: RR Files a Bygone June

1 - Marilyn Monroe B-day

3 - Birthday Allen Ginsberg (1926), American Beat Generation Poet, later became practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism.

- 'Star Wars' premiered (1977)

- Muhammad Ali, world-famous boxer & political activist, died 2016, aged 74.

5 - World Environment Day (& everyday!),

- Elvis gyrated hips on TV, causing scandal (1958)!

- Laurie Anderson, American experimental performance artist born (1947)

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7 - Charles Rennie MacKintosh, Scottish architect & designer, born (1868)

8 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet & Jesuit priest, died 1889.

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- Born 1955, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of World Wide Web (without whom, none of this...)

12 - Republic of Philippines Independence Day,

H.M. the Queen (UK)'s 'Official' Birthday (unofficially absurd!)

13 - National Juggling Day (USA)

14 - Nelson Mandela sentenced to life (1964)

14 - Jorge Luis Borges, died 1986, aged 86, Argentinian writer. Labyrinths is a wonderful book to get lost in. The Garden of Forking Paths has been said to have inspired hypertext fiction

15 - Charles Rennie MacKintosh's Glasgow School of Art, while in the process of renovation, was destroyed by a 2nd fire in 2018, only 8 days after Mackintosh's birthday (see above, 7 June 1868).

Little more than a burnt-out shell remains. Will it rise again like the proverbial Phoenix?

16 - Bloomsday (Ulysses, James Joyce)

17- M.C.Escher, Dutch graphic artist born (1878)