Anniversaries

2nd June 1743 (269 Years)

Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian occultist and explorer, was born.

2nd June 1953 (59 Years)

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, crowned at London's Westminster Abbey.

2nd June 2008 (4 Years)

Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer, died.

3rd June 1906 (106 Years)

Josephine Baker, an American-born French dancer and actress who was the first black woman to become a world-famous entertainer and contributed to the Civil Rights Movement, was born.

3rd June 1924 (88 Years)

Franz Kafka, the Czech-born Austrian Modernist author, died.

3rd June 1926 (86 Years)

Allen Ginsberg, American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s, is born.

3rd June 1928 (84 Years)

Donald Judd, American sculptor and painter, was born.

3rd June 1937 (75 Years)

Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, marries Wallis Warfield Simpson of Baltimore.

3rd June 1963 (49 Years)

Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Pope Saint John XXIII, died.

3rd June 1968 (44 Years)

Valerie Solanas, the author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.

4th June 1907 (105 Years)

Rosalind Russell, American actress of stage and screen, was born.

4th June 1913 (99 Years)

Emily Wilding Davison, suffragette, runs in front of King Goerge V's horse during the Epsom Derby, sustaining injuries that resulted in her death four days later.

4th June 1913 (99 Years)

Emily Wilding Davison, suffragette, runs in front of King Goerge V's horse during the Epsom Derby, sustaining injuries that resulted in her death four days later.

4th June 1917 (95 Years)

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire was established by King George V.

4th June 1917 (95 Years)

The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded.

4th June 1941 (71 Years)

Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, dies.

5th June 1816 (196 Years)

Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer of the Classical era, dies.

5th June 1898 (114 Years)

Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, theatre director and emblematic member of the Generation of '27, was born.

5th June 1947 (65 Years)

The Marshall Plan is drafted.

5th June 1968 (44 Years)

Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.

5th June 1975 (37 Years)

The UK holds its first country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).

5th June 2004 (8 Years)

Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died.

6th June 1832 (180 Years)

Jeremy Bentham, British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer, dies.

6th June 1868 (144 Years)

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions, was born.

6th June 1944 (68 Years)

The D-Day landings, in Normandy, France during World War II.

6th June 1944 (68 Years)

The D-Day landings, in Normandy, France during World War II.

6th June 1948 (64 Years)

Louis Lumière, French director, producer, and, together with his brother, first film-maker in history, died.

7th June 1868 (144 Years)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect, was born.

7th June 1937 (75 Years)

Jean Harlow, American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s, died.

7th June 1940 (72 Years)

King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.

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