June 2025: Events and Anniversaries Preview
3 June 2025
Welcome to your akg-images preview for June 2025. Scroll down to find content ideas for the coming months and curated albums of supporting images.
Big news! We are launching our new website soon. We think you will be pleased with the speed and the intuitive navigation. We will send you some useful information in the coming weeks.
June also brings us World Bicycle Day, and a change in season - summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern.
Our featured source for the month is Mondadori Portfolio, documenting over 100 years of publishing and photographic history and photos by Italy’s most outstanding photographers.
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Featured Story: 2027 - Looking Further Ahead. Our year-long list of significant anniversaries and events for 2027 is ready for you to begin planning your projects.
![Elvis Presley. “Jailhouse Rock” [1957], directed by RICHARD THORPE. AKG894726 © akg-images / Album / M.G.M.](https://cdn.uc.assets.prezly.com/ce1a006e-cf5e-4f16-aed9-4b8a8a0657ac/AKG894726_Low_res.jpg "Elvis Presley. “Jailhouse Rock” [1957], directed by RICHARD THORPE. AKG894726 © akg-images / Album / M.G.M.")
.jpg "Lord Louis Mountbatten. AKG2727237 © akg-images / picture-alliance / dpa")
June 2025
3 June: Tony Curtis - 100th birthday anniversary
3 June: Georges Bizet - 150th anniversary of his death
6 June: Thomas Mann - 150th birthday anniversary
8 June: Tim Berners-Lee - 70th birthday
14 June: Jörg Immendorff - 80th birthday anniversary
14 June: WWII, France falls under German occupation - 85th anniversary
15 June: Father's Day (UK and USA)
16 June: WWII Philippe Pétain installed as Chief of State of Vichy France - 85th anniversary
19 June: Juneteenth USA
21 June: Summer Solstice
24 June: Lord Herbert Kitchener - 175th birthday anniversary
25 June: Lord Louis Mountbatten - 125th birthday anniversary
25 June: Korean War begins - 75th anniversary
30 June - 13 July: Wimbledon Championships
July 2025
1 July: Debbie Harry - 80th birthday
1 July: Erik Satie - 100th anniversary of his death
2 July: Patrice Lumumba - 100th birthday anniversary
3 July: Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch - 150th birthday anniversary
4 July: Independence Day, USA
6 July: The Dalai Lama - 90th birthday
7 July: Ringo Starr - 85th birthday
10 July: Battle of Britain begins - 85th anniversary
11 July: Srebrenica Massacre - 30th anniversary
12 July: R. Buckminster Fuller - 130th birthday anniversary
13 July: Patrick Stewart - 85th birthday
14 July: Bastille Day
17 July: Potsdam Conference - 80th anniversary
17 July: Lovis Corinth - 100th anniversary of his death
18 July: Nelson Mandela Day
21 July: Oskar Moll - 150th birthday anniversary
26 July: Carl Jung - 150th birthday anniversary
29 July: Mikis Theodorakis - 100th birthday anniversary
29 July: Umberto I of Italy - 125th anniversary of his assassination
August 2025
4 August: Andrea della Robbia - 500th anniversary of his death
4 August: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother - 125th birthday anniversary
4 August: Isaac Ilyich Levitan - 125th anniversary of his death
6 August: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima - 80th anniversary (graphic content)
9 August: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki - 80th anniversary
15 August: VJ Day, WW2 - 80th anniversary (UK)
15 August: Oscar Peterson - 100th birthday anniversary
21 August: Jean-Baptiste Greuze - 300th birthday anniversary
23 August: Ernst Krenek - 125th birthday anniversary
25 August: Friedrich Nietzsche - 125th anniversary of his death
25 August: Matthew Webb becomes the first swimmer to cross the English Channel unaided - 150th anniversary
30 August: Antony Gormley - 75th birthday
.jpg "BB King. AKG466841 © akg-images / Jazz Archiv Hamburg")
September 2025
2 September: VJ Day (US), WW2 - 80th anniversary
3 September: Malcolm Campbell breaks land speed record - 90th anniversary
6 September: Andrea Camilleri - 100th birthday anniversary
7 September: Father's Day (Australia and NZ)
7 September: The Blitz began - 85th anniversary
8 September: Peter Sellers - 100th birthday anniversary
13 September: Cesare Borgia - 550th birthday anniversary
16 September: BB King - 100th birthday anniversary
21 September: Bill Murray - 75th birthday
22 September: Rosh Hashanah begins
26 September: Bryan Ferry - 80th birthday
27 September: Stockton and Darlington railway opens - 200th anniversary
30 September: James Dean - 70th anniversary of his death
30 September: Decimus Burton - 225th birthday anniversary
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