Anniversaries

5th June 1947 (80 Years)

The Marshall Plan is drafted.

5th June 1968 (59 Years)

Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.

5th June 1975 (52 Years)

The UK holds its first country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).

5th June 2004 (23 Years)

Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died.

6th June 1832 (195 Years)

Jeremy Bentham, British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer, dies.

6th June 1868 (159 Years)

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions, was born.

6th June 1944 (83 Years)

The D-Day landings, in Normandy, France during World War II.

6th June 1944 (83 Years)

The D-Day landings, in Normandy, France during World War II.

6th June 1948 (79 Years)

Louis Lumière, French director, producer, and, together with his brother, first film-maker in history, died.

6th June 2013 (14 Years)

Esther Williams, American swimmer, actress, and singer, died.

7th June 1868 (159 Years)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect, was born.

7th June 1937 (90 Years)

Jean Harlow, American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s, died.

7th June 1940 (87 Years)

King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.

7th June 1966 (61 Years)

Jean (Hans) Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist, dies. 50 years.

7th June 1967 (60 Years)

Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, died.

7th June 2015 (12 Years)

Christopher Lee, English actor best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films, dies.

8 giugno 1867 (160 Years)

Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, was born.

8th June 1916 (111 Years)

Francis Crick, British biophysicist and discoverer of the molecular structure of the DNA, was born.

9th June 1868 (159 Years)

Jane Avril, French model and dancer, was born.

9th June 1870 (157 Years)

Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic, dies aged 58.

9th June 1927 (100 Years)

Victoria Woodhull, American leader of the woman's suffrage movement and the first female candidate for President of the United States, dies.

9th June 1963 (64 Years)

Jacques Villon, painter, printmaker, and brother of Marcel Duchamp dies.

9th June 1975 (52 Years)

The first live transmission from the House of Commons is broadcast by BBC Radio and commercial stations.

10th June 1819 (208 Years)

Gustave Courbet, French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting, died.

10th June 1918 (109 Years)

Arrigo Boito, Italian author, poet, and composer, died.

10th June 1921 (106 Years)

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born.

10th June 1922 (105 Years)

Judy Garland, American singer, actress, and vaudevillian, renowned for her contralto vocals, was born.

10th June 1926 (101 Years)

Antoni Gaudí, Spanish Catalan architect and the best known practitioner of Catalan Modernism, dies.

10th June 1946 (81 Years)

Jack Johnson, American boxer, who became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion, dies.

10th June 1967 (60 Years)

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy, one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, died.

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