Anniversaries

24th June 1888 (124 Years)

Gerrit Rietveld, architect and designer, was born.

24th June 1916 (96 Years)

Thomas Eakins, American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator, dies.

24th June 1916 (96 Years)

Mary Pickford became the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.

24th June 1948 (64 Years)

The Soviet Union blocks the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control, known as the Berlin Blockade.

25th June 1741 (271 Years)

Maria Theresa of Austria was crowned Queen of Hungary.

25th June 1852 (160 Years)

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

25th June 1923 (89 Years)

Sam Francis, American painter and printmaker, was born.

25th June 1950 (62 Years)

The Korean War begins.

25th June 2009 (3 Years)

American actress Farrah Fawcett, died.

25th June 2009 (3 Years)

Michael Jackson, American singer, songwriter, and dancer, dies aged 50.

26th June 1763 (249 Years)

George Morland, English rural landscape artist, was born.

26th June 1963 (49 Years)

'Ich bin ein Berliner' (I am a Berliner) famous speech made by JFK visiting West Berlin.

28th June 1491 (521 Years)

Henry VIII of England was born.

28th June 1838 (174 Years)

The Coronation of Queen Victoria, crowned in Westminster Abbey.

28th June 1841 (171 Years)

The Paris Opera Ballet premièred Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.

28th June 1867 (145 Years)

Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer and recipient of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature, is born.

28th June 1914 (98 Years)

Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, prompting war to spread throughout Europe.

28th June 1919 (93 Years)

The Treaty of Versailles that ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers was signed.

28th June 1926 (86 Years)

Mercedes-Benz was formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

28th June 1938 (74 Years)

The Coronation of Queen Victoria, crowned in Westminster Abbey.

28th June 1939 (73 Years)

Pan American Airways launches the first transatlantic passenger service.

29th June 1613 (399 Years)

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burns down.

29th June 1916 (96 Years)

The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.

29th June 1940 (72 Years)

Paul Klee, Swiss-German artist whose style was influenced by movements that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism, died.

29th June 1967 (45 Years)

Jayne Mansfield, American actress in film, theatre, and television, died.

30th June 1891 (121 Years)

Sir Stanley Spencer CBE RA, one of Britain's most renowned 20th century painters, was born.

30th June 1973 (39 Years)

Nancy Mitford, British novelist and biographer, died.

30th June 1992 (20 Years)

Margaret Thatcher takes her place in the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher.

1st July 1566 (446 Years)

Nostradamus, French apothecary and reputed seer, best known for his book Les Propheties, dies.

1st July 1863 (149 Years)

Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Union Victory.

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