Important Dates: June 2016

Days

4^th  Butterfly Education and Awareness Day  Link

5^th National Cancer Survivors Day (USA)  Link

5^th  World Environment Day  Link

8^th  International Tampon Alert Day  Link

8^th  World Oceans Day  Link

11^th Queen’s Birthday Parade  Link

14^th World Blood Donor Day  Link

15^th National Bug Busting Day  Link

16^th International Day of the African Child  Link

18^th World Juggling Day  Link

19^th Father’s Day  Link

20^th International Surfing Day  Link

20^th Summer Solstice  Link

21^st Music Day

21^st Longest Day Golf Challenge   Link

23^rd International Widows Day  Link

23^rd National Women in Engineering Day  Link

24^th Wrong Trousers Day  Link

25^th Armed Forces Day  Link

25^th National Flash Fiction Day Link

26^th International Day Against Drug Abuse And Illicit Trafficking  Link

26^th National Unplugging Day  Link

27^th Wimbledon begins  Link

Weeks

Any week  Festival of Learning Week  Link

1^st-7^th  RSPCA Week  Link

1^st-12^thVolunteers Week  Link

6^th-12^thChild Safety Week  Link

6^th-12^thHeart Rhythm Week  Link

6^th-12^th Carers Week  Link

6^th-12^th  Aromatherapy Awareness Week  Link

11^th-19^th National Picnic Week  Link

11^th-19^th Bike Week  Link

12^th-18^th  Diabetes Week Link

13^th-19^th  Breathe Easy Week  Link

13^th-19^th Mens Health Week  Link

13^th-19^th Cervical Screening Awareness Week  Link

13^th-19^th Recycle Week  Link

20^th-24^th National School Sport Week  Link

20^th-26^th Refugee Week  Link

20^th-26^th  National Insect Week  Link

Months

Motor Neurone Awareness Month  Link

SANDS Awareness Month  Link

June Religious Days   

6^th      Ramadan begins (Muslim)

12^th/13^th Shavuot (Jewish)

16^th        Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh)

20^th     Summer Solstice – Litha (Pagan)

26^th     All Saints (Orthodox Christian)

29^th     St Peter and St Paul’s Day (Christian)

June National Days

2nd     Italy

4th     Tonga

5th     Denmark

6th     Sweden

10th    Portugal

12th    Russia

12th    Philippines

14th    Falkland Islands

17th    Iceland

18th    Seychelles

21st    Greenland

23rd    Luxembourg

25th    Slovenia

26th    Madagascar

June This Day in History

1^st       TV licences introduced in UK (1942)

1^st       Rhodesia becomes Zimbabwe (1979)

2^nd      Italy becomes a republic (1946)

2^nd      Coronation of Elizabeth II (1953)

4^th      Juan Peron elected President of Argentina (1946)

5^th      Robert Kennedy shot (1968)

6^th      D Day landings in Normandy (1944)

7^th      Prophet Muhammad dies in Medina (632)

8^th      Lindisfarne Monastery sacked by Vikings (793)

8^th      New law limits women and children to 10 hour working day (1847)

8^th      Margaret Bondfield becomes Britain’s first female cabinet minister (1929)

9^th      Emperor Nero commits suicide (68)

12^th     Nelson Mandela jailed for life (1964)

13^th     Flying bombs used to attack Britain (1944)

14^th     Battle of Naseby – English Civil War (1645)

14^th     Falklands War ends (1982)

15^th     Peasants Revolt – against poll tax (1381)

15^th    Allcock & Brown complete first non-stop Atlantic flight (1919)

16^th     Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space (1963)

18^th     Wellington defeats Napoleon at Waterloo (1815)

18^th     Amelia Earheart becomes first women to fly Atlantic (1928)

19^th     King John signs Magna Carta (1215)

19^th     Sir Robert Peel founds the London Metropolitan Police (1829)

20^th     Queen Victoria accedes to throne (1837)

21^st     Prince William born (1982)

22^nd    SS Windrush brings Commonwealth workers (1948)

24^th     English defeated at Bannockburn (1314)

24^th     Custers last stand (1876)

27^th     First Nuclear Power Station opened at Obninsk (1954)

28^th     Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated (1914)

30^th     First Harry Potter novel published (1997)

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