CNN Debuted (1980)

Kentucky Admission Day (1792)

Stand for Children Day

Tennessee Admission Day (1796)

American Indians Granted U.S. Citizenship (1924)

Radio Patented (1896)

First U.S. Space Walk (1965)

Stephen Douglas Died (1861)

Cheese Day

First Supermarket Cart Introduced (1937)

First AIDS Report Published (1981)

First Hot-Air Balloon Flight (1783)

Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated (1968)

U.N. World Environment Day

D-Day (1944)

First Drive-In Movie Theater (1933)

National Doughnut Day

Homer Plessy Broke Segregation Laws (1892)

VCR Introduced (1975)

Andrew Jackson Died (1845)

Prophet Muhammad Died (632)

Satchel Paige Died (1983)

World Oceans Day

Charles Dickens Died (1870)

Hong Kong Leased to UK for 99 Years (1898)

Alcoholics Anonymous Founded (1935)

Ballpoint Pen Patented (1943)

Great Barrier Reef Discovered (1770)

Jacques Cousteau's Birthday (1910)

Anne Frank's Birthday (1929)

Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers Killed (1963)

Diary Day

George H. W. Bush's Birthday (1924)

Benny Goodman Died (1986)

Presidents of North & South Korea Met (2000)

William Butler Yeats's Birthday (1865)

Flag Day

First Commercial Computer Introduced (1951)

Official U.S. Flag Adopted (1777)

Father's Day

Arkansas Admission Day (1836)

Pres. James K. Polk Died (1849)

Valentina Tereshkova First Woman in Space (1963)

M.C. Escher's Birthday (1898)

Republic of Iceland Established (1944)

Napoleon Defeated at Battle of Waterloo (1815)

Sally Ride First American Woman in Space (1983)

First Official Game of Baseball (1846)

Juneteenth (Liberation of Slaves) (1865)

West Virginia Admission Day (1863)

Summer Begins

Cyrus McCormick Patented Mechanical Reaper (1834)

New Hampshire Admission Day (1788)

WNBA Debuted (1997)

Fred Astaire Died (1987)

Pledge of Allegiance Recognized by Congress (1942)

Clarence Thomas's Birthday (1948)

First Typewriter Patented (1868)

Jonas Salk Died (1995)

Wilma Rudolph's Birthday (1940)

Term "Flying Saucers" First Used (1947)

Eric Carle's Birthday (1929)

First Color TV Broadcast (1951)

Gen. Custer Died at Little Bighorn (1876)

George Orwell's Birthday (1903)

Bicycle Patented (1819)

First Map of Human Genome Completed (2000)

Inventor of the Thermometer Born (1824)

First Newbery Medal Awarded (1922)

Helen Keller's Birthday (1880)

Paul Bunyan Day

World War I Began (1914)

Remote Control Introduced (1964)

Shakespeare's Theater Destroyed by Fire (1613)

26th Amendment Changed Voting Age (1971)

Meteor Day