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June 22

A total of 86 passengers on a train carrying members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus are killed, another 127 injured in a wreck near Hammond, Indiana. Five days later the dead are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Ill., in an area set aside as Showmen?s Rest, purchased only a few months earlier by the Showmen?s League of America - 1918

June 22

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June 21

In England, a compassionate parliament declares that children can't be required to work more than 12 hours a day. And they must have an hour?s instruction in the Christian Religion every Sunday and not be required to sleep more than two in a bed - 1802

June 21

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June 18

Union and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph and others meet with President Roosevelt about a proposed July 1 March on Washington to protest discrimination in war industries. A week later, Roosevelt orders that the industries desegregate - 1941

June 18

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June 17

Twenty-one young women and girls making cartridges at the Washington, D.C. arsenal during the Civil War are killed in an accidental explosion. Most of the victims were Irish immigrants - 1864

June 17