Today in History for June 1923

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 16 of 16

1st - NY Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning
9th - 55th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:19
9th - Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans
9th - Bulgarian premier Stamboeliski & King Boris III overthrown
12th - Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC
14th - Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
15th - Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post & railroad strike
16th - Sun Yat Sen founds military academy
19th - "Moon Mullins," Comic Strip, debuts
19th - Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war
21st - Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud
24th - Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied
27th - Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
28th - Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Phillies score 8 in bottom of 9th
28th - Queen Wilhelmina & Prince Henry for state visit to London
30th - NZ claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 43 of 43

2nd - Del Simmons, rocker (Capt Beefheart)
3rd - Michael Jaffe, director (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge England)
3rd - Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
4th - John Lea, British vice-admiral
4th - Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (d. 2007)
5th - Daniel Rogers Pinkham, Lynn Massachusetts, composer (Signs of Zodiac)
5th - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963)
6th - V. C. Andrews, American author (d. 1986)
7th - Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion
7th - Jules Deschênes, Canadian jurist (d. 2000)
8th - Alice Coleman, geographer
8th - Jean Maxwell-Scott, Lady-in-Waiting (Prin Alice Duchess Gloucester)
8th - Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (Summer Games)
8th - Malcolm Boyd, American Episcopal Priest and author
10th - Earl Hamner Jr, Schuyler Va, TV narrator (Waltons)
10th - Robert Maxwell, [Jan Hoch], Czech, billionaire/CEO (NY Daily News)
11th - Gerard Vaughn, MP (Conservative)
12th - Marta Pan, Hungarian/French sculptor (Great spiral)
14th - Donald Smith, cricketer (uneventful England opening batsman 1957)
14th - Jack Hayward, Brit financier (Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club)
14th - Theodore Bloomfield, composer
15th - Erland Josephson, Stockholm Sweden, actor/dramatist (Utflykt)
15th - Errol Garner, American jazz pianist (Misty) (d. 1977)
16th - Ake Hermanson, composer
16th - Henryk Czyz, composer
16th - Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (d. 1962)
17th - Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, AAFC, NFL halfback, end (LA Rams)
18th - Herman Krebbers, Dutch violist/concert master
20th - Marcus Bakker, Dutch MP (CPN)
21st - John Compton, Lynchburg Tn, actor (Shannon-D.A.'s Man)
22nd - Jimmy Cameron, cricketer (brother of John WI batsman 1948-49)
24th - Jack Carter, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Amazing Dobermans, Octagon)
25th - Dorothy Gilman, mystery writer
25th - Jack Hill, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner of mid 50's)
25th - Samuel Lewis Francis, painter
25th - Tony Parker, oral historian
25th - Nicholas Mosley, British writer
26th - David Haslam, British rear admiral (hydrographer)
26th - Barbara Graham, American murderer (d. 1955)
27th - Paul F Conrad, Cedar Rapids Iowa, cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84)
28th - Lloyd Labeach, Panama City, 100m/200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1948)
28th - Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver
29th - Chou Wen-Chung, Cheefoo China, composer (Mode of Shang)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 9 of 9

5th - George H Breitner, impressionist painter, dies at 65
10th - Pierre Loti, [Julien Viaud], French sea officer/writer, dies
15th - Alexander Stamboeliski, premier Bulgaria (1919-23), dies
20th - Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer, dies at 85
26th - Edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies
29th - Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73
29th - Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer, dies at 66
29th - J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st VP, assassinated
30th - Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer, dies at 56