June 2025: Events and Anniversaries Preview

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.

The preview is available in our Newsroom along with other stories, and you can connect with us on Instagram and LinkedIn, where we regularly share useful content.


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.


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

18 August: Ford Motor Company Germany is founded - 100th 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


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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