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  Norbertus van xanten: Monastery founder,   

1393  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  Death of Nakagawa kiyohide: Japanese warlord (b. 1556)   

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