Some random events that have occurred in June:
- June 2: U.S. citizenship granted to all American Indians in 1924
- June 2: Baseball great Babe Ruth played his final game 1935
- June 2: Baseball great Lou Gehrig died 1941
- June 3: "Casey at the Bat" first published 1888
- June 4: Henry Ford's first successful test run of his horseless carriage 1896
- June 6: First drive-in movie theater opened in New Jersey 1933
- June 6: The beginning of the invasion of Europe (D Day) 1944
- June 6: Senator Robert F. Kennedy killed in Los Angeles 1968
- June 11: The first U.S. patent on a gas driven auto 1895
- June 11: Actor John Wayne died 1979
- June 12: Baseball invented 1839
- June 16: Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer published 1876
- June 19: First Father's Day celebrated in Spokane, Washington, 1910
- June 23: A patent received on the typewriter 1868
- June 27: Joseph and Hyrum Smith killed in Carthage, Illinois, 1844
- June 29: Interstate Highway System established 1956
- June 30: Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind published 1936
The Cleverly Newsletter has been published in hard copy since September 1973 and online since October 2008.
Currently posted the first day of each month by Ivard and Dorothy's seventh son, Dean B Cleverly. Comments, suggestions, contributions welcomed at dcleverly@gmail.com.
Currently posted the first day of each month by Ivard and Dorothy's seventh son, Dean B Cleverly. Comments, suggestions, contributions welcomed at dcleverly@gmail.com.
Monday, June 15, 2009
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