June 1910 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1910 SC Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
• 02 Jun 1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea.
• 09 Jun 1910 Passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland)
• 12 Jun 1910 PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle
• 13 Jun 1910 William D Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia.
• 17 Jun 1910 Aurel Vlaicu performed the first flight of A. Vlaicu nr. 1.
• 19 Jun 1910 1st airship in service Germany
• 22 Jun 1910 The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, ''Deutschland'', makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours.
• 24 Jun 1910 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St. Andrews Scot
• 25 Jun 1910 Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
• 26 Jun 1910 24th US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss Wightman beats L Hammond (64 62)
• 30 Jun 1910 Russia absorbs Finland

Famous Birthday

• Jacques-Yves Cousteau

  French marine biologist and inventor (d. 1997).

• Jean Anouilh

  French writer, the leading dramatist after WW II, a period that was exceptionally rich in French theater.

• Paulette Goddard

  Actress (Hazard), dies in Switzerland at 78.

• Konrad Zuse

  German computer scientist and engineer invented the Z3 computer (d. 1995).

• Paul Colombet

  French astrologer, author of the two-volume "Secrets et techniques de l'astrologie" (1979).

• Robert Cummings

  American actor, an eternal juvenile who was still youthful looking at 60.

• Pietro Annigoni

  Italian portrait painter who helped found a school of modern realistic painting which exhibited in Italy from 1947.

• Gordon B Hinckley

  American religious leader (Born 1910).

• Jacques Berque

  French educator, the study director of Social Economics at the Moroccan Institute of High Studies, 1951.

• Christopher Cockerell

  English engineer invented the hovercraft (d. 1999).

• Pierre Joubert

  French illustrator.

• Julien Bertheau

  French stage/film/tv actor, director, producer, companion of actress micheline boudet; onscreen 1929.

• Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

  Galician writer (d. 1999).

• Wilfred Thesiger

  British explorer, travel writer and photographer, also called Mubarak bin London (Arabic for "the blessed one from London").

• Abe Fortas

  American lawyer and jurist (d. 1982).

• Bradford Washburn

  American cartographer, explorer, mountaineer, photographer and director of the Boston Museum of Science for 40 years, Washburn was honored...

• Ilona Massey

  Actress (Love HAppy, Holiday in Mexico), dies at 62.

• Max Haufler
• C C Beck
• Frank Loesser

  American composer and conductor (d. 1969).

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Famous Deaths

• Francis S Haden

  English surgeon / graphic artist, dies at 91.

• Wendelin Weissheimer

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Lady Mosley

  Biographer.

• Gustave Leon Huberti

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Marie

  British noted family, the daughter of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh who was the second son of Queen Victoria.

• O Henry

  American author, one of America's favorite short story writers and one of the top selling writers of the early 20th century.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Henry Burr - My Southern Rose
2. Ada Jones - By the Light of the Silvery Moon
3. Billy Murray - The Cubanola Glide
4. Irving Berlin - Oh, How That German Could Love!
5. Haydn Quartet - The Garden of Roses