Events & Holidays In June - 01

Arrival of the Swiss at the Port-Noir (Switzerland)

Dayak Festival (Malaysia)

Independence Day (Samoa)

International Children's Day (International)

Madaraka Day (Kenya)

Mother & Child Day (Mongolia)

National Tree Planting Day (Cambodia)

Presidents Day (Palau)

Reconciliation Week (Australia)

The Festival of Roses, Valley of the Roses (Bulgaria)

Jubilee (Peru)

1076  On this day in history birth of mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)   

1300  On this day in history birth of thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)   

1480  Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550) was born on this day in history.   

1503  Wilhelm von Grumbach, German lt col was born on this day in history.   

1549  Allesandre Spontone, composer was born on this day in history.   

1563  Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister (1598-1612) was born on this day in history.   

1611  On this day in history birth of felician Schwab, composer   

1633  Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687) was born on this day in history.   

0193  Death of Didius Julianus, ship owner/emperor of Rome (193), murdered at 61 on this day in history.   

1191  On this day in history philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies   

1340  On this day in history jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies   

1434  Jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies on this day in history.   

1568  On this day in history death of duke of Alva, & 18 nobles, beheaded   

1571  Death of John Story, English Catholic on this day in history.   

1616  Death of Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543) on this day in history.   

1625  On this day in history death of honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)