iJunoon Archives |2014 | June

Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.

G. K. Chesterton, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)

Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1552)

English Civil War: Battle of Naseby

Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (b. 1754)

World War II: Filipino troops of the 15th, 66th and 121st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.

The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris

James Black, Scottish pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)

Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.