June
1. Children's Day (China, Laos.) / Navy Day (Mexico) / Festival of
Carna
(Roman) / National Day Against Homophobia (Canada) / National
Doughnut Day (U.S.) always held on the first Friday in June. / It
was 45 years ago today that the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band, meaning I guess that it was 65 years ago today that
he taught the band to play leaving the question will we still love them when they're past 64?/ also Happy birthday Oscar the Grouch
June
2. Rice Harvest Festival (Malaysia) / Juno Regina's Day (Ancient
Rome)
/ Queen's Birthday (New Zealand) / Shapatu of Ishtar (Babylonian) /
Mother Shipton Day matron saint of working women. / In 1924 Congress
granted citizenship to all Indians on this day, however it was not
until 1993 that their religions practices were no longer illegal. /
St. Elmo's Day. (Catholic) They've made that little red gremlin a
saint now? It was bad enough when they gave almost the whole of
Sesame Street other to him! / As of today radio is 118 years old.
June
3. Memorial Day for Broken Dolls (Japan) Buddhist observance when
broken dolls are enshrined by a priest. / Festival for Bellona
(Ancient Rome) Bellona minor Roman war goddess. / Second Festival of
Pax (Ancient Rome) A festival for a goddess of war and a goddess of
peace both on the say day… oh those daffy ancient Roman!
June
4. Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 memorial day. / On this day in
1070, in a cave just outside the town of Roquefort France, the first
example of the cheese we know today as Roquefort was discovered, who
made the blend? Why was it abandoned in the cave? Unknown, now THERE
is an idea for a conspiracy! / Ford made his first operational car on
this day 117 years ago.
World Environment Day
June
5. World Environment Day (U.N.) This year's theme “Green Economy:
Does it include you?” / National Gingerbread Day (U.S.) / First
flight by balloon by the Montgolfier brothers, 1783
June
6. Teacher's Day (U.S.) Yeah... You folks in the holiday naming biz
DO
know that most schools are out for the summer in the U.S. now don't
you? / Queensland day (Australia) / Anniversary of D-Day. /
Crossroads of Artemis (Ancient Greek) / First drive-in movie theater
ever opens In New Jersey in 1933, The first film shown was the
Adolphe Menjou film Wives Beware.
June
7. Unionsopplosningen (Norway) / first day of Vestalia (Ancient
Rome)
held in honor of Vesta. / National Chocolate Ice Cream Day (U.S.) So
what's with all the chocolate themed days this month? / National Moth
Night (U.K.) night for Britain to celebrate moths and moth recording.
/ Vatican City becomes nation in 1929.
June
8 Milad-un-Nabi (Islam) Mohammed dies or ascends into heaven in 632.
/ World Ocean Day. / Lindisfarne Day (Odinist)
June
9. Trooping the Colour (United Kingdom) Military celebration of the
monarch's official birthday held in London on the second Saturday of
June. / Sigurdsblot (Norse) festival honoring Sigurd (Sigifrith or
Siegfreid),the
great hero who killed the dragon Fafnir and won back the treasure of
the Rhine. / Queen's Birthday (Australia, except for Western
Australia) Huh? / Donald Duck's Birthday, 78 years young, not bad for
someone with such rage management problems.
June
10. On this date in New Haven, Connecticut in 1682, the first
tornado
was reported in America, many years before the first freight train so
I have no idea what they said it sounded like. / National Yo Yo Day
(U.S.) Do they even make those anymore, or do they just have a "yo-yo
app" for cell phones now?
FORTUNA
June
11. Feast of Fortuna (Ancient Rome) Day for the Goddess of fortune,
chance and luck. / King Kamehameha I Day (Hawaiian) It was said that
he was so strong he could brake open a coconut using one hand. /
Davis Day (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada) held in remembrance of
William Davis
June
12. Araw ng Kalayaan (Philippines) Independence Day / Russia Day
(Russian Federation) Independence Day / Dia dos Namorados (Brazil)
Lover's Day; similar to St. Valentine's day / World Day Against Child
Labor (International)
June
13. Feast of Epona goddess of horses (Celtic) / Athena's Day (Greek)
/ Quinquatrus Minusculae (Ancient Roman) Day for Minerva. / The space
probe Pioneer 10 has been outside the solar system for 18 years now,
and yet still not a full light year out.
June
14. Birthday of the Muses (Ancient Greek) / Poson (Sri Lanka) Day
to
celebrate the introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka in 256 B.C.E. /
Flag
Day (U.S.) / It was on this day in 1954 that Dwight Eisenhower
signed
an order adding "Under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
The
Theory
being that all those Commies hiding under all those beds in the
50's
would melt away in fear on hearing this.
June
15. Feast of Saint Germaine Cousin (Roman Catholic) Patron of
shepherdesses
& victims of child abuse. Would somebody kindly poke him and tell
him to stop slacking off? No, no, just about the latter part,
as
far as I know things have been going just dandy for shepherdesses
lately.
June
16. Night of the Teardrop (Ancient Egypt) Festival where
Priestesses
of Isis were said to control the weather by braiding and
releasing
their hair. For related item see Grimm's fairy tale The Goose
Girl.
/ Bloom's Day (Dublin) You know from the novel Ulysses by James
Joyce
that you haven't read, or if you have read it didn't get all the
way
though, or if you did read the whole thing didn't get it. /
National
Fudge Day (U.S.) I guess this puts America about neck and neck with
the ancient Romans and their seeming endless list of festivals, I bet
if they had had chocolate there would have been a goddess for it, and
this could have very well have been the day for Fudgata, works for
me.
June
17. Father's Day (U.S., Canada, Brittany, Ireland, Northern Ireland)
Stated in 1910 in Spokane, Washington. While Mother's Day has been
adopted by a lot of other countries, it seems far fewer have taken up
Father's Day. What, other countries' dads don't need socks and loud
ties? / Marriage of Orpheus and Eurydike (Ancient Greek) / Watergate
Day (U.S) / Eat Your Vegetables Day (U.S.)
June
18. In 1885 the Statute of Liberty arrived in New York aboard the
Isere.
/ It was on this day in 1978 that we got the first appearance of
Garfield
the Cat in the comics section, 34 years old, which in cat years
would
make him, gets out calculator and does some figuring, ….. Dead.
June
19. Juneteeth (U.S.) The oldest known celebration of the end of
slavery
in America. Today Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom
and emphasizes education and achievement. / World Sauntering Day. I
wouldn't now how to "saunter" if you paid me.
June
20. Summer Solstice / Bald Eagle Day. (U.S.) / Kuan-Yin becomes a
Bodhisattva (Chinese) / World Refuge Day. / Ice Cream Soda Day (U.S.)
Call these invisible holidays pointless if you want to, this one I
can get behind.
June
21. Alban Hefin (Druidic) / Day of the Green Man (Northern Europe) /
Day on which many Slavic people celebrated the marriage of the Sun
God Dazbog & Moon Goddess Myesyats. / National Aboriginal Day
(Canada) / All Hera's Day (Ancient Rome) / Ishtar's Day (Old Babylon)
/ Astarte's Day (Canaanite) / Aphrodite's Day (Greek) / Yemaya's Day
(Brazilian) /Aine's Day (Irish) / National Go Skateboarding Day
(U.S.) To be followed I assume by National Go to the ER Day. /
Vinegar Day (U.S) Vinegar, really? Vinegar. Why? / Litha (Wiccan)
June
22. National Chocolate Éclair Day (U.S.) Roses and chocolate? It's
like the day the spirits of Valentine's day take the day off. /
Anti-fascist Struggle Say (Croatia) / Stupid Guy Thing Day (U.S.) A
day for women to make a list of stupid guy things and pass it on to
other women to share. How sexist, just thinking about this is going
to put a crimp in my attempt to hang-glide from the highest mountain
in my state with a skateboard tied to my shoes so I can ditch the
glider close to the ground and land on a highway to see if I can get
it over 60 miles an hour, it's perfectly safe… there's hardly any
traffic on Sunday.
June
23. In Ireland & England it was once thought that on the 23rd or
`St.
John´s Day Eve´, the souls of everyone left their bodies while
they
slept and found the place where they would die (can you say that? Morbid? Sure, I knew you could). Now doesn´t that
make for a perfectly creepy sounding holiday? What will you dream
about?
June
24. St. John's Day. Use to be a big deal, as big or even bigger
than
Christmas in some places, day for lighting bonfires for St. John
the
oldest of the saints' days in the Greek and Latin calendars.
/ Feast of the Sun (Aztec) / It was on the 24th in 1717 that the Masons
went
public in London. / This is the day on which Shakespeare's
Mid-Summer's
Night Dream took place, it is also the date that people
thought
Fairies were most likely to be active. / Festival of Mati-Syra-Zemlya
& Zemlya's Night (Slavic Lands).
Also
The
24th is the Day King Edward III founded the Order of the Garter in
1348, which some believe was secretly tied to the pre-Christian Pagan
beliefs of Europe.
By
tradition this is the day the Pied Piper lead 130 children out of the
town
of Hamlin and into a mountain.
It
was on this day in 1694 that the Utopian community known as Woman of
the Wilderness (which was all male) made up of Primitive Christians,
alchemists, & mystics landed in what would come to be known as
Germantown, Pennsylvania.
It
was on this day in 1701 that the above community said they were
visited
by a glowing white sphere while burning their St. J Day fires.
This
is also the day in 1947 that Kenneth Arnold claimed he sighted a
number
of crescent shaped objects "flying with a motion like saucers
skipping
over a lake.
June
25. In 1876 the day that George Armstrong Custer died for your sins
as he and the 7th Cavalry where are out. / National Catfish Day
(U.S.) Day for the best eating of the bottom feeding fish, it's
better if you don't think about that part. / The day in 1962 that the
Supreme Court ruled school sponsored prayer to be unconstitutional. /
Native American Independence Day
June
26. National Chocolate Pudding Day (U.S.) / International Day in
Support
of Torture Victims / Beautician's Day (U.S.)
June
27. Day of the 7 Sleepers (Catholic, however there is also an
Islamic
version) know as Siebenschläfertag in Germany. / National
HIV
Testing Day (U.S.) / Mixed Race Day (Brazil) Day that honors
all
those who possess multiracial or multi-ethnic origins. / Helen Keller
Day (Alabama) / Iroquois Green Corn Festival (Native American) /
Joseph & Hyrum Smith killed by mob in 1844, leading to Brigham
Young being put in charge of the Mormons.
June
28. Raggedy Ann doll introduced to the world on this day in 1917 /
Paul Bunyan Day. (U.S.) Whom it turns out was not a real figure from
folklore, but was made up by two advertising men hired by a company
that sold lumber to create a friendlier image, making him no more an
authentic figure of folklore than say Ronald McDonald.
June
29. St. Peter & St. Paul Day (Catholic) With those two together
who
are you going to borrow money from to pay the other? / Special
Recreation
Day for the Disabled Day (U.S.) / Runic New Year
/
Feast of Ogun (Santeria)
June
30. Burning of the Three Firs (France) / On this day in 1908 a
massive
explosion took place in Tunguska, Siberia. More powerful
than
a hydrogen bomb, no definitive explanation had been given for
it,
theories have ranged from a comet or soft meteor, to it being
a
tiny chunk of anti-matter, to a crashed spacecraft.
If
April is the cruelest month then June must be the strangest.
