Anniversaries

1st June 1265 (764 Years)

The Italian Poet, Dante Alighieri, was born.

1st June 1495 (534 Years)

First record of Scotch whisky being commissioned from Friar John Cor.

1st June 1841 (188 Years)

Sir David Wilkie, Scottish genre and portrait painter and draftsman known for his anecdotal style, is born.

1st June 1868 (161 Years)

James Buchanan, American lawyer and politician, 15th President of the United States, died.

1st June 1926 (103 Years)

Marilyn Monroe, American actress, model, and singer, is born.

1st June 1936 (93 Years)

Gerald Scarfe, English cartoonist and illustrator who works for The Sunday Times and The New Yorker, is born.

1st June 1943 (86 Years)

Leslie Howard, English actor, director, and producer, died.

1st June 1958 (71 Years)

Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.

The Question (1967) (62 Years)

Halas and Batchelor's The Question (about Love being the reason for living) was released.

The Summer of Love (62 Years)

100,000 people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood Haight-Ashbury.

1st June 2008 (21 Years)

Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer who impacted fashion from the 1960s to the present day, died.

2nd June 1665 (364 Years)

James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.

2nd June 1743 (286 Years)

Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian occultist and explorer, was born.

2nd June 1953 (76 Years)

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, crowned at London's Westminster Abbey.

2nd June 2008 (21 Years)

Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer, died.

3rd June 1906 (123 Years)

Josephine Baker, an American-born French dancer and actress who was the first black woman to become a world-famous entertainer and contributed to the Civil Rights Movement, was born.

3rd June 1924 (105 Years)

Franz Kafka, the Czech-born Austrian Modernist author, died.

3rd June 1926 (103 Years)

Allen Ginsberg, American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s, is born.

3rd June 1928 (101 Years)

Donald Judd, American sculptor and painter, was born.

3rd June 1937 (92 Years)

Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, marries Wallis Warfield Simpson of Baltimore.

3rd June 1963 (66 Years)

Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Pope Saint John XXIII, died.

3rd June 1968 (61 Years)

Valerie Solanas, the author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.

4th June 1907 (122 Years)

Rosalind Russell, American actress of stage and screen, was born.

4th June 1913 (116 Years)

Emily Wilding Davison, suffragette, runs in front of King Goerge V's horse during the Epsom Derby, sustaining injuries that resulted in her death four days later.

4th June 1913 (116 Years)

Emily Wilding Davison, suffragette, runs in front of King Goerge V's horse during the Epsom Derby, sustaining injuries that resulted in her death four days later.

4th June 1917 (112 Years)

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire was established by King George V.

4th June 1917 (112 Years)

The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded.

4th June 1941 (88 Years)

Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, dies.

5th June 1816 (213 Years)

Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer of the Classical era, dies.

5th June 1898 (131 Years)

Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, theatre director and emblematic member of the Generation of '27, was born.

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