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3 June 2025

  • 00:00, 3 June 2025 (UTC)
National Windrush Monument
National Windrush Monument

2 June 2025

  • 00:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Sylvilagus aquaticus
Sylvilagus aquaticus
  • ... that the swamp rabbit (pictured) is both territorial and a great swimmer?
  • ... that no other month in a calendar year starts with the same day of the week as June?
  • ... that Samantha Kane led an unsuccessful takeover bid for Sheffield United F.C. and, after a gender transition, was interviewed to become its chief executive?
  • ... that the first version of the Amtrak Susquehanna River Bridge was heavily damaged by a tornado during construction?
  • ... that medicine dean Sjahriar Rasad was accused of being involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Indonesian president Sukarno?
  • ... that the U.S. Supreme Court is currently deciding whether the family who lived in a house wrongly raided by the FBI may sue the government?
  • ... that Romanian sports shooter Petre Cișmigiu demanded the elimination of a pension gap between Olympic and non-Olympic champions, such as himself?
  • ... that the novel Looking Glass Girl was launched at Coventry Central Library to highlight the threat of 17 libraries in the city closing?
  • ... that John P. Morris won a strike by hiding pigeons in fur coats?

1 June 2025

  • 00:00, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Kitty Marion
Kitty Marion
  • ... that Kitty Marion (pictured) was force-fed over 200 times during a hunger strike?
  • ... that the North Korean destroyer Choe Hyon is the largest ship constructed for the Korean People's Navy?
  • ... that after the release of High and Low, director Akira Kurosawa received telephone calls imitating his film that threatened to kidnap his daughter?
  • ... that May Bradford Shockley is why Silicon Valley is where it is?
  • ... that the conservation of a goat might endanger the survival of Aquilegia paui?
  • ... that Joy Laking predicted in a school writing assignment that within ten years she would be making a living as an artist?
  • ... that the Taiwanese restaurant chain Formosa Chang drew inspiration from McDonald's for its non-greasy atmosphere and corporate practices?
  • ... that Haridas Mitra had his death sentence commuted after the intervention of Mahatma Gandhi?
  • ... that "Steve's Lava Chicken" recently became the shortest song to enter the UK Top 40?