• : 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 (77)

                           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 - 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)

                        16 - Bloomsday (Ulysses, James Joyce)

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

                        21 - SUMMER SOLSTICE

                        25 - first color TV broadcast (CBS, 1951)

                        30 - born 1891, Artist Stanley Spencer

(Resurrection at Cookham)

                                 first Tightrope walk across Niagra Falls (1859)

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