June
1
The first New York Women Film Festival opens (1997)
Slavery abolished in all U.S. possessions (1862)
Sojourner Truth leaves New York to begin her career as antislavery activist (1843)
President Barack Obama declared June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and transgendered Pride Month
2
Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in the U.S. (1930)
Black Americans observed a day of fasting to protest lynching (1899)
3
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship (1979)
Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional (1918)
John Lynch signed legislation to allow same-sex marriage in the state of New Hampshire (2009)
4
Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church (1991)
Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as the first woman to circle the globe alone (1988)
Mae Jensen became the first African American women to be selected as an astronaut by NASA (1987)
5
Ronald Reagan died from complication resulting from Alzheimer’s disease (2004)
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, appears in serial form (1851)
6
D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France (1944)
Susan B. Anthony was fined for voting in the Presidential election (1872)
7
23 year old Olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires (1989)
The U.S. banned all imports from Cuba (1962)
Mohandas Gandhi’s First act of civil disobedience (1893)
8
James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of martin Luther King, Jr., captures (1968)
World Ocean Day
9
Michael Chang’s French Open win makes him the youngest male to go to finals (1989)
Rave Unity Day
10
The Equal Pay Act was signed into law, which was aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (1963)
Hattie McDaniel’s Birthday, the first African American to win an Academy Award for her role in Gone With the Wind (1889)
11
Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment took place (1752)
Jacques Cousteau’s Birthday, a French explore and conservationist who studied the sea and all forms of life in the water (1910)
12
The NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was assassinated at his home in Mississippi (1963)
The Supreme Court overruled the prohibition of interracial marriage (1967)
Anne Frank is born (1929)
13
First Mormon missionaries left Ohio to go on a mission in British Isles (1837)
Thurgood Marshall became the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court (1967)
14
Harriet Beecher Stowe is born (1811)
Flag Day
15
Kobayashi Issa, Japanese haiku master, is born (1763)
Arkansas entered the Union (1836)
16
Valentina Tereshkova became the first women in space (1963)
California began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couple (2008)
17
The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City Harbor (1885)
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean (1928)
18
Bernard Whitfield Robinson became the first African American Navy Officer (1942)
19
Juneteenth- Texas learns slavery has been abolished (1865)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved, outlawing major forms of discrimination and all forms of segregation
20
The Detroit Race Riot began resulting in the deaths of 34 Whites and African- Americans and leaving 670 injured (1943)
Supreme Court upheld law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities
21
Women’s National Basketball Association first game, New York Liberty beats LA Sparks (1997)
Three young civil rights activists disappeared in Pennsylvania, Mississippi and found 6 weeks later, murdered by KKK members (1964)
22
The voting age became 18 (1970)
U.S. Supreme Court ruled hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expression of racial bias violated free-speech rights (1992)
23
The Education Amendments of 1972, enacting Title lX and prohibiting gender based discrimination of educational institutions, was signed into law (1972)
Chinese American, Vincent Chin, beaten to death by two auto workers who had mistaken him as Japanese and were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies (1982)
24
The Soviet Union began a blockade in Berlin (1948)
Mary Pickford becomes first female film star to sign a million dollar contract (1916)
25
President Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 8802, prohibiting racial discrimination in the defense industry (1941)
Pop icon Michael Jackson died (2009)
26
The United Nations was founded (1945)
Supreme Court rules gender-based sodomy laws unconstitutional (2003)
27
Helen Keller is born (1880)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, first African-American poet to garner national critical acclaim was born (1872)
28
The Treaty of Versailles ended World War l (1919)
Labor Day becomes official U.S. holiday (1894)
Malcolm X forms “Organization of Afro-American (African American) Unity” (1964)
29
The Stonewall riots took place, which would mark the start of the modern gay liberation movement in the United States (1969)
The Rhode Island Senate approved a bill allowing same-sex couples to enter into civil unions (2011)
30
Congress created the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) (1956)
NAACP began attacks on school segregation and discrimination (1951)
Spain became the 3rd country to legalize same-sex marriage (2005)
1
The first New York Women Film Festival opens (1997)
Slavery abolished in all U.S. possessions (1862)
Sojourner Truth leaves New York to begin her career as antislavery activist (1843)
President Barack Obama declared June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and transgendered Pride Month
2
Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in the U.S. (1930)
Black Americans observed a day of fasting to protest lynching (1899)
3
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship (1979)
Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional (1918)
John Lynch signed legislation to allow same-sex marriage in the state of New Hampshire (2009)
4
Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church (1991)
Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as the first woman to circle the globe alone (1988)
Mae Jensen became the first African American women to be selected as an astronaut by NASA (1987)
5
Ronald Reagan died from complication resulting from Alzheimer’s disease (2004)
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, appears in serial form (1851)
6
D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France (1944)
Susan B. Anthony was fined for voting in the Presidential election (1872)
7
23 year old Olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires (1989)
The U.S. banned all imports from Cuba (1962)
Mohandas Gandhi’s First act of civil disobedience (1893)
8
James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of martin Luther King, Jr., captures (1968)
World Ocean Day
9
Michael Chang’s French Open win makes him the youngest male to go to finals (1989)
Rave Unity Day
10
The Equal Pay Act was signed into law, which was aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (1963)
Hattie McDaniel’s Birthday, the first African American to win an Academy Award for her role in Gone With the Wind (1889)
11
Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment took place (1752)
Jacques Cousteau’s Birthday, a French explore and conservationist who studied the sea and all forms of life in the water (1910)
12
The NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was assassinated at his home in Mississippi (1963)
The Supreme Court overruled the prohibition of interracial marriage (1967)
Anne Frank is born (1929)
13
First Mormon missionaries left Ohio to go on a mission in British Isles (1837)
Thurgood Marshall became the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court (1967)
14
Harriet Beecher Stowe is born (1811)
Flag Day
15
Kobayashi Issa, Japanese haiku master, is born (1763)
Arkansas entered the Union (1836)
16
Valentina Tereshkova became the first women in space (1963)
California began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couple (2008)
17
The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City Harbor (1885)
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean (1928)
18
Bernard Whitfield Robinson became the first African American Navy Officer (1942)
19
Juneteenth- Texas learns slavery has been abolished (1865)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved, outlawing major forms of discrimination and all forms of segregation
20
The Detroit Race Riot began resulting in the deaths of 34 Whites and African- Americans and leaving 670 injured (1943)
Supreme Court upheld law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities
21
Women’s National Basketball Association first game, New York Liberty beats LA Sparks (1997)
Three young civil rights activists disappeared in Pennsylvania, Mississippi and found 6 weeks later, murdered by KKK members (1964)
22
The voting age became 18 (1970)
U.S. Supreme Court ruled hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expression of racial bias violated free-speech rights (1992)
23
The Education Amendments of 1972, enacting Title lX and prohibiting gender based discrimination of educational institutions, was signed into law (1972)
Chinese American, Vincent Chin, beaten to death by two auto workers who had mistaken him as Japanese and were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies (1982)
24
The Soviet Union began a blockade in Berlin (1948)
Mary Pickford becomes first female film star to sign a million dollar contract (1916)
25
President Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 8802, prohibiting racial discrimination in the defense industry (1941)
Pop icon Michael Jackson died (2009)
26
The United Nations was founded (1945)
Supreme Court rules gender-based sodomy laws unconstitutional (2003)
27
Helen Keller is born (1880)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, first African-American poet to garner national critical acclaim was born (1872)
28
The Treaty of Versailles ended World War l (1919)
Labor Day becomes official U.S. holiday (1894)
Malcolm X forms “Organization of Afro-American (African American) Unity” (1964)
29
The Stonewall riots took place, which would mark the start of the modern gay liberation movement in the United States (1969)
The Rhode Island Senate approved a bill allowing same-sex couples to enter into civil unions (2011)
30
Congress created the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) (1956)
NAACP began attacks on school segregation and discrimination (1951)
Spain became the 3rd country to legalize same-sex marriage (2005)