june

● In 1947, Don Vicente Sos Baynat, exceptionally, went out for the first time since 1939 but he still remained hidden until October 1947.

● US film actress Marilyn Monroe was born in 1926. She became one of the most famous film stars of the 1950s.

● Kentucky became the 15^th state of the USA in 1792 and Tennessee became the 16^th state of the USA in 1796.

● Superman made his first appearance in Action Comics # 1 in 1938.

● Rhodesia formally declared an end to white rule, and changed its name to Zimbabwe in 1979.

● The Coronation of Elisabeth II (born 1926) as Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Head of the Commonwealth took place on this day in 1953.

● French writer the Marquis de Sade was born in 1740.

● The Duke of Windsor married Mrs Wallis Simpson in 1937. He had abdicated in December 1936, after less than eleven months on the throne, because of his desire to marry the twice-divorced US socialite, who was considered unacceptable as a British queen consort.

● Czech-born Austrian Franz Kafka died in 1924.

● On this day in 1783, the Montgolfier brothers gave the first public demonstration of their latest invention, the hot-air balloon, at Annonay, near Lyons, in France.

● US actress Angelina Jolie was born in 1975.

● Juan Perón(1895-1974) became president of Argentina in 1946.

● WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY was established by the United Nations in 1972. It is held every year in a different city. The UN uses World Environment Day to increase awareness of the environment and promote political action.

● Don Vicente Sos Baynat saw The Halley’s Comet in the firmament in 1910.

● Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca was born in 1898.

● D-Day. On this day began the invasion of Normandy that would ultimately lead to victory in World War II in 1944.

● Swedish tennis player Björn Borg was born in 1956.

● Tom Jones was born in 1940. He is a Welsh singer famous for his powerful voice. He has had hits in the UK and the United States in every decade since the 1960s.

● Impressionist painter Paul Gaugin was born in 1848.

● US pop singer Prince was born in 1958.

● On this day were patented two inventions: the washing machine in 1824 and the vacuum cleaner in 1869.

● WORLD OCEANS DAY. The world’s oceans are in crisis. A group of eminent international ocean experts have come out on World Oceans Day urging "the nations of the world to fulfil their commitment to the future of the oceans" through the creation of Marine Protected Areas.

● US actor Johnny Deep was born in 1963. He is an award-winning American actor famous for playing strange characters such as Edward Scissorhands, Gilbert Grape, Ed Wood and Willy Wonka. He is also the star of the Pirates of the Caribbean films.

● English writer Charles Dickens died in 1870. Some of his novels are: The Adventures of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities.

● The London Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert in 1904.

● Don Vicente Sos Baynat took his entrance examination for the General and Technical School of Castellón de la Plana in 1909. He started his studies late; when he was thirteen and a half years old, because he had been seriously ill for three years.

● Don Vicente Sos Baynat was honored publicly by the Spanish Institute of Geology and Mining and the College of Mining Engineering of Madrid in 1988.

● The first public zoo, the Jardin des Plantes, opened in Paris in 1793.

● In 1967, Israel agreed to the UN call for a ceasefire, ending the Six-Day War, also known as the Arab-Israeli War because it was fought between Israel and Arab neighbours Egypt, Jordan and Syria.

● German composer Richard Strauss was born in 1864.

● King Henry VIII (1491-1547) married his first wife, Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536) in 1509.

● Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher won a third successive victory with a large majority in the UK’s general election in 1987.

● Vittorio Emanuele (born 1937), the son of Italy’s last king, was allowed to return home after 50 years of exile in 1997.

● In 1992, the Jaume I University in Castelló de la Plana named Doctor Honoris Causa, his Excellency Don Vicente Sos Baynat . That was the first honorary degree given by this university.

● Anne Frank was born on this day in 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, the daughter of a Jewish industrialist. She wrote The Diary of a Young Girl that has been published in more than 50 languages and read by millions worldwide.

● 41^st President of the USA George Bush was born in 1924.

● Feast day of St Anthony of Padua, patron saint of Portugal and Brazil, who is invoked for help in finding lost property.

●Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner W B Yeats was born in 1865.

● Macedonian king Alexander the Great died in 323 BC.

● In the USA this is Flag Day, commemorating the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the national flag on this day in 1777.

● Argentinean Communist revolutionary leader Che Guevara was born in 1928.

● A Nazi concentration camp was opened at Auschwitz in Poland during World War II in 1940.

● In 1920, Don Vicente Sos Baynat ended his doctoral studies at the Central University.

● Arkansas became the 25^th state of the USA in 1836.

● George Pompidou (1911-74) was elected president of France in 1969.

● An IRA bomb caused extensive damage and injuries to 200 people in a central Manchester shopping centre in 1996.

● Bloomsday is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writerJames Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The day is a secular holiday in Ireland. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses, and 16 June was the date of Joyce's first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to the Dublin village of Ringsend.

● Pepsi-Cola was officially registered as a trademark with the US Patent Office in 1903.

● US car engineer and manufacturer Henry Ford (1863-1947) founded his motor manufacturing company in 1903.