Today in History for June 1914
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 16 of 16
1st - Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km)
2nd - Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
6th - 1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
8th - 34.7°F (1.5°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
9th - Honus Wagner, is 2nd to get 3,000 hits
13th - 28th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner (62 16 61)
18th - Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km)
19th - 54th British Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 306 at Prestwick Club
20th - 46th Belmont: Merritt Buxton aboard Luke McLuke wins in 2:20
24th - King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent
27th - Jack Johnson beats Frank Moran in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
27th - US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia
28th - Austria invades Siberia (WW I)
28th - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.
29th - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
30th - Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 52 of 52
3rd - Eugene Fuller, polymath/linguist
3rd - Ronald George Woodman, pilot
4th - Willy-August Linnemann, Danish writer/journalist
5th - Beatrice de Cardi, archaeoligist
5th - Rose Hill, singer/actress (Nicholas Nickleby, Shot in the Dark)
5th - Stan Jones, Douglas Az, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)
8th - Joseph de Pietro, US, 56kg weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1948)
8th - KuBa, writer
9th - Barbara Mullen, Boston MA, actress (Thunder Rock, Innocent Sinners)
9th - Hermann Haller, composer
10th - Polly Hill, Dr/anthropologist
10th - Saul Bellow, Lachine Quebec, author (Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976)
11th - Gerald Mohr, NYC, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue)
11th - Hendrik Berkhof, Dutch theologist (Church & Emperor)
11th - Jack Mann, pilot/hostage
12th - Peter Lancelot Williams, dance journalist
12th - William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax)
14th - Pauline Moore, American actress (d. 2001)
15th - Cees [Cornelis A B] Bantzinger, Dutch cartoonist/illustrator
15th - Saul Steinberg, Romania, cartoonist/illustrator (New Yorker)
15th - Yuri Andropov, Russian KGB chief/1st secretary
15th - Hilda Terry, American Cartoonist (d. 2006)
16th - Stewart Cathie "Billy" Griffith, cricketer (140 for England, 1948)
16th - Stewart Griffith, secretary (MCC)
17th - John R Hersey, author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall)
18th - Billy Wade, cricket wicket-keeper (S African in 11 Tests 1938-50)
19th - Alan Cranston, (Sen-D-CA, 1969- )
19th - Harry Lauter, White Plains NY, actor (Waterfront)
19th - Lester Flatt, Earl Scrugg's partner (Beverly Hillbillies theme)
19th - Morgan Morgan-Giles, Brits Lt admiral/MP
19th - Anthony Bloom, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 2003)
20th - Friedrich Zipp, composer
21st - Jan Decadt, composer
21st - William Vickrey, economist
22nd - Lilo Hardel, writer
24th - Pearl Witherington CBE, British WW II secret agent (d. 2008)
26th - John J "John" Beautiful Garden, sculptor
26th - Laurie Lee, male poet/author (I Can't Stay Long)
26th - Richard Maltby, orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
26th - Wolfgang Windgassen, Annemasse Germany, tenor (Stuttgart Opera)
26th - Laurie Lee, British writer (d. 1997)
27th - Alexander Pola, [Abraham Polak], Dutch actor/writer (Farce Major)
27th - Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament (1948-87))
27th - Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981)
28th - Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player
28th - Lester Raymond Flatt, TN, bluegrass (Earl-Ballad of Jed Clampett)
28th - Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
29th - Rafael Kubelik, Bychory Czechoslovakia, conductor (Cornelia Farooli)
29th - Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
30th - David Wayne, actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve)
30th - Natko Devcic, composer
30th - Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (d. 2001)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 8 of 8
6th - Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies
11th - Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
15th - A G Steel, cricketer (13 Tests, 29 wkts, Eng capt 1886), dies
21st - Glauco Velasquez, composer, dies at 30
21st - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
28th - Franz Ferdinand, Austrian archduke (Sarajevo, Bosnia), assassinated
28th - Sophie, Princess of Austria, assassinated
30th - Bai Long, [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies
