Historical Events
Alfred Deakin Prime Minister
Jun 2 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time
- Jun 7 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens
Mary Pickford Screen Debut
Jun 7 Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16
- Jun 9 Alice Huyler Ramsey, 22-year-old housewife from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the 1st woman to drive across the US, in a Maxwell 30, drives 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days
49th British Men's Open
Jun 11 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Cinque Ports GC: Englishman J.H. Taylor wins Championship for a 4th time, 6 strokes ahead of runners-up Tom Ball and James Braid
Jim Thorpe Forfeits Olympic Gold
Jun 16 Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic gold medals
- Jun 18 American educator Nannie Helen Burroughs forms National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington D.C
- Jun 19 1st baseball game, an exhibition between local Elks lodge teams, played under lights in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Jun 20 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)
- Jun 23 Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections
- Jun 25 US Open Men's Golf, Englewood GC: Englishman George Sargent sets a new Open scoring record to win his only major title, 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Tom McNamara
- Jun 26 Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London
- Jun 27 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman outclasses defending champion Maud Barger-Wallach 6-0, 6-1 for first of 3 straight US singles titles
- Jun 28 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens
Johnson vs Ross
Jun 30 Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to a no decision in 6 rounds at Duquesne Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to retain his heavyweight boxing title
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 1 Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist, born in Fredrikstad, Norway (d. 1986)
- Jun 1 Szymon Goldberg, Polish-American violinist, and conductor (Netherlands Chamber Orchestra), born in Włocławek, Poland (d. 1993)
- Jun 2 Robin Orr, Scottish organist, composer, and educator (St. John's College; Glasgow University), born in Brechin, Scotland (d. 2006)
- Jun 4 Paul Nordoff, American composer (Every Soul Is a Circus), and music therapist (Nordoff-Robbins method), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1977)
- Jun 4 William M. Batten, American businessman and CEO (NY Stock Exchange 1976-84), born in Parkersburg, West Virginia (d. 1999)
- Jun 5 Alfred Uhl, Austrian composer, born in Vienna (d. 1992)
- Jun 6 Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-British philosopher, born in Riga, Latvia, Russian Empire (d. 1997)
- Jun 6 M. J. Gopalan, Indian cricket fast bowler (1 Test, 1 wicket; Madras) and hockey representative, born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (d. 2003)
Jessica Tandy (1909-1994)
Jun 7 British actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included), born in London, England
- Jun 7 Peter W. Rodino, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey (1949-89), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2005)
- Jun 7 Virginia Apgar, American physician and childbirth specialist, born in Westfield, New Jersey (d. 1974)
- Jun 8 Ferhunde Erkin (née Remzi) Turkish concert pianist and pedagogue, born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) (d. 2007)
- Jun 8 Mary van de Berg, Flemish actress (Moutarde van Sonaansee), born in Zuid-Holland, Netherlands (d. 2003)
- Jun 9 Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, Spanish philosopher, born in Avila, Spain (d. 1996)
- Jun 10 Erwin Dressel, German composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1972)
- Jun 12 Archie Bleyer, American orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey), born in Queens, New York (d. 1989)
- Jun 12 Mansel Treharne Thomas, Welsh composer, born in Tylorstown, Rhondda, Wales (d. 1986)
- Jun 14 Burl Ives, American folk singer ("A Little Bitty Tear"; "Silver And Gold"), actor (Cat On A Hot Tin Roof), and snowman (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), born in Hunt City, Illinois (d. 1995)
- Jun 16 Archie Carr, American ecologist and zoologist (conservation of sea turtles), born in Mobile, Alabama (d. 1987)
- Jun 16 Willi Boskovsky, Austrian violinist and conductor (Vienna New Year's Concert, 1955-79), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1991)
- Jun 17 Elmer L. Andersen, 30th Governor of Minnesota (1961-63), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2004)
- Jun 17 Ralph E. Winters, Canadian film editor, born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2004)
- Jun 19 Edwin Gerschefski, American pianist, composer and teacher (Saugauck Suite), born in Meriden, Connecticut (d. 1992)
- Jun 19 Joe Thomas, American jazz tenor saxophonist, vocalist (Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra), bandleader, and undertaker, born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania (d. 1986)
- Jun 19 Osamu Dazai [pseudonym of Tsushima Shūji, Japanese novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human), born in Kanagi, Japan (d. 1948)
Errol Flynn (1909-1959)
Jun 20 Australian actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood), born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Jun 20 Joan Harrison, English screenwriter and producer who often worked with Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca, They Won't Believe Me), born in Guildford, England (d. 1994)
- Jun 21 Kurt Schwaen, German composer, born in Katowice, Poland (d. 2007)
- Jun 22 Katherine Dunham, American dancer (Casbah; Stormy Weather), choreographer (Metroplitan Opera, 1963; Joplin's Treemonisha, 1972), and social activist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2006)
- Jun 22 Michael "Mike" Todd [Avrom Goldbogen], American producer (Around the World in 80 Days) and 3rd husband of Elizabeth Taylor (1957-58), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1958)
- Jun 23 Li Xiannian, President of the People's Republic of China (1983-88), born in Hong'an, Hubei, China (d. 1992)
- Jun 23 Sam Parks Jr., American golfer (US Open 1935), born in Bellevue, Pennsylvania (d. 1997)
- Jun 24 Milton Katims, American violist and conductor (Seattle Symphony, 1954–76), born in New York City (d. 2006)
- Jun 24 William Penney, British physicist (developed Britain's 1st atom bomb), born in Gibraltar (d. 1991)
- Jun 25 Daniel Fuchs, American screenwriter (Summer in Williamsburg), born in Lower East Side, Manhattan (d. 1993)
- Jun 26 Betty Askwith, British writer and biographer (d. 1995)
- Jun 26 Colonel Tom Parker [Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk], Dutch-born talent manager (Elvis Presley), born in Breda, Netherlands (d. 1997)
- Jun 26 Nicholas Polunin, British botanist and environmentalist, born in Checkendon, Oxfordshire (d. 1997)
- Jun 28 Arnold Shaw, American writer on popular music and composer, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1989)
- Jun 28 Eric Ambler, English author of thrillers and spy novels (Epitaph for a Spy), born in London (d. 1998)
- Jun 28 French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist, born in Borsbeek, Antwerp (d. 1978)
- Jun 30 Juan Bosch, 43rd President of the Dominican Republic (1962-63) and writer, born in La Vega, Dominican Republic (d. 2001)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 1 Giuseppe Martucci, composer, dies at 53
- Jun 10 Edward Everett Hale, American clergyman and author (Man without a Country), dies at 87
- Jun 18 Learmont Drysdale, Scottish composer, dies at 42
- Jun 22 Detlev von Liliencron, German writer (Rides of the Adjutant and Other Poems), dies at 65
- Jun 22 Edward John Gregory, British painter and engraver, dies at 59
- Jun 24 Sarah Orne Jewett, American author (Country of the Pointed Firs), dies at 59
- Jun 28 Israel Durham, Phillies president dies