Events in History
- Jun 1 Peace Bridge between US and Canada opens
Event of Interest
Jun 11 Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross
- Jun 13 Ticker-tape parade welcomes Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
- 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 Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto César Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
- Jun 30 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
Birthdays in History
- Jun 2 Phillip Burton, historian (Vanishing Eagles)
- Jun 7 Martin Carter, Guyanese poet and political activist, born in Georgetown, Guyana (d. 1997)
- Jun 8 Dame Anne Warburton, 1st British female ambassador (1976) and President of Lucy Cavendish College (Cambridge) (d. 2015)
- Jun 8 Michael Levey, English art historian and director (British National Gallery), born in Wimbledon, London (d. 2008)
- Jun 9 Norman Sisisky, American politician (Rep-D-VA, 1983-2001), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2001)
- Jun 10 Eugene Parker, American solar astrophysicist (Parker Space Probe named after him), born in Houghton, Michigan (d. 2022)
- Jun 10 Lin Yang-kang, Taiwanese politician, born in Niitaka District, Taiwan (d. 2013)
- Jun 10 Michael Walsh, British Army officer (Operation Musketeer), born in Harrogate, England (d. 2015)
- 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 15 Hugo Pratt, Italian graphic artist, born in Rimini, Italy (d. 1995)
- Jun 17 Austin Murphy, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania), born in North Charleroi, Pennsylvania
- Jun 17 Lucio Fulci, Italian director "Godfather of Gore", born in Rome (d. 1996)
- Jun 18 (Clarence) "Bud" Brown, Jr, American politician (US Representative from Ohio, 1965-83), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 2022)
- Jun 18 John Phillipps Kenyon, English historian, born in Sheffield, England (d. 1996)
- 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 24 Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (1995 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovery of the tau lepton particle), born in NYC, New York (d. 2014)
- Jun 26 Jerry Schatzberg, American photographer (Vogue, Esquire) and film director (The Panic in Needle Park; Scarecrow; The Seduction of Joe Tynan), born in the Bronx, NYC
- Jun 26 Leslie Carpenter, British publishing executive and CEO (Reed International)
- Jun 27 David Hobman, English human right activist and director (Age Concern England) (d. 2003)
- Jun 28 F. Sherwood Rowland, American Nobel laureate in chemistry 1995, born in Delaware, Ohio (d. 2012)
- Jun 28 Theo van Tijn, Dutch marxist/social-historian
- Jun 30 Joe Skeen, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Mexico), born in Roswell, New Mexico (d. 2003)
Weddings in History
Marcel Duchamp
Jun 8 Painter Marcel Duchamp (39) weds Lydie Sarazin-Lavassor
Guglielmo Marconi
Jun 12 Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi (53) weds Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali
Benjamin Spock
Jun 25 Pediatrician Benjamin Spock (24) weds civil liberties advocate Jane Cheney
Deaths in History
- Jun 1 J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
Lizzie Borden (1860-1927)
Jun 1 American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents (gave her mother forty whacks), dies of pneumonia at 66
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927)
Jun 9 American civil rights activist (1872 presidential candidate, woman's suffrage movement), dies at 88
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