On This Day - 11th June

1910 - Jacques Cousteau born
1913 - Vince Lombardi born
1935 - Gene Wilder born
1936 - Chad Everett born
1945 - Adrienne Barbeau born
1955 - Eighty people are killed and over seventy others injured when two cars collided on the race track and crashed into the spectators' stand at Le Mans in north-west France.
1956 - Joe Montana born
1959 - The Hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell is officially launched in Southampton.


1961 - Caroline Quentin born
1968 - French student rebel leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit has arrived in Britain stirring up fears of campus unrest.
1976 - The trial of 13 mercenaries - 10 of them British - has begun in Angola with the public still in the dark over the exact charges.
1978 - Joshua Jackson born
1987 - Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher celebrates her third general election win after beating Labour by 376 to 229 seats.
1998 - More than a million people in Sudan are facing starvation, prompting the United Nations to declare an official famine in the region.

On This Day - 10th June

1904 - Frederick Loewe born
1915 - Saul Bellow born
1921 - HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is born. He was born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark and became the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch.

1922 - Judy Garland born
1928 - Maurice Sendak born
1933 - F. Lee Bailey born
1957 - Michael Burger born
1965 - Elizabeth Hurley born
1967 - Israeli forces stop their advance into Syria and comply with a UN ceasefire bringing to an end six days of fighting on three fronts.
1977 - An elusive goldfish-eating perch with a prodigious appetite is finally netted after two years on the rampage in a Kent pond.
1978 - Shane West born
1981 - Hoku Ho born
1982 - Leelee Sobieski and Tara Lipinski born


1986 - Patrick Joseph Magee is found guilty of planting the Brighton bomb which killed five people two years ago.
1999 - Nato suspends its 11-week aerial war on Kosovo as Serb troops begin to withdraw.
2000 - London's newest bridge is closed for safety checks after large crowds cause it to sway violently.

On This Day - 9th June

1870 - Charles Dickens dies
1892 - Cole Porter born
1910 - Robert Cummings born
1915 - Les Paul born
1934 - Jackie Mason born
1940 - Dick Vitale born

1958 - The Queen opens an extended airport at Gatwick, south of London, modernised at a cost of £7m.
1961 - Michael J. Fox born
1963 - Johnny Depp born
1970 - King Hussein of Jordan escapes an assassination attempt after gunmen open fire on his motorcade as it drives near his summer palace.
1975 - The first live transmission from the House of Commons has been broadcast by BBC Radio and commercial stations.
1981 - Natalie Portman born

1983 - Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party has won a landslide second term election victory, taking 397 seats to Labour's 209.
1995 - Andrew Richards is imprisoned for life for the attempted rape of another man in the first case of its kind in Britain.

2011 - South Sudan gains it's independence and becomes a sovereign nation.

On This Day - 8th June

1847 - A new law is passed in Britain limiting working hours for women and children to 10 hours a day
1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright born
1918 - Robert Preston born
1925 - Barbara Bush born
1929 - Jerry Stiller born
1933 - Joan Rivers born
1940 - Nancy Sinatra born
1942 - Japanese shell Sydney and Newcastle
1944 - Boz Scaggs born
1955 - Tim Berners-Lee born
1958 - Keenen Ivory Wayans born
1963 - Dr Stephen Ward, a London osteopath and friend of Christine Keeler, is arrested and charged with living on immoral earnings

1968 - James Earl Ray is arrested in London in connection with the murder of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
1978 - Yachtswoman Naomi James breaks the solo round-the-world sailing record by two days. Also Kanye West born
1982 - 48 British servicemen are killed in an Argentine air attack on two supply ships the Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram, in the Falklands.
1983 - Kim Clijsters born
1999 - Ex-cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken is jailed for 18 months after admitting he lied during a libel action.

On This Day - 7th June

1848 - Paul Gauguin born
1909 - Jessica Tandy born
1917 - Dean Martin born
1929 - Margaret Bondfield becomes Britains first female minster
1935 - Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister
1940 - Tom Jones born
1942 - The United States routs the Japanese Navy in a major three-day battle over a remote military base at Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1946 - Jenny Jones born
1952 - Liam Neeson born
1958 - Prince born
1972 - Karl Urban born
1975 - Allen Iverson born

1977 - More than one million people line the streets of London as the Queen marks the start of her silver jubilee.
1981 - Israel shocks the world by destroying the Osirak nuclear plant near the Iraqi capital for fear it would be used to make atom bombs. Also Larisa Oleynik and Anna Kournikova born
1990 - France, West Germany and Italy lift a ban on British beef-on-the-bone after reaching a deal in Brussels.
2000 - The UK prime minister is heckled and criticised by Women's Institute members as he gives a speech at their conference.

On This Day - 6th June

1824 - British workers gain the right to strike.
1875 - Thomas Mann born
1925 - Chrysler Motor Company founded
1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds born
1944 - D-Day, Thousands of Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy in northern France at the start of a major offensive against the Germans.
1955 - Sandra Bernhard born
1956 - Bjorn Borg born
1962 - Ena born

1966 - James Meredith, the first black man to brave the colour bar at the University of Mississippi, is shot in the back and legs while on a civil rights march.
1967 - Max Casella born
1970 - James "Munky" Shaffer born
1975 - British voters back the UK's continued membership of the EEC by two-to-one in a nationwide referendum. Also Staci Keanan born.

1984 - Nearly 300 people are killed as Indian troops storm the Golden Temple in Amritsar, held by Sikh militants.
1994 - Six detainees held in an Oxfordshire immigration centre make their escape after a rooftop protest.

On This Day - 5th June

1928 - Tony Richardson born
1934 - Bill Moyers born
1944 - The people of Rome crowd onto the streets to welcome the victorious Allied troops who liberated the city.

1949 - Ken Follett born
1956 - Kenny G born
1963 - Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns admitting he lied to Parliament about his relationship with call girl Christine Keeler.

1967 - Israeli forces launch a pre-emptive strike on Egypt prompting Arab allies to get involved in a ground and air battle, to be later known as the 'Six day war'.
1968 - Senator Robert Kennedy is shot and killed shortly after giving a victory speech to celebrate his win in the California Primary, in a Los Angeles hotel.

1969 - Brian McKnight born
1972 - The Duke of Windsor is laid to rest at the royal burial ground near Windsor Castle.

1989 - Initial results suggest Poland's Solidarity party will claim a remarkable success in the country's elections.
1992 - New figures show the number of people having their water supplies cut off for failing to pay their bills has almost trebled in a year.