June 1908 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1908 John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days
• 02 Jun 1908 33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4
• 12 Jun 1908 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours
• 13 Jun 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
• 18 Jun 1908 Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
• 24 Jun 1908 Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71
• 30 Jun 1908 The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.

Famous Birthday

• Salvador Allende

  Chilean physician and 29th President of Chile.

• Renée Gadd
• João Guimarães Rosa
• John Hench

  in Iowa, USA; joined Disney Studios in 1939 as artist and story editor, designed Disneyland projects, Walt Disney World plans, Tokyo...

• Norman Lewis
• Nedra Volz

  American actress (Born 1908).

• Winston Graham

  British writer; historical and suspense novelist.

• Kathleen Raine
• Streeter Stuart

  American news journalist, a legendary HUB radio and TV newsman, well known for the quality of his powerful voice delivering the news on...

• Geli Raubal

  Austrian news figure, the half-niece of Adolf Hitler and his mistress before Eva Braun.

• Marina Ladynina
• Francisco Marto

  Portuguese child noted for the Miracle of Fatima, during which the sun appeared to spin and fall from the sky, witnessed by 70,000 people on...

• Tullio Pinelli
• James MacDonald

  Scottish botanist, professor of botany and author of "Introduction to Mycology" released in 1951 as well as other science papers.

• Henri Rol-Tanguy

  French politician and activist.

• Evalyn Knapp
• Henri-Robert Courand
• Otto Skorzeny

  German / Austrian SS (Mussolini / Ardennen).

• Jacques Mitterrand (1908-1991)
• Ronald Selby Wright

  Minister.

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Famous Deaths

• Luca Fumagalli

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Redvers H Buller

  English General, dies at 68.

• Johan Lindegren

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Jose FdT Coelho

  Portuguese writer (Os meus amores), dies at 46.

• Georg Adler

  German statehouse head, dies at 45.

• Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov

  Russian Composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64.

• Frederick Arthur Stanley

  British Governor general of Canada (Born 1841).

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  Russian composer and academic (d. 1908).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Harry Macdonough - Sweetheart Days
2. Frank Stanley & Henry Burr - She's the Fairest Little Flower Old Dixie Ever Grew
3. Lucy Isabelle Marsh - The Glow-Worm
4. Haydn Quartet - Love Me and the World is Mine
5. Henry Burr - As Long as the World Rolls On