What Happened In June 1926 In History

Historical Events for June, 1926

• 14th » Brazil leaves the League of Nations
• 23rd » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
• 28th » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
• 29th » Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.

Famous Birthdays on June in 1926

• 1st » Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1st » Marilyn Monroe, American model, actress, and singer (d. 1962)
• 2nd » Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Makuuchi Yokozuna e.g Yokozuna (d. 1977)
• 3rd » Allen Ginsberg, American poet and academic (d. 1997)
• 3rd » Flora MacDonald (politician) e.g Flora MacDonald, Canadian politician
• 4th » Robert Earl Hughes, American List of the heaviest people named heaviest human being (d. 1958)
• 4th » Ain Kaalep, Estonian poet, playwright, and critic
• 4th » Ivan Karp, American art dealer (d. 2012)
• 4th » Judith Malina, German-American actress and director, co-founded The Living Theatre
• 5th » Paul Soros, Hungarian-American engineer and businessman (d. 2013)
• 6th » Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (d. 2009)
• 6th » Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
• 7th » Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian politician
• 9th » Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, American bass player and singer (d. 2010)
• 10th » Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor (d. 2013)
• 10th » Lionel Jeffries, English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 11th » Carlisle Floyd, American composer and educator
• 13th » Paul Lynde, American actor and singer (d. 1982)
• 14th » Hermann Kant, German author
• 14th » Don Newcombe, American baseball player
• 15th » Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (d. 2006)
• 15th » Mac McGarry, American game show host (d. 2013)
• 16th » Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemalan general and politician, 26th President of Guatemala
• 18th » Philip B. Crosby, American businessman and author (d. 2001)
• 18th » Allan Sandage, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 2010)
• 18th » Tom Wicker, American journalist (d. 2011)
• 21st » George A. Burton, American soldier, accountant, and politician (d. 2014)
• 21st » Conrad Hall, French-American cinematographer (d. 2003)
• 21st » Muhsin Mahdi, Iraqi-American islamologist and philosopher (d. 2007)
• 22nd » Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2014)
• 23rd » Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, English microbiologist and parasitologist
• 25th » Margaret Anstee, English diplomat
• 25th » Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (d. 1973)
• 27th » Don Raleigh, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2012)
• 28th » Mel Brooks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 29th » Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler, 3rd Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
• 30th » Paul Berg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry or Nobel Prize laureate

Famous Deaths for June 1926

• 4th » Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer (b. 1853)
• 10th » Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (b. 1852)
• 14th » Mary Cassatt, American painter (b. 1843)
• 21st » Lorne Currie, French-English sailor (b. 1871)

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