* HM the Queen's Birthday and National Mother's Day ( Thailand )

In the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1968, Holt's widow Zara Holt was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, becoming Dame Zara Holt DBE.

* 2007 Botham was honoured as Knight Bachelor by HM Government in the Queen's Birthday Honours, again in recognition of his cricket achievements and his sustained efforts in raising money for Leukaemia research ( see above ).

* 1992 Botham was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) for services to cricket and for his charity work in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

* The Queen's Birthday ( Solomon Islands )

* Earliest day on which Queen's Birthday can fall, while June 14 is the latest ; celebrated on the second Monday in June.

The Wizard was awarded the Queen's Service Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours list of 2009.

In 1993, Jason was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ), and twelve years later, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2005, he was knighted for services to acting and comedy.

McMahon was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1966, a Companion of Honour in the New Year's Day Honours of 1972 and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1977.

Similar to the Queen's Official Birthday, the " Fourth of June " is no longer celebrated on 4 June, but on the Wednesday before the first weekend of June.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours, and in the 2000 New Year Honours he was knighted as Sir Maurice Micklewhite CBE.

He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire ( MBE ) in the 1980 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Hadlee did not have his knighthood conferred on him while still a test cricketer: Though the honour was announced in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 16 June 1990, it was only conferred on 4 October 1990, some months after his last test match on 10 July 1990.

Previously the flag was generally only flown on public buildings on days marking the birthdays of members of the Royal Family, the wedding anniversary of the monarch, Commonwealth Day, Accession Day, Coronation Day, the Queen's Official Birthday, Remembrance Sunday and on the days of the State Opening and prorogation of Parliament.

* 21 April ( The Queen's Birthday )

* June ( no fixed date ) – The Queen's Official Birthday

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours and was raised to Commander ( CBE ) in the 2008 New Year Honours.

Mayor of Waitakere City Bob Harvey supported the call to make Matariki a public holiday to replace Queen's Birthday, along with the Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand, which found none of New Zealand's local authorities held celebrations for Queen's Birthday, but many held celebrations for Matariki.

However, the Bill itself did not propose abolishing Queen's Birthday, and was voted down at its first reading.

Both Neil and his brother Tim were invested as Officers of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) for services to New Zealand music in the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

In Australia, bonfires may be lit to celebrate Commonwealth Day or the Queen's Official Birthday.

Alexis Carrel was also a member of learned societies in the U. S., Spain, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vatican City, Germany, Italy and Greece and received honorary doctorates from Queen's University of Belfast, Princeton University, California, New York, Brown University and Columbia University.

Acadia began as an extension of Horton Academy ( 1828 ), which was founded in Horton, Nova Scotia, by Baptists from Nova Scotia and Queen's College ( 1838 ).

The name " Queen's College " was denied to the Baptist school, so it was renamed " Acadia College " in 1841, in reference to the history of the area as an Acadian settlement.

It was subsequently acquired by George III in 1761 as a private residence for Queen Charlotte, and known as " The Queen's House ".

However, the palace chapel was destroyed by a German bomb in World War II ; the Queen's Gallery was built on the site and opened to the public in 1962 to exhibit works of art from the Royal Collection.

To make the show more cost-effective, it was also shot with virtually no outdoor scenes ( in contrast to the first series which was shot largely on location ) and several frequently used indoor sets, such as the Queen's throne room and Blackadder's front room.

The latter trip was extremely rainy, which led Sir James Clark, the Queen's physician, to recommend Deeside for its more healthy climate.

While still a graduate student in 1934, Parkinson was commissioned into the Territorial Army as a member of the 22nd London Regiment ( The Queen's ), was promoted Lieutenant later the same year, and commanded an infantry company at the jubilee of King George V in 1935.

All British Army cavalry regiments had been mechanised since 1 March 1942 when the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons ( Yeomanry ) was converted to a motorised role, following mounted service against the Vichy French in Syria the previous year.

John Mortimer, Queen's Counsel, observed that " cross-examination " was not the art of examining crossly.

As has happened with ironic writings before and since, this pamphlet was widely misunderstood but eventually its author was prosecuted for seditious libel and was sentenced to be pilloried, fined 200 marks and detained at the Queen's pleasure.

On 28 January 1967 Campbell was posthumously awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct For courage and determination in attacking the world water speed record.

In August 1564 Oxford was among 17 nobles, knights and esquires in the Queen's entourage who were awarded the honorary degree of Master of Arts by the University of Cambridge, and was awarded another by Oxford University on a Royal progress in 1566.

In the spring of 1591 the plan for the purchasers of his land to discharge his debt to the Court of Wards was disrupted by the Queen's taking extents, or writs allowing a creditor to temporarily seize a debtor's property.

In June Oxford wrote to Burghley reminding him that he made an agreement with Elizabeth to relinquish his claim to the Forest of Essex for three reasons, one of which was the Queen's reluctance to punish Skinner's felony, which had caused Oxford to forfeit £ 20, 000 in bonds and statutes.

The arrangement was stated to be for the benefit of Francis ' sister, Elizabeth Trentham, one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, whom Oxford married later that year.

He was proved right, but because the shafts are not connected to the outer faces of the pyramid or the Queen's Chamber, their purpose is unknown.

He later opined that the governor-general's role was more than a representative of the sovereign, explaining: " under section 2 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the Queen's representative and exercises certain royal prerogative powers and functions ; under section 61 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the holder of a quite separate and independent office created, not by the Crown, but by the Constitution, and empowered to exercise, in his own right as Governor-General and not as a representative or delegate of the Queen, all the powers and functions of Australia's head of state.

* 17 November: Accession Day or Queen's Day, the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne, celebrated with lavish court festivities featuring jousting during her lifetime and as a national holiday for dozens of years after her death.

This is celebrated in honour of the Queen's birthday.

The Queen's Plate celebrated its 150th running on June 21, 2009.

The Queen's arrival was celebrated by the poet William Dunbar in poems including The Thrissil and the Rois, Gladethe, thoue Queyne of Scottis Regioun, and the song Now Fayre, Fayrest of Every Fayre.

Her birthday is celebrated annually as Koninginnedag, Queen's Day.

On 3 October 2010, the show celebrated its 25th anniversary with three productions running in the same city: the original show at the Queen's Theatre in London's West End ; the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary touring production at the original home of the show, the Barbican Centre ; and the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary concert at London's O2 Arena.

The Queen's Official Birthday ( King's Official Birthday in the reign of a male monarch ) is the selected day on which the birthday of the monarch of the Commonwealth realms ( currently Queen Elizabeth II ) is officially celebrated in those countries.

There, the Queen's Official Birthday is now celebrated on the first, second, or third Saturday in June, although it is rarely the third.

In New Zealand, unlike in the United Kingdom, the Queen's Official Birthday is a public holiday and is celebrated in the first Monday in June.

After World War II the British military occupation forces ( Berlin Infantry Brigade ) annually celebrated The Queen's Official Birthday on the Maifeld and used it for a variety of sporting activities including Cricket.

At the opening of the trial on 23 September 1577 there were five counts against him: first, that he had obtained from the Roman See a " faculty " ( or bulla ), containing absolution of the Queen's subjects ; second, that he had published the same at Golden ; third, that he had taught the ecclesiastical authority of the Pope and denied the queen's ecclesiastical supremacy while in prison ; fourth, that he had brought into the kingdom an Agnus Dei and delivered it to Francis Tregian ; fifth, that he had celebrated Mass.