June 1925 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1925 Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees plays the first game in his record streak of 2,130 consecutive games, an endurance record in major league baseball that stands until Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks it in 1995.
• 02 Jun 1925 New York Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak
• 03 Jun 1925 Eddie Collins, is 6th to get 3,000 hits
• 05 Jun 1925 29th US Golf Open: Willie Macfarlane shoots a 291 at Worcester Country Club - Massachusetts
• 06 Jun 1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca is 8 months old)
• 10 Jun 1925 Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
• 13 Jun 1925 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8
• 15 Jun 1925 Philadelphia Athletics go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15
• 16 Jun 1925 The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established.
• 22 Jun 1925 Spain and France fight Morocco
• 23 Jun 1925 British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers
• 29 Jun 1925 Canada House opens in London, England.

Famous Birthday

• Jean d'Ormesson
• Tony Curtis

  American actor in more than 100 films from 1948, including bombs and classics such as "Sweet Smell of Success," 1957 and "Some Like It Hot,"...

• Giorgio Napolitano

  Italian politician who has been the 11th President of the Italian Republic since 2006.

• Barbara Bush

  American First Lady, the wife of politician George Bush on 1/06/1945 after meeting him at a Christmas party in 1942.

• Art Modell

  Owner (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, Modells Stores).

• Arnaud Desjardins

  French producer at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française from 1952 to 1974, who was one of the first high profile practitioners...

• Pierre Salinger

  American journalist who first came to prominence in the early 1960s as a journalistic investigator.

• Raphaël Géminiani

  French road bicycle racer, who had six podium finishes in the Grand Tours.

• Philippe Jaccottet
• Maureen Stapleton

  American actress who has a fine talent for comedy, as shown in "Plaza Suite," but is usually considered a dramatic actress.

• Alexander Shulgin

  Alexander Shulgin was an American chemist and pharmacologist of Russian descend.

• Philippe Castelli

  French film actor.

• Jérôme Lindon
• William Styron

  American writer, the author of "Sophie's Choice" and "Darkness Visible," a best seller of 1990.

• René Couveinhes
• Arne Sultan

  American writer for TV comedy shows.

• Roger Quilliot

  French politician who served as Housing Minister from 22 May to 23 June 1981, under former French President François Mitterrand.

• Jean-Pierre Chabrol

  French writer and screenwriter.

• Brigitte Gros

  St Germain en Laye Journalist.

• Keith Laumer

  American U.S.

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Famous Deaths

• Wilhelm Posse

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Gheorghe Dima

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Pierre Louys [PF Louis]

  French writer (Aphrodite).

• Jan H Leopold

  Poet / classical (translated Omar Khayyam), dies at 60.

• Josef Breuer

  Austrian physician and psychiatrist (d. 1925).

• Felix Klein

  German mathematician and academic (d. 1925).

• Emmett Hardy

  American cornet player (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (d. 1925).

• Chittaranjan Das

  Indian patriot and freedom fighter (Born 1870).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ford & Glenn - I'll See You in My Dreams
2. Bessie Smith - The St. Louis Blues
3. Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians - At the End of the Road
4. Ben Selvin & His Orchestra - Will You Remember Me?
5. Vernon Dalhart - The Wreck of the Old 97