Events in History
- Jun 2 Black Americans observed day of fasting in protest against lynchings
- Jun 5 Alfred Dreyfus acquitted
- Jun 10 Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati
- Jun 12 New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 peoples and injures around 200
- Jun 29 Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
- Jun 30 Jack Hearne takes a hat-trick Eng v Australia at Headingley
Birthdays in History
- Jun 1 Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963)
- Jun 2 Tan Malaka, Indonesian philosopher and founder (Indonesian Communist), born in Limapuluh Koto, Dutch East Indies (d. 1949)
- Jun 3 Georg von Bekesy, physician (Nobel-1961), born in Budapest, Hungary
- Jun 4 Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (d. 1989)
- Jun 7 Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (The Death of the Heart, Encounters), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1973)
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- Jun 10 Raoul Salan, Fr/Indochina/Algeria (leader OAS)
- Jun 11 Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist (Thousand Cranes) and Nobel laureate (1968), born in Osaka (d. 1972)
- Jun 16 Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (Doubleday)
- Jun 18 James Ralph Darling, teacher
- Jun 19 George Calinescu, Romania, literature (Enigma Otilei)
- Jun 20 Jean Moulin, hero of the French Resistance (WWII)
- Jun 22 Michal Kalecki, Polish economist
- Jun 24 Bruce Marshall, writer
- Jun 26 Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, 3rd daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, born in Peterhof Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1918)
- Jun 27 Juan Trippe, American airline pioneer and entrepreneur (Pan Am founder), born in Sea Bright, New Jersey (d. 1981)
- Jun 30 Frantisek Tomasek, bishop of Prague/cardinal