Historical Events
Rembrandt House
Jun 10 Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam
- Jun 11 The Greek national assembly adopts a more liberal constitution
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Jun 11 Universal Negro Improvement Association founded by Marcus Garvey
- Jun 15 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), later known as IBM is incorporated, in Endicott, New York
- Jun 16 A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn
- Jun 17 Belgium government of De Broqueville forms
- Jun 17 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman beats Florence Sutton 8-10, 6-1, 9-7 for her third straight US singles title
- Jun 18 Detroit Tigers trail Chicago White Sox, 13-1 at Bennett Park, Detroit; recover to win, 16-15 for the biggest comeback in Major League Baseball history
- Jun 20 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) incorporates (NY)
Fashion's First Signature Scent
Jun 24 French couturier Paul Poiret holds his infamous 'The 1002nd Night' costume ball to launch his “Parfums de Rosine", 1st signature scent linked to a design house
- Jun 26 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
- Jun 26 US Open Men's Golf, Chicago GC: 19-year old John McDermott becomes first American born champion; wins in a playoff with Mike Brady and George Simpson
- Jun 28 Joseph Caillaux forms government in France
- Jun 29 Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes Minister-President of Austria
- Jun 30 Adolphe Messimy appointed French Minister of War
British Golf Open
Jun 30 British Open Men's Golf, Royal St George's Golf Club: Harry Vardon wins his 5th Championship by 10 shots in a playoff with 1907 champion Arnaud Massy of France
- Jun 30 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 1 Gertrude Michael, American actress (Cleopatra, Menace, Club Havana, caged), born in Talladega, Alabama (d. 1964)
- Jun 2 Xiao Hong, Chinese writer (The Field of Life and Death), born in Hulan County, Heilongjiang Province (d. 1942)
- Jun 3 Ellen Corby [Hansen], American actress (The Waltons, Vertigo, Caged), born in Racine, Wisconsin (d. 1999)
- Jun 3 Mason Gross, American TV quiz show personality and professor (Think Fast, Two for the Money), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1977)
- Jun 4 Austin Andrew Wright, British sculptor, born in Chester, England (d. 1997)
- Jun 5 Arthur Vick, British physicist and vice chancellor (Queens University, Belfast), born in Solihull, England (d. 1998)
- Jun 5 Charles Fletcher, British pioneering physician and TV presenter (wrote the 1st report into the dangers of smoking), born in Cambridge, England (d. 1995)
- Jun 7 Brooks Stevens, American automotive designer (1949 Hydra-Glide Harley; 1963 Jeep Wagoneer), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1995)
- Jun 7 Franz Reizenstein, German-British pianist, composer (Concerto Popolare), and educator, born in Nuremberg, Germany (d. 1968)
- Jun 7 Silas Roy Crain, American gospel singer, founder of The Soul Stirrers Gospel Quartet, born in Augustine, Texas (d. 1996)
- Jun 8 Van Lingle Mungo, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1934, 36, 37, 45; NL strikeout leader 1936; Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants), born in Pageland, South Carolina (d. 1985)
- Jun 9 George Webb, British actor (Keeping Up Appearances), born in Paddington, London (d. 1998)
- Jun 10 Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician, musicologist and harpsichordist (Domenico Scarlatti), born in Leominster, Massachusetts (d. 1984)
Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)
Jun 10 British playwright (Winslow Boy, Browning Version), born in London
- Jun 11 Russ Hodges, American sportscaster (NY Mets, SF Giants; Wednesday Night Fights), born in Dayton, Tennessee (d. 1971)
Milovan Djilas (1911-1995)
Jun 12 Yugoslavian politician and writer (The New Class), born in Podbišće, Montenegro
- Jun 13 Albert Cleage, African-American theologian and religious leader, born in Indianapolis (d. 2000)
- Jun 13 Luis Alvarez, American physicist (subatomic particles, Nobel 1968), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1988)
- Jun 13 Prince Aly Khan [Ali Salman Aga Khan], Pakistani socialite, jockey, political ambassador and third husband to Rita Hayworth, born in Turin, Italy (d. 1960)
- Jun 15 Wilbert Awdry, British Anglican cleric and children's writer (Thomas the Tank Engine), born in Ampfield, England (d. 1997)
- Jun 17 Viktor Nekrasov, Ukrainian journalist and novelist (V okopakh Stalingrada - Front-line Stalingrad; Kira Georgijevna), born in Kyiv, Ukraine (d. 1987)
- Jun 20 Gail Patrick [Margaret Fitzpatrick], American actress (My Man Godfrey, Love Crazy), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 1980)
- Jun 20 John Brightman, Baron Brightman, British judge of appeals, born in Sandridge, Hertfordshire (d. 2006)
- Jun 22 Guus Jansen, Dutch pianist, Hammond organist, and popular song composer ("Net als Toen" - Eurovison, 1957), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1990)
- Jun 22 Marie Braun, Dutch swimmer (Olympic gold 1928), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1982)
- Jun 23 David Ogilvy 'Father of Advertising', English advertising whiz (founded Ogilvy & Mathers), born in West Horsley, England (d. 1999)
- Jun 24 Ernesto Sábato, Argentinian writer (Sábato Report), born in Rojas, Argentina (d. 2011)
Juan Manuel Fangio (1911-1995)
Jun 24 Argentine auto racer (World F1 champion 1951, 1954-57), born in Balcarce, Argentina
- Jun 25 Reed Hadley, American actor (Zorro's Fighting Legion, Racket Squad, Shock, Grand Canyon), born in Petrolia, Texas (d. 1974)
- Jun 25 William H. Stein, American biochemist (Nobel 1972), born in New York (d. 1980)
Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956)
Jun 26 American all-round athlete (10 LPGA major titles, Olympic gold 80m hurdles, javelin 1932), born in Port Arthur, Texas
- Jun 26 Edward H. Levi, American law professor (Intro to Legal Reasoning), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2000)
- Jun 27 Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr., American 3-year-old who drowned on Lusitania (d. 1915)
- Jun 27 V. K. Narayana Menon, Indian classical dance scholar, born in Kerala, India (d. 1997)
- Jun 29 Bernard Herrmann [Maximillian Herman], American radio and Academy Award-winning film score composer (Mercury Theatre on the Air; Citizen Kane; Vertigo; Psycho; Taxi Driver), and conductor, born in New York City (d. 1975)
- Jun 29 Bernhard, German Prince (Consort to Queen Juliana of Netherlands), born in Jena, Germany (d. 2004)
- Jun 30 Czesław Miłosz, Polish-American writer (Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980), born in Szetejnie, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 2004)
- Jun 30 Virginia D. Smith, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska), born in Randolph, Iowa (d. 2006)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 6 Charley Jones, American MLB Baseball outfielder, and one of the first sluggers, 1875-88 (Cincinnati Reds; Boston Red Caps, and 3 other teams), dies at 59
- Jun 7 Maurice Rouvier, French statesman and Prime Minister of France (1905-06), dies at 69
- Jun 9 Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate who smashed hotels with a hatchet, dies at 64
- Jun 11 James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist, dies at 96
- Jun 14 Johan Svendsen, Norwegian composer, dies at 70
- Jun 18 Franjo Ksaver Kuhač, Croatian composer who collected and published 1,600 folk songs, dies at 76
