June               Children's Awareness Month
                     Child Vision Awareness Month
                     National Rivers Month

                     Fireworks Safety Month                                                                                                   

• June 1      Stand for Children Day
• June 1      CNN Debuted: Anniversary: June 1, 1980
• June 2      United Kingdom: Coronation Day: June 2, 1953
• June  2         Paul Galdone's Birthday (author & illustrator, Henny Penny)
• June 3      Jefferson Davis: Birth Anniversary (1808)
• June 5      First Balloon Flight: Anniversary (1783)
• June 6      D-Day: Anniversary (1944)
• June  6         Nathan Hale: Birth Anniversary (1755)
• June 7      Paul Gauguin: Birth Anniversary (1848)
• June  8         National Flag Week (June 8-14)
• June  9          Donald Duck: Birthday (1934)
• June  11        Jacques Cousteau: Birth Anniversary (1910)
• June  12        Big Bend National Park Established (1944)
• June  12        Anne Frank: Birth Anniversary (1929)
• June 12         National Baseball Hall of Fame: Anniversary (1939)
• June 14          John Bartlett: Birthday (1820) Familiar Quotations
• June 14     Flag Day
• June 14     Harriet Beecher Stowe: Birth Anniversary (1811)
• June 15     Magna Carta Day (1215)
• June 15     Native Americans Gain Citizenship (1924)
• June 17     South Africa Repeals Last Apartheid Law (1991)
• June 18     War of 1812: Declaration Anniversary
• June 19     Lou Gehrig: Birth Anniversary (1903)
• June 20     Father's Day
• June 21     Summer
• June 22     Helen Keller Deaf-Blindness Awareness Week (22-28)
• June 23      Midsummer Day/Eve Celebrations
• June  25       Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)
• June 25     CBS Sends First Color TV Broadcast (1951)
• June 26     Bar Code Introduced (1974)
• June 26     Pearl Buck: Birth Anniversary (1892)
• June 26     Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias: Birthday (1914)   
• June 27     Happy Birthday to "Happy Birthday to You" (1859)
• June 29     Juliet A. Kepes (5 Little Monkeys): Birthday: (1919)
• June 29     Mesa Verde National Park Established: 1906
• June 30     NOW Founded:  Anniversary (1966)