1963 - Valentina Tereshkova, 26, became the first woman in space
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June Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
Saturday, June 30, 2012
16 June - History and Importance of the Day
1963 - Valentina Tereshkova, 26, became the first woman in space
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June Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
17 June - History and Importance of the Day
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
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June Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
18 June - History and Importance of the Day
1812 - After much debate, the U.S. Senate voted 19 to 13 in favor of a declaration of war against Great Britain, prompted by Britain's violation of America's rights on the high seas and British incitement of Indian warfare on the Western frontier. The next day, President James Madison officially proclaimed the U.S. to be in a state of war. The War of 1812 lasted over two years and ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium on December 24, 1814.
June 18, 1815 - On the fields near Waterloo in central Belgium, 72,000 French troops, led by Napoleon, suffered a crushing military defeat from a combined Allied army of 113,000 British, Dutch, Belgian, and Prussian troops.
June 18, 1983 - Dr. Sally Ride, a 32-year-old physicist and pilot, became the first American woman in space, beginning a six-day mission aboard the space shuttle Challenger, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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June Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
19 June - History and Importance of the Day
2013 Father's Day (3rd Sunday of June)
1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by electrocution at Sing Sing Prison in New York. They had been found guilty of providing vital information on the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union during 1944-45. They were the first U.S. civilians to be sentenced to death for espionage
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19 June Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
20 June - History and Importance of the Day
World Refugee Day
1782 - The U.S. Congress officially adopted the Great Seal of the United States of America.
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June Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
21 June - History and Importance of the Day
Birthday - French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980). Dubbed the "father of existentialism," in 1964, he rejected the Nobel Prize for Literature when it was awarded to him.
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June Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
22 June - History and Importance of the Day
1941 - Starting at 3:15 am, some 3.2 million German soldiers plunged headlong into Russia across an 1800-mile front in World War II.
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June Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
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