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June 30 I ask you to make this June 30, 1960, an illustrious date that you will keep indelibly engraved in your hearts, a date of significance of which you will teach to your children, so that they will make known to their sons and to their grandchildren the glorious history of our fight for liberty. Patrice Lumumba, first Prime Minister of the Congo, Independence Speech The people of the Democratic Republic of the …Read more 
June 29 In a word, Never let go on these three things: Faith, hope and love. And know that the greatest of these Will always be love I Corinthians 13:13 June 29 is the Feast Day of St. Peter and St. Paul. Each gets his own saint day, but in the Venn diagram of the Catholic Church, June 29 marks the intersection of the two. The two Apostles couldn’t have been more different. St. …Read more 
June 28
June 1969. Two months before Woodstock, another New York event changed America in a profound way. There’s no one moment that “started” the gay rights movement, but many say it began around 1:20 in the morning on June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village. When a handful of officers raided Stonewall in the wee hours of …Read more June 27 is a big day for holidays. Djibouti celebrates its independence from France in 1977. Canada celebrates Multiculturalism Day, which falls between National Aboriginal Day on June 21 and Canada Day on July 1. Brazil celebrates Mixed Race Day on June 27. It falls 3 days after the (state of) Amazon’s Day of the Caboclo. Caboclo refers a specific Brazilian mixed-race, dating back to when the first soldiers of European descent settled in the Amazon to harvest …Read more 
June 26
Awaken thee, Romanian, shake off the deadly slumber… Today is National Flag Day in Romania. The three colors of the Romanian flag represent the blood of the people, the golden crops of the land, and the blue sky above…according to the Communists who ruled Romania from 1947 to 1989. But much has changed since the fall of the Iron Curtain, including the country’s national anthem, which was “Three Colors” from 1977 …Read more June 25
Like a family of members forced to live under one roof through most of the 20th century, the states that made up Yugoslavia had little in common but rivalries. Forged in the wake of World War I, the country was initially known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, as it was later called, was dismantled after the Nazi invasion of 1941. The country …Read more 
June 23
The Scandinavians never pass up a chance for a good bonfire. Midsummer Night, or St. John’s Eve as it’s sometimes called in Denmark and Norway, is the perfect occasion. The holiday has little to do with St. John the Baptist, other than falling just before his saint day. In the 10th century Baltic and Scandinavian countries replaced the traditional names of Midsummer with allusions to the feast of St. John the Baptist, which …Read more |
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