June History
Flower – Rose
Birthstone –
Meaning – Good Health
Colors – Light Blue, White and Cream
June 1
4000 BC - Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central
1495 - 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland; Friar John Cor is the distiller
1638 - 1st earthquake recorded in US, at
1880 - 1st pay telephone installed
1949 - 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
1969 - Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
June 2
1780 - The
1835 - P T Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
1857 - James Gibbs, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
1910 - Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1928 - Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft
1966 - US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
1968 - Canadians must get government permission to export silver
June 3
1620 - Construction of the oldest stone church in French North
1789 - Alex Mackenzie explores
1851 - 1st baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers
1875 - Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st voice transmission
1876 - Lacrosse introduced in
1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.
1935 - One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in
1946 - 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (
1959 - Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon
1968 -
June 4
781 BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in
1769 - A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history.
1784 - Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist.
1896 - Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of
1907 - Automatic washer & dryer introduced
1929 - George Eastman demonstrates 1st Technicolor movie (
June 5
1805 - 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (
1876 - Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Phila
1967 - Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10 cent & 25 cent coins to pure nickel as soon as possible
1977 - 1st personal computer, Apple II, goes on sale
June 6
1813 -
1850 - Levi Strauss made his 1st blue jeans
1882 - Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC
1946 - Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
June 7
1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the
1832 - Asian cholera reaches
1860 - 1st
1866 - Irish Fenians raid
1887 - Monotype type-casting machine patented by
1944 - Canadian 50th division occupies
1953 - 1st color network telecast in compatible color, (Boston Mass)
1963 - 1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) & release 1st single "Come on"
1965 - Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995
1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
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1824 - Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of
1896 - 1st car is stolen
1918 - Nova
1936 - 1st parking meters are invented
1937 - World's largest flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily
1968 - 1st reduced-gravity golf game is played on the Moon
1979 - "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
June 9
1456 - 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1534 - Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of
1790 - 1st book copyrighted under constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book"
1822 - Charles Graham patents false teeth
1902 - 1st Automat restaurant opens (
1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from
1923 - Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans
1931 - 1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented (R Goddard)
1934 - 1st Donald Duck cartoon, Wise Little Hen, released
June 10
1720 - Mrs. Clements of
1752 - Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!
1793 - 1st public zoo opens in
1857 -
1869 - 'Agnes’ arrives in
1902 - Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan
1905 - 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation,
1908 - 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens
1915 - Girl Scouts founded
1925 - Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena
1932 - 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
1935 - Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of
1939 - Barney Bear, cartoon character, by
1940 - World War II:
1947 - Saab produces its first automobile
1955 - 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
1957 - John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of
1977 - Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
June 11
1517 - Sir Thomas Pert reaches
1644 - Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer
1742 - Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove
1788 - 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at
1793 - 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick
1870 - 1st-stone Amstel Brewery opens in
1892 - The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in
1895 - 1st auto race
1895 - Charles E Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile
1928 - Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case of Jonathan Drew," is released
1935 - Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the
1939 - King & Queen of
1955 - 1st magnesium jet airplane flies
June 12
1839 - 1st baseball game played in
1903 -
1913 - "Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
1939 - Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1962 - 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of
June 13
1777 - Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit
1898 - Yukon Territory of Canada organized,
1912 - Capt Albert Berry made the 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1920 - Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post
1924 - Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier
1930 - 1st Nudist Colony opens
1933 - 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (
1942 - 1st V-2 rocket launch,
1946 - 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland
1963 - Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut
June 14
1623 - 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev
1755 - 1e edition of Dr Johnsons "Dictionary"
1834 - Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross,
1834 - Isaac Fischer Jr. patents sandpaper
1841 - 1st Canadian parliament opens in
1847 - Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
1872 - Trade unions are legalized in
1881 - Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr. (
1901 - 1st golf championship is played
1923 - Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
1942 - 1st bazooka rocket gun produced
1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released Thumper's 1st job
1946 - Canadian Library Association established
1951 - 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
June 15
1762 -
1844 - Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber
1878 - 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
1902 -
1916 - Boys Scouts of
