Events in History
- Jun 1 Don Bowden becomes first American to run a sub-4 minute mile (3:58.7) at the Pacific Association AAU Meet in Stockton, California
Event of Interest
Jun 2 US TV interviews Nikita Khrushchev
Election of Interest
Jun 10 John Diefenbaker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada
- Jun 11 12 die in a train crash in Vroman, Colorado
- Jun 12 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs)
- Jun 13 Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Jun 14 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
- Jun 15 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)
- Jun 16 French offensive in Algeria
- Jun 17 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)
- Jun 21 Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister
- Jun 21 John Diefenbaker (C) takes office as Prime Minister of Canada
Event of Interest
Jun 21 Louis St. Laurent resigns as Prime Minister of Canada, ending the longest uninterrupted run at the federal level in Canadian history
- Jun 22 Kansas City stops using streetcars in its transit system
- Jun 24 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States
- Jun 27 Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana & Texas
- Jun 27 The British Medical Research Council publishes a report suggesting a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
- Jun 28 Reds' fans stuff ballot box, electing 8 Reds as All Star starters
Birthdays in History
Jeffrey Hawkins (66 years old)
Jun 1 American inventor (PalmPilot, Treo), born in Huntington, New York
- Jun 2 Mark Lawrenson, English Football Pundit
- Jun 7 Ruth Anderson, Welsh rug hooker famous for her folk rugs
- Jun 8 Scott Raymond Adams, Catskill NY, cartoonist (Dilbert)
- Jun 10 Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect (falsified earthquake design calculations)
- Jun 10 Lindsay Hoyle, British politician (Speaker of the House of Commons), born in Adlington, England
- Jun 13 Roy Cooper, American politician, Governor of North Carolina (2017-), born in Nashville, North Carolina
- Jun 18 Richard Powers, American novelist (The Overstory - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2019), born in Evanston, Illinois
- Jun 19 Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
- Jun 21 Berkeley Breathed, American cartoonist (Vegetarian; Bloom County; Outland), born in Encino, Los Angeles, California
- Jun 22 Danny Baker, English writer and radio DJ, born in Deptford, London, England
- Jun 26 Philippe Couillard, 31st Premier of Quebec and Minister of Health, born in Montreal, Quebec
- Jun 28 Georgi Parvanov, 3rd President of Bulgaria (2002-12), born in Sirishtnik, Bulgaria
Deaths in History
- Jun 7 Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies
- Jun 17 Dorothy M. Richardson, English novelist (Pilgrimage), dies at 84
- Jun 19 Karl Plagge, German officer and Nazi Party member who during World War II used his position as a staff officer in the German Army to employ and protect some 1,240 Jews, dies at 59
- Jun 21 Frantisek Kupka, Czech pioneering abstract artist, dies at 85
- Jun 21 Johannes Stark, German physicist (Stark Effect; Nobel Prize in Physics -1919), and Nazi sympathizer, dies at 83
- Jun 23 Louis Fornberg, writer, dies at 48
- Jun 26 Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
- Jun 27 Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Under the Volcano, Ultramarine), dies at 48
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