Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/June

June

5th
 * 1823 – Raffles Institution, the oldest school in Singapore, is founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.

19th
 * 1987 – In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania rules against the Dover Area School District, holding that teaching intelligent design in public school biology classes violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

30th
 * 1857 – Britain calls on the schoolboys of La Martiniere Lucknow to aid in the residency's defence during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Because of their contributions, La Martiniere Lucknow is the only school in the world to have been awarded royal battle honours