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Cultural Calendar

{ Cultural Calendar: June }

The Month Of...

Adopt a Cat * Skin Cancer/ Sunscreen Awareness * GLBT History/pride * Accordion Awareness * Fresh Fruit and Vegetable * Iced Tea * Rose * Recycling * Seafood Lovers * Zoo and Aquarium

First:

- Madraka Day (Self Rule/Responsibility Day, Kenya)

- Constitution Day (Tunisia)

- Western Samoa Independence Day

- Republic Day (Italy)

- International Children's Day (China)

Second:

- Mother Earth Day (Bahamas)

- Coronation Day (United Kingdom)

Third:

- Broken Dolls Day (japan)

- St Charles Lwanga's Day (Patron Saint of your Africans)

- Star Wars Premiered (1977)
- Anniversary - First female Rabbi in US (Sally Jan Priesland, 1972)

Fourth:

- Flag Day (Finland)

- Revolution Day (Ghana)

- Emancipation Day (Tonga)

- Juan Peron Elected President of Argentina (1946)

- Tienamen Square Massacre (China, 1989)

Fifth:

- World Environment Day

- Constitution Day (Denmark)

Sixth:

- Festival of Chiu Hsien (Tao)

- Constitution and Flag Day (Sweden)

- Memorial Day (Korea)

- Susan B. Anthony fined for registering to vote (1872)

Seventh:

- Foundation Day (Western Australia)

- Kataklysmos (Flood Festival, Cypress)

Eighth:

- Boy Scout Day

- Kite Flying Day (Korea)

- Narvik Sun Pageant Day (Norway)

Ninth:

- Feast of Apollo

Eighth:

- Mohammed died in Meca (632CE)

Tenth:

- 1st witches hanged at Salem (1692)

- Great Arab Revolt and Army Day Anniversary (Jordan)

- Day of Portugal

Eleventh:

- King Kamehameha Day (Hawaii)

Twelfth:

- Helsinki Day (Finland)

- Anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, June 12th, 1967 - US Supreme Court decision abolishing 16 reminaing state laws prohibiting interracial marriage

Thirteenth:

- Rhode Island first to ban slavery (1774)

- Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers assassinated, leading President Kennedy to propose a comprehensive national civil right law (1963)

Fourteenth:

- Flag Day (USA)

Fifteenth:

- Farmer's Day (Korea)

- Magna carta Day (United Kingdom)

- US Citizenship granted to Native Americans

Sixteenth:

- Day of the Rat (Buddhist, Vietnam)

- Youth Day (South Africa)

Seventeenth:

- Day of Unity (Germany)

- Independence Day (Iceland)

- National Children's Day (Indonesia)

Nineteenth:

- Juneteenth

- Independence Day - Kuwait

- Independence Day - Laos

Twenty first :

- Summer Solstice

Twenty second:

-Morat Commemoration Day (Switzerland)

- Nat'l Chocolate Eclair Day

Twenty third:

- Midsummer Eve Festivals (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway)

Twenty fifth:

- Independence Day (Mozambique)

- National Day (Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia, 1991)

- San Juan Day (Puerto Rico)

Twenty sixth:

- Independence Day (Madagascar)

- Independence Day (Somalia)

- United Nations Charter signed by 50 founding nations, 1945

Twenty seventh:

- Festival of the Thrasque (France)

Twenty eighth:

- Stonewall Riots Anniversay (Recognized as the start of the GLBT pride and GLBT Rights movement)

Thirtieth:

 National Organization for Women (NOW) founded, 1966

Floating Holidays:

Hai Ba Trung (Vietnam) * Presidents' Day (USA) * Brotherhood Week (USA) * Purim (Jewish) * Mardi Gras (International) * Feast of Okambondondo (Angola) * Magha Puja (Buddhist)