Film & TV History
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
Sports History
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
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 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 Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Neth (Belgium count De Lambert)
- 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
Boxing Title Fight
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
