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| June Observances: | poster links | resource links | ||
| Fireworks Safety Month - June-July 4th | National Council on Fireworks Safety | |||
| Flag Month | flag posters | Smithsonian Institution | ||
| Vision Research Month | eye posters | Prevent Blindness America | ||
| Aphasia Awareness Month (impairment in language) | anatomy posters | National Aphasia Association | ||
| Scleroderma Awarness Month (autoimmune disease) | diseases posters | Scleroderma Foundation | ||
| National Dairy Month | dairy posters | National Dairy Council | ||
| Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Month | food posters | 5 A-Day CDC.gov | ||
| Zoo & Aquarium Month proclaimed by President Reagan in 1982, also found listed as in April | animals posters | American Zoo & Aquarium Assoc | ||
| Adopt a Shelter Cat Month | cat posters | ASPCA Humane Education | ||
| First Week of June | ||||
| National Cancer Survivors Day, 1st Sunday in June | cancer poster | American Cancer Society Calendar | ||
| Headache Awareness Week | headache poster | National Headache Foundation | ||
| National Boating & Fishing Week | aquatic posters | Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation | ||
| Second Week of June | ||||
| Men's Health Week | health posters | C.O.P.S. site | ||
| Third Week of June | ||||
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| Fourth Week of June | ||||
| Deaf-Blind Awareness Week | • eye posters • hearing posters |
Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youth & Adults | ||
| June Holidays | ||||
| June 6 - Yom Yerushalayim - Anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. | Judaism posters | Children's Day Lesson Ideas | ||
| June 5, 2008 - Ascension Day / Eastern Orthodox and Coptic Christian | Christianity posters | St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church | ||
| June 9, 2008 - Shavuot Festival of Weeks - also Anniversary of the giving of the Torah & Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai. (5-29-2009, 5-19-2010, 6-8-2011) | Judaism posters | Shavuot- aish.com | ||
| June 14- Flag Day (1777) - "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation." | flag posters | Smithsonian Institution | ||
| Juneteenth- June 19th is the date in 1865, 2 1/2 years after the proclamation was issued, when slaves in Texas first learned about their freedom from soldiers in the Union army. | Black History posters | |||
| 3rd Sunday- Father's Day | ||||
| June 21 - Summer Solstice (Litha) in the N. Hemisphere, Winter Solstice (Yule) in the S. Hemisphere | ||||
| June 30 - Nagoshi-no-Oharai : Shinto. Purification ceremony, originally intended for the purification of agricultural workers to ward off mishaps; now one of the two days of national purification in Japan during the year. |
Japan posters | |||
| June Notable Dates | ||||
| 6-1-1265 - Dante Alighieri, author | Dante Alighieri print | Dante Alighieri Resource File | ||
| 6-1-1792 - Kentucky, 15th State | Kentucky posters | Kentucky History | ||
| 6-1-1796 - Tennessee, 16th State | Tennessee posters | Tennessee History Classroom | ||
| b. 6-1-1801 - Brigham Young, religious leader |
Brigham Young poster | Brigham Young Resource File | ||
| b. 6-1-1804 - Michael Ivanovitch Glinka, composer | Glinka print | Michael Glinka Resource File | ||
| b. 6-1-1878 - John Masefield, poet | John Masefield print | John Masefield Resource File | ||
| b. 6-1-1926 - Marilyn Monroe, actress | Marilyn Monroe posters | Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words : Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Photographs | ||
| b. 6-2-1840 - Thomas Hardy, author | Thomas Hardy posters | Thomas Hardy Resource File | ||
| 6-2-1857 - Edward Elgar, composer | Edward Elgar print | Edward Elgar Resource File | ||
| b. 6-3-1664 - Rachel Ruysch, artist | Rachel Ruysch print | Rachel Ruysch Resource File | ||
| b. 6-3-1808 - Jefferson Davis, politician |
Jefferson Davis print | Jefferson Davis Resource File | ||
| b. 6-3-1819 - Johan Jongkind | Johan Jongkind print | Johan Jongkind Resource File | ||
| b. 6-3-1904 - Charles Drew, M.D. | Charles Drew posters | CP Links for Learning - Drew | ||
| b. 6-3-1906 - Josephine Baker, dancer | Josephine Baker posters | CP Links for Learning - Baker | ||
| b. 6-3-1926 - Allen Ginsberg, poet | Allen Ginsberg print | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 6-3-1960 - Gideon v. Wainwright, the United States Supreme Court rules that all accused persons must be given the right to an attorney. | Landmark Supreme Court Decisions posters | Background on Gideon v Wainright | ||
| b. 6-4-1898 - Gertrude Lawrence, actress | Gertrude Lawrence print | Gertrude Lawrence Resource File | ||
| bap. 6-5-1723 - Adam Smith, philosopher | Adam Smith portrait | Adam Smith Resource File | ||
| 6-5-1783 Montgolfier Brothers 1st balloon flight | flight posters | Admendments to the Constitution | ||
| b. 6-5-1783 - Gabrielle Rejane, actress | Gabrielle Rejane print | Gabrielle Rejane Resource File | ||
| 6-5, World Environment Day - Anniversary of UN Conference on the Human Environment | environment posters | |||
| b. 6-6-1436 - Regiomontanus, Johannes Müller von Königsberg, mathematician | Regiomontanus print | Regiomontanus Resource File | ||
| b. 6-6-1755 - Nathan Hale, patriot spy |
Nathan Hale poster | Nathan Hale Resource File | ||
| b. 6-6-1799 - Aleksandr Pushkin, author | Pushkin poster | Aleksandr Pushkin Resource File | ||
| b. 6-6-1860 - William R. Inge, author | William R. Inge print | Wm R. Inge Resource File | ||
| b. 6-6-1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, explorer | Robert Scott print | Robert Scott Resource File | ||
| b. 6-6-1869 - Siegfried Wagner, composer | Siegfried Wagner print | Siegfried Wagner Resource File | ||
| b. 6-6-1875 - Thomas Mann, author | Thomas Mann photo | Thomas Mann Resource File | ||
| b. 6-6-1893 - Pilar Arcos, actress | Pilar Arcos print | Pilar Arcos Resource File | ||
| b. 6-6-1939 - Marian Wright Edelman, SC | Marian Wright Edelman poster | Marian Wright Edelman Bio | ||
| 6-6-1944, D-Day - Allied Invasion of Europe | WWII posters | National D-Day Memorial Foundation | ||
| b. 6-7-1848 - Paul Gauguin, artist | Paul Gauguin print | Paul Gauguin Resource File | ||
| b. 6-8-1625 - Giovanni Cassini, astronomer | Giovanni Cassini print | Giovanni Cassini Resource File | ||
| 6-8-1810 - Robert Schumann, composer | Robert Schumann print | Robert Schumann Resource File | ||
| b. 6-8-1863 - Ernst Kraus, tenor | Ernst Kraus print | Ernst Kraus Resource File | ||
| b. 6-8-1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect | Frank Lloyd Wright print | Frank Lloyd Wright Resource File | ||
| 6-9-1772 - British ship Gaspee burned, RI | Gaspee print | Gaspee Resource File | ||
| b. 6-9-1772 - Cole Porter, composer | Cole Porter, TIME | Cole Porter Resource File | ||
| b. 6-10-1891 - Gustave Courbet | Gustave Courbet print | Gustave Courbet Resource File | ||
| b. 6-10-1895 - Hattie McDaniel, actress | Hattie McDaniel photo | Hattie McDaniel Resource File | ||
| b. 6-10-1922 - Judy Garland, actress | Judy Garland movie poster | Judy Garland Resource File | ||
| b. 6-10-1928 - Maurice Sendak, author | Maurice Sendak print | Maurice Sendak Resource File | ||
| b. 6-11-1572 - Ben Jonson, poet | Ben Jonson print | Ben Jonson Resource File | ||
| b. 6-11-1776 - John Constable, painter | John Constable print | John Constable Resource File | ||
| b. 6-11-1815 - Julia Margaret Cameron, photographer | Julia Margaret Cameron print | Julia Margaret Cameron Resource File | ||
| b. 6-11-1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer | Jacques-Yves Cousteau print | Jacques-Yves Cousteau Resource File | ||
| b. 6-11-1912 - William Baziotes, artist | William Baziotes art print | William Baziotes Resource File | ||
| b. 6-12-1802 - Harriet Martineau, author | Harriet Martineau print | Harriet Martineau Resource File | ||
| b. 6-12-1890 - Egon Schiele, artist | Expressionists prints | Egon Schiele Resource File | ||
| b. 6-12-1899 - Fritz Lipmann, biologist | Fritz Lipmann print | Fritz Lipmann Resource File | ||
| b. 6-12-1924 - George H. W. Bush, president | presidents posters | White House Bio - GHW Bush | ||
| b. 6-12-1929 - Anne Frank, author | Anne Frank posters | CP Links for Learning - Anne Frank | ||
| b. 6-13-1752 - Fanny Burney, author | Fanny Burney print | Fanny Burney Resource File | ||
| 6-13-1966, Miranda v. Arizona, the U.S. Supreme Court held that suspects, prior to being interrogated by police, must be informed of their rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution. | Landmark Supreme Court Decisions posters | Background on Miranda v Arizona | ||
| b. 6-13-1865 - William Butler Yeats, poet | William Butler Yeats photo | William Butler Yeats Resource File | ||
| b. 6-14-1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author | Harriet Beecher Stowe posters | CP Links for Learning - Stowe | ||
| b. 6-14-1855 - Robert M. La Follette, Sr., politician | Robert M. La Follette TIME cover | Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Resource File | ||
| b. 6-14-1899 - Yasunari Kawabata, author | Kawabata print | Yasunari Kawabata Resource File | ||
| b. 6-14-1904 - Margaret Bourke-White, photographer | Margaret Bourke-White photo | Margaret Bourke-White Resource File | ||
| b. 6-14-1928 - Che Guevara, physician and revolutionary | Che Guevara print | Che Guevara Resource File | ||
| b. 6-15-1843 - Eduard Hagerup Grieg, composer | Grieg print | Eduard Hagerup Grieg Resource File | ||
| 6-15-1837 - Arkansas, 25th State | Arkansas posters | Old State House Museum | ||
| b. 6-15-1864 - Guy Ropartz, composer | Guy Ropartz print | Guy Ropartz Resource File | ||
| b. 6-15-1313 - Giovanni Boccaccio, author | Giovanni Boccaccio print | Giovanni Boccaccio Resource File | ||
| b. 6-16-1829 - Geronimo, Native American chief | Geronimo print | Geronimo Resource File | ||
| b. 6-16-1899 - Helen Traubel, opera singer | Helen Traubel TIME | Helen Traubel Resource File | ||
| b. 6-16-1902 - Barbara McClintock, scientist | McClintock poster | Barbara McClintock Bio | ||
| b. 6-17-1818 - Charles Gounod, composer | Charles Gounod print | Charles Gounod Resource File | ||
| b. 6-17-1882 - Igor Stravinsky, composer | Igor Stravinsky poster | Igor Stravinsky Resource File | ||
| b. 6-17-1898 - M. C. Escher, artist | M. C. Escher posters | M. C. Escher Resource File | ||
| b. 6-17-1920 - Francois Jacob, biologist | Francois Jacob print | Francois Jacob Resource File | ||
| 6-17-1933 - Kansas City Massacre | Kansas City Union Station art print | FBI | ||
| 6-19-1623 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician | mathematician posters | Blaise Pascal Resource File | ||
| b. 6-19-1886 - James VanDerZee, photographer | James VanDerZee poster | The James Vanderzee Studio | ||
| d. 6-20-1597 - Willem Barents, explorer | Willem Barents print | Willem Barents Resource File | ||
| b. 6-20-1819 - Jacque Offenbach-Day, composer | Offenbach-Day print | Jacque Offenbach-Day Resource File | ||
| 6-20-1863 - West Virginia, 35th state | West Virginia posters | West Virginia facts. & Did You Know? | ||
| d. 6-21-1631 - Captain John Smith, explorer | John Smith print | John Smith of Jamestown Resource File | ||
| 6-21-1788 - New Hampshire, 9th State | New Hampshire posters | New Hampshire Almanac | ||
| b. 6-21-1982 - Prince William | Prince William photo | Prince William Resource File | ||
| b. 6-22-1909 - Katherine Dunham, dancer | Katherine Dunham poster | Library of Congress - Katherine Dunham | ||
| b. 6-23-1892 - Mieczyslaw Horszowski, pianist | Horszowski print | Mieczyslaw Horszowski Resource File | ||
| b. 6-23-1940 - Wilma Rudolph, athlete | Wilma Rudolph poster | Wilma Rudolph Resource File | ||
| b. 6-24-1946 - Elison Onizuka, astronaut | Ellison Onizuka poster | Astronomy, Earth & Space posters | ||
| b. 6-25-1852 - Antonio Gaudi, architect | Antonio Gaudi print | Antonio Gaudi Resource File | ||
| b. 6-25-1903 - George Orwell, author | George Orwell poster | George Orwell Resource File | ||
| b. 6-25-1923 - Sam Francis, artist | Sam Francis art print | Sam Francis Resource File | ||
| d. 6-26-1541 - Francisco Pizarro, explorer | Francisco Pizarro print | Francisco Pizarro Resource File | ||
| b. 6-26-1730 - Charles Messier, astronomer | Charles Messier print | Charles Messier Resource File | ||
| b. 6-26-1824 - Lord Kelvin, scientist | Lord Kelvin print | Lord Kelvin Resource File | ||
| b. 6-26-1892 - Pearl S. Buck, author | Pearl S. Buck poster | Nobel Prize for Literature, 1938 | ||
| b. 6-27-1869 - Emma Goldman, activits | Emma Goldman posters | CP Links for Learning - Emma Goldman | ||
| b. 6-27-1872 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, author | Paul Laurence Dunbar poster | Paul Laurence Dunbar Resource File | ||
| b. 6-27-1880 - Helen Keller (d. 6-1-1968) | Helen Keller posters | CP Links for Learning - Keller | ||
| b. 6-27-1932 - Anna Moffo, opera singer | Anna Moffo print | Anna Moffo Resource File | ||
| d. 6-28-548 AD - Empress Theodora | Empress Theodora print | Empress Theodora Resource File | ||
| b. 6-28-1491 - King Henry VIII | King Henry VIII print | King Henry VIII Resource File | ||
| b. 6-28-1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, painter | Peter Paul Rubens print | Peter Paul Rubens Resource File | ||
| b. 6-28-1703 - John Wesley, theologian | John Wesley print | John Wesley Resource File | ||
| b. 6-28-1712 - Jean Jacques Rousseau, author | Jean Jacques Rousseau print | Jean Jacques Rousseau Resource File | ||
| 6-28-1824 - Paul Broca, scientist | Paul Broca print | Paul Broca Resource File | ||
| 6-28-1867 - Luigi Pirandello, author | Luigi Pirandello print | Luigi Pirandello Resource File | ||
| b. 6-28-1873 - Alexis Carrel, biologist | Alexis Carrel print | Alexis Carrel Resource File | ||
| 6-28-1914 - Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria | World War I posters | |||
| b. 6-28-1906 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer | Maria Goeppert-Mayer print | Maria Goeppert-Mayer Resource Fiel | ||
| b. 6-29-1871 - Luisa Tetrazzini, opera singer | Luisa Tetrazzini print | Luisa Tetrazzini Resource File | ||
| b. 6-29-1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author | Saint-Exupery portrait | Antoine de Saint-Exupery Resource File | ||
| b. 6-30-1917 - Lena Horne, singer | Lena Horne photo | Lena Horne Resource File | ||
| June Facts & Tidbits | ||||
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June, the sixth month of the year, name derives from the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter. In old Japanese the month is called Minatsuki. |
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| Astrological Signs | Astrology | |||
•  Gemini: May 21 - June 20 |
• Gemini poster • Gemini, the Twins Ecard |
mutable, air, personal; "I think," curious, talkative, sociable, duality, mercurial, whimsical, intelligent, hands/arms; logical, inquisitive, superficial. | ||
| • Cancer: June 21 - July 22 |
• Cancer poster • Cancer, the Crab Ecard |
cardinal, water, personal; "I feel," sensitive, tenacious, family and home oriented, helpful, nurturing, moody, stomach/breasts; protective, clinging. | ||
| Birthstones | ||||
| • Alexandrite • Moonstone - good luck • Pearl - purity, insure love & happiness |
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• Birthstone (U of Washington) • Alexandrite Resource File • Moonstone Resource File • Pearl Resource File |
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| Flowers | ||||
| • Rose |
• flower posters |
Rose Resource File | ||
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