June 1939 calendar

June 1939
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in June 1939.
The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Neville Chamberlain (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on June 1939: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of June 1939?

Events

01 Jun 1939 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer
03 Jun 1939 71st Belmont: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:29.6
04 Jun 1939 Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
06 Jun 1939 New York Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning
07 Jun 1939 Cleveland Indians set American League record of 16-inning game without striking out, however lose game 5-4 to New York Yankees.
08 Jun 1939 British King George VI visits US
10 Jun 1939 Barney Bear, cartoon character, by MGM, debuts
11 Jun 1939 King and Queen of England taste first "hot dogs" at US President Franklin Roosevelt's party.
12 Jun 1939 43rd US Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Philadelphia Country Club
14 Jun 1939 Tientsin Incident: The Japanese blockade the British concession in Tianjin, China, beginning a crisis which almost causes an Anglo-Japanese war in the summer of 1939.
17 Jun 1939 Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
20 Jun 1939 Test flight of first rocket plane using liquid propellants.
21 Jun 1939 Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
22 Jun 1939 Future Queen Elizabeth of England meets future husband Philip
23 Jun 1939 Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz in Houston, to become wrestling champ
24 Jun 1939 Siam is renamed to Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram, the country's third prime minister.
27 Jun 1939 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 2-2, in 23 innings
28 Jun 1939 Joe Louis TKOs Tony Galent in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
29 Jun 1939 4th Dutch government of Colijn falls

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Amanda Lear
Vietnamese-born transvestite and perhaps transsexual, she was born a male.
Brigitte Fontaine
French singer of avant-garde music.
Christina Crawford
American writer and noted family, the daughter of actress Joan Crawford.
Béatrice Altariba
Jackie Stewart
Scottish-American professional race car driver of the Formula One Series.
Rita Lafontaine
Jean-René Fourtou
French businessman, honorary chairman of the supervisory board of Vivendi, a French multinational mass media company headquartered in Paris.
Antoine Zacharias
French business executive, an engineer by training, who was France's highest paid executive for several years.
Joe Clark
Canadian politician from 1957, named as head of the Progressive Conservative Party on 2/22/1976, the youngest political party leader in...
Jean-Pierre Gaillard
Sante Gaiardoni
Italian pro cyclist who won the Gold Medal in the 1955 Olympics in Rome.
Alexandra Stewart
Canadian actress.
Colin Thubron
English journalist and author.
Lorenzo Necci
Italian attorney, degree in 1961.
Cleavon Little
Actor (Blazing Saddles), dies of colon cancer at 53.
Jerry Rannow
American actor since 1954 when he was 15.
Michel Lang
French film and television director, best remembered for his comedy films in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Bradford (United Kingdom)
Jean-Claude Decagny
Lo Lieh
Hong Kong martial artist actor and director (d. 2002).
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