Page 6: Historical Events In June - 12

1936  C Jackson discovers asteroid #1394 Algoa   

1936  1st 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa).   

1936  Isidore Weiss, French world checker champion, dies.   

1937  USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued.   

1937  41st US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich   

1939  The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. is dedicated   

1939  43rd US Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Phila CC in Phila   

1940  HMS CALYPSO, sunk Eastern Mediterranean, south of Crete by 1 torpedo from Italian submarine 'Bagnolini'   

1942  Tornado results in the deaths of 35 in Oklahoma City.   

1942  Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)   

1942  Walter Leigh, composer, dies at 36.   

1943  Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos.   

1944  inaugural V-1 rocket reaches London   

1944  In this year, Piolet Off. Andrew C. Mynarski (Royal Cdn. Air Force) claims the Victoria Cross for service over France.   

1944  The inaugural V1 rocket falls on England during World War 2   

1944  1st V-1 rocket assault on London.   

1945  US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa   

1946  Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese fieldmarshal, dies.   

1947  Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Brit Women's Amateur Golf Champ   

1947  Jazeps Medins, composer, dies at 70   

1952  In British Columbia. W. A. C. Bennett 1900-1979 invited to form a Social Credit minority government after BC provincial election; start of 20 years of power for the Socreds.   

1952  Michael von Faulhaber, Cardinal/archbishop of Munich, dies at 83   

1957  Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6270 lbs).   

1957  James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53   

1961  The DND buys 66 F-101 Voodoos in exchange for US control of Pinetree Line, plus a Mutual Air Program for purchase of 200 Canadian-built F-104 Starfighters.   

1962  USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56270 m.   

1962  John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Epic March), dies at 82.   

1963  Civil rights leader Medger Evers is shot and killed in front of his Jackson, Mississippi home   

1963  Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80.   

1964  South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment.   

1965  Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction".   

1965  The Beatles are awarded the MBE.   

1966  Hermann Scherchen, German conductor/music publisher, dies at 74.   

1967  In this year, Israel claims 6 day war.   

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1107  Emperor gaozong of china: Emperor gaozong of china (d. 1187)   

1468  Juan del encina: Composer   

1519  Cosmos de medici: Art patron (accademia del disegno)   

1519  Cosimo i de' medici: Grand duke of tuscany   

1526  Marc-antoine de muret: Composer   

1577  Paul guldin: Swiss astronomer and mathematician   

1599  Jan w van brederode: Governor (hertogenbosch)/fieldmarshal   

1659  Yamamoto tsunetomo: Japanese samurai   

0816  Leo iii: Italian pope (795-816),   

0918  Death of Ethelfleda: Lady of the mercians   

1020  Death of Lyfing: Archbishop of canterbury   

1036  Tedald: Bishop of arezzo   

1231  Death of Antonius van padua: [fernando m de bulhom], port minister,   

1418  Bernard vii: Count of armagnac, constable of france (b. 1360)   

1435  Death of John fitzalan: 14th earl of arundel, english military leader (b. 1408)   

1490  Adriaan vilain ii of rassegem: Peace of tours, murdered at about 39