What Happened in June 1926

Historical Events

French Championships Men's Tennis

Jun 14 French Championships Men's Tennis: Henri Cochet wins 1st of 4 home titles; beats fellow Frenchman René Lacoste 6-2, 6-4, 6-3

French Women's Tennis Championships

Jun 14 French Women's Tennis Championships: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary Kendall Browne 6-1, 6-0

Briand Government Falls

Jun 15 7th French government of Aristide Briand falls

11x Prime Minister of France Aristide Briand

Jun 18 Theodor Lessing laid-off "because he is a Jew" in Hanover
Jun 19 DeFord Bailey is 1st African American to perform on Nashville's "Grand Ole Opry"
Jun 20 Mordecai W. Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
Jun 22 Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs
Jun 23 8th French government of Aristide Briand forms
Jun 23 The College Board administers the first SAT exam in USA

61st British Men's Open

Jun 25 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes GC: American amateur Bobby Jones wins the first of his 3 Claret Jugs, 2 strokes clear of runner-up Al Watrous; 5th victory by an American in 6 years

Jun 28 Mercedes-Benz forms when the world's oldest automobile manufacturers DMG and Benz & Cie merge

Arthur Meighen Again PM

Jun 29 Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada

9th Prime Minister of Canada Arthur Meighen

Jun 29 Carter G. Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research into Black history

Events in 1926

Famous Birthdays

Jun 1 Andy Griffith, American actor, comedian, television producer (Andy Griffithe Show; Matlock), Southern gospel singer, and writer, born in Mount Airy, North Carolina (d. 2012)
Jun 1 Darel Dieringer, American auto racer (181 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races for 7 wins and 79 top 10 finishes), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1989)
Jun 1 Johnny Berry, English soccer right winger (4 caps; Manchester United, Birmingham City), born in Aldershot, England (d. 1994)

Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)

Jun 1 American actress (Some Like It Hot; The Seven Year Itch), born in Los Angeles, California

Jun 2 Milo O'Shea, Irish character actor (Barbarella, Staircase and Mass Appeal, Romeo & Juliet), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 2013)

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Jun 3 American beat poet (Howl, The Fall of America) and 1960s counterculture icon, born in Newark, New Jersey

Jun 3 Carlos Veerhoff, Argentine-born German composer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 2011)
Jun 3 Hamilton Fish IV, American politician (Rep-R-NY, 1969-95), born in Washington D.C. (d. 1996)
Jun 3 Janez Matičič, Slovenian pianist. conductor, and pedagogue, born in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (d. 2022)
Jun 3 Roscoe Bartlett, American politician (Rep-R-Maryland), born in Moorland, Kentucky
Jun 4 Chuck Thompson, American jazz be-bop drummer (Erroll Garner; Hampton Hawes), born in New York City (d. 1982)
Jun 4 Nan Leslie [Nan Coppage], American actress (Kings Row, The Californians), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2000)
Jun 4 Robert Earl Hughes, American man who became heaviest known human (485 kg), born in Monticello, Missouri (d. 1958)
Jun 6 Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (Fidelio), born in Merseburg, Germany (d. 1998)
Jun 6 Tom Ryan, American comic strip cartoonist (Tumbleweeds), born in Anderson, Indiana (d. 2019)
Jun 6 Torsten Andersson, Swedish abstract-modernist painter, born in Östra Sallerup, Sweden (d. 2009)
Jun 7 Dick Williams, American singer and choral director (Andy Williams Show), born in Wall Lake, Iowa (d. 2018)
Jun 8 Anatol Vieru, Romanian-Jewish composer (Ultimele zile, ultimele ore/The Last Days, the Last Hours), and pedagogue, born in Iasi, Romania (d. 1998)
Jun 8 Cranley Onslow, British politician (C), born in Bexhill (d. 2001)
Jun 8 Fred Kaps [Abram Bongers], Dutch magician (FISM World Champion 1950, 1955 & 1961), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1980)
Jun 8 Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature
Jun 9 Mona Freeman, American actress (Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2014)
Jun 9 Roy Smalley Jr., American MLB shortstop (Cubs, Braves, Phillies, Twins, Yankees), born in Springfield, Missouri (d. 2011)
Jun 10 June Haver [Stovenour], American actress (Dolly Sisters, Girl Next Door), born in Rock Island, Illinois (d. 2005)
Jun 10 Lionel Jeffries, British actor (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Camelot), born in Forest Hill, London (d. 2010)
Jun 10 Willem Oltmans, Dutch investigative journalist and author (Outlawed; Free as a Bird), born in Huizen, Netherlands (d. 2004)
Jun 11 Brother Dave Gardner, American comedian, drummer and singer, born in Jackson, Tennessee (d. 1983)
Jun 11 Carlisle Floyd, American opera composer (Susanna; Prince of Players), born in Latta, South Carolina (d. 2021)
Jun 11 John Aspinall, English zoo owner (Howletts; Port Lympne), and gambling club host, born in Delhi, British India (d. 2000)
Jun 12 Jackie Pallo, English professional wrestler, born in Islington, Greater London, England (d. 2006)
Jun 13 Geoffrey Finsberg, British politician (d. 1996)
Jun 13 Jerome Lejeune, French physician and geneticist (discovered chromosome responsible for Downs Syndrome), born in Montrouge, France (d. 1994)
Jun 13 Paul Lynde, American comedian and actor (The Hollywood Squares, Uncle Arthur-Bewitched), born in Mt Vernon, Ohio (d. 1982)
Jun 14 Don Newcombe, American baseball pitcher (4 x MLB All Star; World Series 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers; NL MVP & Cy Young Award 1956), born in Madison, New Jersey (d. 2019)
Jun 14 Hermann Kant, German writer, born in Hamburg (d. 2016)
Jun 15 Basil Watts, English rugby league second rower (5 Tests Great Britain, 1 England; World Cup 1954; York RLFC), born in York, England (d. 2019)
Jun 15 Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Tarumba, Maltiempes), born in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico (d. 1999)
Jun 15 Jan Carlstedt, Swedish composer, born in Orsa, Sweden (d. 2004)
Jun 15 Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)

Efraín Ríos Montt (1926-2018)

Jun 16 Guatemalan general and dictator convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity, born in Huehuetenango, Guatemala

Jun 17 Alan Walters, British political economist (Chief Economic Adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher), born in Leicester, England (d. 2009)
Jun 17 Manuel Enríquez, Mexican composer, born in Ocotlán, Jalisco, Mexico (d. 1994)
Jun 18 Patricia Hutchinson, British ambassador (Uruguay)
Jun 18 Tom Wicker, American columnist (covered assassination of JFK for NY Times) and author, born in Hamlet, North Carolina (d. 2011)
Jun 20 Arthur Bell, Director of Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew Gardens), born in Gosforth, Northumberland (d. 2006)
Jun 21 Conrad Hall, Tahitian-American cinematographer, born in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia (d. 2003)
Jun 21 Louis Ottens, Dutch engineer, developed the audio cassette tape, and worked on the compact disc, born in Bellingwolde, Netherlands (d. 2021) [1]
Jun 22 Ruth Zechlin, German organist and composer, born in Grosshartmannsdorf (d. 2007)
Jun 23 Lars Johan Werle, Swedish avant-garde composer (Pentagram; Resan - The Journey), singer, and jazz musician, born in Gävle, Sweden (d. 2001)
Jun 25 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (Gott von Manhattan), born in Klagenfurt, Austria (d. 1973)
Jun 26 Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish writer (Bohin Manor) and film director, born in Nowa Wilejka, Wilenskie (d. 2015)

Mel Brooks (97 years old)

Jun 28 American writer, actor, comedian, songwriter, and director (Get Smart; Blazing Saddles; Young Frankenstein: Spaceballs), born in New York City

Jun 28 Robert Ledley, American scientist (invented the CT scanner), born in Queens, New York (d. 2012)
Jun 28 Robert Shelton [Shapiro], American music and film critic (New York Times), and biographer (No Direction Home, The Life and Music of Bob Dylan), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1995)
Jun 29 Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, born in Kuwait City (d. 2006)
Jun 29 Rex Hunt, British diplomat and Governor of the Falkland Islands (1982-1985), born in Redcar, North Yorkshire, England (d. 2012)
Jun 30 Paul Berg, American biochemist (development of recombinant DNA techniques, Nobel Chemistry 1980), born in New York City (d. 2023)
Jun 30 Peter Alexander [Ferdinand Maximilian Neumayer], Austrian actor and singer (Who Wants to Sleep?), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2011)

Born in 1926

Famous Deaths

Jun 1 Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer, dies at 64
Jun 4 Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer and poet (Sparks & Radiates), dies at 86

Fred Spofforth (1853-1926)

Jun 4 Australian cricket fast bowler ("The Demon" - 18 Tests, 94 wickets @ 18.41), dies of chronic colitis at 72

Jun 6 Henry Tate, Australian composer and poet, dies at 52
Jun 7 Henry Charles Tonking, British organist and composer, dies at 63

Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926)

Jun 10 Catalan-Spanish architect (Sagrada Família, Casa Milà, Casa Batlló), dies after being hit by a tram at 73

Jun 14 Mary Cassatt, American impressionist painter (Woman Bathing), dies at 82
Jun 18 Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Queen consort of the Hellenes as the wife of King George I, dies at 74
Jun 22 Hermann Suter, Swiss composer, dies at 56
Jun 23 Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
Jun 26 Christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies

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