Historical Events
Red Sox Star Enlists
Jun 2 Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a US Navy aviator
Mrs Miniver
Jun 4 "Mrs Miniver" based on the novel by Jan Struther, directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon is released in the US (Best Picture 1943)
- Jun 4 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
- Jun 4 Capitol Record Co opens for business
- Jun 5 An explosion at the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant kills 48 people
- Jun 5 British offensive in North Africa under General Ritchie
- Jun 5 USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania
- Jun 6 1st nylon parachute jump is made by Ameican parachute tester Adeline Gray (27-ish), at Brainard Field, an airport near Hartford, Connecticut; Dupont teamed with the Pioneer Parachute Company to develop use of an alternative to silk
74th Belmont
Jun 6 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2
- Jun 6 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
- Jun 6 Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
Battle of Midway ends
Jun 7 Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Chester Nimitz wins 1st World War II naval defeat of Japan
- Jun 7 Germany Army marches into Sebastopol, Russia
- Jun 7 Japanese troops land on Attu, Aleutian Islands
- Jun 7 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
Silent Night
Jun 8 Bing Crosby records "Silent Night"
- Jun 9 Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in Gerbrandy government
- Jun 9 German-Netherlands press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe
Lidice Massacre
Jun 10 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Czech Republic) which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, to “teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility”; over 170 adult men were executed by firing squad on site, women and children were sent to concentration camp gas chambers, and the village was burned down and plowed under
- Jun 11 US and USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II
Anne Frank Gets Her Diary
Jun 12 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present in Amsterdam
- Jun 12 Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Jun 13 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
- Jun 13 Gene Roddenberry marries Eileen-Anita Rexroat
- Jun 13 Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island
- Jun 13 The United States opens its Office of War Information, with Elmer Davis as head
- Jun 13 US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) formed
- Jun 14 1st bazooka rocket gun produced (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
- Jun 14 Anne Frank begins writing her diary, in Dutch, two days after her 13th birthday [1]
- Jun 14 French government of Reynaud resigns
- Jun 18 Bernard W. Robinson, becomes 1st African American ensign in US Navy
- Jun 18 Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m
- Jun 19 Paul Waner is 7th to get 3,000 baseball hits
Dutch Jews Deported
Jun 20 Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews
- Jun 20 German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa
- Jun 21 129°F (54°C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)
- Jun 21 Anneliese Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)
Rommel Takes Torbruk
Jun 21 Germany's Panzer Army led by Erwin Rommel takes Tobruk in Libya, North Africa
Roosevelt Churchill in DC
Jun 21 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill arrive at Hyde Park for the hastily convened Second Washington Conference
Shostakovich's 7th Symphony
Jun 22 European broadcast première of Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony in London conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood and the London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Jun 22 Japanese submarine at the mouth of Columbia River, Oregon
- Jun 22 Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms
- Jun 23 World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales
- Jun 24 German Africa Korps invades Egypt
- Jun 24 US Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered
- Jun 24 Village of Ležáky, Czechoslovakia destroyed by Nazis after Gestapo finds a radio transmitter believed to have been involved coordinating the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, 33 adults were executed by firing squad on site, and children were sent to concentration camp gas chambers, and the village was burned down and plowed under
- Jun 25 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill travels from US to London
- Jun 25 British RAF stages a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen, Germany (WWII)
Eisenhower European Commander
Jun 25 Major General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe
- Jun 26 German assault on British railroad terminal at Mersa Matruh, Egypt
- Jun 27 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
- Jun 27 PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk
- Jun 28 Col-gen Von Hoth' 6th Pantser enters Voronezj
- Jun 30 Col-general Von Paul's 6th Army enters Ukraine
- Jun 30 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (700,227 tons)
- Jun 30 US bombs Celebes and Timor
- Jun 30 US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 1 Fernando Atzori, Italian boxer (Olympic gold flyweight 1964), born in Ales, Italy (d. 2020)
- Jun 1 Randy Hundley Jr., American baseball catcher (MLB All-Star 1969; Gold Glove Award 1967; Chicago Cubs), born in Martinsville, Virginia
- Jun 1 Tom Mankiewicz, screenwriter (Diamonds are Forever), born in Los Angeles, California
- Jun 2 Maree Cheatham, American actress (Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Jun 3 Anita Harris, British actress (Follow that Camel), and singer ("Just Loving You"), born in Somerset, England
Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999)
Jun 3 American singer-songwriter and soul musician ("Freddie's Dead"; "Superfly"), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Jun 3 Duane Josephson, MLB baseball catcher, 1965-72 (Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox), born in New Hampton, Iowa (d. 1997)
- Jun 5 Charles Dodge, American electronic music composer, born in Ames, Iowa
- Jun 5 Nelson Burton Jr, American ten-pin bowler and sportscaster (Pro Bowlers Tour), born in St. Louis, Missouri
- Jun 5 Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea (1979- ), born in Acoacán, Spanish Guinea
- Jun 6 Sandra Morgan, Australian 4x100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic gold 1956), born in Tamworth, New South Wales
- Jun 7 Aonghas MacNeacail [Angus Nicolson], Scottish poet Gaelic activist, born in Uig, Scotland (d. 2022) [1]
Muammar Gaddafi (1942-2011)
Jun 7 Libyan revolutionary, political theorist and dictator (1969-2011), born in Qasr Abu Hadi, Libya
- Jun 8 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov, Russian cosmonaut, born in Tambov, Russia
- Jun 8 Chuck Negron, American singer-songwriter (Three Dog Night - "Joy to the World"; "One";"Old Fashioned Love Song"), born in The Bronx, New York
- Jun 8 Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player (Masters 1977; Pot Black 1978, 85; UK C'ship 1988, World C'ship 1981 runner-up), born in Gelligaer, Wales (d. 2021)
- Jun 8 Gael Ramsey, Brigadier commander (HQ Aldershot Garrison)
- Jun 9 Nicholas Lloyd, British editor (The Daily Express)
- Jun 9 Ossie Clark, British fashion designer of the Swinging Sixties, born in Oswaldtwistle, England (d. 1996)
- Jun 9 Richard Hutton, English cricketer (son of Len, 5 Tests 1971), born in Pudsey, England
- Jun 10 Gordon Burns, Northern Irish broadcast journalist (The Krypton Factor, 1977–95; North West Tonight, 1997-2011), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Jun 10 Janet Vogel, American doo-wop soprano (Skyliners - “Since I Don’t Have You”), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1980)
- Jun 10 Preston Manning, Canadian politician, founder of Reform Party, born in Edmonton, Alberta
- Jun 11 Brian Muller, New Zealand rugby union prop (14 caps; Taranaki), born in Eltham, New Zealand (d. 2019)
- Jun 11 Somachandra De Silva, Sri Lankan cricket all-rounder (12 Tests, 37 wickets, BB 5/59, 2 x 50; Bloomfield C & AC, Shropshire CC), born in Galle, Sri Lanka
- Jun 12 Bert Sakmann, German cell physiologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1991), born in Stuttgart, Germany
David Rumelhart (1942-2011)
Jun 12 American psychologist (backpropagation algorithm), born in Wessington, South Dakota
- Jun 12 Homer Neal, African-American particle physicist, born in Franklin, Kentucky (d. 2018)
- Jun 12 Len Barry [Leonard Borisoff], American singer, songwriter and producer (The Dovells - "Bristol Stomp"; solo - "1-2-3"), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2020)
- Jun 13 James Carr, American soul singer ("To Love Somebody"; "Dark End of the Street"), born in Coahoma, Mississippi (d. 2001)
- Jun 15 Bruce DalCanton, American baseball player, born in California, Pennsylvania
- Jun 15 Tony Coelho, American politician (Rep-D-California, 1979-89), born in Los Banos, California
- Jun 16 Alan "Howling Laud" Hope, British politician and leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party (OMRLP), born in Mytchett, Surrey
- Jun 16 David Parry, British-Canadian folk musician (Friends of Fiddler's Green), storyteller (Canadian Museum of Civilization), actor, stage director, and teacher (University of Toronto), born in London, England (d. 1995)
- Jun 16 Eddie Levert, American vocalist (O'Jays - "For The Love Of Money"), born in Canton, Ohio
- Jun 16 Giacomo Agostini, Italian world motorcycle race champion, born in Lovere, Italy
- Jun 16 John Rostill, English rocker (The Shadows), born in Birmingham (d. 1973)
- Jun 17 Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 2005, born in Cairo, Egypt
- Jun 17 Norman Kuhlice, British rock drummer (The Swinging Blue Jeans,1957-1969 - "You're No Good"), born in Liverpool. England
- Jun 18 Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (Derek and the Dominoes), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 1980)
- Jun 18 Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (The Hague Philharmonic, 1980-1991; St. Louis Symphony, 1996-2002), born in Amsterdam (d. 2004)
Paul McCartney (81 years old)
Jun 18 British rock singer-songwriter, bassist, piano player (The Beatles - "Yesterday"; "I Will"; Wings -"Silly Love Songs"), born in Liverpool, England
- Jun 18 Richard Perry, American record producer (Harry Nilsson; Ringo Starr; Carly Simon; Leo Sayer; The Pointer Sisters), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Jun 18 Roger Ebert, American film critic (Pulitzer Prize 1975), born in Urbana, Illinois (d. 2013)
Thabo Mbeki (81 years old)
Jun 18 President of South Africa (1999-2008), 1st vice-president (1994-99) and economist, born in Mbewuleni, Eastern Cape
- Jun 19 Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, rocker (Spanky & Our Gang - "Sunday Will Never Be the Same," "Lazy Day,"), born in Peoria, Illinois
- Jun 19 J Edward Oliver, British cartoonist (Record Mirror; Buster & Master's Mind), born in Dartford, Kent, England (d. 2007)
- Jun 19 Jos Brink, Dutch TV host (Op Zoek)
- Jun 19 Neil Chalmers, director (National History Museum, London)
- Jun 19 Robert [Bob] W Kasten Jr, (Sen-R-WI, 1981- )
- Jun 19 Willie Frazier, American football tight end (AFL All-Star 1965, 67, 69; All-Pro 1965; Houston Oilers, San Diego Chargers), born in El Dorado, Arkansas (d. 2013)
Brian Wilson (81 years old)
Jun 20 American singer-songwriter, vocal arranger, and producer (Beach Boys - "In My Room"; "Good Vibrations"; "God Only Knows"; Caroline No"), born in Inglewood, California
- Jun 21 Henry S. Taylor, American writer at poet (Pulitzer 1986 for Poetry), born in Lincoln, Virginia
- Jun 21 Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, Canadian and Anishinaabe activist (Lavell vs Canada case), born in Wikwemikong, Ontario [1]
- Jun 21 Marjorie Margolies, American women's right activist and politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Jun 21 Togo West Jr., American attorney and public official (3rd Secretary of Veterans Affairs 1998-2000), born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (d. 2018)
- Jun 21 William Bradford Reynolds, US Assistant Attorney General (1981-88), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut
- Jun 22 Murphy Dunne, American actor and musician, born in Chicago, Illinois
- Jun 22 Toyohiro Akiyama, Japan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-11)
- Jun 23 Bruce Roberts, American curler (World C'ship 1976; US C'ship 1966, 67, 76, 77, 84), born in Orr, Minnesota (d. 2022)
- Jun 24 Arthur Brown, British rock singer and songwriter (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Fire"), born in Whitby, Yorkshire
- Jun 24 Gerhart Roth, Austrian writer, born in Graz
- Jun 24 Michele Lee, American stage and screen actress, and singer (Knots Landing - "Karen; Seesaw; The Love Bug), born in Los Angeles, California
- Jun 25 Joe Chambers, American jazz drummer, vibraphonist, and composer, born in Chester, Pennsylvania
- Jun 25 Michel Tremblay, Canadian novelist and playwright (Les Belles-Sœurs), born in Montreal, Quebec
- Jun 25 Patrick Michael Mitchell, one of FBI's most wanted, born in Ottawa, Ontario
Willis Reed (1942-2023)
Jun 25 American Basketball HOF center (NBA C'ship 1970 [MVP], 1973 [MVP]; NBA MVP 1970; 7 × NBA All-Star; NY Knicks) and coach (NY Knicks, NJ Nets), born in Dubach, Louisiana
- Jun 26 Gilberto Gil, Brazilian tropicália singer-songwriter, activist, and politician (Minister of Culture, 2003-08), born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Jun 26 Larry "The Mole" Taylor, American session (The Monkees) and touring rock and blues bass player (Canned Heat - "On the Road Again"; John Mayall; Tom Waits), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2019)
- Jun 26 Orin C Smith, American businessman and CEO of Starbucks (2000-05), born in Ryderwood, Washington (d. 2018)
- Jun 27 Bruce Johnston [Benjamin Baldwin], American singer (The Beach Boys), songwriter ("I Write The Songs"), and record producer, born in Peoria, Illinois
- Jun 27 Frank Mills, Canadian pianist, composer and arranger (Music Box Dancer), born in Montreal, Quebec
- Jun 27 John Howard McGuire, American composer, born in Artesia, California
- Jun 28 (Martin) "Chris" Hani, South African politician (Secretary-General of South African Communist Party, 1991-93), born in Cofimvaba, Transkei, South Africa (d. 1993)
- Jun 28 Jim Kolbe, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona), born in Evanston, Illinois
- Jun 28 Sjoukje Dijkstra, Dutch figure skater (Olympic gold 1964), born in Akkrum, Netherlands
- Jun 29 Bas van der Vlies, Dutch politician (SGP), born in Sliedrecht, Netherlands
- Jun 29 Larry Snyder, American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey (US Champion Jockey by wins 1969; George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award 1989), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 2018)
- Jun 29 Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter (This Day Tonight), born in Perth, Australia (d. 2019)
- Jun 30 Robert Ballard, American explorer and discoverer (discovered Titanic wreck in 1985), born in Wichita, Kansas
Famous Weddings
Marilyn Monroe
Jun 19 Aspiring American actress Norma Jean Mortenson (later known as Marilyn Monroe) (16) weds first husband American merchant marine James Dougherty (21); divorce in 1946
- Jun 21 Jacqueline Kennedy's mother Janet Bouvier marries Standard Oil heir Hugh Auchincloss
Famous Deaths
- Jun 1 Ernest Pingoud, Finnish composer, dies at 53
- Jun 1 Vladislav Vančura, Czech writer (Rozmarné léto), dies at 50
- Jun 2 (Roland) "Bunny" Berigan, American session and big band jazz trumpeter (Paul Whiteman; Benny Goodman - "King Porter Stomp"; Tommy Dorsey - "Marie"), vocalist, and bandleader ("I Can't Get Started"), dies from cirrhosis of the liver at 33
Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942)
Jun 4 German Nazi leader (head of Bohemia and Moravia and the Reich Main Security Office), dies a week after an assassination attempt at 38
- Jun 7 Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer, dies at 38
- Jun 10 Jean François van Royen, Dutch graphic designer, bibliophile, and Secretary-General of Dutch PTT (Post, Telephone & Telegraph), dies in Concentration Camp Amersfoort at 63
- Jun 10 Ross Gregory, Australian cricket batsman (2 Tests, 2 x 50; Victoria), dies in action during WWII at 26
- Jun 10 Stanley Lupino, English comic (Cheer Up; Over She Goes), dies at 48
- Jun 12 Walter Leigh, British composer (The Frogs of Aristophanes), killed in action near Tobruk, Libya while serving in British Army, at 36
- Jun 15 Vera Figner, writer, dies
- Jun 17 Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician who was the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec and 5th Chief Justice of Canada, dies at 88
- Jun 18 Adolf Opalka, Czech resistance fighter, shot down
- Jun 18 Arthur Pryor, American band composer and trombone player, dies at 71
- Jun 18 John Kubris, Czech paratrooper in WWII (killed Nazi head of Bohemia Reinhard Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid), dies as the result of battle wounds at 28
- Jun 25 Hans Lietzman, German theologist and church historian, dies at 67
- Jun 30 Arnoldus Johannes Hubertus Aerts, Dutch bishop of New Guinea, executed at 62
