Events in History
- Jun 1 Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire
- Jun 3 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
- Jun 3 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
- Jun 5 "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" single released by Stan Jones
- Jun 7 Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns
- Jun 7 KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
- Jun 8 John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines
- Jun 14 Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia
- Jun 17 Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader
- Jun 18 American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights
- Jun 18 National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time
- Jun 18 UN Commission on Human Rights adopts the International Declaration of Human Rights
- Jun 19 Panama and Costa Rica recognize Israel
- Jun 20 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo
- Jun 20 Cleveland draws then record 82,781 for doubleheader
- Jun 20 Deutsche Mark introduced in West Germany
- Jun 21 1st stored computer program runs on Manchester Mark I at a laboratory in Manchester University, England
- Jun 21 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's planned to be phased out (Dr Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)
- Jun 21 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)
- Jun 21 Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
Presidential Convention
Jun 24 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates Governor of NY Thomas E. Dewey
Thomas E. Dewey
The Berlin Candy Bombers
Jun 24 Soviet Union begins the West Berlin Blockade by stopping access by road, rail and water
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Event of Interest
Jun 25 Harry Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US)
Harry Truman
Birthdays in History
- Jun 1 Tomáš Halík, Czech priest and public intellectual
- Jun 5 Frank Estersmith, Australia, rocker (Air Supply)
- Jun 9 Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
- Jun 11 Anthony Nelson, British Labour politician, born in Hamburg, Germany
- Jun 12 Barry Bailey, American rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section), born in Decatur, Georgia
- Jun 19 Nick Drake, rocker (Back to Fruit Tree)
- Jun 20 Nigel Morris, rocker (Isotope)
- Jun 20 Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
- Jun 21 Ian McEwan, English writer (Atonement), born in Aldershot, England
- Jun 21 Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer (The Witcher), born in Łódź, Poland
- Jun 23 Clarence Thomas, 108th US Supreme Court Justice (1991- ), born in Savannah, Georgia
- Jun 23 Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author
- Jun 23 Joaquin Avila, American lawyer and civil rights champion who advocated against voter discrimination, born in Compton, California (d. 2018)
- Jun 29 Charles McCorquodale, art historian, born in Edinburgh (d. 1996)
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Jun 27 Inventor Jack Kilby (24) weds Barbara Annegers
Jack Kilby
Deaths in History
- Jun 1 Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
- Jun 2 Viktor Brack, German Nazi physician and war criminal, dies at 43
- Jun 2 Karl Brandt, German physician of Adolf Hitler, hanged for war crimes at 44
- Jun 2 Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (b. 1897)
- Jun 2 Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
- Jun 2 Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician, dies at 42
- Jun 6 Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)
- Jun 21 D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Scottish zoologist and classicist (On Growth & Form), dies at 88
- Jun 25 William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
- Jun 30 Karl Wolfskehl, writer, dies at 78