1184 BC – Trojan War: Troy was sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus king of Sparta.
The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature, most notably through Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey. The Iliad relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy; the Odyssey describes Odysseus’s journey home.
Other parts of the war are described in a cycle of epic poems, which have survived through fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets including Virgil and Ovid.
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1936 – The International Surrealist Exhibition opened in London, from 11 June to 4 July 1936 at the New Burlington Galleries.
The exhibition was opened in the presence of about two thousand people by André Breton. The average attendance for the whole of the Exhibition was about a thousand people per day.
During the course of the Exhibition, the following lectures were delivered to large audiences:
June 16 — André Breton — Limites non-frontières du Surréalisme.
June 19 — Herbert Read — Art and the Unconscious.
June 24 — Paul Éluard — La Poésie surréaliste.
June 26 — Hugh Sykes Davies — Biology and Surrealism.
July 1 — Salvador Dalí — Fantômes paranoïaques authentiques.
Dali’s lecture was delivered whilst wearing a deep-sea diving suit. Nearly suffocating during the presentation, Dali had to be rescued by the young poet David Gascoyne, who arrived with a spanner to release him from the diving helmet.
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1963 – Alabama Governor George Wallace stood at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school.
Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
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