Historical Events
- Jun 1 Chicago White Sox pitcher Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns, 8-0 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
Edith Wharton's Heart Attack
Jun 1 Edith Wharton suffers a heart attack and collapses at the French country home of Ogden Codman
- Jun 1 Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
Gibson's Huge Home Run
Jun 3 Josh Gibson hits a home run just 2 feet below the rim of Yankee Stadium (580' drive)
- Jun 5 69th Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6
Ford's 32 Hour Week
Jun 5 Henry Ford initiates a 32 hour work week
- Jun 6 Philadelphia Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game
Very Rare Photo of the Supreme Court
Jun 7 Time magazine publishes the second of the only two known photos taken of the United States Supreme Court in session
The Great Purge
Jun 12 After a one-day show trial, eight Soviet generals are sentenced to death and executed by the NKVD
41st US Men's Open
Jun 12 US Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Ralph Guldahl wins first of his 2 consecutive US titles, 2 strokes ahead of Sam Snead
DiMaggio Hits 3 HRs
Jun 13 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
Nationalists Enter Bilbao
Jun 19 Francisco Franco's Nationalist troops take Bilbao during their victorious Biscay Campaign in the Basques region during the Civil War
- Jun 19 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Beverly CC: Helen Hicks wins the first of her 2 major titles, defeating amateur Bea Barrett 6 & 5 in the final
Robert Johnson Vitagraph Session
Jun 19 Second of two legendary recording sessions by Delta Blues musician Robert Johnson with producer Don Law at the Vitagraph Studios, Dallas, Texas
Louis KOs Braddock
Jun 22 Challenger Joe Louis KOs James J. Braddock in the 8th round at Chicago's Comiskey Park for the world heavyweight boxing title
- Jun 25 Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit HRs in a game
- Jun 26 Test cricket debut of all-time great English batsman Len Hutton v New Zealand in 1st Tests at Lord's; scores 0 & 1
- Jun 28 Spanish pianist José Iturbi and his sister Amparo have their US debut performance as a piano duo, with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Robin Hood Dell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Jun 30 The world's first emergency call telephone service is launched in London using the number 999
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 1 Colleen McCullough, Australian author (Tim, Indecent Obsession, The Thorn Birds), born in Wellington, NSW, Australia (d. 2015)
Morgan Freeman (86 years old)
Jun 1 American Academy Award-winning actor (Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory), born in Memphis, Tennessee
- Jun 1 Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress, born in Dublin, Ireland
- Jun 2 Jimmy Jones, American singer-songwriter ("Handy Man"), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2012)
- Jun 3 Grachan Moncur III, American post-bop and modern jazz trombonist and composer (Evolution; Exploration), born in New York City (d. 2022) [1]
- Jun 3 Jean-Pierre Jaussaud, French auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1978, 80), born in Caen, France (d. 2021)
- Jun 3 Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician (Rep-D-TX, 1983-2011), born in Robstown, Texas
- Jun 4 Freddy Fender [Baldemar Huerta], American rock, country and Tejano singer ("Wasted Days And Wasted Nights"; "Before The Next Teardrop Falls"; Texas Tornados - "A Man Can Cry"), born in San Benito, Texas (d. 2006)
- Jun 4 Gorilla Monsoon, American pro wrestler (Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame) and commentator (WWF), born in Rochester, New York (d. 1999)
- Jun 4 Mortimer Zuckerman, Canadian-American media proprietor and CEO (US News & World Report, NY Daily News), born in Montreal, Quebec
- Jun 4 Robert Fulghum, American author (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten), born in Waco, Texas
- Jun 5 Floyd Butler, American soul singer (Friends of Distinction - "Grazing In The Grass"), born in San Diego, California (d. 1990)
- Jun 7 Bert Sugar, American sports writer (editor / publisher The Ring magazine; Sting like a Bee; The Ageless Warrior), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2012)
- Jun 7 Neeme Järvi, Estonian-American conductor (Gothenburg Symphony, 1982-2004; Detroit Symphony, 1990-2005; Residentie Orkest, 2005-12), born in Tallinn, Estonia
- Jun 8 Bruce McCandless II, American aviator, electrical engineer and astronaut who made the 1st untethered space walk (STS 41B, STS-31), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2017)
- Jun 8 Norma Shaw, English lawn bowler (World Outdoor C'ship gold 1981; Indoor C'ship gold 1997), born in Wakefield, England (d. 2009)
- Jun 9 Harald Rosenthal, German biologist (lobbied against ballast water pollution), born in Berlin, Germany
- Jun 9 Sven Conrad Stayers, Guyana cricketer (WI fast bowler 1962), born in Georgetown, Guyana (d. 2005)
- Jun 10 Richard Foreman, American theatrical director (Daily Life), born in New York City
- Jun 11 Chad Everett [Raymon Lee Cramton], American actor (Medical Center, Airplane II), born in South Bend, Indiana (d. 2012)
- Jun 11 J. Robin Warren, Australian pathologist (Nobel 2005), born in Adelaide, Australia
- Jun 11 Johnny Brown, American stage and screen comic actor (Good Times - "Bookman"; Laugh-In), and singer, born in St. Petersburg, Florida (d. 2022)
- Jun 11 Luciana Paluzzi, Italian-American actress (Five Fingers, Thunderball), born in Rome, Italy
- Jun 12 Antal Festetics, Austrian biologist and zoologist, born in Budapest, Hungary
- Jun 12 Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician (Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem), born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 2010)
- Jun 13 Eleanor Holmes Norton, American lawyer and politician (Rep-D-DC), born in Washington, D.C.
- Jun 14 Jørgen Leth, Danish film director (A Sunday in Hell), born in Aarhus, Denmark
- Jun 15 Curtis Cokes, American boxer (WBA/WBC world welterweight champion 1966-69), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 2020)
- Jun 15 Kumar Shri Indrajitsinhji, Indian cricketer (Indian keeper in 60's)
- Jun 15 Ray Coleman, British author (biographies of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Brian Epstein, and Phil Collins), and music journalist (Melody Maker), born in Leicester, England (d. 1996)
- Jun 15 Rolf Riehm, German composer (Sirenen, Bilder des Begehrens und des Vernichtens (Sirens, images of desire and destruction)), born in Saarbrücken, Germany
Waylon Jennings (1937-2002)
Jun 15 American country singer and guitarist ("I'm A Ramblin' Man"), born in Littlefield, Texas
- Jun 16 August Busch III, American CEO (Anheuser-Busch, St Louis Cards)
- Jun 16 Erich Segal, American author (Love Story, Oliver's Story), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2010)
- Jun 16 Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria (1943-46) Prime Minister of Bulgaria (2001-5), born in Sofia, Bulgaria
- Jun 17 Peter Lupus, American bodybuilder and actor (Mission Impossible), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
- Jun 18 Gail Godwin, American author (Perfectionists, Odd Woman)
- Jun 18 Jay Rockefeller, American politician (Sen-D-West Virginia 1985-2015), born in New York City
- Jun 18 Varbara Ann Teer, American actress/director (National Black Theatre Company)
- Jun 18 Vitaly Mikhailovich Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 21)
- Jun 20 Jerry Keller, American pop singer-songwriter ("Here Comes Summer"), and actor (If Ever I See You Again), born in Fort Smith, Arkansas
- Jun 21 Anna Davies, Italian philologist and Professor of Comparative Philology (Oxford U), born in Milan (d. 2014)
- Jun 21 John Edrich, English cricket batsman (77 Tests, 12 x 100. 24 x 50, HS 310no; Norfolk CCC, Surrey CCC), born in Blofield, England (d. 2020)
- Jun 21 Raphaël Sommer, Czech cellist, and educator, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2001)
- Jun 22 Chris Blackwell, English businessman and record producer (Island Records), born in Westminster, London, England
- Jun 23 Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland
- Jun 23 Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets), born in South Gate, California (d. 2004)
- Jun 24 Baron Wolman, American photographer, founding chief photographer for Rolling Stone, born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 2020)
- Jun 25 Marabel Morgan, American author (The Total Woman), born in Crestline, Ohio
- Jun 26 Bob Thompson, African-American painter, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1966)
- Jun 26 Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist (Nobel 1996), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2013)
- Jun 26 Ruben "Baby" López Furst, Argentine jazz pianist, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 2000)
- Jun 26 Sombat Metanee, Thai film actor and director, born in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand
- Jun 27 Joseph P. Allen, American NASA astronaut (STS-5, STS 51A), born in Crawfordsville, Indiana
- Jun 28 George Knudson, Canadian golfer (8 PGA Tour titles; Masters 1969 runner-up), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba (d. 1989)
- Jun 28 Georgios Zaimis, Greek sailor (Olympic gold dragon class 1960), born in Piraeus, Attiki, Greece (d. 2020)
- Jun 28 Richard Bright, American actor (Al Neri-Godfather), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2006)
- Jun 28 Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire in the American League (1969-79), born in Endicott, New York (d. 1995)
Famous Weddings
Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson
Jun 3 Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) weds Mrs Wallis Simpson in France
- Jun 7 Three Stooges member Curly Howard (33) weds Elaine Ackerman
Mary Pickford
Jun 26 Canadian-American silent film actress Mary Pickford (45) weds her third and final husband American actor and bandleader Charles "Buddy" Rogers (32), until her death in 1979
Famous Deaths
Jean Harlow (1911-1937)
Jun 7 American actress and 1930s' sex goddess (Dinner at 8; Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26
Robert Borden (1854-1937)
Jun 10 Canadian politician and 8th Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative: 1911-20), dies at 82
- Jun 11 R. J. [Reginald Joseph] Mitchell, British aircraft designer (Supermarine Spitfire), dies of cancer at 42
- Jun 12 Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
- Jun 15 Ambrose Swasey, American mechanical engineer and inventor of telescopes, dies at 90 [1]
- Jun 18 Al Boasberg, American vaudeville, radio and film comedy writer (Jack Benny; Bob Hope; The Marx Brothers), dies of a heart attack at 44
- Jun 18 Gaston Doumergue, 60th Prime Minister of France (1913-14 and 1934) and 1st protestant French President (1924-31), dies at 73
- Jun 19 J. M. [James Matthew] Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (Peter Pan), dies at 77
- Jun 25 Colin Clive, British actor (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Mad Love), dies from complications of tuberculosis at 37
- Jun 26 Adolf Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82
- Jun 28 Max Adler, Austrian socialist theorist, dies at 64
