Today in History for June 1917

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 27 of 27

1st - Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I
4th - 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards & Elliott (Julia Ward Howe)
4th - American men begin registering for the draft
4th - Order of British Empire inaugurated
5th - 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I
8th - Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
10th - 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years)
10th - Limburgse mine workers strike
11th - King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicated under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
12th - Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
13th - Germany bombs London
13th - World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
14th - 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London
14th - Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
16th - 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
16th - 49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8
17th - British king George V takes the name Windsor
19th - After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor
21st - Hawaiian Red Cross forms
23rd - 31st US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beat Marion Vanderhoef (46 60 62)
23rd - Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000
23rd - Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out & retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game
24th - Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol
26th - 1st US Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I
27th - 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service
28th - Potato entrepreneurs begins in Amsterdam
28th - Raggedy Ann doll invented

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 41 of 41

1st - William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, (d. 2012)
2nd - Max Showalter, Caldwell Ks, actor/composer (Stockard Channing Show)
2nd - Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (d. 2006)
3rd - Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
4th - Allen Greenwood, deputy CEO (British Aerospace)
4th - Charles Collingwood, Mich, news commentator (CBS, Chronicles)
4th - Howard Metzenbaum, (Sen-D-Ohio, 1974- )
4th - Robert Merrill, Bkln NY, baritone (NY Metropolitan Opera)
5th - Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter
6th - Kirk Kerkorian, CEO (MGM, UA)
6th - Prior Jones, cricketer (WI pace bowler in 9 Tests 1948-52)
7th - Gwendolyn Brooks, US poet (Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950)
7th - Dean Martin, Steubenville Ohio, American singer/actor (with Jerry Lewis)
8th - Byron R Whizzer White, Ft Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Just (1962-93)
9th - Eric J. Hobsbawm, Alexandria, Sultanate of Egypt, Marxist historian (The Age of Revolution; Capital; and Empire), (d. 2012)
10th - William Barr, rector (Exeter College, Oxford)
11th - James Bostock, painter/engraver
11th - Joseph B. Wirthlin, LDS apostle
12th - Priscilla Lane, US, actress (Arsenic & Old Lace)
14th - Al "Lash" LaRue, Gretna La, actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp)
14th - Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
15th - Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Black Lash, Lash of the West)
15th - Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer and composer (d. 2005)
16th - Katharine Graham, NYC, newspaper publisher (Wash Post)
16th - Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari; d. 1989)
16th - Irving Penn, American photographer
17th - Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2007)
18th - Akhmet Jevdet Ismail Hajiyev, composer
18th - Richard Boone, LA California, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel)
18th - Arthur Tremblay, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
19th - Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwan minister (ZAPUA)
20th - Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (d. 2006)
23rd - Sid Watters Jr, horse trainer
26th - William Hamilton, British MP
27th - K M Rangnekar, cricketer (batted in 3 Tests India v Australia 1947-48)
27th - Ronald George Hayward, political manager
28th - Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch singer/actor (My Fair Lady)
28th - Katherine Rawls, American swimming champion (d. 1982)
30th - Lena Horne, Bkln NY, actress/singer (Stormy Weather, Wiz)
30th - Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician
30th - Susan Hayward, Flatbush Bkln, actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 6 of 6

6th - Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59
12th - Maria Teresa Carreno, composer, dies at 63
15th - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
15th - Lillian Bassman, Russian emigrant to America, photographer and painter (Harper's Bazaar), (d. 2012)
20th - James Mason Crafts, US chemist, dies at 78
27th - Gustav von Schmolle, German economist (Historical School), dies at 79