June 1951 in History

Events in History

Jun 2 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones

Jun 18 Charles de Gaulle wins French parliamentary election

Jun 18 In South Africa, the Suppression of Communism Act commences
Jun 23 Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas)
Jun 23 Treacherous British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to USSR
Jun 24 Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations
Jun 30 NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination

Jun 2 Gilbert Baker, American gay activist who designed the rainbow flag, born in Chanute, Kansas (d. 2017)
Jun 3 Jill Biden, American first lady and educator, born in Hammonton, New Jersey
Jun 4 Wendy Pini, American comic book writer (Elfquest), born in San Francisco, California
Jun 4 Yvonne van Rooy, Dutch State Secretary for Economic Affairs, born in Eindhoven, Netherlands
Jun 11 Mark D. Siljander, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan (1981-87), born in Chicago, Illinois
Jun 11 Yasumasa Morimura, Japanese appropriation artist, born in Osaka, Japan
Jun 12 Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (2000-07), born in Yerevan, Armenia (d. 2007)
Jun 14 Paul Boateng, British Labour politician 9British High Commissioner to South Africa), born in Hackney, England
Jun 19 Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian leader of al-Qaeda, born in Maadi, Cairo
Jun 20 Paul Muldoon, Northern Irish poet
Jun 27 Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland (1997-2011), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Jun 27 Sidney M. Gutierrez, Mjr USAF and NASA astronaut (STS 40, 59), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Jun 28 Tomás Boy, Mexican football midfielder and manager (52 caps; Tigres UANL 413 games), born in Ciudad de México, Mexico (d. 2022)
Jun 29 Don Rosa, American comic book writer and illustrator (Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck), born in Louisville, Kentucky
Jun 30 Stephen S. Oswald, American NASA astronaut (STS 42, 56, 67), born in Seattle, Washington

Jun 1 Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer and historian, dies at 85
Jun 2 Alain [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher and writer, dies at 83
Jun 2 John Erskine, American poet and writer (Private Life of Helen of Troy), dies at 71
Jun 7 Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair & Otto Schmidt, Nazi war criminals, hanged
Jun 8 Eugène Fiset, French Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
Jun 13 Ben Chifley, Australian politician and the 16th Prime Minister of Australia (Labor: 1945-49), dies of a heart attack at 65
Jun 14 Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73
Jun 17 Vin Coutie, Australian rules footballer, dies at 69
Jun 19 Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884)
Jun 21 Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer, dies at 83