June 1-July 4 Fireworks Safety Month
June 5 National Cancer Survivors Day
June 10-16 National Men’s Health Week

June 5, 1987:
Dr. Mae C. Jemison becomes first black woman astronaut.

June 7, 1917:
Poetess Gwendolyn Brooks, first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize (Poetry, 1950), born.

June 10, 1854:
James Augustine Healy, first African American Roman Catholic bishop, ordained.

June 17, 1775:
Minuteman Peter Salem fights in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

June 26, 1975:
Dr. Samuel Blanton Rosser becomes first African American certified in pediatric surgery.