June 2024: Events and Anniversaries Preview

Welcome to your akg-images June preview with content ideas for the coming months and 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. The 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings / D-Day is on June 6.

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Featured Story: World Environment Day is on the 5th of June - a perfect day to highlight the Eden Project in Cornwall, UK.

Eden Project. AKG874153 © akg-images / HorizonsEden Project. AKG881306 © akg-images / HorizonsEden Project. AKG1473884 © akg-images / VIEW Pictures / Edmund Sumner

Franz Kafka. AKG566262 © akg-images / EhrtMeryl Streep. AKG10963853 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio/Archivio Spaziani/Rocco Spaziani

A large number of ships in front of Omaha Beach. 9th June 1944. They have been delivering troops, equipment and vehicles lining up to leave the beach. AKG3022315 © akg-images / ullstein bild

Juneteenth : Trent River Settlement of freed slaves, 1866. AKG1730367 © akg-images / North Wind Picture Archives

June 2024

3 June: Franz Kafka - 100th anniversary of his death

3 June: Johann Strauss II - 125th anniversary of his death

5 June: Ronald Reagan - 20th anniversary of his death

6 June: Normandy landings / D-Day (colourised WW2 selection here) - 80th anniversary

6 June Alexander Pushkin - 225th birthday anniversary

6 June: ​ Diego Velazquez - 425th birthday anniversary

8 June: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published - 75th anniversary

10 June: WWII Oradour-sur-Glane massacre - 80th anniversary

11 June: Kosovo War ends - 25th anniversary

12 June: George H W Bush - 100th birthday anniversary

16 June: Father's Day (except Australia and New Zealand)

19 June: Juneteenth USA

20 June: Summer Solstice

22 June: Meryl Streep - 75th birthday

25 June: Michael Jackson - 15th anniversary of his death

26 June: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin - 200th birthday anniversary

27 June: Giorgio Vasari - 450th anniversary of his death

28 June: assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand - 110th anniversary

Washerwomen on the Beach of Etretat. Eugène Boudin. AKG5010467 © akg-images

Ferruccio Busoni. AKG9408111 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio/Archivio GBB

Robert the Bruce reviewing his troops before the Battle of Bannockburn, 24 June 1314. AKG7056887 © akg-images / UIG / Universal History ArchiveEva Marie Saint will be 100 years old in July. AKG497482 © akg-images / Album / M.G.M

July 2024

1 July: Wimbledon Tennis tournament begins

1 July: Sydney Pollack - 90th birthday anniversary

4 July: Eva Marie Saint - 100th birthday

4 July: Marie Curie - 90th anniversary of her death

4 July: Independence Day USA

11 July: Robert the Bruce - 750th birthday anniversary

12 July: Eugène Boudin - 200th birthday anniversary

13 July: Frida Kahlo - 70th anniversary of her death

14 July: Bastille Day

15 July: The Rosetta Stone is discovered - 225th anniversary

17 July: Ludwig Hohlwein - 150th birthday anniversary

20 July: The 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler - 80th anniversary

21 July: Ernest Hemingway - 125th birthday anniversary

26 July: Olympic Games scheduled to begin in Paris

27 July: Ferruccio Busoni - 100th anniversary of his death

1944 Liberation of Paris. AKG10780357 © René Zuber / akg-imagesCharles Lindbergh. AKG5282971 © akg-images / GermaineImage / Germaine Van Parys

White Poodle in a Punt. George Stubbs. AKG5010037 © akg-imagesJoseph Conrad. AKG3837112 © akg-images / Pictures From History

August 2024

1 August: WWII The Warsaw Uprising - 80th anniversary

2 August: James Baldwin - 100th birthday anniversary

3 August: Joseph Conrad - 100th anniversary of his death

9 August: WWII destruction of the Lodz Ghetto - 80th anniversary

11 August: Alcatraz Island opens as a federal prison - 90th anniversary

12 August: Robert Southey - 250th birthday anniversary

13 August: Alfred Hitchcock - 125th birthday anniversary

14 - 25 August - WWII Liberation of Paris - 80th anniversary, see also our exclusive images of the Liberation of Paris by René Zuber

15 August: WWII Operation Dragoon - 80th anniversary

16 August: James Cameron - 70th birthday

23 August: The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact is signed - 85th anniversary

25 August: George Stubbs - 300th birthday anniversary

26 August: Charles Lindbergh - 50th anniversary of his death

28 August: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 275th birthday anniversary

Brigitte Bardot. AKG1608435 © akg-images / AlbumTruman Capote. AKG460163 © akg-images / Ullstein Bild

The Stages of Life, Caspar David Friedrich. AKG470048 © akg-imagesTwiggy. AKG6097169 © akg-images / TT News Agency

September 2024

1 September: Invasion of Poland, sparking WWII - 85th anniversary

1 September: Lily Tomlin - 85th birthday

1 September: Richard Arlen - 125th birthday anniversary

4 September: Anton Bruckner - 200th birthday anniversary

5 September: Caspar David Friedrich - 250th birthday anniversary

13 September: Arnold Schoenberg - 150th birthday anniversary

16 September: Lauren Bacall - 100th birthday anniversary

17 September: WWII Operation Market Garden - 80th anniversary

19 September: Twiggy - 75th birthday

26 September: Ivan Pavlov - 175th birthday anniversary

28 September: Brigitte Bardot - 90th birthday

28 September: Marcello Mastroianni - 100th birthday anniversary

30 September: Truman Capote - 100th birthday anniversary

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