8/88Number of times George Bush called Ted Koppel “Dan” during his June appearance on Nightline: 3
10/89Percentage decrease, since June 1985, in funds raised by the Democratic National Committee: 14
Percentage decrease in funds raised by the Republican National Committee: 21
5/89U.S. sales of licensed Roger Rabbit merchandise since the movie’s release last June: $200,000,000
8/89Portion of the sentences uttered by George Bush during his June 8 press conference that were ungrammatical: 1/5
3/90Number of times the phrase “do the right thing” has been used in Congress since Spike Lee’s film was released last June: 67
Number of times the phrase was used in reference to a congressional pay raise: 16
Number of times it was used in reference to racial issues: 1
8/91Depth of the tank treadmarks left on Pennsylvania Avenue after the Gulf war victory parade in June, in inches: 1/2
1/92Number of journalists killed in Yugoslavia since last June: 16
12/92Fine levied on Rockwell International in June for environmental violations at the Rocky Flats weapons plant: $18,500,000
Performance bonuses the Department of Energy paid Rockwell for the last 3 years it operated the plant: $22,600,000
8/92Rank of Pat Paulsen, among candidates winning the most votes in North Dakota’s Republican primary in June: 2
6/93Rank of June among months in which an American is most likely to have lost his or her virginity: 1
8/93Chances that an adult resident of Los Angeles is white: 1 in 3
Chances that a voter in Los Angeles’s June mayoral election was white: 2 in 3
9/93Maximum number of feet at which a car stereo may legally be audible in Fort Wayne, Indiana, as of June: 30
10/94Height, in feet, of a West Virginia prison wall scaled last June by an escaping inmate using a cord made of dental floss: 18
10/94Number of stories a New York City cat fell last June without sustaining serious injury: 46
Average number of stories a cat must fall before reaching its maximum falling velocity of 60 miles per hour: 5
11/94Number of months of government-paid leave allowed Swedish parents under a new law passed in June: 12
9/94Ratio of Internet posts to “alt.fan.oj-simpson.drive.faster” to posts to “alt.fan.oj-simpson.die.die.die” last June 20-21: 3:1
10/95Chances that a Republican House member voted last June against a constitutional amendment banning flag desecration: 1 in 20
11/95Ratio of campaign funds raised by presidential candidates as of June 1995 to the amount raised as of June 1991: 77:1
11/95Campaign funds raised as of June 1995 by the major Republican presidential candidates: $50,049,048
Estimated number of primaries that had occurred in 1992 by the time major Democratic candidates had raised this much: 41
8/95Estimated number of killings in True Lies, a film Bob Dole cited in March as among those “most friendly to the family”: 94
Amount of the $21,000 in contributions Bob Dole has received from Time Warner since 1987 that he plans to return: 0
Minutes of airtime C-SPAN devoted in June to a National Press Club discussion of Dole by Siskel and Ebert: 64
9/95Days after the Pentagon announced in June that it didn’t need more Stealth bombers that the House voted to fund more: 10
9/95Number of independent candidates not included on the ballot during Haiti’s elections in June: 112
10/96Number of convicted drug traffickers executed in China last June to mark World Anti-Drug Day: 250
4/96Price paid at auction last June for the two fiberglass tablets used in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments: $81,700
6/96Number of contestants in the Championship Race for Riding Lawn Mowers, held in Rockford, Illinois, last June: 50
8/96Ratio of blank or “spoiled” ballots cast in the Israeli election in June to the number of votes by which it was decided: 5:1
10/97Change since June 28 in the number of feet between Mike Tyson and Hannibal Lecter at Hollywood’s wax museum: -68
11/97Years it took a prisoner injured at the 1975 Attica prison riots to win a judgment against New York State last June: 26
Number of other Attica prisoners’ cases pending: 1,280
8/97Number of soldiers and veterans who testified last June that Timothy McVeigh was a model soldier: 11
12/98Number of liposuction machines that Iraq sought U.N. permission to import last June: 4
12/98Chance that a House member voted last June in favor of a constitutional amendment allowing school prayer: 1 in 2
Chance that a member attended Congress’s opening daily prayer on any of the three days preceding the vote: 1 in 29
9/98Number of people in Salt Lake City converted to Southern Baptism during a one-week evangelism drive last June: 1,717
9/98Percentage of all girls’ school facilities in Afghanistan’s Taliban territories shut down since 1996: 100
9/98Amount that Bear, Stearns’ chairman donated to a New York hospital last June to sponsor Viagra for the poor: $1,000,000
9/98Number of times last June that air-traffic controllers lost track of the altitude or speed of Air Force I or II: 4
10/99Gallons of untreated sewage that spilled onto L.A.’s streets last June after a sanitation plant’s Y2K test: 1,200,000
9/99Amount that Florida governor Jeb Bush’s wife spent on a 5-day shopping trip to Paris last June: $19,000
Amount she declared to U.S. Customs: $500
10/00Amount a Chicago suburb’s city council offered a Muslim group last June to abandon its plans for a mosque there: $200,000
9/00Amount contributed for a University of Nebraska English chair last June by the founder of CliffsNotes: $250,000
11/01Prison sentence, in years, received in June by an Oregon activist for setting fire to a car dealership: 23
2/01Minimum number of limo rides illegally charged to the U.S. Postal Service by nine of its executives since June 1996: 520
2/02Minimum percentage of votes in each New York City election since 1988 not counted due to mechanical or human error: 3
Number of May Day demonstrators the city prosecuted last June for “masquerading in public”: 12
8/02Number of Argentines who belong to at least one of their country’s 5,000 bartering clubs: 2,500,000
9/02Richter-scale magnitude of an earthquake last June twelve miles from the Yucca site: 4.4
9/02Days before Bolivia’s June election that the U.S. ambassador warned Bolivians not to vote for the Socialist candidate: 4
9/02Number of Jewish immigrants Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in June that he wants to attract to Israel: 1,000,000
10/03Reelection campaign funds raised by Bush Sr. as of June 1991 and by his son as of last June, respectively: $0, $67,687,000
9/03Percentage refund that Laura Bush’s office sought in June for a $15.95 children’s book that it bought for a TV reading: 100
9/03Ratio of Strom Thurmond’s age at his death in June to the average U.S. life expectancy in the year he was born: 2:1
9/03Amount of evidence, according to the New York Times in June, that Bush “did not believe” his own statements on Iraq: 0
9/03Number of officials who ever suggested that Iraq had nuclear weapons, according to Donald Rumsfeld in June: 0
9/03Price a San Diego physicist paid at auction in June for mechanisms used to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima: $167,000
9/03Percentage of Americans in June who favored U.S. military action to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons: 56
Percentage in July who disapproved of the United States waging preemptive attacks on any country: 58
10/04Number of its international workers that Doctors Without Borders has lost to political violence in its 34-year history: 8
Number of them killed in Afghanistan in June: 3
12/04Number of U.S. terrorism trials brought before a jury since September 11, 2001: 1
8/04Chance that a member of New York’s Army National Guard was in Iraq in June: 1 in 4
8/04Average megawattage of electricity generated in Iraq each day last year before the invasion: 4,500
8/04Rank of Labour among British political parties that won the most votes in local elections in June: 3
9/04Number of Congress members present at the June transfer of power from Coalition military forces to the Iraqi government: 0
9/04Number of deaths due to international terrorism last year according to an April State Department report: 307
8/05Selling price in June for a bar of soap allegedly made from the liposuctioned fat of Silvio Berlusconi: $18,000
10/06Number of the 66 U.S. senators favoring the anti-flag-burning amendment in June who signed up as its named sponsors: 59
7/06Number of books that Art Garfunkel has read since June 1968, according to a comprehensive list on his website: 948
8/06Amount appropriated by the governor of Texas in June to set up border-watching webcams: $5,000,000
9/06Percentage of Republicans and Democrats, respectively, in October 1994 who said they were excited to vote that year: 45, 30
Months before the vote that Rep. Jim Moran (D., Va. ) said he would “earmark the shit out of” legislation if his party won: 5
12/07Minimum number of edits to Wikipedia since June 2004 that have been traced back to the CIA: 310
2/07Factor by which the number of U.S. air strikes in Afghanistan since June has exceeded the number in Iraq: 19
9/07Annual amount that Ecuador asked the “international community” in June to pay it for not drilling in the park: $350,000,000
9/07Percentage of Republicans who said in June that they favored universal health care: 51
10/08Total donations that John McCain received from the oil and gas industry in June: $1,100,000
12/08Amount a Chinese investor paid in June to have lunch with Warren Buffett: $2,110,000
12/08Number of U.S. postage stamps printed in June whose packaging mistakenly listed a phone-sex number: 4,000,000
Telephone number that was printed in place of 1-800-STAMP-24, the number for reordering: 1-800-TRAMP-24
7/08Rank of Ross Perot and Bill Clinton, respectively, in Gallup’s general-election poll on June 26, 1992: 1, 3
8/08Number of corporations that have publicly committed to sponsoring the Democratic National Convention, as of June: 75
Number for the Republican National Convention: 50
9/08Total minutes of network TV coverage devoted to the war in Iraq between January and June 2008: 300
Total during the same period last year: 1,229