Anniversaries

7th June 1967 (42 Years)

Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, died.

8 giugno 1867 (142 Years)

Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, was born.

8th June 1916 (93 Years)

Francis Crick, British biophysicist and discoverer of the molecular structure of the DNA, was born.

9th June 1868 (141 Years)

Jane Avril, French model and dancer, was born.

9th June 1870 (139 Years)

Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic, dies aged 58.

9th June 1927 (82 Years)

Victoria Woodhull, American leader of the woman's suffrage movement and the first female candidate for President of the United States, dies.

9th June 1963 (46 Years)

Jacques Villon, painter, printmaker, and brother of Marcel Duchamp dies.

9th June 1975 (34 Years)

The first live transmission from the House of Commons is broadcast by BBC Radio and commercial stations.

10th June 1819 (190 Years)

Gustave Courbet, French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting, died.

10th June 1918 (91 Years)

Arrigo Boito, Italian author, poet, and composer, died.

10th June 1921 (88 Years)

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born.

10th June 1922 (87 Years)

Judy Garland, American singer, actress, and vaudevillian, renowned for her contralto vocals, was born.

10th June 1926 (83 Years)

Antoni Gaudí, Spanish Catalan architect and the best known practitioner of Catalan Modernism, dies.

10th June 1946 (63 Years)

Jack Johnson, American boxer, who became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion, dies.

10th June 1967 (42 Years)

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy, one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, died.

11th June 1864 (145 Years)

Richard Georg Strauss, German composer, best-known for his operas "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Salome", is born.

11th June 1936 (73 Years)

The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.

11th June 1993 (16 Years)

Jurassic Park is released in the cinema in the USA.

12th June 1817 (192 Years)

Karl Drais invents the two-wheeled velocipede, also called Draisine or hobby-horse.

12th June 1890 (119 Years)

Egon Schiele, one of the major figurative painters of the early 20th century, was born.

12th June 1942 (67 Years)

Anne Frank creates her first diary entry.

12th June 1964 (45 Years)

The conviction and sentencing of the revolutionary, Nelson Mandela.

12th June 1983 (26 Years)

Edith Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress and Hollywood star that turned down the role of Scarlett O'Hara, died.

12th June 1997 (12 Years)

Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre as Shakespeare’s Globe in London.

12th June 2003 (6 Years)

Eldred Gregory Peck, American actor who was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, died.

13th June 2005 (4 Years)

Pop star Michael Jackson is found not guilty of all charges after a four-month-long child abuse trial.

14th June 1653 (356 Years)

Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi, Italian female painter, died.

14th June 1777 (232 Years)

The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Resolution.

14th June 1828 (181 Years)

Ernesto Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, author, and guerrilla leader, was born.

14th June 1926 (83 Years)

Mary Cassatt, American painter and printmaker, who was part of the French Impressionists, dies.

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