June is loaded with holidays, observances, food themes, awareness days , historic figures and authors birthdays, science and historic based anniversaries, and more! Whether you’re looking for something special to study, summer school ideas, trivia, a day to celebrate, or a food to add to the menu, this list of Special Days in June, 2018 gives you plenty to choose from!

Free resources for teaching throughout the month, including a PDF of Special Days in June, can be found at the end of this list.

June Awareness/Observance Days and Themes:

• Accordion Awareness
• Adopt a Cat
• Aquarium
• Audio Book Appreciation
• Bathroom Reading
• Black Music
• Camping
• Caribbean-American Heritage
• Childhood Cancer Awareness
• Child Vision
• Children’s Awareness
• Effective Communication
• Entrepreneurs “Do It Yourself” Marketing
• Fight the Filthy Fly
• Fireworks Safety
• Forest System
• GLTB Pride
• Great Outdoors
• International Men
• Perennial Gardening
• Potty Training Awareness
• Rebuild Your Life
• Rivers
• Rose
• Safety
• Skyscraper
• Smile
• Sports America Kids
• Student Safety
• Surf Music
• Zoo

June’s Food Themes:

• Aprium
• Beef Steak
• Candy
• Corn
• Country Cooking
• Cucumber
• Dairy
• Dairy Alternative
• Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
• Ice Tea
• Lemon
• Mango
• Okra
• Papaya
• Pluot
• Soul Food
• Steakhouse
• Turkey Lovers

June’s Daily Specials:  (the * means that the special day does not fall on the same date every year)

June 1

• Barefoot Day
• Dare Day
• Doughnut Day *(1st Fri.)
• Flip a Coin Day
• Global Day of Parents
• Heimlich Maneuver Day
• Kentucky Statehood 1792
• Magnetic North Pole discovered 1831
• Nail Polish Day
• Olive Day
• Oscar the Grouch Birthday 1969
• Pen Pal Day
• Say Something Nice Day
• Samoa Independence 1962
• Stand for Children Day
• Tennessee Statehood 1796
• Volunteers Week begins
• Mormon Leader Brigham Young born 1801

June 2

• Boating and Fishing Week begins*
• Bubba Day
• Queen Elizabeth Coronation 1953
• Leave the Office Early Day
• Milk Days
• Prairie Day * (1st Sat.)
• Radio Patented 1896
• Rocky Road Ice Cream Day
• Rotisserie Chicken Day
• Trails Day *(1st Sat.)
• Yell “Fudge” at the Cobras in North America Day

June 3

• Animal Rights Day * (1st Sun.)
• Business Etiquette Week begins *(1st full week)
• Cancer Survivors’ Day * (1st Sun.)
• Chimborazo Day
• Chocolate Macaroon Day
• Egg Day
• Pet Appreciation Week *(1st full week)
• Repeat Day (I said “Repeat Day”)
• First U.S. Space Walk 1965

June 4

• Aesop born 620 BC
• Applesauce Cake Day
• Audacity To Hope Day
• Cheese Day
• Extinct Day
• King George III born 1738
• First Ford Built 1896
• Hug Your Cat Day
• Old Maid’s Day
• Shopping Cart invented 1937
•  TiananmenSquare (Beijing) Massacre 1989
• Tonga Independence 1863

June 5

• Patriot Nathan Hale born 1755
• 1st Hot Air Balloon Flight 1783
• Gingerbread Day
• Author Richard Scarry born 1919
• Veggie Burger Day
• World Environment Day

June 6

• D-Day 1944
• Drive-in Movie Day
• Gardening Exercise Day
• Higher Education Day
• Running Day *(1st Wed.)
• Russian Language Day
• Yo-Yo Day

June 7

• Chocolate Ice Cream Day
• Crusades – Siege of Jerusalem 1099
• Daniel Boone Day
• Muhammad (Islam Founder) born 570

June 8

• Best Friends Day
• Suction Vacuum Cleaner patented 1870
• Upsy Daisy Day
• Inventor Frank Lloyd Wright born 1867
• World Ocean’s Day
• Zoo Elephant Day

June 9

• Donald Duck debut 1934
• Knit in Public Day *
• Peter the Great born 1672
• Inventor George Stephenson born 1781
• Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day

June 10

• Ball Point Pen patented 1888
• Black Cow Day
• Herbs and Spices Day
• Ice Tea Day
• Men’s Health Week begins * (week before Fathers’ Day)
• Race Unity Day *(2nd Sun.)
• ‘SOS” signal first used in emergency 1909
• Author Maurice Sendak born 1928

June 11

• Corn on the Cob Day
• ET premiered 1982
• Jacque Cousteau born 1910
• German Chocolate Cake Day
• Great Barrier Reef discovered 1770
• Making Life Beautiful Day
• The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee *

June 12

• Baseball Invented 1839
• President George H.W. Bush born 1924
• Children’s Day
• Crowded Nest Awareness Day
• Anne Frank born 1929
• Jerky Day
• Loving Day
• Peanut Butter Cookie Day
• Philippines Independence 1898
• Red Rose Day
• Russia Day
• Superman, Man of Steel Day
• World Day Against Child Labor

June 13

• Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
• Sewing Machine Day
• Weed Your Garden Day
• Poet William Butler Yeats born 1865

June 14

• Bath Day
• Eid Al-Fitr begins*
• Flag Day
• Pop Goes the Weasel Day
• Author Harriet Beecher Stowe born 1811
• Strawberry Shortcake Day
• President Donald Trump born 1946
• US Army established 1775
• World Blood Donor Day
• World Sea Turtle Day

June 15

• Arkansas Statehood 1836
• Celluloid patented 1869
• Benjamin Franklin’s Kite Experiment Anniversary 1752
• Electricity Day
• Flip-Flop Day *(3rd Fri.)
• Fly a Kite Day
• Global Wind Day
• Lobster Day
• Magna Carta signed 1215
• Nature Photography Day
• National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement Officers
• Smile Power Day
• Worldwide Day of Giving

June 16

• Bloomsday
• The Day of the African Child
• Fresh Veggies Day
• Fudge Day
• Recess at Work Day
• World Juggling Day * (Sat. closest to the 17th)

June 17

• Animal Rights Awareness Week begins*
• Apple Strudel Day
• Battle of Bunker Hill 1775
• Cherry Tart Day
• Eat Your Vegetables Day
• Artist/Mathematician M.C. Escher born 1898
• Father’s Day * (3rd Sun.)
• Iceland proclaimed a republic 1944
• Composer Igor Stravinsky born 1882
• Turkey Lovers’ Day * (3rd Sun.)

June 18

• Battle of Waterloo 1815
• Go Fishing Day
• International Panic Day
• Picnic Day
• Pollinator Week begins *
• Napoleon defeated at Waterloo 1815
• Splurge Day
• Sushi Day

June 19

• Garfield the Cat’s birthday 1978
• Juneteenth Day
• Kuwait Independence 1961
• Scientist Blaise Pascal born 1623
• Slavery Abolished (US) 1865
• Theologian Charles Haddon Spurgeon born 1834
• Statue of Liberty arrived in US 1885
• Watch Day
• World Sauntering Day

June 20

• American Eagle Day
• Hike with a Geek Day
• Ice Cream Soda Day
• Composer Jacques Offenbach born 1819
• Surfing Day
• Vanilla Milkshake Day
• West Virginia Statehood 1863
• World Refugee Day

June 21

• Atheists Solidarity Day
• Day of the Gong
• Daylight Appreciation Day
• Dump the Pump Day * (3rd Thurs.)
• Go Skateboarding Day
• Make Music Day
• Peaches ‘N’ Cream Day
• New Hampshire Statehood 1788
• Reaping Machine patented 1834
• Selfie Day
• Summer Solstice *
• Watermelon Seed Spitting Week (last Thurs. – Sun.)
• World Handshake Day
• World Humanist Day

June 22

• Chocolate Eclair Day
• Onion Rings Day
• Stupid Guy Thing Day
• Take Your Dog to Work Day *(Fri. after Father’s Day)

June 23

• Don’t Let Nouns Get You Down Day
• Great American Backyard Campout *(4th Sat.)
• Hydration Day
• Let It Go Day
• Midsummer’s Eve/Day *
• Pecan Sandies Day
• Pink Day
• Public Service Day
• Saxophone patented 1846
• Typewriter patented 1868
• United Nations Public Service Day
• US Secret Service established 1865

June 24

• America’s Kids Day *(4th Sun.)
• Carpenter Ant Awareness Week begins *(last full week)
• Fairy Day
• Fish are Friends, Not Food Week *(last week)
• Pralines Day
• Swim a Lap Day
• U.F.O. Day

June 25

• Battle of Little Bighorn 1876
• Author Eric Carle born 1929
• Catfish Day
• Catfish Day
• Log Cabin Day
• Mozambique Independence 1975
• Scientist Walther Nernst born 1864
• Author George Orwell born 1903
• Please Take My Children to Work Day *(last Mon.)
• Strawberry Parfait day
• Virginia Statehood 1788

June 26

• Beautician’s Day
• Bicycle patented 1819
• Chocolate Pudding Day
• Columnists’ Day *(4th Tues.)
• Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
• Forgiveness Day
• Madagascar Independence 1957
• Pied Piper Day
• Toothbrush invented 1498

June 27

• Decide to be Married Day
• Djibouti Independence 1977
• “Happy Birthday To You” song published 1924
• Helen Keller born 1880
• Orange Blossom Day
• PTSD Awareness Day
• Sunglasses Day

June 28

• American Flowers Week begins *
• Bomb Pop Day *(last Thurs.)
• Paul Bunyan Day
• Handshake Day * (last Thurs.)
• Artist Peter Paul Rubens born 1577
• WW1 Began 1914

June 29

• Camera Day
• Fishermen’s Day
• Hug Holiday
• Parchment day
• St. Peter and St. Paul’s Day
• Seychelles Independence 1976
• Waffle Iron Day

June 30

• Democratic Republic of the Congo Independence Day 1960
• Gone With the Wind published 1936
• Meteor Day
• NOW (National Organization for Women) Day
• Social Media Day

Free Printable – SPECIAL DAYS IN JUNE

For specific Special Day Resources  for June   https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2017/06/03/june-resources/

My “Go-To” list of Resources when planning lessons for Special Days         https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2016/07/31/learning-resources-for-special-days/

How I use Special Days lists in our homeschool blog series :

Special Days and the Evolution of Morning Calendar Time

Special Days and Biographies

Special Days and Geography

Special Days and Science

Special Days Archive    – Direct links to the most recent Special Days and Resource lists for every month.

I make my monthly special days calendars by using several sources including old calendars, holiday books, newspapers, and the web. If you know of a special day that I do not have listed, please comment and let me know what it is so I can add it in. Below are the links to my favorite online special days and calendar resources.

http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/june.htm

http://www.se7en.org.za/se7ens-june

http://food.unl.edu/fnh/june

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/june.html

https://whatismyspiritanimal.com/animal-holidays-celebrations/

https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/calendar-at-a-glance/

http://chartsbin.com/view/2295

http://www.projectbritain.com/calendar/

Happy June!

betty jo