Today in History for June 1906

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 11 of 11

3rd - Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession
6th - Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz).
7th - Chicago Cubs score 11 in 1st inning, beating NY Giants 19-0
7th - Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
9th - Boston Beaneaters (NL) end 19-game losing streak beat Cards 6-3
14th - Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
22nd - Hakon VII crowned king of Norway
26th - Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France)
29th - 12th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 295 at Onwentsia Club Ill
30th - John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College
30th - Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act adopted

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 48 of 48

3rd - Josephine Baker, dancer/Parisian night club owner (Folies-Bergere)
3rd - Louis Simmonds, bookseller
3rd - Norman Gallichan, cricketer (all-rounder in 1 Test NZ v England 1937)
3rd - Robert Brown Black, British diplomat/gov (Hong Kong)
3rd - Walter Robins, cricketer (dynamic England leg-spin all-rounder)
4th - Richard Whorf, actor/director (Yankee Doodle Dandy, Keeper of Flame)
5th - Kenneth Anderson, deputy comptroller (British GPO)
5th - Margaret Rawlings, actress (Roman Holiday)
5th - Viscount Rochdale, British CEO
6th - Max Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn)
6th - Stefan Andres, writer
8th - Charles Janssens, Belgium, actor (Mira, Malpertuis)
8th - S Nazir Ali, cricketer (bro of Wazir Ali, India's 1st Test 1932)
9th - Tonio Selwart, Germany, actor (Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja)
10th - Janos Viski, composer
11th - Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop
12th - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
13th - Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)
14th - Carl Esmond, Wien (Vienna) Austria, actor (Smash-Up)
14th - Gil Lamb, Minneapolis, actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High)
14th - Margaret Bourke-White, photographer/innovator/correspondent
15th - Louis RJ Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor (Zoelen)
15th - Léon Degrelle, Belgian SS officer (d. 1994)
16th - Alan Fairfax, cricketer (Australian all-rounder late 20's early 30's)
17th - Thomas G Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer
18th - Kay Kyser, Rocky Mount NC, orchestra leader (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
19th - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
19th - Walter Rauff, German colonel (d. 1984)
20th - Bob Howard, Newton Mass, singer/pianist (Sing it Again)
20th - Catherine Cookson, England, novelist (Bannaman Legacy)
21st - Luis Maria Millet, composer
21st - Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997)
22nd - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author/aviator, Charles' wife
22nd - Billy Wilder, Vienna, dir (Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17)
22nd - Richard Fanshawe, England, equestion 3 day event (Olympic-bronze-1936)
23rd - Wolfgang Koeppen, writer
24th - Pierre Fournier, Paris France, violon cellist (Paris Conservatoire)
24th - Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (d. 1971)
25th - Roger Livesey, Barry Wales, actor (Drums, Life & Death of Col Blimp)
26th - Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia)
26th - Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer (d. 2008)
27th - Vernon P Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd)
28th - Maria Goeppert Mayer, US atomic physicist (Nobel 1963)
28th - Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator
28th - Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/music historian
29th - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
30th - Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
30th - Anthony Mann, American film actor and director (d. 1967)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 10 of 10

5th - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
7th - Johan P Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74
8th - Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer, dies at 65
11th - Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit), dies at 50
17th - Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player, dies
17th - William Dale, international legal consultant, dies
20th - John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840)
22nd - Fritz Schaudinn, German animal scholar: examined amoebasis, dies at 34
25th - Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
26th - Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76