June 3rd 1875

Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st voice transmission over the telephone

June 4th 1984

DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal

June 5th 1661

Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge

June 6th 1850

Claude Levi Strauss made his 1st blue jeans

June 7th 1993

Musician Prince celebrated his birthday by changing his name to a symbol

June 8th 1968

James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., captured

June 9th 1910

Passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard, found June 6, 1983 in Queensland

June 10th 1984

Zhu Jianhua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m)

June 11th 1987

Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win 3rd term

June 12th 1991

Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian Federation

June 13th 1983

Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System

June 14th 1942

Anne Frank begins her diary

June 15th 1956

John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner

June 16th 1929

Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (New York to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days)

June 17th 1970

Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera

June 18th 1942

Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38 hours 21minutes

June 19th 1967

Cassius Clay  is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army

June 20th 1968

Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds

June 21st 1948

Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor-General of India

June 22nd 1959

Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to San Francisco voyage

June 23rd 1757

Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal

June 24th 1961

Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait

June 25th 1977

Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time

June 26th 1498

Toothbrush invented

June 27th 1986

Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing only a body stocking

June 28th 1919

Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed in France

June 29th 1996

Superman's Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900

June 30th 1994

U.S. Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life