Gawai Dayak (Dayak Harvest Festival), Malaysia.
Jacques Marquette, French explorer, born 1637.
Kentucky became the 15th U.S. state, 1792.
Thomas Hardy, English novelist, born 1840.
Sir Edward Elgar, English composer, born 1857.
Italians voted to make Italy a republic instead of a monarchy, 1946.
Hernando de Soto claimed Florida for Spain, 1539.
Dutch West India Company chartered, 1621.
Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, born 1808.
King George III of the United Kingdom, born 1738.
Battle of Midway in World War II began, 1942.

Adam Smith, Scottish economist and author, born 1723.
First public balloon ascent, France, 1783.
Marshall Plan described by U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, 1947.
National Day and Flag Day, Sweden.
Nathan Hale, American patriot, born 1755.
YMCA organized in London, 1844.
\"Beau\" Brummell, English dandy, born 1778.
Norway dissolved its union with Sweden, 1905.

Robert Schumann, German composer, born 1810.
Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, born 1867.

George Stephenson, British engineer known as the Founder of Railways, born 1781.
Carl Nielsen, Danish composer, born 1865.
Cole Porter, American composer, born 1891.
Day of Portugal, national day.


John Constable, English painter, born 1776.
American Continental Congress appointed a committee to draw up a declaration of independence, 1776.
Richard Strauss, German composer, born 1864.
The Philippines gained independence from Spain, 1898.
George H. W. Bush, 41st U.S. president, born 1924.
Anne Frank, diarist, born 1929.
Alexander the Great died, 323 B.C.
Winfield Scott, American general, born 1786.
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, born 1865.
Flag Day, United States.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, born 1811.
Hawaii organized as a territory, 1900.
King John of England granted the Magna Carta, 1215.
George Washington was appointed commander in chief of the Continental Army, 1775.
Arkansas became the 25th U.S. state, 1836.
Ford Motor Company founded, 1903.


Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet began exploring the Mississippi River, 1673.
John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, born 1703.
Battle of Bunker Hill, American Revolution, 1775.
War of 1812 began when the United States declared war on the United Kingdom, 1812.
Napoleon defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.

Juneteenth, a celebration of the end of slavery in the United States.
Revolutionary Day, Algeria.
Blaise Pascal, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, born 1623.
Congress adopted the design for the Great Seal of the United States, 1782.
Eli Whitney applied for a patent on the cotton gin, 1793.
Jacques Offenbach, French composer, born 1819.
New Hampshire ratified the U.S. Constitution, 1788.
Cyrus McCormick was granted a patent for the reaper, 1834.
Daniel Carter Beard, founder of Boy Scouts of America, born 1850.
Napoleon abdicated for the second time, 1815.
Julian Huxley, British biologist, born 1887.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author, born 1906.
National Day, Luxembourg.
William Penn signed land treaty with American Indians, 1683.
Carl Milles, Swedish sculptor, born 1875.
Midsummer's Day (St. John the Baptist's Day).
Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, businessman, born 1771.
Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman and orator, born 1813.
Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution, 1788.
Sioux Indians defeated Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and his troops at the Little Bighorn, Montana, 1876.
Fair Labor Standards Act became U.S. law, 1938.
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British physicist, born 1824.
Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, born 1892.
United Nations Charter signed by delegates from 50 nations at San Francisco, 1945.
Charles Parnell, Irish patriot, born 1846.
Paul L. Dunbar, American poet, born 1872.
Helen Keller, deaf and blind American author and lecturer, born 1880.
King Henry VIII of England born 1491.
Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, born 1577.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer, born 1712.
Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the Townshend Acts, one of the events leading to the Declaration of Independence by the American Colonies, 1767.
George W. Goethals, American engineer who directed the completion of the Panama Canal, born 1858.
The federal Food and Drugs Act of the United States became law, 1906.
Congo (Kinshasa) became independent, 1960.

