June 30

Famous Oxford debate on evolution takes place (1860); Singer and civil rights activist Lena Horne born (1917); Boxing champ Mike Tyson born (1966); HBD Olympic legend Michael Phelps (1985).

June 29

Original Globe Theatre burns to the ground (1613); HBD Kawhi Leonard (1991); US Space Shuttle docks with Russian space station for first time (1995); RIP Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn (2003); Apple releases first iPhone (2007).

June 26

Francisco Pizarro is assassinated (1541); Sports great Babe Didrikson Zaharias born (1911); Berlin Airlift begins (1948); JFK delivers famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech (1963); Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage in US (2015).

June 25

Battle of Little Bighorn (1876); Korean War begins (1950); Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain born (1956); RIP actress and model Farrah Fawcett (2009); Michael Jackson dies (2009).

June 24

Boxing great Jack Dempsey born (1895); First exhibit by Pablo Picasso opens in Paris (1901); HBD actress Mindy Kaling (1979); RIP comedian Jackie Gleason (1987); HBD soccer star Lionel Messi (1987).

June 23

Computer scientist Alan Turing born (1912); Track and field great Wilma Rudolph born (1940); Title IX enacted, bans gender discrimination in public education and sports (1972); RIP polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk (1995); United Kingdom votes to leave the EU (2016).

June 22

Department of Justice is created (1870); GI Bill is signed by FDR (1944); HBD Meryl Streep (1949); RIP Judy Garland (1969); RIP dancer Fred Astaire (1987).

June 19

First recorded game of baseball (1846); Baseball great Lou Gehrig born (1903); HBD author Salman Rushdie (1947); Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for espionage (1953); HBD actress Zoe Saldana (1978); RIP Koko the gorilla (2018).

June 18

US declares war against Great Britain as War of 1812 begins (1812); HBD Paul McCartney (1942); HBD Blake Shelton (1976); Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space (1983); Rapper XXXTentacion murdered (2018).

June 17

Battle of Bunker Hill fought (1775); Statue of Liberty arrives in New York as gift from France (1885); HBD tennis star Venus Williams (1980); HBD rapper Kendrick Lamar (1987); OJ Simpson arrested for murder following police chase (1994).

June 16

Economist Adam Smith born (1723); First roller coaster opens in Coney Island, New York (1884); Ford Motor Company is incorporated (1903); Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space (1963); Rapper Tupac Shakur born (1971).

June 15

Magna Carta is sealed by King John (1215); Arlington National Cemetery is established (1864); Henry Ossian Flipper becomes first black graduate from West Point (1877); HBD rapper and actor Ice Cube (1969); RIP jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald (1996).

June 12

41st President George HW Bush born (1924); Anne Frank born (1929); Nelson Mandela sentenced to life in prison in South Africa (1964); President Ronald Reagan delivers famous "tear down this (Berlin) wall" speech (1987); 49 killed in mass shooting at nightclub in Orlando (2016).

June 11

Politician and suffragist Jeannette Rankin born (1880); JFK sends in National Guard to integrate University of Alabama (1963); Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington are first two women to become generals in the US Army (1970); RIP film star John Wayne (1979); RIP actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee (2014).

June 10

Benjamin Franklin conducts famous kite experiment (1752); Hattie McDaniel, first African American to win an Oscar, born (1893); Hollywood legend Judy Garland born (1922); Italy invades France, declares war on France and Great Britain (1940); RIP musician Ray Charles (2004).

June 9

Roman emperor Nero commits suicide (68); RIP author Charles Dickens (1870); HBD Michael J. Fox (1961); Secretariat wins horse racing’s Triple Crown (1973); HBD Natalie Portman (1981).

June 8

Muhammad, founder of Islam, dies in Medina, Saudi Arabia (632); Architect Frank Lloyd Wright born (1867); Former first lady Barbara Bush born (1925); James Earl Ray arrested in London for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968); HBD Kanye West (1977).

June 5

US moves off gold standard (1933); Bobby Kennedy is shot at campaign rally, dies next day (1968); RIP Ronald Reagan (2004); RIP science fiction writer Ray Bradbury (2012); RIP fashion designer Kate Spade (2018).

June 4

US Congress passes 19th Amendment, granting suffrage to women (1919); Battle of Midway starts (1942); HBD Angelina Jolie (1975); Hundreds killed at Tiananmen Square protests (1989); RIP basketball coaching legend John Wooden (2010).

June 3

Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain (1539); Singer and actress Josephine Baker born (1906); Ed White becomes first American to walk in space (1965); HBD Rafael Nadal (1986); RIP Muhammad Ali (2016).

June 2

First, first lady Martha Washington born (1731); Indian Citizenship Act is signed into law in the US (1924); Baseball legend Babe Ruth retires (1935); Queen Elizabeth II is coronated (1953); HBD soccer star Abby Wambach (1980).

June 1

Marilyn Monroe born (1926); HBD Morgan Freeman (1937); RIP Helen Keller (1968); CNN debuts world’s first 24-hours news network (1980); GM files for bankruptcy, fourth largest US bankruptcy in history (2009).