June 19th in History
1961: United Kingdom gives up control of Kuwait
1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space


June 19th birthdays
1566: James VI of Scotland and England
1623: Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
1861: Douglas Haig, British field marshal
1947: Salman Rushdie, British novelist
1954: Kathleen Turner, American film actress

June 20th in History
1939: German warship Bismark launched
1986: Movement of sheep banned after they ate grass contaminated by fallout from Chernobyl
1990: A new currency unit, the Ecu, proposed for the European community


June 20th birthdays
1909: Errol Flynn, Australian born Hollywood film actor
1941: Stephen Frears, English born film director

June 21st in History
1945: New communist government estblished in Poland
1956: East Germany announces the release of 19,000 political prisoners
1973: Nixon and Brezhnev sign arms limitation agreement


June 21st birthdays
1905: Jean-Paul Sartre, French playwright
1920: Jane Russell, American film actress

June 22nd in History
1910: First passengers carried on the Zeppelin airship
1940: French sign armistice with Germans at Compiegne
1941: Battle of Britain - the RAF shoots down 26 Nazi planes during the day
1978: Pluto's moon, Charon, discovered by James Christy
1980: USSR begins removing troops from Afghanistan
1990: Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin officially removed


June 22nd birthdays
1767: Karl Von Humboldt, German explorer
1949: Lindsay Wagner, US film and television actress
1949: Meryl Streep, American film actress

June 23rd in History
1951: British diplomats Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, two soviet spies, flee to the USSR
1956: Colonel Nasser elected as President in Egypt
1973: The Pope opens the vatican gallery of modern art


June 23rd birthdays
1763: Josephine de Beauharnais, Wife of Napoleon
1910: Jean Anouilh, French playwright
1912: Alan Turing, Founder of computer science

June 24th in History
1901: Picasso displays his work for the very first time
1978: North Yemen President assassinated
1982: First Frenchman launches into orbit, as part of Soviet mission
1983: Syria expels PLO leader Yasser Arafat


June 24th birthdays
1930: Claude Chabrol, French film director

June 25th in History
1867: Barbed wire patented
1945: United Nations founded
1950: North Korean troops move into South Korea
1987: The USSR begins major changes to its economy to make it more like a Western economy


June 25th birthdays
1903: George Orwell, English novelist
1925: June Lockhart, American actress of TV and film

June 26th in History
1906: First Grand Prix held at Le Mans
1975: Indira Gandhi convicted of election fraud
1990: Europe begins to study ways into financially helping the USSR


June 26th birthdays
1819: Abner Doubleday, Publisher
1824: Lord Kelvin, British Physicist
1892: Pearl Buck, American novelist
1898: Willi Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer
1904: Peter Lorre, American film actor

June 27th in History
1975: Hunting of Finback whales banned
1977: French Somaliland becomes the independent country of Djibouti


June 27th birthdays
1462: Louis XII, King of France
1844: Joseph Smith, Founder of the Mormon church
1846: Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish leader
1859: Mildred Hill, Composer of 'Happy Birthday'
1880: Helen Keller, American author

June 28th in History
1834: Queen Victoria crowned at Westminster Abbey
1939: PANAM begins a regular air service from the United States to Europe
1950: North Korean forces capture Seoul
1966: The US breaks diplomatic links with Argentina after a military takeover


June 28th birthdays
1721: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer
1927: Mel Brooks, American comedy director and actor
1946: Gilda Radner, American actress