June 1923 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1923 New York Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning
• 09 Jun 1923 55th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:19
• 12 Jun 1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City
• 13 Jun 1923 President Li of China abandons his residence because a warlord has commanded forces to surround the mansion and cut off its water and electric supplies, in order to force him to abandon his post.
• 14 Jun 1923 Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
• 16 Jun 1923 Sun Yat Sen founds military academy
• 18 Jun 1923 Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
• 19 Jun 1923 Moon Mullins, Comic Strip, debuts
• 21 Jun 1923 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud
• 24 Jun 1923 Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied
• 25 Jun 1923 Rapid Bucureşti is formed on the initiative of the Griviţa railroad workers (first named CFR Bucureşti).
• 28 Jun 1923 Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry for state visit to London
• 30 Jun 1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica.

Famous Birthday

• Gilbert Bourdin

  French guru, the founder of the Association of the Knights of the Golden Lotus in 1967 and two years later, of the holy city of the...

• René Monory

  French politician, president of french senate.

• José Giovanni

  French writer and film-maker of Corsican origin who became a naturalized Swiss citizen in 1986.

• Yves Bonnefoy

  French writer, art historian, poet and literary theorist.

• Robert Maxwell

  Czechoslovakian-British entrepreneur and CEO of Berlitz International, a conglomerate corporation that includes a publishing house.

• Silvia Monfort

  French actress and theatre director.

• Sam Francis

  American Abstract Expressionist Painter and Muralist, with a career spanning half a century that brought him international acclaim.

• Marc Cassot
• Georges Bortoli
• Marc Riboud
• Elroy Hirsch

  American football player (Born 1923).

• Erland Josephson

  Stockholm, Sweden -- Actor / dramatist (Utflykt).

• Peter Read

  New Zealand astronomer, famed in the ‘60s and ‘70s for fronting "The Night Sky", the longest running television show in New Zealand.

• Claude Santelli

  French film director and screenwriter who directed 25 films between 1968 and 1996.

• Carlo Pavesi

  Italian swordsman, the winner of the Fencing Gold Medal at Melbourne Olympics in 1956 and in Rome in 1960.

• Jef Ramaekers
• Herman Krebbers

  Dutch violist / concert master.

• Floyd Taylor (scientist)
• Jean Cosmos
• Pierre Szekely
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Famous Deaths

• George H Breitner

  Impressionist painter, dies at 65.

• Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud]

  French sea officer / writer.

• Alexander Stamboeliski

  Premier Bulgaria (1919-23).

• Joseph Leopold Rockel

  Composer, dies at 85.

• Fritz Mauthner

  German Author / philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73.

• Gustave Adolph Kerker

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Claude Antoine Terrasse

  Composer, dies at 56.

• Princess Helena of the United Kingdom

  daughter of Queen Victoria (Born 1846).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Bambalina
2. Sam Ash - Love Sends A Little Gift Of Roses
3. Bessie Smith - Down Hearted Blues
4. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Dearest (You're the Nearest to My Heart)
5. John McCormack - The Lost Chord