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Stand For Children Day gives children a voice
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Singer and songwriter Curtis Mayfield born 1942
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Children's author Richard Scarry born 1919
World Environment Day
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Painter Diego Velazquez born 1599
Poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin born 1799
Children's rights activist Marian Wright Edelman born 1939
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Painter Paul Gauguin born 1848
Virginia Apgar, pediatric physician, developed and introduced the Apgar test for newborns. Born 1909.
 
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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright born 1867
World Oceans Day
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Undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau born 1910
First woman elected to Congress Jeannette Rankin born 1880
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Holocaust victim Anne Frank born 1929
World Day Against Child Labor
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Poet William Butler Yeats born 1865
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Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden born 1958
Scientist Thomas Young born 1773
Author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe born 1811
 
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Tennis player Venus Williams born 1980
Theologian John Wesley born 1703
UN World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
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Singer and songwriter Paul McCartney born 1942
Susan B. Anthony fined for attempting to vote for President in 1872
Mountain climber and explorer George Mallory born 1886
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Baseball player Lou Gehrig born 1903
Statue of Liberty arrives 1885
Philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal born 1623
Juneteenth celebrates African American Freedom
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UN World Refugee Day
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Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre born 1905
International Surfing Day raising awareness about the state of our oceans.
Father's Day
 
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UN Public Service Day
Father of the Internet Vint Cerf born 1943
Olympic sprinter Wilma Rudolph born 1940
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National Forgiveness Day
Challenger astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka born 1946
Boxer Jack Dempsey born 1895
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Novelist George Orwell born 1903
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UN International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
Novelist Pearl S. Buck born 1892
Olympic track and field star Babe Didrikson Zaharias born 1914
Cyclist Greg LeMond born 1961
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Author Helen Keller born 1880
Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar born 1872
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Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus born 1940
Painter Peter Paul Rubens born 1577
Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau born 1712
 
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