JUNE WILL BREAK YOUR HEART
JANUARY || FEBRUARY || MARCH || APRIL || MAY || JUNE || JULY || AUGUST || SEPTEMBER || OCTOBER || NOVEMBER || DECEMBER
JUNE 1, 1926 – Marilyn Monroe is born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles, California.
JUNE 1, 1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jewish United States Supreme Court Justice.
JUNE 2, 1959 – Lydia Lunch is born Lydia Anne Koch in Rochester, New York.
JUNE 2, 1835 – P. T. Barnum's circus kicks off their first tour of The United States of America.
JUNE 2, 1855 – Mayor Neal S. Dow calls in militia forces to defend Portland, Maine's rum stash.
JUNE 3, 1886 – Jim Tully is born in St. Mary's, Ohio.
JUNE 3, 1906 – Josephine Baker is born in St. Louis, Missouri.
JUNE 3, 1910 – Paulette Goddard is born in Queens, New York.
JUNE 3, 1926 – Allen Ginsberg is born in Newark, New Jersey.
JUNE 3, 1942 – Curtis Mayfield is born in Chicago, Illinois.
JUNE 3, 1968 – Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, inspires the film I Shot Andy Warhol at The Factory.
JUNE 4, 1975 – Russell Brand is born in Essex, England.
JUNE 4, 1975 – Angelina Jolie is born in Los Angeles, California.
JUNE 4, 1913 – British suffragette Emily Davison is killed by King George V's horse, Anmer, after running on to the track during the Epsom Derby.
JUNE 5, 1947 – Laurie Anderson is born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
JUNE 5, 1956 – Richard Butler is born in Surrey, England.
JUNE 5, 1956 – Elvis Presley unleashes his swivel hips on The Milton Berle Show.
JUNE 6, 1944 – Edgar Froese is born in Tilsit, Lithuania.
JUNE 6, 1988 – Maria Alyokhina is born in Moscow, Russia.
JUNE 6, 1984 – Tetris is released.
JUNE 7, 1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut. Age 16.
JUNE 7, 1935 – Harry Crews is born in Alma, Georgia.
JUNE 7, 1951 – Rainer Ptacek is born in East Berlin, Germany.
JUNE 8, 1955 – Tim Berners-Lee is born in London, England.
JUNE 8, 1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated.
JUNE 9, 1902 – Skip James is born in Bentonia, Mississippi.
JUNE 9, 1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
JUNE 9, 1963 – Johnny Depp is born in Owensboro, Kentucky.
JUNE 10, 1895 – Hattie McDaniel is born in Wichita, Kansas.
JUNE 10, 1910 – Howlin' Wolf is born Chester Arthur Burnett in White Station, Mississippi.
JUNE 10, 1922 – Judy Garland is born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
JUNE 10, 1961 – Kim Deal is born in Dayton, Ohio.
JUNE 10, 1977 – The Apple II goes on sale.
JUNE 11, 1882 – Alvin Langdon Coburn is born in Boston, Massachusetts.
JUNE 11, 1934 – Jerry Uelsmann is born in Detroit, Michigan.
JUNE 11, 1936 – The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
JUNE 11, 1979 – Curtis Harding is born in Detroit, Michigan.
JUNE 12, 1890 – Egon Schiele is born in Tulln an der Donau, Austria.
JUNE 12, 1892 – Djuna Barnes is born in Storm King Mountain, New York.
JUNE 12, 1941 – Chick Corea is born in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
JUNE 12, 1987 – At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
JUNE 13, 1865 – W. B. Yeats is born in Dublin, Ireland.
JUNE 13, 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska finds Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood liable the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster.
JUNE 14, 1909 – Ted DeGrazia is born Ettore DeGrazia in Morenci, Arizona Territory.
JUNE 14, 1937 – U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
JUNE 15, 1920 – The Duluth Lynchings.
JUNE 15, 1941 – Nilsson is born Harry Edward Nilsson III in Brooklyn, New York.
JUNE 15, 1972 – Hank von Helvete is born in Gravdal, Nordland, Norway.
JUNE 16, 1829 – Geronimo is born in Sonora, Mexico.
JUNE 16, 1924 – Lucky Thompson is born Eli Thompson in Columbia, South Carolina.
JUNE 16, 1938 – Joyce Carol Oates is born in Lockport, New York.
JUNE 16, 1971 – Tupac Shakur is born Lesane Parish Crooks in East Harlem, New York.
JUNE 16, 1981 – Adam O'Day is born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
JUNE 16, 1911 – IBM is founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
JUNE 17, 1880 – Carl Van Vechten is born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
JUNE 17, 1898 – M.C. Escher is born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
JUNE 17, 1958 – Jello Biafra is born Eric Reed Boucher in Boulder, Colorado.
JUNE 17, 1971 - Richard Nixon declares War on Drugs.
JUNE 18, 1924 – Brooks Whelan, Sr. is born in Orange, New Jersey.
JUNE 18, 1952 – Isabella Rossellini is born in Rome, Italy.
JUNE 18, 1963 – Jeff Mills is born in Detroit, Michigan.
JUNE 18, 1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for trying to vote.
JUNE 19, 1948 – Nick Drake is born in Yangon, Myanmar.
JUNE 19, 1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
JUNE 20, 1942 – Brian Wilson is born in Inglewood, California.
JUNE 20, 1947 – Delores "LaLa" Brooks is born in Brooklyn, New York.
JUNE 20, 1840 – Samuel Morse patents the telegraph.
JUNE 21, 1905 – Jean Paul Sartre is born in Paris, France.
JUNE 21, 1944 – Ray Davies is born in London, England.
JUNE 21, 1961 – Manu Chao is born José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao in Paris, France.
JUNE 21, 1983 – Edward Snowden is born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
JUNE 21, 1985 – Lana Del Rey is born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant in New York City, New York.
JUNE 21, 1948 – Columbia Records introduces the LP (long-playing record album).
JUNE 22, 1936 – Kris Kristofferson is born in Brownsville, Texas.
JUNE 22, 1948 – Todd Rundgren is born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
JUNE 22, 1949 – Elizabeth Warren is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
JUNE 22, 1993 – Josephine Witt is born in Hamburg, Germany.
JUNE 22, 2009 – Eastman Kodak Company announces the end of Kodachrome.
JUNE 23, 1406 – Filippo Lippi is born in Florence, Italy.
JUNE 23, 1894 – Alfred Kinsey is born in Hoboken, New Jersey.
JUNE 23, 1938 – Alan Vega is born in Brooklyn, New York.
JUNE 23, 1944 – Rosetta Hightower is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
JUNE 23, 1960 – The United States Food and Drug Administration approves the oral contraceptive pill Enovid.
JUNE 23, 1990 – Inna Shevchenko is born in Kherson, Ukraine.
JUNE 24, 1842 – Ambrose Bierce is born in Meigs County, Ohio.
JUNE 24, 1935 – Terry Riley is born in Colfax, California.
JUNE 24, 1935 – Brigitte Fontaine is born in Morlaix, Brittany, France.
JUNE 24, 1957 – The United States Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States..
JUNE 24, 1966 – Hope Sandoval is born in Los Angeles, California.
JUNE 25, 1881 – Crystal Eastman is born in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
JUNE 25, 1903 – George Orwell is born Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari, India.
JUNE 25, 1956 – Anthony Bourdain is born in New York City, New York.
JUNE 25, 1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills the architect Stanford White over issues concerning Evelyn Nesbit.
JUNE 26, 1893 – Big Bill Broonzy is born Lee Conley Bradley in Lake Dick, Arkansas.
JUNE 26, 1977 – Elvis Presley does it his way one last time in Indianapolis, Indiana.
JUNE 27, 1869 – Emma Goldman is born in Kaunas, Lithuania.
JUNE 27, 1880 – Helen Keller is born in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
JUNE 27, 1958 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce is born in Montebello, California.
JUNE 27, 1971 – Bill Graham shutters the Fillmore East in New York City, New York.
JUNE 28, 1887 – Floyd Dell is born in Barry, Illinois.
JUNE 28, 1915 – Honeyboy Edwards is born David Edwards in Shaw, Mississippi.
JUNE 28, 1519 – Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
JUNE 29, 1901 – Frieda Inescort is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
JUNE 29, 2007 – Apple Inc. introduces the iPhone.
JUNE 30, 1917 – Lena Horne is born in Brooklyn, New York.
JUNE 30, 1936 – Dave Van Ronk is born in Brooklyn, New York.
JUNE 30, 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives.