Here’s a little June history for all your trivial buffs!
June 5, 1968 – Presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, was shot three times by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
June 6, 1944 – D-Day
June 14 – Flag Day
June 15, 1991 – Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupts.
June 17, 1972 – Five men were arrested at the National Democratic Headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. The burglars were agents hired by the Committee for the Re-election of President Nixon.
June 19, 1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed. They had been found guilty of providing vital information on the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union during 1944-45.
June 20, 1782 – The Great Seal of the United States of America was officially adopted by the U.S. Congress.
June 23, 1865 – Brigadier General Watie and his troops were the last of the Confederate troops to formally surrender at the end of the Civil War.
June 25, 1876 – Lt. Colonel George Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
