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Of Special Interest
Holidays & Observances This Month
June 5th:
World Environment Day.
June 6th:
D-Day.
Anniversary of the Allied troops invasion of the Normandy region of France in 1944.
June 11th:
King Kamehameha Day.
Commemorates the victories of Kamehameha I (1758-1819) of Hawaii. He and his descendants united and ruled the Hawaiian Islands until their annexation by the United States in 1898.
June 14th:
Flag Day.
In 1949 Congress designated this day as national Flag Day. It commemorated adoption by the Continental Congress in 1777 of the Stars and Stripes as the national flag. Some schools observe the day with instruction in flag etiquette and flag-raising ceremonies.
June 17th
Father's Day
An Opportunity to repay the Dads out there for all they do!
June 19th:
Juneteenth.
Date on which the freedom of the slaves was formally announced in Texas in 1865, more than two years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and two months after the end of the Civil War. Especially observed in Texas.
June 20th:
Emancipation Day.
Day observing the end of slavery in the United States. President Lincoln declared all slaves free on January 1st, 1863.
June 21st:
Summer solstice.
Day in summer when the day is longest. Official start of the summer season.
June 21-23rd
National Alliance of Families Annual POW/MIA Forum.
Crown Plaza Hotel, 1489 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington VA
June 21-23rd
National League of POW/MIA Families Annual Meeting.
DoubleTree Hotel, Crystal City VA
June 24th:
St. John the Baptist Day.
Feast day honoring the Jewish prophet who preceded Jesus.
This Month in History
1 June
1869 - Thomas Edison of Boston, Massachusetts, received a patent for his electric voting machine.
1997 - Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, was fatally burned in a fire set by her 12-year-old grandson in her Yonkers, New York, apartment.
5 June
1806 - Holland was declared a kingdom with Louis Bonaparte as its king.
1947 - U.S. Secretary of State General George Marshall announced his plan to help Europe recover financially from the effects of World War II.
1968 - While celebrating his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary in Los Angeles, Senator Robert F. Kennedy (brother of assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy) was shot in the head. He died the following day. The gunman, Sirhan Sirhan, was later convicted of the murder.
10 June
1854 - The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland graduated its first class.
1997 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot killed his defense chief Son Sen and 11 members of his family and fled his northern stronghold. The news did not emerge for three days.
15 June
1215 - King John of England sealed the Magna Carta, the first charter of English liberties, "in a meadow called Ronimed between Windsor and Staines," England. With the Magna Carta, King John agreed to the demands of English barons who wanted to limit the powers of the monarchy. The Magna Carta is considered one of the most important political documents in history.
1752 - Benjamin Franklin tied an iron wire to his kite and let it sail. He flew the kite from a long piece of twine tied to a silk ribbon on the end. Franklin attached a metal key where the twine and silk met. His idea was that any electricity overhead would be attracted to the wire on top of the kite. As lightning began to flash, he put his hand near the key and sparks flew. The test was a success. Franklin used his discovery to start a new business. He made and sold lightning rods. These metal rods were attached to the tops of buildings. A wire ran down the side of the structure to the ground. When lightning struck the top of the rod, it ran down the wire and safely to ground without doing damage to the building.
1775 - George Washington became Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
1944 - U.S. troops invaded the Mariana Islands in the west Pacific Ocean, landing on Saipan.
20 June
1782 - Congress approved the design of the Great Seal made by Charles Thomson, first US official record keeper. He made his drawing out of previous designs drawn by three congressional committees. It was Thomson who gave the eagle the prominent position it has today.
1923 - Pancho Villa, the Mexican revolutionary leader, was assassinated on his farm.
1963 - The United States and the Soviet Union made a hot-line agreement. It was a way to establish emergency communications between the two superpowers during the Cold War. The system was tested, but never used.
25 June
1876 - Lt. Col. George A. Custer and more than 200 federal troops of the 7th Cavalry lost their lives in what became known as the Battle of the Little Bighorn, or Custer's Last Stand. The battle, which took place after the 7th Calvary attacked a large camp of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, was part of a governmental effort to remove Indian groups from Southern Montana.
1942 - Major General Dwight Eisenhower was appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe; on the same day, General Sir Claude Auchinleck became commander of the British Eighth Army in North Africa.
1973 - Former White House Counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.
1996 - A bomb blast tore through a Saudi Arabian military complex housing foreigners, killing 19 Americans.
30 June
1815 - U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur stopped the continued attacks by Algerian pirates by threatening to bomb Algiers.
1921 - President Harding appointed former President Taft chief justice of the United States.
1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the "Pentagon Papers," documents on American involvement in the Vietnam War, could be published; the Nixon government had tried to suppress them.
1985 - 39 American hostages who had been held on a TWA plane for 17 days were released in Beirut. This is the flight where Steelworker 2nd Class Robert Stethem, USN, was murdered by Arab terrorists.
1998 - Linda Tripp, whose tape-and-tell friendship with Monica Lewinsky spurred a White House crisis, spent six hours testifying before a grand jury in Washington.
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Words to Remember "Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
- Winston [Leonard Spencer] Churchill (1874 - 1965)
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." ...Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
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