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June

The month of June celebrates these events:

First week is National Fishing Week (June 4-10)

1st Cable News Network (CNN) debuted 1980

1st Ascension Day

1st The Beatles released their album

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

2nd P.T. Barnum ran the first major three-ring circus (1835)

2nd Yell "fudge" at the Cobras in North America Day

2nd Donut Days (Chicago, Illinois-held first Friday and Sat. in June)

3rd The poem "Casey at the Bat" published (in 1888 by Ernest Lawrence Taylor)

5th Anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's Assassination (1968)

5th National Family Day

6th 56th Anniversary of D-Day (Normandy-WW II-1944)

6th National Yo-Yo Day

7th Anniversary of the introduction of the VCR (1975)

9th Birthday of Donald Duck (1934)

10th Ballpoint pen was patented (1943)

11th Pentecost

14th Family History Day

14th U.S. Flag Day

15th President Wilson signed a bill that established the

Boys Scouts of America on this day (1916)

17th Bunker Hill Day

18th Father's Day

19th Birthday of Garfield the Cat (1978)

19th National Juggling Day

20th Summer Begins

21st Baby Boomer's Recognition Day

22nd Birthday of the Donut (1847)

25th Anniversary of the start of the Korean War (1950)

25th The introduction of the table fork to America from Europe (1630)

25th Barbed wire patented (1867)

26th The modern bicycle was patented (1918)

Little Sayings: hundreds of aphorisms listed by categories

Poems: just a few of my favorites

Jellybeans: little bit of this and that...fun pages

E-mail me if you have any other "special days" you think should be added to the calendar.

My Favorite Links: list of sites for graphic arts, sayings & quotes, etc...

Updated 6/26/07