Today in History for June 1920
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 18 of 18
1st - RKSV Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam
1st - Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
2nd - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
4th - Peace of Trianon between Allies & Hungary
5th - 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell
5th - A's VP Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier
6th - Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army
8th - Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake him, but ump ejects Roush for delay of game
11th - Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president
12th - 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2
12th - Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
13th - Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post
15th - De Zweef soccer team forms in Nijverdal
15th - Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
17th - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law
20th - Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
24th - Chuvash Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR
25th - League of Nations places Intl head of Justice in Hague
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 53 of 53
2nd - Michael James O'Hehir, commentator/journalist
2nd - Yolande Donlan, NJ, actress (Jigsaw, Expresso Bongo, Penny Princess)
2nd - Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born cr
2nd - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
2nd - Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
3rd - Lord Brandon of Oakbrook, Lord of appeal (Ordinary)
4th - Marion Motley, NFL running back (all-time leading AAFC rusher)
5th - Cornelius Ryan, US historian/writer (Italians: Face of a Nation)
5th - Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist (Klimbim)
5th - Marion Motley, AAFC, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh)
7th - Georges Marchais, political leader (French Communist Party)
8th - A J Mottram, tennis player
8th - Bert Leysen, TV director (Belgian National TV)
8th - Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (d. 1995)
9th - Isobel June Braybrooke English, novellist
10th - Zbynek Vostrak, composer
11th - Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, King of Nepal (1955-72)
11th - Hazel Scott, Trinidad, singer/pianist (Hazel Scott)
11th - Irving Howe, US, writer/critic (World of Our Fathers)
11th - Robert Hutton, Kingston NY, actor (Torture Garden, Rocket)
12th - Peter Jones, England, actor (From a Bird's Eye View)
12th - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
12th - Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
13th - Eiji Okada, actor (Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly American)
13th - Knut Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
14th - Helmer-Rayner Sinisalo, composer
15th - Amy Clampitt, poet
15th - George Ernest Leslie, trade union official
15th - Alla Kazanskaya, Russian stage and film actress (d. 2008)
16th - John Howard Griffin, US, photographer/author (Black Like Me)
16th - Raymond U. Lemieux, Canadian scientist (d. 2002)
16th - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
17th - Beryl Reid, actress (Joseph Andrews, Psychomania, Yellowbeard)
17th - Francois Jacob, France, biologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1965)
17th - Patrick Duffy, MP
17th - Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (d. 1981)
18th - Aster Berkhof, [Louis Van de Bergh], Flemish writer (Furious Christ)
18th - Ian Carmichael, Hull England, actor (Lucky Jim, I'm Alright Jack)
20th - DeForest Kelley, Atlanta Ga, actor (Dr Leonard McCoy-Star Trek)
20th - Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge
21st - Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service (QARANC)
22nd - Chandrasekhar Sarwate, cricketer (batted in 9 Tests for India 1946-52)
22nd - Gladys Marea Hartman, athletics Administrator
22nd - Paul Frees, Chicago Ill, animation voice (Bullwinkle)
23rd - Paul Des Marais, composer
24th - Bernhard Krol, composer
24th - James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot
26th - Michael Eastham, high court judge
27th - I A L Diamond, screenwriter (1960 Acad Award-Apartment)
28th - A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright
29th - Ray Harryhausen, movie special effect artist (Clash of Titans)
30th - Sam Moskowitz, SF fandom historian
30th - Zeno Colo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 5 of 5
5th - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
13th - Essad Pasja, Albanian military man/minister, murdered at peace confer
14th - Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies
15th - Michel-Gaston Carraud, composer, dies at 55
30th - Lena Christ, writer, dies at 38
