Historical Events in June, Month of June Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| June 4, 1919 | Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification. |
| June 11, 2002 | Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress. |
| June 11, 1898 | The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.) |
| June 17, 1795 | The burghers of Swellendam expel the Dutch East India Company magistrate and declare a republic. |
| June 23, 1947 | The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act. |
| June 10, 1793 | The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo. |
| June 24, 1374 | A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion. |
| June 13, 2000 | Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. |
| June 22, 1978 | Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy. |
| June 6, 1882 | The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River. |
| June 23, 1532 | Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France sign the "Treaty of Closer Amity With France" (also known as the Pommeraye treaty), pledging mutual aid against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. |
| June 2, 1608 | London: Virginia gets new charter, extending borders from "sea to sea". |
| June 8, 1966 | Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale: The first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. |
| June 30, 1521 | Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre. |
| June 18, 1981 | The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight. |
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