1

Kentucky and Tennessee Statehood Day

2

1924 Congress granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S.

3

Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first message over his photophone

4

Dorothy (Elizabeth) Gish died in Rapallo, Italy (1968)

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American soldier, diplomat, author, and painter John Trumbull was born in 1756

7

1942: Japan defeated at Midway

8

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in 1867

9

Senior Citizens Day

10

1967: Six-Day War ends

11

Kamehameha Day

12

John A. Roebling, civil engineer and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge, was born in 1806

13

The Office of War Information (OWI) was created in 1942

14

Anniversary of the Creation of the United States Army Flag

National Flag Day

15

Arkansas became the 25th state of the US (1836)

16

1963: Soviets launch first woman into space

17

Father's Day

Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)

18

James Montgomery Flagg, creator of illustration of Uncle Sam, was born in 1877

19

Juneteenth

20

West Virginia Day

21

Summer Solstice

22

Legendary magician and escape artist Harry Houdini married Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner in 1894

23

Robert Louis "Bob" Fosse was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1927

24

1961 The public learned of President John Kennedy's letter about United States satellite programs

25

1950: Korean War begins

26

In 1870, the first section of the Atlantic City Boardwalk opened along the New Jersey beach

27

Paul Laurence Dunbar was born 1872 in Dayton, Ohio

28

World War 1 Day

 29

In 1852, statesman Henry Clay, known as "the Great Compromiser" died in Washington

30

President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Land Grant, Senate Bill 203, in 1864