Anniversaries

6th June 1832 (183 Years)

Jeremy Bentham, British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer, dies.

6th June 1868 (147 Years)

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions, was born.

6th June 1944 (71 Years)

The D-Day landings, in Normandy, France during World War II.

6th June 1944 (71 Years)

The D-Day landings, in Normandy, France during World War II.

6th June 1948 (67 Years)

Louis Lumiere, French inventor, photographic pioneer and filmmaker who, along with his brother, made the first film, dies.

6th June 2013 (2 Years)

Esther Williams, American swimmer, actress, and singer, died.

7th June 1868 (147 Years)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect, was born.

7th June 1917 (98 Years)

The British Second Army conducts the offensive known as the Battle of Messines.

7th June 1917 (98 Years)

WWI: The Battle of Messines starts, conducted by the British Second Army, on the Western Front in Belgian West Flanders.

7th June 1917 (98 Years)

The Battle of Messines starts, an offensive conducted by the British Second Army, on the Western Front in Belgian West Flanders during WWI.

7th June 1937 (78 Years)

Jean Harlow, American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s, died.

7th June 1940 (75 Years)

King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.

7th June 1966 (49 Years)

Jean (Hans) Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist, dies.

7th June 1967 (48 Years)

Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, died.

7th June 2015

Christopher Lee, English actor best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films, dies.

8th June 1867 (148 Years)

Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, was born.

8th June 1916 (99 Years)

Francis Crick, British biophysicist and discoverer of the molecular structure of the DNA, was born.

9th June 1868 (147 Years)

Jane Avril, French model and dancer, was born.

9th June 1870 (145 Years)

Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic, dies aged 58.

9th June 1963 (52 Years)

Jacques Villon, painter, printmaker, and brother of Marcel Duchamp dies.

9th June 1975 (40 Years)

The first live transmission from the House of Commons is broadcast by BBC Radio and commercial stations.

10th June 1819 (196 Years)

Gustave Courbet, French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting, died.

10th June 1918 (97 Years)

Arrigo Boito, Italian author, poet, and composer, died.

10th June 1921 (94 Years)

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born.

10th June 1922 (93 Years)

Judy Garland, American singer, actress, and vaudevillian, renowned for her contralto vocals, was born.

10th June 1926 (89 Years)

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, a Spanish Catalan architect and practitioner of Catalan Modernism, dies in Barcelona, Spain. He left the famous Sagrada Familia unfinished.

10th June 1946 (69 Years)

Jack Johnson, American boxer, who became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion, dies.

10th June 1967 (48 Years)

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy, one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, died.

11th June 1864 (151 Years)

Richard Georg Strauss, German composer, best-known for his operas "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Salome", is born.

11th June 1936 (79 Years)

The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.

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