June 2023: Events and Anniversaries Preview
1 June 2023
Welcome to your akg-images June preview, full of content ideas for the coming months, with albums of supporting images.
June brings summer to the Northern Hemisphere, and winter to the Southern. June also offers opportunities for health and wellness with World Bicycle Day and International Day of Yoga.
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Featured Album: Surf's Up! Enjoy the fun and action of water sports without getting your feet wet.
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June 2023
2 June: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II - 70th anniversary
6 June: Louis Lumière - 75th anniversary of his death
7 June: Paul Gauguin - 175th birthday anniversary
7 June: Prince Rogers Nelson - 65th birthday anniversary
15 June: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - 85th anniversary of his death
16 June: Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space - 60th anniversary
18 June: Father's Day (except Australia and New Zealand)
19 June: Blaise Pascal - 400th birthday anniversary
19 June: Juneteenth USA
21 June: Summer Solstice
22 June: Windrush Day - 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush
22 June: Erich Maria Remarque - 125th birthday anniversary
24 June: Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift - 75th anniversary
25 June: Sam Francis - 100th birthday anniversary
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July 2023
1 July: British Library was founded - 50 years
3 July: Wimbledon Tennis tournament begins
4 July: Independence Day USA
5 July: Founding of the NHS - 75th anniversary
8 July: Artemisia Gentileschi - 430th birthday anniversary
8 July: Sir Henry Raeburn - 200th anniversary of his death
8 July: Franz Xaver Winterhalter - 150th anniversary of his death
13 July: Hollywood sign is inaugurated; "HOLLYWOODLAND" - 100 years
16 July: Sir Joshua Reynolds - 300th birthday anniversary
17 July: Romanov family are interred in St Catherine Chapel - 25th anniversary
26 July: Mick Jagger - 80th birthday
30 July: Otto von Bismarck - 125th anniversary of his death
30 July: Henry Moore - 125th birthday anniversary
31 July: Erich Heckel - 140th birthday anniversary
August 2023
2 August: Shimon Peres - 100th birthday anniversary
5 August: Karl Hagemeister - 90th anniversary of his death
10 August: Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida - 100th anniversary of his death
15 August: Construction begins on Cologne Cathedral - 775th anniversary
16 August: Madonna - 65th birthday
23 August: Battle of Kursk ends - 80th anniversary
26 August: Lee De Forest - 150th birthday anniversary
29 August: Richard Attenborough - 100th birthday anniversary
30 August: Charles Bronson - 20th anniversary of his death
30 August: Jacques Louis David - 275th birthday anniversary
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September 2023
September: Panic of 1873 - 150 years
2 September: J.R.R. Tolkien - 50th anniversary of his death
4 September: Oskar Schlemmer - 135th birthday anniversary
12 September: Jesse Owens - 110th birthday anniversary
12 September: Ben Shahn - 125th birthday anniversary
13 September: Claudette Colbert - 120th birthday anniversary
19 September: Jeremy Irons - 75th birthday
20 September: Theodor Fontane - 125th anniversary of his death
23 September: Pablo Neruda - 50th anniversary of his death
23 September: Romy Schneider - 85th birthday anniversary
26 September: Olivia Newton-John - 75th birthday anniversary
29 September: Wystan Hugh Auden - 50th anniversary of his death
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