On 20th June…

On 21st June…

1982 - Prince William was born in London. He was the first child to Prince Charles and Diana. Princess of Wales and is second in line to the British throne.

On 22nd June…

1535 - Cardinal John Fisher was executed at the Tower of London for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the Church of England.

On 23rd June…

1912 - Alan Turing was born in London. He was a mathematician and early computer scientist who invented the Turing Machine and helped to decode the German Enigma machine during World War II.

On 24th June…

1497 - John Cabot, landed in eastern Canada. He was an Italian explorer who had sailed west from Bristol under the commission of King Henry VII in the hope of finding a new route to Asia. When he spotted land, Cabot believed he had found Asia and claimed it for England calling it Newfoundland.

On 25th June…

On 26th June…