June 1922 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1922 The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
• 02 Jun 1922 Suffy McInnis (first base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances.
• 10 Jun 1922 54th Belmont: C H Miller aboard Pillory wins in 2:18.8
• 11 Jun 1922 U.S. première of Robert J. Flaherty's ''Nanook of the North'', the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
• 12 Jun 1922 German Reich President Friedrich Ebert visits Munich
• 13 Jun 1922 Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops
• 14 Jun 1922 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont Country Club - Oakmont, Pennsylvania
• 16 Jun 1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics.
• 19 Jun 1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m
• 22 Jun 1922 Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
• 23 Jun 1922 57th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 300 at Royal St. George
• 24 Jun 1922 AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears.
• 26 Jun 1922 Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.
• 27 Jun 1922 Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature
• 28 Jun 1922 The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.

Famous Birthday

• Judy Garland

  American singer and actress, a top star from her first film at age 13, "The Wizard of Oz.

• Alain Resnais

  French film director.

• Eleanor Parker

  American actress whose beauty was first spotted by a talent scout at the Pasadena playhouse.

• Margherita Hack

  Italian.

• Lyon (France)
• Léon Ashkenazi
• Hans J Andersen
• Pietro Lombardi

  Italian Gold Medal wrestler, the winner of a Gold medal at the London Olympics in 1948.

• Bill Blass

  American fashion designer and eminently successful businessman, a full partner in the firm "Maurice Rentner," a leading manufacturer of...

• Erving Goffman

  Sociologist (presentation of self in everyday life).

• Joan Caulfield

  American former model and actress, a wide-eyed blonde beauty who played wholesome ingénue roles in light films of the '40s.

• Morris K Udall
• Rose Mofford

  American civil servant and politician.

• Georg Marischka
• Juan Antonio Bardem

  Spanish director and screenwriter (Born 1922).

• Jean Bertola

  French pianist, composer, singer, music arranger and artistic director.

• Jean-Marie Coldefy

  St-Mandé Journalist.

• Mauro Bolognini

  Italian film director, mannered with taste for elegant images whose films usually have great flair.

• Florence Véran

  French composer and singer.

• George Axelrod

  American director producer and screenwriter (d. 2003).

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Famous Deaths

• Albert Baertsoen

  Flemish Painter / etcher, dies at 56.

• John C Kapteyn

  Astronomer, dies at 71.

• Henry H Wilson

  Field Marshal, murdered in London.

• Walter Rathenau

  German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54.

• Albert H K

  Monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73.

• Wolfgang Kapp

  German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63.

• Johannes C Kapteyn

  Dutch astronomer, dies at 71.

• William Halse Rivers

  British psychologist / anthropologist.

• Lillian Russell

  American actress, the epitome of the gay '90s with her ample hourglass figure laced into a $3,900 corset and the talk of the town in her...

• Vittorio Monti

  Italian violinist composer and conductor (d. 1922).

• Jacobus Kapteyn

  Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1922).

• Hitachiyama Taniemon

  Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (Born 1874).

• Albert I

  Albert I of Belgium (d. 1934).

• Velimir Khlebnikov

  Russian poet and playwright (d. 1922).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Old-Fashioned Girl
2. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Do it Again
3. Edith Wilson - Birmingham Blues
4. Bert Williams - Not Lately
5. Ted Lewis & His Band - Every Day