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June 18th, 1264: The first definitely known meeting of the Parliament of Ireland.

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June 17th, 1903: Ruth Graves Wakefield, inventor of the chocolate chip cookie, is born.

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Black History Month: Simon Nkoli

“I am black, and I am gay. I cannot separate the two parts of me into secondary and primary struggle. They will all be one struggle.”

Simon Nkoli was born in the late 1950s in the Black township of Soweto in South Africa. He grew up under apartheid, and first became involved with anti-apartheid activism as a student, despite negative reactions within the movement to his homosexuality.

In 1984, Simon was arrested along with 21 other men while protesting rent increases in the township of Delmas, a group which became known as the Delmas 22. While in prison awaiting trial, Simon was outed, and faced backlash from the rest of the group, many who feared that pulic knowledge of his sexuality would negatively impact the outcome of the trial. To the surprise of his co-accused, Simon received an outpouring of support from the international queer community, which in turn led to greater international support for the Delmas 22 and anti-apartheid work.

Simon was ultimately acquitted, and began work as a founding member of a new group, GLOW - the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of Witwatersrand - fighting for the rights of queer people in Johannesburg’s Black townships. Simon was diagnosed with HIV while in prison, and focussed especially on HIV/AIDS activism in Black communities. With GLOW, Simon went on to organise Johannesburg’s first Pride march in 1990.

In 1994, Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s president, marking the end of apartheid. Simon met and negotiated with government officials to ensure the rights of gay and lesbian people would be enshrined in the country’s new constitution - the first country in the world to do so.

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Image: Simon wearing a shirt with a pink triangle which reads “No liberation without gay-lesbian liberation”, and a pin reading “Silence=Death”

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June 15th, 763: BCE: A solar eclipse is recorded by Assyrians. This is one of the cardinal events from which chronologies have determined other important dates in Mesopotamian history.

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June 15th, 1928: Che Guevara was born.

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Detail from The Witches’ Cove (c. 16th century) by Jan Mandijn or anonymous follower.

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June 14th, 1954: US President Eisenhower legally changes the United States Pledge of Allegiance to include the words "under God".

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June 13th, 1325: Explorer Ibn Battuta begins leaves his home in Tangiers to begin a 24 year journey.

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June 12th, 1967: The US Supreme Court rules in Loving v. Virginia. All US state laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional.

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Monumental Statue of the Goddess Sekhmet (New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Reign of Amenhotep III (1390–1353 BCE)). Granodiorite.

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June 11th, 1986: American actor Shia LaBeouf is born.

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June 10th, 1924: Members of the Italian National Fascist Party kidnap and murder Socialist Giacomo Matteotti.

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June 9th 53: Roman emperor Nero gets married to Claudia Octavia 68: Roman emperor Nero quotes Vergil's Aeneid and kills himself.

Why didn't you post anything for D-Day?

Because for some reason I always think it’s in August—maybe that’s because that’s when the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings and VJ Day were? But I’m also always convinced Father’s Day (June 21st) is in August so maybe I’m just bad at keeping things straight in the summer months. My bad!

On This Day In History (a couple days late): June 6th, 1944: D-Day and the landings on Normandy begin the offensive push that ends World War II in Europe

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Kissing Doesn't Kill: Greed and Indifference Do (1989) by art collective Gran Fury. Poster on the side of a bus.

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June 8th, 1984: New South Wales, Australia, decriminalizes homosexuality.

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June 7th, 1099: The Siege of Jerusalem by European forces during the First Crusade begins.

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