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The following events occurred in June 1926:

June 1, 1926 (Tuesday)

• After General Józef Piłsudski declined to accept the position of President of Poland following his coup d'etat, the nation's parliament, the Sejm, elected Ignacy Mościcki to the largely ceremonial position. ^[1]
• The Hudson River Day Line ship PS Washington Irving, which had transported passengers between New York City and Albany, New York since 1913, sank after being struck by another ship in the North River during a fog. ^[2] Three passengers (out of almost 300 people on board) drowned but the remainder were rescued before the vessel sank while being towed to Jersey City, New Jersey, but the accident halted construction of the underwater Holland Tunnel. The wreckage of the Washington Irving would not be cleared until eight months later on February 13, 1927.

Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) and Andy Griffith (1926-2012)

• Born:
  • Marilyn Monroe, American film actress and model; as Norma Jeane Mortenson, in Los Angeles (d. 1962) ^[3]
  • Andy Griffith, American television actor and singer best known for The Andy Griffith Show and for Matlock ; in Mount Airy, North Carolina (d. 2012) ^[4]
  • Albert Starr, American cardiovascular surgeon and co-inventor of the Starr-Edwards heart valve; in New York City (d.2024) ^[5]
  • Richard S. Schweiker, American politician who served in the U.S. Congress for 20 years as a Representative and then as a Senator, and later as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; in Norristown, Pennsylvania (d.2015) ^[6]

June 2, 1926 (Wednesday)

• Sweden's Prime Minister, Rickard Sandler, resigned along with his entire cabinet after both chambers of the Riksdag voted in favor of reductions in the budget for unemployment relief. ^[7]
• Jonas Staugaitis was elected head of the Seimas in Lithuania.

June 3, 1926 (Thursday)

• The best-selling British book The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764–1765 by Cleone Knox, which had been billed as an 18th century diary discovered and published for the first time in 1925, was exposed as a hoax. Magdalen King-Hall, the young daughter of Admiral Sir George Fowler King-Hall, was revealed to be the real author. ^{[8] [9] [10]}
• Born:
  • Allen Ginsberg, leftist American poet associated with the Beat Generation; in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1997) ^[11]
  • Roscoe Bartlett, conservative U.S. Congressman for Maryland from 1993 to 2013 before retiring at the age of 86; in Moorland, Kentucky (alive in 2026)

June 4, 1926 (Friday)

President Mosicki

• Ignacy Mościcki became President of the Republic of Poland. He would serve until 1939, fleeing Poland when Germany and the Soviet Union invaded to start World War II.
• The U.S. Congress passed a resolution requesting that President Calvin Coolidge issue a proclamation calling for the annual observance of Armistice Day with "appropriate ceremonies." Although twenty-seven U.S. states had already established November 11 as a legal holiday, Veterans Day would not become a legal Federal holiday until 1938. ^{[12] [13]}
• Born: Konstantin Kotsev, Turkish-born Bulgarian film actor; in Istanbul (d.2007) ^[14]
• Died:
  • Fred Spofforth, 72, Australian cricket team player and inductee to the ICC Hall of Fame, known for being the first bowler to take 50 Test wickets and the first to take a Test hat-trick ^[15]
  • U.S. Army Major General Charles F. Humphrey, 81, Medal of Honor recipient and U.S. Army officer ^[16]

June 5, 1926 (Saturday)

• Representatives of the United Kingdom, the British Mandate for Iraq, and Turkey signed the Frontier Treaty of 1926, an agreement on the border between Turkey and Iraq to resolve the "Mosul Question". The parties agreed that the Mosul Province (now the Nineveh Governorate) would belong to Iraq, that 10 percent of the royalties due to Iraq's government would be shared with Turkey for at least four years and as many as 25 (unless the remaining 21 years were sold to the United Kingdom for the agreed optional price of £500,000, and that all sides would accept the boundary line for the Iraq–Turkey border adopted on October 29, 1924. ^[17]
• In China, the Kuomintang government named General Chiang Kai-shek as the commander-in-chief of China's National Revolutionary Army that would launch the Northern Expedition against the Beiyang Army that controlled Beijing in an effort to reunite the Republic of China. ^[18]
• A fire at San Francisco's Ewing Field stadium, started accidentally by a spectator who dropped a lit cigarette ^[19] burned down the wooden structure and then spread to adjacent buildings. ^[20] At least 40 buildings and houses were destroyed or damaged as wind guts spread burning embers over Saint Rose Street, Masonic Avenue, Broderick Street, O'Farrel Street, Sutter Street, Post Street and Scott Street ^{[21] [22]} The fire broke out during a game between two industrial teams, Union Oil Company at Anglo California Trust. ^[23]
• Born:
  • Peter G. Peterson, American financier who served as the Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1985 to 2007, and U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1972 to 1973, as well as having been the CEO of Bell & Howell, Lehman Brothers, and the Blackstone Group; as Peter Petropoulos in Kearney, Nebraska (d.2018) ^[24]
  • Morio Obata, Japanese mathematician known for the Lichnerowicz–Obata theorem; in Busan, Japanese-occupied Korea (d.2006) ^[25]

June 6, 1926 (Sunday)

• The silent comedy film Ella Cinders , based on a popular comic strip of the same name and starring Colleen Moore in the title role (based on the story of Cinderella), and Lloyd Hughes as "Waite Lifter" as the leading man, was released in the United States by First National Pictures. In 2013, the film would be selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" ^[26] .
• Spielvereinigung Greuther Fürth e. V.|SpVgg Greuther of Fürth won the championship tournament of soccer football in Germany, defeating Hertha BSC of Berlin, 4 to 1, before a crowd of 40,000 at Frankfurt. ^[27]
• C.S. Marítimo of Funchal, on Portugal's Madeira Island, defeated C.F. Os Belenenses of Lisbon, 2 to 0, to win the Campeonato de Portugal, the championship tournament of soccer football of the Portuguese Football Federation.. ^[28]
• Born:
  • Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor; in Merseburg (d. 1998) ^[29]
  • Erdal İnönü, Turkish politician who briefly served as Acting Prime Minister for six weeks in 1993; as the son of Prime Minister İsmet İnönü, in Ankara (d. 2007) ^[30]
  • Patricia Peterson, American journalist who served as the fashion editor of The New York Times from 1957 to 1977; in Chicago (d.2017) ^[31]

June 7, 1926 (Monday)

Grinius

• Kazys Grinius was elected President of Lithuania by the Third Seimas.
• The League of Nations opened its fortieth council session in Geneva. Brazil boycotted the session in protest of its being denied a seat on the permanent council. ^[32]

June 8, 1926 (Tuesday)

• Babe Ruth hit one of the longest home runs of his career at Navin Field in Detroit, over the right field stands and into the street a block away. Sportswriters at the game reported that the ball carried over 600 feet, although whether it actually did or not cannot be proven. ^{[33] [34]}
• Died: Emily Hobhouse, 66, British welfare campaigner

June 9, 1926 (Wednesday)

• The Soviet Union passed a law forbidding the export of Soviet currency abroad. ^[35]
• Died: Sanford B. Dole, 82, President of Hawaii and 1st Territorial Governor of Hawaii

June 10, 1926 (Thursday)

• Spain threatened to quit the League of Nations if it was not granted a permanent seat. ^[36]
• The Treaty of Friendship between France and Romania was signed in Paris. Although a diplomatic victory for Romanian Prime Minister Alexandru Averescu, it had little actual value since it did not commit France to lend direct military assistance in the event of war between Romania and the Soviet Union. ^{[37] [38]}
• Born: Lionel Jeffries, British actor and director, in Forest Hill, London (d. 2010)
• Died: Antoni Gaudí, 73, Catalonian architect

June 11, 1926 (Friday)

• Brazil announced it would leave the League of Nations. ^[39]
• Born: Frank Plicka, Czech photographer, in Kladno, Czechoslovakia (d. 2010)

June 12, 1926 (Saturday)

• A monument to the actress Sarah Bernhardt by the sculptor François-Léon Sicard was unveiled in Paris near the house where she died in 1923. ^{[40] [41]} (→ file)
• Born: Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian author, in Partinico (d. 2001)

June 13, 1926 (Sunday)

• A memorial to the Spartacist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery, was inaugurated. ^[42] (→ file)
• Born: Paul Lynde, American comedian; in Mount Vernon, Ohio (d. 1982)
• Died: Gottfried Lindauer, 87, Bohemian-born New Zealand painter

June 14, 1926 (Monday)

• Socialists in Berlin held a mass demonstration outside the City Palace, supporting an affirmative vote in the upcoming referendum on whether to expropriate the property of the former ruling houses of Germany. About 50 were wounded and 100 arrested in fighting that broke out as police attempted to confiscate an effigy of Wilhelm II. ^[43]
• Born: Don Newcombe, American baseball player, in Madison, New Jersey (d. 2019)
• Died: Mary Cassatt, 82, American artist

June 15, 1926 (Tuesday)

• The World Court opened its eleventh session at The Hague. ^[44]
• The British ballet A Tragedy of Fashion was first performed.
• Born: Shigeru Kayano, Ainu activist, in Nibutani, Japan (d. 2006)

June 16, 1926 (Wednesday)

• Aurelio Padovani, an early Fascist leader who had fallen out of favour with Mussolini, was killed mysteriously along with eight others when the balcony of Padovani's home in Naples collapsed as he stepped out to greet a throng of admirers below. ^{[45] [46] [47] [48]}
• Ziya Hurşit, former deputy in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, was arrested for planning to assassinate President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
• Born: William F. Roemer, Jr., U.S. FBI agent (d. 1996)
• Died: Aurelio Padovani, 37, Italian Fascist leader, was killed in the collapse of a balcony at his home, along with eight other people. ^[49]

June 17, 1926 (Thursday)

• The Seventh Street Bridge (now the Andy Warhol Bridge) opened in Pittsburgh.

June 18, 1926 (Friday)

• Australia passed amendments to the 1904 Conciliation and Arbitration Act, granting wider powers to judges. ^[50]
• Born: Allan Sandage, American astronomer, in Iowa City, Iowa (d. 2010)

June 19, 1926 (Saturday)

• DeFord Bailey became the first African-American to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.

June 20, 1926 (Sunday)

• The German referendum to expropriate the property of the former ruling houses received a 96.1% vote in favour, but failed to pass into law because the 39% voter turnout was too low.
• Three memorial services were held for Christian evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, missing since May 18, to accommodate the 17,000 people who wished to pay their final respects along with millions of listeners who tuned in to the services on the radio. ^[51]
• The 28th International Eucharistic Congress opened in Chicago, with over 250,000 spectators attending the opening procession.

June 21, 1926 (Monday)

• U.S. President Calvin Coolidge announced a government surplus of $390 million for the fiscal year ending June 30. ^[52]
• Born:
  • Conrad Hall, American cinematographer, in Papeete, Tahiti (d. 2003)
  • Lou Ottens, Dutch engineer and inventor of the cassette tape, in Bellingwolde (d. 2021) ^[53]

June 22, 1926 (Tuesday)

• The St. Louis Cardinals purchased the contract of pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander from the Chicago Cubs.

June 23, 1926 (Wednesday)

McPherson after her ordeal

• Aimee Semple McPherson was found stumbling in the desert of Agua Prieta, Mexico just south of Douglas, Arizona. ^[51] McPherson claimed she had been kidnapped, drugged, tortured and held for ransom, but had escaped. ^[54]
• Aristide Briand formed his tenth Cabinet in France. Joseph Caillaux took over as Minister of Finance.

June 24, 1926 (Thursday)

• U.S. Congress created the position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics to oversee the United States' naval aviation forces. The navy's five-year plan for aviation was also passed. ^[55]
• Lightning storms and flooding in northern and central Germany killed 10 and destroyed many crops. ^[56]
• Thousands were left homeless by flooding in Guanajuato, Mexico. ^[57]

June 25, 1926 (Friday)

• Hundreds were reported dead from the flooding in León, Guanajuato, Mexico as irrigation dams broke overnight. ^[58]
• Golfer Bobby Jones won The Open Championship.
• Freddie Spruell became the first Delta blues musician to be recorded when he cut "Milk Cow Blues" in Chicago.
• Born: Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet and author, in Klagenfurt (d. 1973)

June 26, 1926 (Saturday)

• Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, on the verge of losing an effective motion of censure in the Commons, had the debate adjourned so he could request a dissolution of Parliament. ^[59]
• French Minister of Finance Joseph Caillaux had the Governor of the Banque de France, Georges Robineau, ousted and replaced by Émile Moreau. Robineau had refused to allow France's gold reserves to be used to help stop the devaluation of the franc. ^[60]
• Born: Antonio Oteiza, Spanish artist, sculptor and Order of Friars Minor Capuchin brother, in San Sebastián (d. 2025) ^[61]

June 27, 1926 (Sunday)

• Jules Goux of France won the 1926 French Grand Prix.
• The films Miss Nobody and The Gentle Cyclone opened.
• Born: Don Raleigh, Canadian ice hockey player, in Kenora, Ontario (d. 2012)

June 28, 1926 (Monday)

Mackenzie King

• King–Byng Affair: William Lyon Mackenzie King resigned as Prime Minister of Canada after the Governor General Julian Byng invoked his reserve power to refuse to sign the formal Order in Council to dissolve Parliament. ^[59]
• Born: Mel Brooks, American comedian and filmmaker; in Brooklyn, New York

June 29, 1926 (Tuesday)

• Arthur Meighen of the Conservative Party became the Prime Minister of Canada for the second time.
• Italy increased the working day by one hour as part of a nationwide efficiency drive. ^[48]
• Born: Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, in Kuwait City (d. 2006)

June 30, 1926 (Wednesday)

• French police thwarted a plot to assassinate King Alfonso XIII of Spain during his visit to France. ^[48]
• Robert Forke resigned as the leader of the Progressive Party of Canada.
• English pilot Alan Cobham took off from the River Medway to begin a round-trip survey flight from England to Australia in his de Havilland seaplane. ^[62]
• Born: Paul Berg, American chemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2023)

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