R(6/21):Viola Gopher Count (3rd Thursday).
- #: Normal events
- 6/1/1869 :Voting machine patented (Thomas A. Edison).
- 6/2/1835 :P.T. Barnum's circus began 1st US tour.
- 6/3/1888 :"Casey at the Bat" 1st appeared in print (SF Examiner).
- 6/4 :Old Maid's Day (never married women > 35).
- 6/5/1933 :Gold standard abolished.
- 6/6/1933 :First drive-in movie theater opened (Camden, NJ).
- 6/7/1924 :Batman's parents killed.
- 6/8/1786 :Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr. Hall, NYC).
- 6/9 :Senior Citizens Day (Oklahoma).
- 6/9/1681 :William Lilly, English astrologer, died.
- 6/9/1860 :First "dime" novel issued ("Malaesk: The Indian Wife of the White
- :Hunter").
- 6/9/1870 :Charles Dickens, English novelist ("Oliver Twist"), died.
- 6/9/1898 :Britain leased Hong Kong from China for 99 years.
- 6/9/1911 :Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader, died.
- 6/9/1931 :First rocket-powered aircraft design patented (R. Goddard).
- 6/9/1934 :Donald Duck made his first screen appearance ("The Wise Little
- :Hen").
- 6/9/1943 :"Pay-as-you-go" US income tax deductions authorized.
- 6/9/1953 :Worcester County tornado (94 killed, 1310 injured, 10,000
- :homeless).
- 6/9/1959 :First ballistics missile-firing submarine (George Washington)
- :launched.
- 6/9/1963 :Equal Pay Act enacted.
- 6/9/1963 :First Sunday night game in major league history (Houston).
- 6/9/1973 :Secretariat won the Triple Crown.
- 6/9/1982 :General Efrain Rios Montt declared himself president of Guatemala.
- 6/9/1991 :Charles Loloma, painter and sculptor, died.
- 6/10/1652 :1st mint in America (Boston).
- 6/11/1816 :The Gas Light Co. of Baltimore founded.
- 6/12/1981 :Major league baseball strike began.
- 6/13/1947 :1st night game in Fenway Park (Red Sox 5 White Sox 3).
- 6/14/1834 :Sandpaper patented (I. Fisccher, Jr.).
- 6/15/1878 :Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland
- :Stanford that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground
- :during the gallop.
- 6/16 :National Juggling Day.
- 6/17/1953 :Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox).
- 6/18/1898 :First amusement pier opened in Atlantic City, NJ.
- 6/19/1893 :Lizzie Bordon acquitted.
- 6/20/1909 :First balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham and Eleanor Waring).
- 6/21/1948 :33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced (Columbia Records).
- 6/22/1832 :Pin manufacturing machine patented (J.I. Howe).
- 6/23/1980 :First solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation.
- 6/24 :Middle Children's Day.
- 6/25/1876 :Little Big Horn (Custer's Last Stand) (209 killed).
- 6/26/1498 :Toothbrush invented.
- 6/27/1980 :First female state police graduates (NJ).
- 6/28/1762 :1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston).
- 6/29/1978 :Bob Crane, actor ("Hogan's Heroes"), murdered.
- 6/30/1985 :James Dewar, inventor of the Twinkie, died.
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