Events in History
- Jun 1 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
Election of Interest
Jun 2 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time
- Jun 7 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens
- 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
- Jun 16 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
- 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 26 Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London
- Jun 27 Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Neth (Belgium count De Lambert)
- Jun 28 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens
Birthdays in History
- Jun 1 Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (d. 1986)
- Jun 4 William M. Batten, American businessman and CEO (NY Stock Exchange 1976-84), born in Parkersburg, West Virginia (d. 1999)
- Jun 6 Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-British philosopher, born in Riga, Latvia, Russian Empire (d. 1997)
- Jun 7 Peter W. Rodino, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey (1949-89), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2005)
- Jun 8 William Odling, major-general
- Jun 9 Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, Spanish philosopher, born in Avila, Spain (d. 1996)
- Jun 16 Archie Carr, American ecologist and zoologist (conservation of sea turtles), born in Mobile, Alabama (d. 1987)
- Jun 17 Elmer L. Andersen, 30th Governor of Minnesota (1961-63), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2004)
- Jun 19 Osamu Dazai, Japan, novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human)
- Jun 22 Michael "Mike" Todd [Avrom Goldbogen], American producer (Around the World in 80 Days) and 3rd husband of Elizabeth Taylor (1957-58), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1958)
- Jun 23 Li Xiannian, President of the People's Republic of China (1983-88), born in Hong'an, Hubei, China (d. 1992)
- Jun 24 William Penney, British physicist (developed Britain's 1st atom bomb), born in Gibraltar (d. 1991)
- Jun 26 Betty Askwith, British writer and biographer (d. 1995)
- Jun 26 Colonel Tom Parker [Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk], Dutch-born talent manager (Elvis Presley), born in Breda, Netherlands (d. 1997)
- Jun 26 Nicholas Polunin, British botanist and environmentalist, born in Checkendon, Oxfordshire (d. 1997)
- Jun 28 Eric Ambler, suspense writer (Epitaph for a Spy), born in London, England
- Jun 28 French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist, born in Borsbeek, Antwerp
- Jun 30 Juan Bosch, 43rd President of the Dominican Republic (1962-63) and writer, born in La Vega, Dominican Republic (d. 2001)
Deaths in History
- Jun 10 Edward Everett Hale, American clergyman and author (Man without a Country), dies at 87
- Jun 22 Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet, dies at 65
- Jun 22 Edward John Gregory, British painter and engraver, dies at 59
- Jun 24 Sarah Orne Jewett, American author (Country of the Pointed Firs), dies at 59
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