June is full of observances! Check out the list below and take action with CRS by engaging with our Facebook and Instagram posts that acknowledge these special designations.
Pride Month
Torture Awareness Month
National Gun Violence Awareness Month
National Men’s Health Month (Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month)
National Cancer Survivors Month
National Homeownership Month
African American Music Appreciation Month/National Black Music Month
National Immigrant Heritage Month
May 31-June 1 – Anniversary of the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre in 1921
June 1 – LGBTQIA+ Families Day
June 2 – Anniversary of the Combahee Ferry Raid (Harriet Tubman Uprising) in South Carolina in 1863
June 2 – Anniversary of when Mexico elected its first female president in 2024
June 4 – International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
June 5 – National Gun Violence Awareness Day (Wear Orange Day)
June 5 – Anniversary of the birth of Breonna Taylor in 1993
June 5 – Anniversary of the birth of Tyre Nichols in 1993
June 5 – Palestinian Naksa Day (Anniversary of the Six-Day War in 1967)
June 5 – World Environment Day
June 5-7 – Wear Orange Weekend
June 11-17 – Certified Nursing Assistant Appreciation Week
June 12 – Anniversary of the United States Supreme Court Loving v. Virgina Decision legalizing interracial marriages nationwide in 1967
June 12 – World Day Against Child Labour
June 12 – Pulse Night of Remembrance
June 12 – Anniversary of the birth of Anne Frank in 1929
June 12 – Anniversary of the death of Medgar Evers in 1963
June 14 – Flag Day
June 15 – Anniversary of the United States Supreme Court Bostock v. Clayton County Decision expanding protections to LGBTQIA+ employees in 2020
June 16 – Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising in 1976
June 17 – LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day
June 17 – Anniversary of the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015
June 17 – Anniversary of the death of Rodney Glen King in 2012
June 18 – International Day for Countering Hate Speech
June 19 – Juneteenth – CRS Closed
June 20 – World Refugee Day
June 21 – Father’s Day
June 21 – ASK Day (against gun violence and for gun safety)
June 23 – United Nations Public Service Day
June 23 – Anniversary of the death of Former CRS Board Member Preston B. Kavanagh Jr. in 2023
June 24 – Anniversary of the UpStairs Lounge Arson Attack (Upstairs Lounge Fire) in 1973
June 25 – Anniversary of the birth of Sonia Sotomayor in 1954
June 25 – Anniversary of the birth of Tamir Rice in 2002
June 25 – Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 that legalized marriage between same-sex couples
June 26 – Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court legalizing marriage equality
June 26 – United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
June 26 – Ashura
June 27 – National HIV Testing Day
June 28 – Anniversary of the beginning of the Stonewall Uprising (Stonewall Riots) in 1969
June 30 – International Day of Parliamentarism
June 30 – Queer Youth of Faith Day