June 1919 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1919 Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden
• 02 Jun 1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
• 03 Jun 1919 Liberty Life Insurance Company (Chicago) organized by blacks.
• 04 Jun 1919 US marines invade Costa Rica.
• 06 Jun 1919 Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910
• 09 Jun 1919 General steel strike in France
• 11 Jun 1919 23rd US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn Country Club - Massachusetts
• 12 Jun 1919 Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education
• 14 Jun 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
• 15 Jun 1919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland
• 17 Jun 1919 British Police Sergeant Thomas Green killed during the Epsom Riot by Canadian troops
• 20 Jun 1919 German government of Scheideman resigns
• 21 Jun 1919 Bauer forms German government
• 23 Jun 1919 Nitti government forms in Italy
• 25 Jun 1919 Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg
• 26 Jun 1919 New York Daily News begins publishing
• 28 Jun 1919 Carl Mazes pitches a complete double-header against New York Yankees.

Famous Birthday

• Pauline Kael

  American film critic for over 30 years, known for having a "feisty, stimulating and sometimes most infuriating voice" in American movie...

• Guy Lux

  French game show host and producer perhaps best known for his 1961 creation of the game show, Intervilles (the basis for the British...

• Tsilla Chelton
• Betty Hill

  American social worker who, on the evening of 10/19/1961, while returning from a vacation in Montreal to her home in Portsmouth, stopped to...

• Roger Borniche

  French detective of the Sûreté nationale and author of a number of works.

• Slim Pickens

  American film and TV actor, rodeo clown and veteran of the rodeo circuit.

• Jean-Louis Bory

  French novelist, critic and historian.

• Phil Ford (entertainer)
• Mohammed Boudiaf

  President of Algeria (assassinated) (b.

• Bill Manhoff

  American writer, a playwright and screenwriter who made a transition from radio to TV to legitimate theater.

• Gene Barry

  American actor (d. 2009).

• Richard Todd

  Ireland -- Actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident).

• Marie Dea
• William K Estes
• James C Fletcher
• Sam Wanamaker

  American actor, he was the primary visionary and fund-raiser for the reconstruction of the Globe Theatre in London built according to the...

• Peter Carington 6th Baron Carrington
• Ben Keller

  American publicity rep and philanthropist.

• Elizabeth Koontz

  American teacher, educator and former leader of the Association of Classroom Teachers and National Education Association.

• Ted Leadbitter
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Famous Deaths

• Amy G C A Bonet-Maury

  French reformed theologist.

• John W S Raleigh

  British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76.

• Jose Gregorio

  Hernandez Venezuelan physician (Born 1864).

• Jacob Fabricius

  Danish composer (d. 1919).

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Samuel Ash - (Dry Your) Tears
2. Reinald Werrenrath - After All
3. Charles Harrison - When You Look in the Heart of a Rose
4. Al Jolson - On the Road to Calais
5. Enrico Caruso & Louise Homer - Samson Et Dalila - Je Viens Celebrer La Victoire (I Come to Celebrate Victory)