June 2013 Educators' Calendar

Stand for Children Day

Kentucky Admission Day (1792)

Tennessee Admission Day (1796)

CNN Debuted (1980)

Radio Patented (1896)

American Indians Granted U.S. Citizenship (1924)

USDA Introduces MyPlate Nutrition Guidelines (2011)

First U.S. Space Walk (1965)

Tiananmen Square Demonstrations (1989)

First Supermarket Cart Introduced (1937)

U.N. World Environment Day

Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated (1968)

First AIDS Report Published (1981)

First Drive-In Movie Theater (1933)

D-Day (1944)

Homer Plessy Broke Segregation Laws (1892)

VCR Introduced (1975)

World Oceans Day

Hong Kong Leased to UK for 99 Years (1898)

Children's Day

Alcoholics Anonymous Founded (1935)

Ballpoint Pen Patented (1943)

Great Barrier Reef Discovered (1770)

Jacques Cousteau's Birthday (1910)

Diary Day

Pres. George H. W. Bush's Birthday (1924)

Anne Frank's Birthday (1929)

Poet William Butler Yeats's Birthday (1865)

Presidents of North & South Korea Met (2000)

Flag Day

Official U.S. Flag Adopted (1777)

First Commercial Computer Introduced (1951)

Arkansas Admission Day (1836)

Oregon Boundary Treaty Signed (1846)

Valentina Tereshkova First Woman in Space (1963)

Father's Day

M.C. Escher's Birthday (1898)

Republic of Iceland Established (1944)

War of 1812 Began (1812)

Napoleon Defeated at Battle of Waterloo (1815)

Sally Ride First American Woman in Space (1983)

First Official Game of Baseball (1846)

Juneteenth (Liberation of Slaves) (1865)

Summer Begins

World Refugee Day

West Virginia Admission Day (1863)

New Hampshire Admission Day (1788)

Cyrus McCormick Patented Mechanical Reaper (1834)

WNBA Debuted (1997)

Explorer George Vancouver's Birthday (1757)

Pledge of Allegiance Recognized by Congress (1942)

First Typewriter Patented (1868)

Athlete Wilma Rudolph's Birthday (1940)

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's Birthday (1948)

Term "Flying Saucers" First Used (1947)

General Custer Died at Little Bighorn (1876)

Author George Orwell's Birthday (1903)

Eric Carle's Birthday (1929)

First Color TV Broadcast (1951)

Bicycle Patented (1819)

Inventor of the Thermometer Born (1824)

First Map of Human Genome Completed (2000)

Helen Keller's Birthday (1880)

First Newbery Medal Awarded (1922)

Paul Bunyan Day

World War I Began (1914)

Shakespeare's Theater Destroyed by Fire (1613)

Remote Control Introduced (1964)

Meteor Day

26th Amendment Changed Voting Age (1971)