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This month in New York Life history—June.

Image of New York Life Home Office building bronze gates.

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2021
June 15: New York Life and Cigna expand eligibility for Brave of Heart Fund grants to support families of healthcare workers who lost their lives in the fight against COVID-19.

2011
June 11:
New York Life launched the Guaranteed Future Income Annuity, a customizable retirement income product whose payments were guaranteed by the company. The product had strongest sales introduction of any new annuity product in the company’s history and would later receive the first ever Award for Innovation in Retirement Income Products from the Retirement Income Industry Association.

2011
June 3:
New York Life launched a website offering specially tailored solutions for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community.

2009
June 1:
New York Life CEO Ted Mathas became chairman of the board of New York Life, succeeding Sy Sternberg.

2008
June 26:
The New York Life Foundation made a three-year, $3 million commitment to Comfort Zone Camp (CZC), an organization that assisted children in coming to terms with the loss of a loved one. The grant allowed CZC to vastly expand the scope and geographic reach of its programs.

1982
June 28:
The building at 346 Broadway that had once served as New York Life’s headquarters was entered into the National Register of Historic Places. Though New York Life had left the location for 51 Madison Avenue in 1928, the Broadway landmark was still widely known as “The Former New York Life Insurance Company Building.”

1979
June 28:
The New York Life Foundation held its first meeting. It had incorporated in May.

1978
June 2:
The U.S. National Park Service listed the Home Office Building at 51 Madison Avenue a National Historic Landmark in the National Register of Historic Places.

1927
June 17:
The cornerstone for New York Life’s new Home Office Building on 51 Madison Avenue was laid after an elaborate ceremony featuring a speech by President Darwin Kingsley. A capsule placed inside the cornerstone contained the following: copies of documents key to the company’s operations, such as its 1912 charter and its most recent bylaws; information about people and key events in the company’s history; and items to commemorate the building itself (a copy of that morning’s New York Times and a $20 gold piece minted in 1927).

1924
June 7:
The Eternal Light Flagstaff at Madison Square Park was dedicated to commemorate veterans of World War I. In 2017, New York Life would commit $400,000 to renovate the flagstaff and its plaza.

Around the World

1983 
June 18:
Dr. Sally Ride, a 32-year-old physicist and pilot, became the first American woman in space, beginning a six-day mission aboard the space shuttle Challenger, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

1968 
June 5:
Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded while leaving the Hotel Ambassador in Los Angeles. The shooting occurred after a celebration of Kennedy's victory in the California presidential primary.

1951 
June 14:
Univac 1, the world's first commercial electronic computer, was unveiled in Philadelphia. It was installed at the Census Bureau and utilized a magnetic tape unit as a buffer memory.

1945 
June 26:
The United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco by 50 nations. The Charter was ratified on October 24, 1945.

1944 
June 6:
D-Day, the largest amphibious landing in history, began in the early-morning hours as Allied forces landed in Normandy on the northern coast of France. 

1914
June 28:
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria and his wife were assassinated at Sarajevo, touching off a conflict between the Austro-Hungarian government and Serbia that escalated into World War I.

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