Born On This Day:

• Henry Clay Folger, 1857
• Philip Barry, 1896
• Anastasia (daughter of Czar Nicholas II), 1901
• Keye Luke, 1904
• Kay Kyser, 1906
• Jeanette MacDonald, 1906
• Bud Collyer, 1908
• E.G. Marshall, 1910
• Sylvia Porter, 1913
• Robert Mondavi, 1913
• Sammy Cahn, 1913
• Red Adair, 1915
• Richard Boone, 1917
• Tom Wicker, 1926
• Eva Bartok, 1926
• John D. Rockefeller IV, 1937
• Delia Smith, 1941
• Paul McCartney, 1942
• Roger Ebert, 1942
• Carol Kane, 1952
• Isabella Rossellini, 1952

Died On This Day:

• John Sutter, 1880
• Samuel Butler, 1902
• Roald Amundsen killed, 1928
• Ethel Barrymore, 1959
• John Cheever, 1982
• I.F. Stone, 1989
• Joan Caulfield, 1991
• Peter Allen AIDS, 1992
• Nancy Marchand, 2000
• Clarence Clemons, 2011

Today's Events:

• 1429 - Battle of Patay. Major victory of French led by Joan of Arc over English in 100 Years War.
• 1529 - Divorce trial of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon begins with appeal to the Pope; to last until 7/23.
• 1583 - World's first life insurance policy issued in London on the life of one William Gybbons for 12 months.
• 1744 - First recorded cricket match in England; Kent beats England team by one wicket at Finsbury, London.
• 1778 - British under Gen. Henry Clinton, evacuate Philadelphia. Revolutionary War.
• 1812 - President James Madison officially proclaims war between U.S. and Britain; War of 1812.
• 1815 - Napoleon defeated at Waterloo by Duke of Wellington and Gebhard von Blucher; 12,000 dead soldiers.
• 1910 - Teddy Roosevelt first to receive Broadway ticker tape parade on return from Africa.
• 1928 - Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly Atlantic (passenger on Fokker trimotor - pilot Wil Stutz.)
• 1948 - -UN Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights.
• 1953 - Egypt becomes a republic.
• 1964 - Lyndon B. Johnson makes call to Japanese PM Hayato Ikeda inaugurating transoceanic cable.
• 1970 - Edward Heath elected British Prime Minister.
• 1982 - Mysterious death of Italian banker Roberto Calvi, found hanging under Blackfriears Bridge, London.
• 1983 - Sally Ride becomes first U.S. Woman astronaut launched into space on Challenger.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Ephraem
• Elizabeth of Schonau
• Mark and Marcellian

Non-Specific Holiday:

• SAVITRI-VRATA, Hindu Festival for women
• TANO FESTIVAL (Korea) on 5th day of 5th lunar month.
• TUAN WU CHIEH or Dragon Boat Festival (China) 5th day of 5th lunar month.
• SHAVUOT or Feast of Weeks (Jewish), on 6th or 7th of lunar month Sivan.
• ASCENSION (Christian) 40th day after Easter.
• PENTECOST (Christian) or Whitsunday (Anglican) 50 days after Easter.
• TRINITY SUNDAY (Christian), Sunday after Pentecost.
• CORPUS CHRISTI (Christian), Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
• FATHER'S DAY (U.S.) Third Sunday in June.
• ARANYA SHASHTI, Hindu Festival honoring god of the forest
• RATHA YATRA, Hindu Festival of Car Procession of Vishnu
• CHI HSI, Festival of the Milky Way in China (seventh day of the seventh moon)
• CHUNG YÜAN, Festival of the Dead in China (fifteenth day of the seventh moon)
• GAY AND LESBIAN PRIDE DAY - Last Sunday in June
• CHAGU-CHAGU UMAKKO or horse Festival in Morioka celebrated second Saturday in June
• HARE KRISHNA RATHA YATRA CHARIOT CARNIVAL celebrated 3rd week in June.
• AMBUBACHI MELA Festival at Kamakhya temple in Guwahati, India celebrated third week in June for 5 days