June 1914 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1914 Woodrow Wilson's envoy Edward Mandell House meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II.
• 02 Jun 1914 Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome.
• 09 Jun 1914 Honus Wagner becomes the first baseball player to get 3,000 hits.
• 13 Jun 1914 28th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner
• 18 Jun 1914 Mexican Revolution: The ''Constitutionals'' take San Luis Potosí Venustiano Carranza demands Victoriano Huerta's surrender.
• 19 Jun 1914 54th British Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 306 at Prestwick Club
• 20 Jun 1914 46th Belmont: Merritt Buxton aboard Luke McLuke wins in 2:20
• 23 Jun 1914 Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
• 24 Jun 1914 King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent
• 27 Jun 1914 Jack Johnson beats Frank Moran in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
• 28 Jun 1914 Austria invades Siberia
• 29 Jun 1914 Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
• 30 Jun 1914 Among those addressing the Parliament of the United Kingdom on the murdered Archduke are Lords Crewe and Lansdowne in the House of Lords and Messrs Asquith and Law in the Commons.

Famous Birthday

• Yuri Andropov

  General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. 1984).

• Gisèle Casadesus

  French centenarian, actress and comedian, daughter and mother of famous conductors (Henri and Jean-Claude Casadesus).

• Jean Meyer (acteur)
• Giorgio Almirante

  Italian politician, the longtime leader of Italy's small but vocal Neo-Fascist party.

• Francisco da Costa Gomes

  Portuguese general and politician 15th President of Portugal (d. 2001).

• Paul Delouvrier

  French politician who was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 1985.

• Wolfgang Windgassen

  German-French operatic tenor who was the leading Wagnerian tenor of the '50s and '60s.

• Aribert Heim

  Austrian physician (d. 1992).

• Rafael Kubelik

  Bohemian-born Swiss conductor, musical director, and composer, who was noted for his frequent guest appearances with major orchestras...

• Elmer B Staats
• Ray Billows
• Antoine Argoud

  French Army officer specializing in counter-insurgency during the Algerian War of Independence.

• Montenegrin independence referendum
• Karel Kaers

  Belgium sport Champion.

• John Hersey

  American Pulitzer prize-winning author (Hiroshima), dies at age 78 (born 1914).

• Jacques Fauvet
• Lyman Spitzer

  American scientist, assigned to undersea warfare studies during WW II.

• Pauline Moore

  American actress (d. 2001).

• Alan Cranston

  American politician, one of California's most durable liberal Democrats.

• Michel Fourquet
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Famous Deaths

• Glauco Velasquez

  Composer, dies at 30.

• Bai Long [White Wolf]

  Chinese Robin Hood / crowd leader.

• Walter T Watts-Dunton

  England, lawyer / Poet / writer (Aylwin).

• Countess Sophie Chotek

  wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (Born 1868).

• Adolf Friedrich V

  Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Born 1848).

• Adlai Stevenson I

  American politician, 23rd U.S.

• Sophie

  German-born Greek royalty, Queen of the Hellenes as the wife of King Constantine I. She was the younger sister of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

• Franz Ferdinand

  Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World...

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - Camp Meeting Band
2. Peerless Quartet - While They Were Dancing Around
3. Ada Jones & Billy Murray - I'm Crying Just for You
4. Eddie Morton - He's a Devil in His Own Home Town
5. Fred Van Eps (as Van Eps Trio) - The Original Fox Trot