Hello. Here is the first of On this Month in History posts.
I've selected those events which I hope will be of most interest to writers.
June is Busting Out
1 June 1926 Marilyn Monroe born
1 June 1928 Comedian Bob Monkhouse born
2 June 1840 Thomas Hardy born
3 June 1926 Alan Ginsberg born
6 June 1944 D-Day
6 June 1961 Jung died
7 June 1970 EM Forster died
8 June 1924 George Leigh Mallory last seen climbing Mount Everest
9 June 1870 Charles Dickens died
9 June 1934 Donald Duck made his first screen appearance
13 June 1865 WB Yeats born
15 June 1215 Magna Carta signed.
15 June1775 George Washington appointed Commander in Chief
16 June 1904 James Joyce saw and fell in love with Nora Barnacle
18 June 1812 US declared war on Britain.
18 June 1815 Battle of Waterloo.
19 June 1973 Leonid Brezhnev declared the Cold War over
20 June 1893 Lizzie Borden acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother
28 June 1491 Future King Henry VIII of England born
28 June 1914 Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife assassinated. Led to WW1
28 June 1919 Treaty of Versailles signed ending WWI
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