Today in History for June 1910
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 17 of 17
1st - SC Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
2nd - 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
2nd - Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
9th - Passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland)
12th - PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle
13th - Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila
13th - William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia
18th - 16th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 298 at Phila Cricket Club PA
19th - 1st airship in service "Germany"
19th - Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)
20th - "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
22nd - 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland
24th - 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St Andrews Scot
25th - Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
26th - 24th US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss Wightman beats L Hammond (64 62)
26th - Hazel Hotchkiss wins US Lawn Tennis Assn championship
30th - Russia absorbs Finland
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 48 of 48
3rd - Wilfred Thesiger, explorer/writer
4th - Christopher Cockerell, inventor (Hovercraft)
4th - Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar
6th - Ben Aerden, [John Mikkelsen], actor (Hamlet)
6th - Toshitsugu Ogiwara, composer
7th - Bradford Washburn, American explorer, (d. 2007)
8th - Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russian conductor [NS=June 21]
8th - John W Campbell, US, sci-fi writer (Moon is Hell)
8th - Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003)
9th - Geoffrey Musson, British General
9th - Vbilmos Demian, composer
10th - Howlin' Wolf, [Chester Arthur Burnett], harmonica (Big City Blues)
10th - Robert Still, composer
10th - Frank Demaree, American baseball player (d. 1958)
10th - Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
11th - Carmine Coppola, composer/conductor (Godfather II, Apocalypse Now)
11th - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, France, oceanic explorer (Calypso)
12th - Bill Naughton, English playwright (d. 1992)
13th - Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
13th - Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)
13th - Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
14th - Rudolf Kempe, Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-72)
15th - Berend Giltay, composer
15th - David Rose, London England, orch leader (Red Skelton Show, Stripper)
16th - E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Lawrence-Defenders, Caine Mutiny)
16th - Ilona Massey, Budapest Hungary, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show)
16th - Lord Richardson, president (General Medical Council)
16th - Richard Maling Barrer, chemist
17th - Herbert Owen Reed, composer
17th - Red Foley, Blue Lick Ky, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington)
17th - Red Foley, American musician (d. 1968)
18th - Avon Long, Balt Md, actor (Roots: Next Generation)
18th - Dick Foran, Flemington NJ, actor (OK Crackerby)
18th - E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Playhouse 90, Chicago Hope)
18th - Ray McKinley, Ft Worth Tx, orch leader/drummer (Glenn Miller Time)
18th - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
19th - Frederick Harry Baines, painter
21st - Bela Tardos, composer
21st - Charles Jones, composer
21st - Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)
22nd - Peter Pears, Farnham England, tenor (Death in Venice)
23rd - Jean Anouilh, France, dramatist (Thieves' Carnival)
23rd - Milt Hinton, American jazz bassist (d. 2000)
24th - Denis Dowling, baritone
26th - Charles Spry, Australian security chief
27th - Karel Reiner, composer
29th - Franc Henry Loesser, US songwriter/composer (Most Happy Fella)
29th - Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 6 of 6
1st - Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91
5th - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
16th - Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
17th - Lady Mosley, biographer, dies
22nd - Marie, Princess of Wied/Orange Nassau, dies
28th - Gustave Leon Huberti, composer, dies at 67
