| June
1 |
William
Sloan Coffin Jr. born in New York, 1924
Gineatta
Sagan born in Italy, 1925
Morgan
Freeman born in Tennessee, 1937
Alanis
Morissette born in Canada, 1974
National
Holiday of Samoa
|
| June
2 |
National
Holiday of Italy
Cornel
West born in Oklahoma, 1953
|
| June
3 |
First
World Conference on the Environment, Stockholm 1972.
World's
first conference with direct participation of NGOs: Istanbul Habitat
Conference 1996. |
| June
4 |
*
International
Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
Gaylord
Nelson born in Wisconsin, 1916
Dennis
Weaver born in Missouri, 1924
Jim
Wallis born in Detroit, 1948
Angelina
Jolie born in California, 1975
National
Holiday of Tonga
Carbon
Dioxide Reduction Treaty, Rio 1992
|
| June
5 |
*
World
Environment Day
Ruth
Fulton Benedict born in New York, 1887
Bill
Moyers born in Oklahoma, 1934
Angie
Zelter born in UK, 1951
|
| June
6 |
Marian
Wright Edelman born in South
Carolina, 1939
Mary
Elizabeth Thunder born in
Indiana, 1944
Holly
Near born in California, 1949
National
Holiday of Sweden
'Give
Peace a Chance,' song composed by John Lennon, 'Hymn to the United
Nations,' by Pablo Casals, the 'UN March' by Dmitri Shosta-kovitch
distributed to all schools in Connecticut 1979
|
| June
7 |
National
Cancer Survivors Day
[1st Sunday]
Virginia
Apgar born in New Jersey, 1909
Bernard
Lown born in Lithuania, 1921
Liam
Neeson born in Ireland, 1952
UN
World Disarmament campaign began, led by Bruce Kent, London, 1982
|
| June
8 |
*
World Oceans Day
Frank Lloyd
Wright born in Wisconsin, 1867
Kayne
West born in Georgia, 1977
Hans
Fieler born in Bavaria, 1890
Bill
of Rights proposed by James Madison, 1789
|
| June
9 |
Bertha
von Suttner born in Prague, 1843
Michael
J. Fox born in Canada, 1961
Johnny
Depp born in Kentucky, 1963
Natalie
Portman born in Israel, 1981
|
| June
10 |
John
Edwards born in South Carolina, 1953
National
Holiday of Portugal
|
| June
11 |
Jeannette
Rankin born in Montana, 1880
Jacques
Cousteau born in France, 1910
Sumaya
Farhat Naser born in Palestine, 1948
|
| June
12 |
*
World Day Against Child Labour
Betty Reardon
born in New York, 1929
National
Holiday of Russian Federation, Philippines
The
Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia ended, 1935
United
Nations General Assembly approved Non-Proliferation Treaty 1968
|
| June
13 |
Eleanor
Holmes Norton born in Washington, DC, 1937
Rhode
Island became the first of British North American colony to ban
the importation of slaves, 1774
Thurgood
Marshall became first African American nominated as Supreme Court
Justice, 1967
|
| June
14 |
*
World Blood Donor Day
Harriet Beecher
Stowe born in Connecticut, 1811
Douglas
Roche was born in 1929 in Canada
Abused
Women & Children Day [2nd Sunday]
|
| June
15 |
Paul
Rusesabagina was born in 1954 in Rwanda
Magna
Carta, a milestone for human rights and freedom, signed by King
John, 1215
G77
Group of Developing Countries (now 133) founded 1967
Father's
Day
[3rd Sunday]
|
| June
16 |
Bishop
John Shelby Spong born in North Carolina, 1931
Stockholm
Declaration on the Environment, 1972
|
| June
17 |
*
World
Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
Starhawk
born in Minnesota, 1951
National
Holiday of Iceland, U.K., Northern Ireland
|
| June
18 |
Fernando
Henrique Cardoso born in Brazil, 1931
Paul
McCartney born in England, 1942
Isabella
Rossellini born in Rome, Italy, 1952
National
Holiday of Seychelles
|
| June
19 |
Juneteenth
/ Emancipation Day - commemorating freeing of slaves in
Texas
Alan
Cranston born in California, 1914
Aung
San Suu Kyi born in Burma, 1945
Kathleen
Turner born in Missouri, 1954
First
International Women's Conference, Mexico City 1975
|
| June
20 |
*
World
Refugee Day
Xanana
Gusmão born in East Timor, 1946
Nicole
Kidman born in Hawaii, 1967
|
| June
21 |
World
Peace & Prayer Day
Joseph
Ki-Zerbo born in Burkina Faso, 1922
Shirin
Ebadi born in Iran, 1947
Benazir
Bhutto born in Pakistan, 1953
|
| June
22 |
Interfaith
Day
Erin
Brockovich born in Kansas, 1960
Capital
punishment abolished in Canada, 1976
|
| June
23 |
*
United
Nations Public Service Day
*
International Widow's Day
National
Holiday of Luxembourg
World
Food Conference, Rome 1975
|
| June
24 |
Henry
Ward Beecher born in Connecticut, 1813
Norman
Cousins born in New Jersey, 1915
|
| June
25 |
Lois
Gibbs born in 1952
Dikembe
Mutombo born in Zaire, 1966
Lauren
Bush born in Texas, 1984
National
Holiday of Mozambique, Slovenia
|
| June
26 |
*
International
Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
*
International Day in Support of Victims of
Torture
Pearl
S. Buck born in West Virginia, 1892
United
Nations Charter signed in San Francisco by 50 nations, 1945
National
Holiday of Madagascar
|
| June
27 |
Helen
Keller born in Alabama, 1880
Emma
Goldman born in Russia, 1869
Grace
Lee Boggs born in Rhode Island, 1915
Emily
Rachel Silverstein born in New Jersey, 1989
National
Holiday of Djibouti
|
| June
28 |
Convention
on International Trade in Endangered Species 1973
Hans
Blix born in Sweden, 1928
Muhammad
Yunus born in Bangladesh, 1940
|
| June
29 |
Julia
Lathrop born in Illinois, 1858
Samantha
Smith born in Maine, 1972
US
National Forest Service was organized, 1891
93
nations agreed to halt chemical destruction of ozone layer, 1990
|
| June
30 |
Bunker
Roy born in India, 1945
National
Organization For Women (NOW) founded, 1966
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