Historical Events
Leopold II Claims Congo
Jun 3 Belgian King Leopold II claims Congo as his private possession
- Jun 5 Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet
- Jun 6 Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz)
- Jun 7 Chicago Cubs score 11 runs in 1st inning of 19-0 drubbing of New York Giants off future Baseball Hall of Famers Christy Mathewson and Joe McGinnity; worst beating in Giants franchise history
- Jun 7 Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
- Jun 9 Boston Beaneaters (NL) end 19-game losing streak beat Cards 6-3
- Jun 14 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
46th British Men's Open
Jun 15 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Scotsman James Braid successfully defends title by 4 strokes from J.H. Taylor of England; his 3rd Open victory
British Defeat US
Jun 17 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Laurence Doherty & Reginald Doherty beat Raymond Little & Holcombe Ward 3-6, 11-9, 9-7, 6-1 to give British Isles an unassailable 3-0 lead over US (ends 5-0)
- Jun 22 Haakon VII crowned King of Norway
- Jun 23 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Helen Homans beats Maud Barger-Wallach 6-4, 6-3 for her lone major singles title
- Jun 26 Hungarian driver Ferenc Szisz in a Renault AK 90CV wins 1st Grand-Prix motor racing event in Le Mans, France
- Jun 27 The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) established in London with Lord Kelvin as President to standardize electrical units and terms [1]
- Jun 29 US Congress pass the Hepburn Act, permitting the regulation of rates charged by railroads, pipelines, and terminals engaged in interstate commerce
- Jun 29 US Open Men's Golf, Onwentsia GC: Scotsman Alex Smith wins first of his 2 Open titles, 7 strokes ahead of runner-up and younger brother Willie Smith
- Jun 30 John Hope becomes 1st black president of Atlanta Baptist College (later known as Morehouse College)
Food Safety Acts Passed
Jun 30 US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' in particular)
Famous Birthdays
Josephine Baker (1906-1975)
Jun 3 American-French song and dance revue artist (Folies-Bergere), actress, and civil rights activist, born in St. Louis, Missouri
- Jun 3 Norman Gallichan, New Zealand cricket all-rounder (1 Test, HS 30, 3 wickets; Manawatu, Wellington), born in Palmerston North, New Zealand (d. 1969)
- Jun 3 Walter Robins, English cricketer (dynamic England leg-spin all-rounder), born in Stafford, England (d. 1968)
- Jun 4 Richard Whorf, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy; Keeper of Flame), and director (It Happened In Brooklyn), born in Winthrop, Massachusetts (d. 1966)
- Jun 5 John Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale, British soldier and businessman (d. 1993)
- Jun 5 Margaret Rawlings, British actress (Roman Holiday), born in Osaka, Japan (d. 1996)
- Jun 6 Max August Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn), born in Krefeld, Rhenish Prussia, Germany (d. 1993)
- Jun 8 Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), born in Borgerhout, Belgium (d. 1986)
- Jun 8 Nazir Ali, Indian cricket all-rounder (2 Tests; first Indian Test 1932; Southern Punjab, Sussex CCC), born in Jalandhar, Punjab, India (d. 1975)
- Jun 9 Tonio Selwart [Antonio Selmair-Selwart], German actor (Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja), born in Wartenberg, Bavaria, Germany (d. 2002)
- Jun 10 Janos Viski, Hungarian composer, born in Kolozsvár, Hungary (d. 1961)
- Jun 12 Sandro Penna, Italian poet, born in Perugia, Italy (d. 1977)
- Jun 13 Bruno de Finetti, Italian probabilist statistician and actuary, born in Innsbruck, Austria-Hungary (d. 1985)
- Jun 15 Léon Degrelle, Belgian Walloon Rexist Party leader, and Nazi collaborator, born in Bouillon, Belgium (d. 1994)
- Jun 16 Alan Fairfax, Australian cricket all-rounder (10 Tests, 4 x 50, 21 wickets, BB 4/31; NSWCA), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1955)
- Jun 17 Thomas Cowling, British mathematician and astronomer, born in Walthamstow, Essex (d. 1990)
- Jun 18 (James) "Kay" Kyser, American bandleader and radio personality (Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge), born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina (d. 1985)
- Jun 19 Ernst Chain, German-British chemist and bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945 - for his work on penicillin), born in Berlin, German Empire (d. 1979)
- Jun 19 Walter Rauff, Nazi German military officer, mobile gas chamber developer, and spy, born in Köthen, Germany (d. 1984)
- Jun 20 Bob Howard, American singer and pianist (Sing it Again), born in Newton, Massachusetts (d. 1986)
- Jun 21 Harold Spina, American composer, born in New York City (d. 1997)
- Jun 21 Helene Costello, American dancer and actress (Love Toy), born in New York City (d. 1957)
- Jun 21 Lluís Maria Millet, Catalan composer, born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1990)
Billy Wilder (1906-2002)
Jun 22 Austrian-American filmmaker (Stalag 17: Some Like It Hot; The Lost Weekend; The Apartment), born in Sucha, Austria-Hungary (now Sucha Beskidzka, Poland)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001)
Jun 22 American author and aviator (Gift from the Sea), born in Englewood, New Jersey
- Jun 23 Wolfgang Koeppen, German author (Death in Rome), born in Greifswald, Pomerania (d. 1996)
- Jun 24 Pierre Fournier, French cellist, and teacher (Paris Conservatoire, 1937-49), born in Paris, France (d. 1986)
- Jun 24 Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (d. 1971)
- Jun 25 Roger Livesey, Welsh actor (Drums, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp), born in Barry, Wales (d. 1976)
- Jun 26 Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia), born in Dhrönchen (d. 1970)
- Jun 26 Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer, born in Sebring, Ohio (d. 2008)
- Jun 27 Catherine Cookson, English novelist (Bannaman Legacy), born in Jarrow, Durham, England (d. 1998)
- Jun 27 Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd), born in Maesteg, Wales (d. 1967)
- Jun 28 Maria Goeppert-Mayer, American-German atomic physicist (Nobel 1963), born in Kattowitz, German Empire (d. 1972)
- Jun 28 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, English painter and educationalist, born in Maidstone, England (d. 1995)
- Jun 28 Safford Cape, American-Belgian conductor, composer and music historian, born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1973)
- Jun 29 Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (youngest ever Soviet general of the army), born in Uman, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1945)
- Jun 30 Anthony Mann, American film actor and director (El Cid, Winchester '73, The Glenn Miller Story), born in San Diego, California (d. 1967)
- Jun 30 Tribhuwan Bir Bikram Shah, King of Nepal (1911-55), born in Kathmandu, Nepal (d. 1955)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 5 Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
- Jun 6 Johan Philip van der Kellen, Dutch stamp cutter, lithographer and writer, dies at 74
- Jun 7 Johan P. Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74
- Jun 8 C. F. E. Horneman, Danish composer, dies at 65
- Jun 10 Richard Seddon, New Zealand politician (longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1893-1906), dies at 61
- Jun 11 Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit), dies at 50
- Jun 17 Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player, dies at 33
- Jun 17 William Dale, international legal consultant, dies
- Jun 20 John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840)
- Jun 22 Fritz Schaudinn, German zoologist (examined syphilis), dies at 34
- Jun 25 Stanford White, American architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit at 52
- Jun 26 Alexander Muir, Canadian composer (The Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76
