Today in History for June 1931
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Months in 1931: January February March April May July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 24 of 24
1st - Rozenburg soccer team forms in Rozenburg
5th - Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium
6th - "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy Lombardo hits #1
6th - Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians
8th - Duke & Duchess of Kent wed
8th - Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo
9th - 1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented (R Goddard)
9th - 1st showing of a Donald Duck cartoon
10th - Norway occupies East-Greenland
12th - Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition & perjury
13th - 63rd Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6
14th - French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450
14th - Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler
15th - Eddie Collins & Harry Heilmann, retire from baseball
15th - Poland & USSR sign friendship & trade treaty
16th - Austrian govt of Ender falls
19th - 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct
20th - Karl Buresch becomes chancellor of Austrian
22nd - RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms
23rd - Wiley Post & Harold Catty took off for flight around world
24th - USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty
27th - 3rd Ryder Cup: US wins, 9-3 at Scioto Country Club (Columbus, Ohio, US)
29th - 109°F (43°C), Monticello, Florida (state record)
29th - Pope Pius XI encyclical on Nun abbiamo bisogno Mussolini
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 58 of 58
2nd - Larry Jackson, baseball player
3rd - Francoise Arnoul, actress/composer (French Cancan, Jacko & Lise)
3rd - Raúl Castro, Cuban statesman
3rd - Lindy Remigino, American athlete
4th - Cesar Bolanos, composer
5th - Jacques Demy, France, director (Lola, Magic Donkey)
5th - John Dellow, commisioner (London Metropolitan Police)
5th - Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish philosopher, antroposopher
6th - Lloyd Lindroth, the Liberace of the Harp
7th - Henry Weinberg, composer
7th - Lang Jeffries, Ontario Canada, actor (Skip-Rescue 8)
7th - Virginia McKenna, actress (Born Free, Chosen, Lions are Free, Simba)
7th - Malcolm Morley, English-born painter
8th - Ivan V Lali, poet
8th - James Leander "Leo" Nichols, honorary consul
9th - Bill Virdon, 2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)/mgr (NY Yankees)
9th - Jackie Mason, Wisc, comedian (World According to Me, Chicken Soup)
9th - Joe Santos, American actor
10th - Jim [Purvis] Ferree Jr, Pine Bluff NC, PGA golfer (1958 Vancouver)
10th - João Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
11th - Lord Cameron of Lochbroom, lord advocate
11th - Lucianna Paluzzi, Rome Italy, actress (Five Fingers, Thunderball)
11th - Tab Hunter, NYC, actor (Tab Hunter Show)
11th - Audrey Schuh, American soprano
13th - Lachlan Macleay, USAF/pilot
13th - Irvin D. Yalom, psychotherapist,Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University
14th - Marla Gibbs, Chicago Ill, actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227)
16th - Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader
16th - Ivo Petric, composer
16th - Robert F [Bob] Smith, (Rep-R-OR, 1983- )
17th - John Baldessari, American artist
18th - Della Smith, cookbook writer/British broadcaster
18th - Peter Batty, TV/movie producer
18th - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil from 1995 to 2002
19th - "Against Iain" duke of Atholl, English large landowner
20th - Arne Nordheim, Larvik Norway, conductor/composer (Aftonland)
20th - James Tolkan Calumet MI, actor (Weekend War, Leap of Faith)
20th - Olympia Dukakis, Lowell Mass, actress (Moonstruck, Cemetery Club)
20th - Richard Southwood, zoologist/chancellor (Oxford University)
20th - Martin Landau, American actor
21st - Lawrence K Grossman, News president (NBC-TV)
21st - Margaret Heckler, US Secretary of Health & Human Services (1983-85)
22nd - Henk Vonhoff, Dutch politician (VVD)
23rd - Urs Jaeggi, writer
24th - Billy Casper, SD Ca, golfer, 3-time PGA Player of Year ('66, '68, '70)
26th - Alan Bailey, British sect (dept of transport)
26th - Colin Wilson, author (Afterlife, Book of Great Mysteries)
26th - Lucien Goethals, composer
27th - Alojz Srebotnjak, composer
27th - Charles Bronfman, CEO (Seagrams, Montreal Expos)
27th - Ryszard Kwiatkowski, composer
28th - Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver
28th - Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)
29th - Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
30th - James Loughran, British conductor
30th - Johannes Gruijters, Dutch mayor (D66-Lelystad)
30th - June Thorburn, Kashmir India, actress (Touch & Go, Children Galore)
30th - Bert Eriksson, Flemish neo-Nazi (d. 2005)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 5 of 5
4th - Ibn Ali Hussein, King of Hejaz, dies
9th - Henrique Oswald, composer, dies at 79
13th - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
22nd - Armand Fallières, French president (b. 1841)
29th - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
