| Date
| Event
|
| June 1
| Mme. Adolphe becomes the first woman to perform on a tightrope in the US, New York City, 1819
|
| June 2
| Dorothy West born 1907
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| June 3
| Josephine Baker born 1906
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| June 4
| Carson McCullers, age 23, publishes The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter to critical acclaim, 1940
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| June 5
| Kaahumanu died 1832
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| June 6
| Marian Wright Edelman born 1939
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| June 7
| Nikki Giovanni born 1943
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| June 8
| Sara Paretsky born 1947
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| June 9
| Georgia Neese Clark is confirmed as the first female treasurere of the US, 1949
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| June 10
| Bridget Biship becomes the first of the Salem "witches" to be hanged, 1692
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| June 11
| Julia Margaret Cameron born 1815
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| June 12
| Babe Didrikson Zaharias becomes the first US woman to win the British Women's Amateur Gold Tournament, 1947
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| June 13
| Dorothy L Sayers born 1893
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| June 14
| Margaret Bourke-White born 1906
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| June 15
| Malvina Hoffman born 1887
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| June 16
| Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, 1975
|
| June 17
| Susan La Flesche Picotte born 1865
|
| June 18
| Susan B Anthony fined $100 for "illegal voting," informs the judge she will never pay it, 1873
|
| June 19
| Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
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| June 20
| Queen Victoria of England begins her 64-year reign, 1837
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| June 21
| Francoise Sagan born 1935
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| June 22
| Alice Gertrude Bryand and Florence West Duckering become the first women admitted to the American College of Sugeons, 1914
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| June 23
| Anna Akhmatova born 1889
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| June 24
| Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis born 1831
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| June 25
| Carly Simon born 1945
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| June 26
| Pearl Buck born 1892
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| June 27
| Antoinette Perry born 1888
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| June 28
| Molly Pitcher takes the place of her wounded husband in the Battle of Monmouth, 1778
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| June 29
| Oriana Fallaci born 1930
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| June 30
| Lena Horne born 1917
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