June 2
1835 P. T. Barnum began his first circus tour.
1840 Novelist Thomas Hardy was born in England.
1864 John Henry Mackay, Scotch-German individualist anarchist, was born.
1904 Olympic gold medal swimmer and actor Johnny Weissmuller was
born Windber, Pennsylvania.
1941 Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts was born in Islington, England.
1955 Comedian Dana Carvey was born in Missoula, Montana.
June 3
1804 Richard Cobden, founder of the Anti-Corn Law League that
ended mercantilism and established free trade, was born in
Sussex, England.
1871 "Sovereignty of the Individual" by Stephen Pearl Andrews was published
in Woodhul and Claflin's Weekly.
1929 TV producer and Gong Show host Chuck Barris was born in Philadelphia.
1951 Singer Deniece Williams was born in Gary Indiana.
June 4
1070 Roquefort cheese was discovered near Roquefort, France.
1896 Henry Ford made the first successful ride in an automobile.
1936 Actor Bruce Dern was born in Winnetka, Illinois.
1937 Singer Freddy Fender (Baldemar Huerta) was born in San Benito, Texas.
1945 Singer and actress Michelle Phillips was born in Long Beach, California.
June 5
1723 Economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith was born in Kirkaldy,
Fifeshire, Scotland.
1895 Actor William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy) was born
in Hendrysburg, Ohio.
1949 Novelist Ken Follett was born in Wales.
1991 Apartheid laws were repealed in South Africa.
June 6
1755 Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale was born
in Coventry, Connecticut.
1798 The USA abolished imprisonment for debt.
1907 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey was born in Louisiana.
1956 Tennis star Bjorn Borg was born in Sodertalje, Sweden.
1978 Proposition 13 (Jarvis-Gann) mandating a
57% cut in property taxes was victorious in California
by a 2 to 1 majority.
June 7
1754 Jack Jouette, who made a historic 45-mile ride to Charlottesville, Virginia,
during the night of June 3-4, 1781,
to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature that Colonel Tarelton's British
forces were about to attack, was born in Albemarle County, Virginia.
1776 Richard Henry Lee moved in Congress that "These united colonies
are ... free and independent."
1848 Painter Paul Gauguin was born in Paris.
1862 A treaty with England ended the slave trade.
1896 Industrialist Vivien Kellems was born. She refused to withhold taxes from her
employees' wages unless the government named her an employee of the Internal
Revenue Service and paid her a salary and reimbersed her expenses in collecting
taxes.
1909 Dr. Virginia Apgar, developer of the method used identify newborns who need
immediate medical care, was born in Westfield, New Jersey.
1947 Yankee catcher Thurman Munson was born in Akron, Ohio.
1952 Actor Liam Neeson was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.
1958 The singer, musician, and song writer known as Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson),
was born in Minneapolis. Minnesota.
1974 Basketball star Allen Iverson was born.
1981 Anna Kournikova, professional tennis player with cover-girl beauty,
was born in Moscow.
June 8
1810 Composer Robert Schumann was born in Saxony.
1861 Tennessee seceded from the Union.
1867 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in
Richland Center, Wisconsin.
1869 The first vacuum cleaner was patented.
1929 Comedian Jerry Stiller was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1935 Comedienne Joan Rivers was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1957 Ludwig von Mises was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Laws,
by Grove City College.
1987 Chelsea Colleen Smith was born in Rochester, New York.
June 9
1791 John Howard Payne, author of Home Sweet Home, was born.
1891 Composer Cole Porter was born in Peru, Indiana.
1916 Guitarist and inventor Les Paul was born in Waukesha, Wisconsis.
1918 John Hospers, the first Libertarian Party candidate for president
of the United States, was born.
1931 Comedian Jackie Mason was born in Sheboyhan, Wisconsin.
1932 Singer Jackie Wilson was born.
1932 College basketball announcer Dick Vitale was born in New Jersey.
1934 Cartoon comedian Donal Duck was born.
1934 Comedian Jackie Mason was born.
1939 Sportscaster Dick Vitale was born.
1961 Actor Michael J. Fox was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
1963 Actor Johnny Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky.
June 10
323BC War monger Alewxander the Great died at age 33.
1768 John Hancock's sloop Liberty was seized by British
customs men. A riot ensued, in which customs men were compelled to take
refuge.
1772 Merchants, angered over high taxes, burned the revenue-cutter
Gaspee in Rhode Island.
1776 The Continental Congress appointed a committee to write
a declaration of independence.
1842 Journalist and African explorer Henry Morton Stanley was born.
1922 Singer and movie star Frances Gumm (Judy Garland) was born in Grand
Rapids, Michigan.
1971 The American embargo on exporting goods to China was lifted.
June 11
1776 Thomas Jefferson began writing the Declaration of
Independence.
1782 Savannah, Georgia, was abandoned by the British.
1859 The Comstock Load was discovered.
1864 Composer Richard Strauss was born in Munich.
1910 Jacques Cousteau, undersea explorer, inventor of the
Aqualung, documentary film maker, and winner of the French
Legion of Honor for his work in the Resistance during WWII,
was born in St. Andre-de-Cubzac, France.
1939 Comic actor Jerome Silberman (Gene Wilder) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1945 Actress Adrienne Barbeau was born in Sacramento, California.
1956 Football great Joe Montana was born in New Eagle, Pennsylvania.
1994 The Russian army ended its occupation of East Germany.
June 12
1776 The Virginia Convention unanimously adopted George Mason's Declaration
of Rights, which set the pattern for future state, national,
and foreign bills of rights.
1839 Baseball was first played in Cooperstown, New York.
1929 Teen-age diarist and Nazi victim Anne Frank was born
in Frankfurt, Germany.
1939 The Baseball Hall of Fame opened at Cooperstown, New York.
1943 Sportscaster Marv Albert was born in New York City.
1982 In New York City 800,000 demonstrators protested nuclear proliferation.
June 13
1611 Sunspots were discovered.
1783 George Washington disbanded the American Army.
1864 The slave law was repealed.
1892 Actor Basil Rathbone was born.
1918 Cowboy movie actor Ben Johnson was born.
1953 Comedian Tim Allen was born in Denver, Colorado.
1959 Jean (Drew) Puglia was born in Norwalk, Connecticut.
June 14
1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin,
was born in Litchfield, Connecticut.
1820 Quotation collector John Bartlett was born in
Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1846 Californian settlers, led by John C. Fremont, revolted
against Mexican rule and declared the Republic of California
(Bear Flag Republic).
1909 Actor and singer Burl Ives was born in Hunt, Illinois.
1966 The Vatican abolished the Index of Prohibited Books.
1969 Tennis star Steffi Graff was born in Bruhl, Germany.
1974 Dr. Henry Heimlech introduced his anti-choking,
life-saving technique.
1976 The Gong Show premiered on TV.
June 15
1215 King John, after being confronted by rebels at Runnymede, placed
his royal seal on the Magna Carta, which restricted
state power.
1752 Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a thunderstorm to prove that
lightning is electricity.
1842 Composer Grieg was born in Norway.
1889 Historian H. E. Barnes was born.
1898 The Anti-Imperialist League was founded at Faneuil Hall, in Boston,
in opposition to annexation of the Philippines.
1904 Rush A. Webster recovered several victims of the
General Slocum disaster.
1958 Baseball star Wade Boggs was born in Omaha, Nebraska.
1968 "Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal" by Murray Rothbard, was
published in Ramparts.
1972 The first Libertarian Party convention was held in Denver.
June 16
1888 Thomas Edison perfected the cylinder phonograph.
1890 Comedian Stan Laurel was born in Ulverston, England.
1950 Golf pro Phil Mickelson was born.
1951 Boxing great Roberto Duran was born in Chorillo, Panama.
June 17
1674 Inventor Isaac Watts was born.
1917 Singer, actor, TV and movie star Dino Crocetti (Dean Martin) was born
in Steubenville, Ohio.
1946 Singer and son writer Barry Manilow was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1972 The first Libertarian Party Platform was adopted.
1980 Tennis champion Venus Williams was born.
1991 The Parliament of South Africa repealed the last remaining
Apartheid law, which had divided citizens by racial categories
and treated them collectively rather than according to
their individual merits.
June 18
1776 Governor Trumbull proclaimed Connecticut independent of England.
1778 British troops withdrew from Philadelphia.
1913 Entertainer Danny Kaye was born in New York City.
1913 Songwriter Sammy Cahn was born in New York City.
1917 Actor Richard Boone was born.
1939 Baseball star Lou Brock was born.
1942 Beatle, Paul McCartney, was born in Liverpool, England.
1972 John Hospers was nominated as the first Libertarian Party candidate
for president.
June 19
551BC Philosopher Confucius was born in China.
1623 Philosopher, physicist, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal
was born at Clermont-Ferrad, France.
1846 The Knickerbockers played against the New Yorkers in the first game
of baseball, in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1862 Slavery was abolished in territories of the US.
1885 The statue Liberty Enlightening the World arrived in
New York.
1903 Yankee great Lou Gehrig was born in New York City.
1954 Actress Kathleen Turner was born in Springfield, Missouri.
June 20
1776 The Connecticut Assembly absolved people from allegiance to King
George.
1885 Lysander Spooner's "Letter to Grover Cleveland" was published
in Liberty.
1909 Actor Errol Flynn was born in Hobart, Tasmania.
1942 Beach Boy, Brian Wilson, was born in Hawthorne, California.
1948 Ed Sullivan's television variety hour debuted.
1949 Singer and songwriter Lionel Richie was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.
1953 Singer and song writer Cyndi Lauper was born in Brooklyn, New York.
June 21
1834 The reaper was invented.
1922 Actress Judy Holliday was born.
1947 Actress Meredith Baxter was born in Los Angeles, California.
1973 Actress Juliette Lewis was born.
June 22
1772 James Sommersett, a slave brought to England by his master on
a business trip and kept in custody on board a ship, applied for and
was granted a writ of habeas corpus. Lord Mansfield ordered him
discharged, saying that no law of England sanctioned slavery.
1847 The doughnut was invented.
1884 Greely was rescued, north of Greenland, after a 3-year search.
1898 Novelist Erich Maria Remarque was born.
1906 Movie director Billy Wilder was born at Sucha Beskidzka in
the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1949 Actress Meryl Streep was born in Summit, New Jersey.
1962 Basketball star Clyde Drexler was born in Houston, Texas.
June 23
1683 William Penn signed a friendship treaty with Lenape Indians
in Pennsylvania.
1772 Slavery was abolished in England.
1876 Humorist Irwin S. Cobb was born.
1929 Singer June Carter Cash was born at Maces Spring, Virginia.
1940 Track star Wilma Rudolph was born in Bethlehem, Tennessee.
June 24
1813 Henry Ward Beecher, a pulpit orator, abolitionist, and brother of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut.
1842 Ambrose Bierce, author of The Devil's Dictionary, was
born in Ohio.
1895 Boxing champion William (Jack) Dempsey was born in Manassa, Colorado.
1942 Musician and composer Mick Fleetwood was born
in Cornwall, England.
1949 Hopalong Cassidy premiered on TV.
1984 Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Paris protest the socialist
government's attempt to regulate private schools.
June 25
1846 The English grain tariffs (Corn Laws) were repealed, allowing businessmen
to import cheaper food for hungry people.
1903 Author Eric Blair (George Orwell) was born in Motihari, India.
1942 Basketball star Willis Reed was born in Hico, Louisiana.
1951 CBS broadcast the first color television programs.
1963 Singer George Michael was born in Radlett, England.
June 26
1819 Baseball inventor and promoter Abner Doubleday
was born in Balston Spa, New York.
1893 John Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, pardoned three men who had been
convicted by a packed jury of instigating the Haymarket riot.
1904 Actor Laszlo Lowenstein (Peter Lorre) was born in Rosenberg, Hungary.
1914 Amazing athlete Babe Didrikson
was born in Port Arthur, Texas.
1919 Augustus Julliard left $5 million for
the advancement of music.
1950 The Garry Moore Show premiered on TV.
1974 Yankee shortstop and captain Derek Jeter was born in
Pequannock, New Jersey.
2000 Private-sector scientists announced successful mapping of
the human genetic code.
June 27
1869 Anarchist writer Emma Goldman was born.
1880 Deaf and blind writer Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
June 28
1577 Painter Peter Paul Rubens was born in Siegen, Westphalia.
1776 A draft of the Declaration of Independence was
submitted to the Continental Congress.
1776 Americans repulsed a British naval attack on Charleston, South
Carolina.
1778 The British were defeated by Washington's army at Monmouth, New
Jersey.
1902 Composer Richard Rogers was born.
1915 Anthony Fisher, financial backer of libertarian think tanks, was born in
London.
1928 Comedian and movie maker Melvin Kaminsky (Mel Brooks) was born
in Brooklyn, New York.
1941 Yankee pitcher Al Downing was born in New Jersey.
1946 Comedienne Gilda Radner was born in Detroit, Michigan.
1948 Actress Kathy Bates was born in Memphis, Tennessee.
June 29
1801 Economist and free-trade advocate Frederick Bastiat was born
in Bayonne, France.
1861 Dr. William Mayo was born in LeSeuer, Minnesota.
1909 Composer Leroy Anderson was born.
1919 Cowboy actor Slim Pickens was born in Kingsberg, California.
1936 Baseball slugger Harmon Killebrew
was born in Payette, Indiana.
June 30
1801 Economist Frederic Bastiat was born in Bayonne, France.
1917 Singer Lena Horne was born.
1948 Bob Lemon pitched a no-hitter.
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