Baseball Record
Jun 1 Future NY Yankees Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig pinch hits for shortstop Pee-Wee Wanninge in a 5-3 loss to Washington; first of record 2,130 consecutive games
Lou Gehrig
Baseball Record
Jun 3 Eddie Collins, is 6th to get 3,000 hits
Eddie Collins
- Jun 3 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes the first with an enclosed cabin
US Golf Open
Jun 5 US Open Men's Golf, Worcester CC: Scotsman Willie Macfarlane beats Bobby Jones by 1 stroke in a second 18-hole playoff for his only major title
Bobby Jones
Event of Interest
Jun 6 Walter Chrysler founds automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation
Walter Chrysler
- Jun 6 French Championships Men's Tennis: René Lacoste wins 1st of 3 French titles, beating fellow Frenchman Jean Borotra 7-5, 6-1, 6-4
- Jun 6 French Women's Tennis Championships: Suzanne Lenglen beats Kitty McKane 6-1, 6-2
- Jun 10 Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena
- Jun 13 American William DeHart Hubbard sets men's long jump world record at 7.89m (25 ft 10 3⁄4 in) in Chicago, Illinois
- Jun 13 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8
- Jun 13 Charles Jenkins demonstrates the transmission of synchronized pictures and sound (early television)
- Jun 15 Philadelphia As go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15
- Jun 16 The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established
- Jun 16 The Union Government rejects a round-table conference with India on the grounds that it will constitute interference in South African affairs
- Jun 22 Spain and France fight Morocco
- Jun 23 British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers
- Jun 23 Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)
- Jun 25 Military putsch under General Theodorus Pangulos in Greece
British Golf Open
Jun 26 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: English born American Jim Barnes captures his only Open title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Ted Ray and Archie Compston
Jim Barnes
Film Release
Jun 26 "The Gold Rush", directed, starring and written by Charlie Chaplin, is released
Charlie Chaplin