On June 1,1968, author-lecturer Helen Keller died in Wesport Connecticut. She earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf most of her life.
On June 2,1953, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey. The event took place 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.
On June 3,1965, astronaut Edward White became the first American to ``walk'' in space, through the flight of Gemini 4.
On June 4,1989, Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square in Beijing to crush the pro-democracy movement. Thousands of people died.
On June 5,1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded just after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. Bishara Sirhan, was immediately arrested.
On June 6,1944, the D-Day invasion of Europe took place during World War II. The allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.
On June 7,1929, as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome, the state of Vatican City came into existence.
On June 8,1969, authorities announced that James Earl Ray was captured in London. Ray was the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
On June 9,1954, Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army Hearings over McCarthy's attack.
On June 10, 1967, Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. That marked the end of the Six-Day War between the two nations.
On June 11,1942, the Soviet Union and the United States signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.
On June 12, 1987, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, President Reagan publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."
On June 13,1966, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Miranda vs. Arizona decision. The ruling stated that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by law enforcement officers.
On June 14,1982, Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the disputed over Falkland Islands.
On June 15,1904, 1,000 people or so died when fire exploded aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River.
On June 16,1933, President Roosevelt opened his New Deal recovery program. He signed rail, bank, and industry bills and initiated farm aid.
On June 17,1928, Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman. She flew from Newfoundland to Wales in about 20 hours.
On June 18,1948, U.N Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.
On June 19,1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate, was approved.
On June 20,1967, Muhammad Ali was condemned in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The Supreme Court later overturned the conviction.
On June 21,1964, three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. Six weeks later, their bodies were found buried in a dam. Eight members of the (KKK) Ku Klux Klan went to prison on federal conspiracy charges. The convicted did not serve more than six years in prison.
On June 22, 1940, during World War II, German forces overran Paris as France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after. Adolf Hitler gained a striking victory.
On June 23,1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
On June 24,1997, the Air Force released a report on the so-called "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
On June 25, 1876, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana wiped out Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry.
On June 26,1963, President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he declared: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) in his famous speech.
On June 27,1950, President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War following a call from the United Nations Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
On June 28,1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I. On June 29,1995, the shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
On June 30, 1997, in Hong Kong, the Union Jack was lowered for the last time over Government House as Britain prepared to hand the colony back to China after ruling it for 156 years.
