Tuesday, June 14, 2022

June Holidays, Festivals and Celebrations


June 1, Roman festival of Carna, goddess of doors and locks

June 2, US Congress granted citizenship and voter’s rights to all Native Americans, 1927

June 3, Festival of Bellona, a Roman goddess of battle 

June 4, First recorded Chinese solar eclipse (780 BCE) 

June 5, Feast of St. Boniface

June 6, St. Fermin’s Day in Spain, Running of the Bulls 

June 7, Weaver’s Festival in Japan

June 8, Founding of Islam circa 622 CE

June 9, Vestalia, Festival honoring the Roman goddess Vesta 

June 10, Day of Anahita (Persian)

June 11, Feast of Saint Barnabus

June 12, Dia dos Namorados, Lovers’ Day (Brazil)

June 13, Birth of the Muses

June 14, Otaue Shinji, Rice-Planting Festival in Japan

June 15, St. Vitus’s Day

June 16, Bloomsday festival in honor of Irish author James Joyce with readings, breakfast, and a pilgrimage retracing the steps of Leopold Bloom

June 17, Iceland’s Independence Day, 1944

June 18, High holy day for women’s rights—Susan B. Anthony defies the law in 1872 by voting

June 19, Juneteenth

June 20, Day of Ix Chel (Mayan)

June 21, Midsummer

June 22, Rose Festival in England, Feast of Saint Alban 

June 23, Jani, the major festival in Latvia

June 24, Feast of the Sun (Aztec)

June 25, Croatian Independence Day

June 26, Pied Piper Day, circa 1284

June 27, Stonewall, 1969, the day gays fought back

June 28, Constitution Day in Ukraine

June 29, Saint Peter’s Day

June 30, Burial of Yarilo in Russia, a traditional rite of song, games, and dance 

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