Page 6: Historical Events In June - 06

1933  US Employment Service created.   

1933  1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ)   

1934  Securities and Exchange Commission established.   

1934  The Securities and Exchange Commission is established.   

1935  Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68   

1936  Aviation gasoline inaugural produced commercially Paulsboro NJ.   

1936  40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ.   

1937  Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game   

1937  Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26   

1938  Sigmund Freud arrives in London   

1939  NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning   

1939  Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65.   

1940  HMS WRESTLER, damaged off Normandy beaches, northern France in English Channel by German mine   

1940  E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56   

1941  The inaugural US navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched.   

1941  1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched.   

1942  Japanese are turned back at the Battle of Midway   

1942  Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway   

1942  Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich.   

1942  The inaugural nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)   

1942  1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray).   

1943  Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74   

1944  Allied forces storm the Normandy, France beaches during the "D-Day" invasion of Europe in World War II.   

1944  D-Day 150000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France.   

1944  Hanna Senesz, a Jewish girl originally from Hungary, who had immigrated to Palestine, parachutes behind German lines to connect with Hungarian and Slovak resistance fighters. Caught on the Hungarian border, she dies knowing that her mission has given strength to those suffering in the camps.   

1944  Invasion of Normandy, D-Day, by allied forces   

1944  Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor   

1944  Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion.   

1944  Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day.   

1944  D-Day: 150000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France   

1945  "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam.   

1945  Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide.   

1946  Henry Morgan is inaugural to take off shirt on TV.   

1946  11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to schedule 1st season.   

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1236  Wen tianxiang: Chinese prime minister   

1436  Regiomontanus (johannes muller): Prepares astronomical tables   

1502  King john iii of portugal: King john iii of portugal (d. 1557)   

1519  Andrea cesalpino: Italian philosopher and botanist   

1576  Giovanni diodati: Swiss protestant clergyman   

1580  Godefroy wendelin: Flemish astronomer   

1599  Diego velázquez: Spanish painter   

1606  Pierre corneille: France, dramatist (el cid, horace)   

0840  Death of Agobard: Archbishop of lyon (anti-semite),   

1134  Death of Norbertus van xanten: Monastery founder,   

1393  Death of Emperor go-en'yu of japan: Emperor go-en'yu of japan (b. 1359)   

1480  Vecchietta: Italian artist and architect   

1548  Death of Juan de castro: Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)   

1563  Ikeda nagamasa: Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)   

1583  Nakagawa kiyohide: Japanese warlord (b. 1556)   

1671  Death of Stenka/stepan razin: Russian cossack/boer leader, killed