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June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian calendar, the second of four months to The have a length of 30 days, and the third of five months to have a length of less than 31 days. Villager The months of June comes from the Roman, or Julian calendar. June was initially named OFFICIAL NE WSLETTER OF C OLONIAL VILL AGE 06-01-2021 lunius. The name either comes from the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter, or from the word iuniores, the latin word for younger ones. In the early Roman calendar June only had 29 days. It was Julius Caesar who added a day giving June 30 days. About June

Since the 1950s, City has gone through a transition and tried to shed its Cow Town image. This began when Kansas City was at its height of national attention with the back- to-back Presidencies of Harry and Kansas favorite-son Dwight D. Eisenhower. Events of the period saw the heyday of Roy A. Roberts' influence as editor of the Kansas City Star. The change began in the early 1950s with the precipitous decline of the railroad June Birthdays! due to competition from automobile and jet travel. Union Station, which had lorded over the second busiest rail intersection (next to ), began a rapid Happy Birthday! With all the love your decline. The Great Flood of 1951 decimated the Kansas City Stockyards in the heart can hold, and the utter joy birthdays bring, may you have a truly special West Bottoms. The stockyards (which were also second to Chicago in size) never day, you deserve the best of everything. came back to their full glory as stockyards moved away from urban and unionized Health Care: Barbara Pitman 5/12, Joanne Ciaravino 5/13 Assisted centers. Living: Lillian Critchfield 5/10, Lyle Murphy 5/21 Independent Living: Martin In 1955, Kansas City formally began its relationship with major league Pankratz 5/05, Vivian Martin 5/21, Callom Jones 5/23, Georgann Cody 5/28, Eldyn sports when the Philadelphia Athletics relocated to the city, becoming Streff 5/30 Celebrity Birthdays: Tim McGraw 5/01, Bing Crosby 5/02, Sugar Ray the Kansas City Athletics, playing at Municipal . Robinson 5/03, George Clooney The 1960s were marked by a period of many projects coupled with the rapid urban decay of many inner city neighborhoods. During this period, many historic buildings were demolished to make way for parking lots, and office buildings. The area became primarily for business rather than for everyday city life. During this inner city decay, Kansas City began to annex land and expand its area. In the process, Kansas City eventually became one of the largest cities in the area-wise at 318 square miles (824 km2), while its population decreased by 15,000 between 1950 and 2000. It is still not uncommon to find June Poem cattle and corn fields on the extreme edges of Kansas City. In 2000, Kansas City ranked as the 21st largest city in the United States in terms of area, while it placed 40th in population rankings. June: She needs no teaching, no defect is hers, she stands in all her beauty mid the trees, After moved the Kansas City Athletics Neath the tall pines her golden sunshine stirs and shifts to Oakland, California, Missouri Senator threatened to remove and trembles with each passing breeze. All the long day upon the broad green professional baseball's antitrust exemption. responded by awarding boughs, Leith the lustre of her lovely life, while too much drugged with an expansion team to Kansas City which started play in 1969 under . The rapture to carouse broods, her soft world of insect-being rife. So without Royals had winning seasons by 1971 and moved into their effort or perplexing thought she comes to claim all homage as her own, melting new home in the at Royals Stadium (now ) in the strongest with her magic zone. O wondrous June! Our lives should be like 1973, beginning a decade in which they appeared in the two times (winning thee, with such calm grace fulfilling destiny. once) and won six West division titles. In 1972, the played their first game at the new .

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