June Days. 1848. Paris workers uprising. Cavaignac’s military rule kills 10,000 to restore order.

D-Day. June 6, 1944. Normandy Landing.

Festival of the Supreme Being. 8 June 1794. Declared by Robespierre and designed by David.

France, Battle. June 5-16, 1940. Germany takes France.

June Offensive. Kerensky Offensive.

Ascension. Jesus’ rise to heaven 40 days after Resurrection.

Bartholemew’s Day, St. St. Bartholemew’s Day.

Borromeo, St. Charles. 1538-84. Milan Cardinal. First Sunday school, 1580.

Bulwer-Lytton. 1803-73. English novelist. Last Days of Pompeii, 1834. -“It was a dark and stormy night”.

Cable, George. 1844-1925. US author on color problem: Ole Creole Days 1879. Silent South 1885.

Felton, Rebecca. 1835-1930. First US woman senator 1922. Symbolic appointment for 2 days.

Fire of London. 1666. Four days. 87 churches. 13,200 houses. 100,000 homeless. Rebuilt in 10 years. 1136 fire was previously known as Great Fire of London.

Flood, Great. c3000BC. Destruction of man and world by God. Forty days and night. Noah. Gilgamesh.

French Republican Calendar. 1793-1805. 12 30 day months of 3 “decades”. 5-6 holidays at end of year.

General Strike. UK 1926, TUC supports miners for 9 days. Belgium 1893, 1902, for male suffrage. Sweden 1909, vs wage freeze for 1 month.

God’s Truce. 1027-13C. Hostilities suspended on Holy days.

Grey, Lady Jane. 1537-54. English Queen for 9 days, 1553. Executed.

Hesiod. c800BC. Greek poet. Works and Days.

Hostage Crisis. 1979-81. Iranian miltants sieze US Embassy. Hold 52 hostages 444 days.

Hundred Days. 1815. March 20 to July 8; Napoleon’s escape from Elba to his second abdication. 1933. Began Roosevelt’s administration. New Deal enacted.

Jonah. Hebrew prophet who spent three days in the stomach of a whale.

Kwang-hsü. 1872-1908. Chinese Emperor. 1875-. Aunt Tz’u-hsi regent except 1889 Hundred Days of Reform.

Londonderry Siege. 1689. 105 days vs James II forces.

Lubbock, John. English MP. Bank Holidays Act 1871.

Lytton, Bulwer-. 1803-73. English novelist: Last Days of Pompeii 1834. “It was a dark and stormy night”.

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