Tuesday, June 21

JUNE...

Follow these links to books at your library and information on gardening. June is Perennial Gardening Month and National Rose Month.

It is also Dairy Month and Turkey Lovers' Month! Follow the links to hundreds of recipes and nutrition tips.

Famous anniversaries in June include:
Births:
Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926), Richard Scarry (June 5, 1919), Dean Martin (June 7, 1917), Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867), Cole Porter (June 9, 1891), Vince Lombardi (June 11, 1913), George H. W. Bush (June 12, 1924), Anne Frank (June 12, 1929), William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865), Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (June 17, 1882), Lou Gehrig (June 19, 1903), Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906), George Orwell (June 25, 1903), Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819), Pearl S. Buck (June 26, 1892), Helen Keller (June 27, 1880), Bob Keeshan (June 27, 1927)

Weddings:
Duke of Windsor (June 3, 1937)

Deaths:
Robert F. Kennedy (June 5, 1968), Cochise (June 8, 1874)

Events of Historic Significance: Susan B. Anthony fined for voting (June 6, 1872), First Drive-in Movie opens (June 6, 1933), D-Day (June 6, 1944), VCR introduced (June 7, 1975), Flag Day (June 14, 1777), Warren G. Harding becomes first President to broadcast on radio (June 14, 1922), PSYCHO film premiere (June 16, 1960), Lizzie Borden verdict (June 20, 1893), Battle of Okinawa ends (June 21, 1945), United Nations Charter signed (June 26, 1945), Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919), Interstate highway system born (June 29, 1956)