What Happened in June 1927

Historical Events

Baseball Record

Jun 11 Babe Ruth hits 19th and 20th of 60 HRs

Baseball Legend Babe Ruth — Baseball Legend
Babe Ruth

Event of Interest

Jun 11 Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross

Aviator Charles Lindbergh — Aviator
Charles Lindbergh

Jun 13 Ticker-tape parade welcomes Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
Jun 16 31st US Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont CC in Pa

World Record

Jun 18 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6

Runner nicknamed the "Flying Finn"
Paavo Nurmi

Baseball Record

Jun 23 Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox

Baseball Player Lou Gehrig — Baseball Player
Lou Gehrig

Jun 25 WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout
Jun 26 Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
Jun 26 The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
Jun 29 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
Jun 29 First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller.
Jun 30 Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
Jun 30 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes

Famous Birthdays

Jun 2 Andre Vandernoot, Flemish conductor (Royal Flemish Opera)
Jun 2 Phillip Burton, historian (Vanishing Eagles)
Jun 2 W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator, (d. 2013)
Jun 3 [Homer] Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (Yakety Sax), born in Paducah, Kentucky (d. 2007)
Jun 4 Geoffrey Palmer, British actor (A Fish Called Wanda, The Madness of King George, Butterflies, Smacks & Thistle), born in London, England
Jun 4 Priscilla Morrill, American actress (Edie Grant-Mary Tyler Moore), born in Medford, Massachusetts (d. 1994)
Jun 7 Martin Carter, Guyanese poet and political activist, born in Georgetown, Guyana (d. 1997)
Jun 7 Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1953)
Jun 8 Dame Anne Warburton, 1st British female ambassador (1976) and President of Lucy Cavendish College (Cambridge) (d. 2015)

Jerry Stiller

Jun 8 Jerry Stiller, American comedian (Frank Constanza-Seinfeld), born in Brooklyn, New York

Jun 8 Michael Levey, English art historian and director (British National Gallery), born in Wimbledon, London (d. 2008)
Jun 9 Franco Donatoni, composer
Jun 9 Norman Sisisky, (Rep-D-VA, 1983- )
Jun 10 Michael Walsh, major-general/director (Overseas Relations)
Jun 10 Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician
Jun 10 Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002)
Jun 10 Eugene Parker, American solar astrophysicist (Parker Space Probe named after him)
Jun 11 Beryl Grey, English prima ballerina, born in Highgate, London
Jun 11 Josef Anton Reidl, German composer, born in Munich, Germany (d. 2016)
Jun 11 Marcus Fox, British Conservative Party MP and chairman (1922 Committee), born in Batley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (d. 2002)
Jun 12 Henry Slesar, American writer and playwright (The Edge of Night), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2002)
Jun 12 Timir Pinegin, Russian sailor (Olympic gold 1960), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2013)
Jun 13 Knut Wiggen, Norwegian computer music pioneer and composer, born in Buvika (d. 2016)
Jun 13 Slim Dusty [David Kirkpatrick], Australian country music singer-songwriter, born in Kempsey, New South Wales (d. 2003)
Jun 15 Hugo Pratt, graphic artist
Jun 15 Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humourist and Urdu poet (d. 1978)
Jun 16 Robert Matthews, master (Clare College Cambridge England)
Jun 16 Tom Graveney, England cricket batsman (79 Tests), born in Riding Mill, Northumberland (d. 2015)
Jun 17 Austin J Murphy, (Rep-D-PA, 1977- )
Jun 17 Lucio Fulci, Italian director "Godfather of Gore", born in Rome (d. 1996)
Jun 17 Martin Böttcher, German conductor
Jun 18 Dennis Landau, CEO (Cooperative Wholesale Society)
Jun 18 John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher
Jun 18 Paul Eddington, British actor (Devil Rides Out, Devil's Bride), born in Paddington, London (d. 1995)
Jun 18 Simeon Pironkov, composer
Jun 19 Karel Kupka, Czech composer, born in Rychvald
Jun 19 Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, Argentine general, Commander of the Third Army Corps (1975-79), and convicted human rights violator and murderer, born in San Martín, Buenos Aires (d. 2018)
Jun 20 John M Dengler, jazz bass sax/trumpet/trombone
Jun 21 Carl Burton Stokes, African American politician (51st mayor of Cleveland) and TV newscaster, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1996)
Jun 21 Jackie Collum, baseball player
Jun 22 Ann Petersen, Belgian actress (Home Sweet Home, Pauline & Paulette), born in Wuustwezel, Belgium (d. 2003)
Jun 23 Bob Fosse, choreographer/director (Cabaret, Damn Yankees), born in Chicago, Illinois
Jun 24 Joseph Pierce Jr, horse trainer
Jun 24 Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (Nobel 1995), born in New York, (d. 2014)
Jun 26 Leslie Carpenter, British publishing executive, CEO (Reed International)
Jun 27 David Hobman, English human right activist and director (Age Concern England) (d. 2003)
Jun 27 Bob Keeshan, American actor (Captain Kangaroo), born in Lynbrook, New York (d. 2004)
Jun 27 Robert Casey, American actor (Henry-Aldrich Family Show, What to Do on a Date), born in Rochester, New York
Jun 28 Theo van Tijn, Dutch marxist/social-historian
Jun 28 Frank Rowland, Newport Beach, California, Nobel laureate in chemistry, (d. 2012)
Jun 30 Harvey Vernon [Chet Smith], American actor (Teen Wolf, Jasper-Carter Country), born in Flint, Michigan (d. 1996)
Jun 30 James Goldman, American screenwriter/playwright (The Lion in Winter, They Might Be Giants), born in Chicago, Illinois
Jun 30 Joseph R Skeen, (Rep-R-New Mexico, 1981- )

Famous Weddings

Wedding of Interest

Jun 8 Painter Marcel Duchamp (39) weds Lydie Sarazin-Lavassor

Painter and Sculptor Marcel Duchamp — Painter and Sculptor
Marcel Duchamp

Wedding of Interest

Jun 12 Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi (53) weds Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali

Inventor and Nobel Laureate Guglielmo Marconi — Inventor and Nobel Laureate
Guglielmo Marconi

Wedding of Interest

Jun 25 Pediatrician Benjamin Spock (24) weds civil liberties advocate Jane Cheney

Famous Deaths

Lizzie Borden

Jun 1 Lizzie Borden, American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents, dies at 66

Jun 1 J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
Jun 2 Eduard Cuypers, Dutch architect (De Hooge Vuursche), dies at 67
Jun 2 Friedrich Hegar, Swiss composer, dies at 85
Jun 5 Paul Lacombe, French composer, dies at 89
Jun 7 Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
Jun 7 Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)

Victoria Woodhull

Jun 9 Victoria Woodhull, American civil rights activist (1872 presidential candidate, woman's suffrage movement), dies at 88

Jun 11 William Attewell, English cricket bowler (England in 10 Tests 1884-1891), dies at 65
Jun 13 Henry CK "Clan" Petty-Fitzmaurice, gov of India (1888-94), dies at 82
Jun 14 Johanna Barbiers, Dutch actress (Voddenraper of Paris), dies at 79
Jun 14 Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (the first Italian winner of the Tour de France), dies at 32
Jun 14 Jerome K. Jerome, English writer (The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow), dies at 68

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