| June
1 | William
Sloan Coffin Jr. born in New York, 1924 Gineatta
Sagan born in Italy, 1925 Morgan
Freeman born in Tennessee, 1937 Alanis
Morissette born in Canada, 1974 National
Holiday of Samoa |
| June
2 | National
Holiday of Italy Cornell
West born in Oklahoma, 1953 |
| June
3 | First
World Conference on the Environment, Stockholm 1972. World's
first conference with direct participation of NGOs: Istanbul Habitat Conference
1996. |
| June
4 | *
International Day of Innocent
Children Victims of Aggression Gaylord
Nelson born in Wisconsin, 1916 Dennis
Weaver born in Missouri, 1924
Jim
Wallis born in Detroit, 1948 Angelina
Jolie born in California, 1975 National
Holiday of Tonga
Carbon
Dioxide Reduction Treaty, Rio 1992 |
| June
5 | *
World Environment
Day Ruth
Fulton Benedict born in New York, 1887 Bill
Moyers born in Oklahoma, 1934 Angie
Zelter born in UK, 1951 |
| June
6 | Marian
Wright Edelman born in South Carolina, 1939 Mary
Elizabeth Thunder born in Indiana, 1944 Holly
Near born in California, 1949 National
Holiday of Sweden
'Give
Peace a Chance,' song composed by John Lennon, 'Hymn to the United Nations,' by
Pablo Casals, the 'UN March' by Dmitri Shosta-kovitch distributed to all schools
in Connecticut 1979 |
| June
7 | Virginia
Apgar born in New Jersey, 1909 Bernard
Lown born in Lithuania, 1921 Liam
Neeson born in Ireland, 1952 UN
World Disarmament campaign began, led by Bruce Kent, London, 1982 |
| June
8 | Abused
Women & Children Day (*2nd Sunday) Frank
Lloyd Wright born in Wisconsin, 1867 Kayne
West born in Georgia, 1977 Hans
Fieler born in Bavaria, 1890 Bill
of Rights proposed by James Madison, 1789 |
| June
9 | Bertha
von Suttner born in Prague, 1843 Michael
J. Fox born in Canada, 1961 Johnny
Depp born in Kentucky, 1963 Natalie
Portman born in Israel, 1981 |
| June
10 | John
Edwards born in South Carolina, 1953 National
Holiday of Portugal |
| June
11 | Jeannette
Rankin born in Montana, 1880 Jacques
Cousteau born in France, 1910 Sumaya
Farhat Naser born in Palestine, 1948 |
| June
12 | Betty
Reardon born in New York, 1929 National
Holiday of Russian Federation, Philippines
The
Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia ended, 1935 United
Nations General Assembly approved Non-Proliferation Treaty 1968 |
| June
13 | Eleanor
Holmes Norton born in Washington, DC, 1937 Rhode
Island became the first of British North American colony to ban the importation
of slaves, 1774 Thurgood
Marshall became first African American nominated as Supreme Court Justice, 1967 |
| June
14 | Harriet
Beecher Stowe born in Connecticut, 1811 Douglas
Roche was born in 1929 in Canada |
| June
15 | Paul
Rusesabagina was born in 1954 in Rwanda Magna
Carta, a milestone for human rights and freedom, signed by King John, 1215 G77
Group of Developing Countries (now 133) founded 1967 |
| June
16 | Bishop
John Shelby Spong born in North Carolina, 1931 Stockholm
Declaration on the Environment, 1972 |
| June
17 | *
World Day to Combat Desertification
and Drought Starhawk
born in Minnesota, 1951 National
Holiday of Iceland, U.K., Northern Ireland |
| June
18 | Fernando
Henrique Cardoso born in Brazil, 1931 Paul
McCartney born in England, 1942 Isabella
Rossellini born in Rome, Italy, 1952 National
Holiday of Seychelles |
| June
19 | Juneteenth
/ Emancipation Day - commemorating freeing of slaves in Texas Alan
Cranston born in California, 1914 Aung
San Suu Kyi born in Burma, 1945 Kathleen
Turner born in Missouri, 1954 First
International Women's Conference, Mexico City 1975 |
| June
20 | *
World
Refugee Day Xanana
Gusmão born in East Timor, 1946 Nicole
Kidman born in Hawaii, 1967 |
| June
21 | World
Peace & Prayer Day
Joseph
Ki-Zerbo born in Burkina Faso, 1922 Shirin
Ebadi born in Iran, 1947 Benazir
Bhutto born in Pakistan, 1953 |
| June
22 | Interfaith
Day Erin
Brockovich born in Kansas, 1960 Capital
punishment abolished in Canada, 1976 |
| June
23 | *
United
Nations Public Service Day National
Holiday of Luxembourg
World
Food Conference, Rome 1975 |
| June
24 | Henry
Ward Beecher born in Connecticut, 1813 Norman
Cousins born in New Jersey, 1915 |
| June
25 | Lois
Gibbs born in 1952 Dikembe
Mutombo born in Zaire, 1966 Lauren
Bush born in Texas, 1984 National
Holiday of Mozambique, Slovenia |
| June
26 | *
International Day Against
Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
*
International
Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Pearl
S. Buck born in West Virginia, 1892
United
Nations Charter signed in San Francisco by 50 nations, 1945
National
Holiday of Madagascar |
| June
27 | Helen
Keller born in Alabama, 1880 Emma
Goldman born in Russia, 1869 Grace
Lee Boggs born in Rhode Island, 1915 National
Holiday of Djibouti |
| June
28 | Convention
on International Trade in Endangered Species 1973 Hans
Blix born in Sweden, 1928 Muhammad
Yunus born in Bangladesh, 1940 |
| June
29 | Julia
Lathrop born in Illinois, 1858 Samantha
Smith born in Maine, 1972 US
National Forest Service was organized, 1891 93
nations agreed to halt chemical destruction of ozone layer, 1990 |
| June
30 | Bunker
Roy born in India, 1945 National
Organization For Women (NOW) founded, 1966 |
