June 1926 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1926 Ignacy Mocicki elected President of Poland
• 04 Jun 1926 Ignacy Moscicki becomes president of Poland.
• 05 Jun 1926 Indians triple-play Yankees and win 15-3
• 06 Jun 1926 Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms
• 07 Jun 1926 Swedish government of Ekman forms
• 10 Jun 1926 Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle
• 12 Jun 1926 58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2
• 14 Jun 1926 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60)
• 15 Jun 1926 7th French government of Briand falls
• 18 Jun 1926 Theodor Lessing laid-off because he is a Jew in Hanover
• 19 Jun 1926 DeFord Bailey is the first African-American to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.
• 20 Jun 1926 Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black President of Howard University
• 22 Jun 1926 Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs
• 23 Jun 1926 8th government of Briand van France forms
• 25 Jun 1926 61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham
• 29 Jun 1926 Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research of Black history

Famous Birthday

• Marilyn Monroe

  American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during...

• Allen Ginsberg

  American writer and poet, the bearded bard of scatological colloquialisms who became the symbol of the anger under flower-power.

• Ingeborg Bachmann

  Austrian Austrian poet and author.

• Mel Brooks

  American film director, screenwriter, comedian, actor, producer, composer and songwriter.

• Andy Griffith

  American film, stage, TV actor and gospel recording artist.

• Happy Rockefeller

  American socialite, the wife of Nelson Rockefeller with whom she had two sons.

• François Michelin

  French manufacturer, Michelin group manager from 1955 to 1999.

• Karel Kosík
• Bernard Dhéran

  French actor.

• Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Jaber
• Jack Delinger

  American physical culturist; won the "Mr.

• Philippe Nicaud

  French actor and singer who died on 19 April 2009, aged 82, in Nice, France.

• Paul Lynde

  American actor of stage, film and TV from the time of his Broadway debut in 1952.

• June Haver

  American actress who was a perky leading lady of the '40s, primarily in musicals.

• Sweden first Constitution
• René Mella
• Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
• Gabriele Cagliari

  Italian business executive, chairman of a major corporation.

• Lionel Jeffries

  English actor screenwriter and film director (d. 2010).

• Geoffrey Finsberg

  British politician, a Member of Parliament returned at General Election 6/11/1987.

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Famous Deaths

• Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Eugeen of Oye

  Flemish writer / Poet (Sparks & Radiates).

• Henry Charles Tonking

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Antonio Gaudi y Cornet

  Spanish architect.

• Hermann Suter

  Composer, dies at 56.

• Symon Petljoera

  President Ukraine (pogroms), murdered in Paris.

• Christina Goedvolk

  Wife of Henry Jut.

• Mary Cassatt

  American artist of the Impressionist school, famous for warm and affectionate mother-and-child studies done in a bright and original manner.

• Antoni Gaudi

  Spanish architect with a highly original, three-dimensional art style.

• Henry Tate

  English businessman and philanthropist founded Tate & Lyle (d. 1899).

• Viktor Vasnetsov

  Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1926).

• Fred Spofforth

  Australian-English cricketer and merchant (d. 1926).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Whispering Jack Smith - Gimme a Lil' Kiss, Will Ya Huh?
2. George Olsen & His Orchestra - Horses
3. Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra - Song of the Flame
4. Ipana Troubadors - Cossack Love Song
5. Ben Selvin & His Orchestra - A Night of Love