June 9th in History
1897: Japan protests United States' takeover of Hawaii
1898: China leases Hong Kong to Britain for 99 years
1931: The rocket-fueled aircraft design is patented by Robet Goddard


June 9th birthdays
1672: Peter The Great, Tsar Of Russia
1875: Sir Henry Dale, English physiologist and Nobel prize winner
1893: Cole Porter, American composer of musicals

June 10th in History
1909: SOS signal used as an emergency call for the first time
1943: The ballpoint pen patented in the United States
1950: The West turns down Soviet plans to reunify Germany
1971: Us lift 21 year trade embargo on China
1979: First ever European Assembly elections


June 10th birthdays
1819: Gustav Courbet, French painter
1832: Nicholaus Otto, German engineer
1840: Henry Morton Stanley, US journalist and explorer
1922: Judy Garland, US actress of 'Wizard Of Oz' fame

June 11th in History
1727: George I becomes the new King of England
1959: Hovercraft demonstrated for the first time


June 11th birthdays
1776: John Constable, English painter
1910: Jaques Cousteau, French underwater explorer
1935: Gene Wilder, American comedy film actor

June 12th in History
1665: England establishes New York city as the name for the city they've just acquired which was formerly known as new Amsterdam
1898: The Phillipines declare independence from Spain.
1922: Insulin patented
1944: The first V1 rocket falls on England during World War 2


June 12th birthdays
1519: Cosimo de Medici, Florencian monarch
1890: Egon Schiele, German painter
1924: George Bush, Former (41st) US President
1929: Anne Frank, Dutch wartime diarist

June 13th in History
1971: Francois Mitterrand named head of French Socialist Party
1982: Argentine forces surrender to the British in the Falklands conflict
1983: Pioneer 10 becomes the first spacecraft to leave the solar system
1990: Official removal of the Berlin Wall begins


June 13th birthdays
1831: James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist
1943: Malcolm McDowell, Film actor

June 14th in History
1940: German troops enter Paris
1962: Thirty people arrested in plot to kill the French leader De Gaulle
1964: Nelson Mandella sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa
1965: Military takeover in South Vietnam
1981: The French Socialist Party wins landslide presidential vote


June 14th birthdays
1736: Charles Coulomb, French electrical physicist
1928: Ernesto (Che) Guevera, Revolutionary hero

June 15th in History
1844: Vulcanised rubber patented by Charles Goodyear
1972: 75,000 attend gathering of religious leader Billy Graham, in Texas
1977: General elections held in Spain, the first since 1936


June 15th birthdays
1884: Harry Langdon, American silent film star

June 16th in History
1951: People's Party founded in India
1972: Burglars caught inside the Watergate building


June 16th birthdays
1858: King Gustav V of Sweden
1890: Stan Laurel, English born comedy actor

June 17th in History
1823: The waterproof material for raincoats patented by Charles Macintosh
1944: Iceland becomes an independent republic
1946: War crime trial of Emperor Hirohito of Japan begins
1953: Soviet tanks deployed against rioting East Germans
1967: China explodes its first H-bomb
1970: Polaroid camera patented


June 17th birthdays
1882: Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer and conductor
1917: Dean Martin, American film actor and singer
1934: Donald Sutherland, Canadian born film actor

June 18th in History
1815: Battle of Waterloo, where British General Wellington defeats French Emperor Napoleon
1898: First ever steel pier opens in the United States
1983: Sally Ride becomes the first US woman in space  onboard the space shuttle.


June 18th birthdays
1886: George Mallory, English mountaineer
1937: John D. Rockerfeller IV, American millionaire
1952: Isabella Rosselini, Italian born film actress