National Meteor Watch Day

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Also on This Day: June 29

Also on this day...
Feast of St. Paul - Patron of Missions, Theologians, and Gentile Christians
Feast of St. Peter - Patron of Fisherman, and Ship Builders

National Camera Day
Hug Holiday Day
National Waffle Iron Day

Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born in 1900, and Little Eva was born in 1943.

International Mud Day

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Paul Bunyan Day

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National Sunglasses Day

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Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

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A Vase of Peonies

Also on This Day: June 21

Also on this day...
Feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga

International Day of Yoga
National Selfie Day

Rockwell Kent was born in 1882, and Al Hirschfeld was born in 1903.  Jean-Paul Sartre was born in 1905.

Summer Begins

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Also on This Day: June 20

Also on this day...
National Ice Cream Soda Day
National Kouign-amann Day (a Breton cake)
National Hike with a Geek Day

Betty Washington was born in 1733.

Sigismund III Vasa

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Old Rose Dandy Itoh Peony

Also on This Day: June 19

Also on this day...
Feast of St. Romuald

World Sauntering Day

Juneteenth - Commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas, and more generally, the emancipation of slaves throughout the South

May Whitty was born in 1865, and Moe Howard was born in 1897.