June 1926

June 1, 1926 (Tuesday)

• After General Józef Piłsudski declined to accept the position of President of Poland following his coup d'état, the nation's parliament, the Sejm, elected Ignacy Mościcki to the largely ceremonial position.
• 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. Three passengers 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.
• Born:
• *Marilyn Monroe, American film actress and model; as Norma Jeane Mortenson, in Los Angeles
• *Andy Griffith, American television actor and singer best known for The Andy Griffith Show and for Matlock; in Mount Airy, North Carolina
• *Albert Starr, American cardiovascular surgeon and co-inventor of the Starr-Edwards heart valve; in New York City
• *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

  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.
• 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.
• Born:
• *Allen Ginsberg, leftist American poet associated with the Beat Generation; in Newark, New Jersey
• *Roscoe Bartlett, conservative U.S. Congressman for Maryland from 1993 to 2013 before retiring at the age of 86; in Moorland, Kentucky

  June 4, 1926 (Friday)

• 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.
• Born: Konstantin Kotsev, Turkish-born Bulgarian film actor; in Istanbul
• 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
• *U.S. Army Major General Charles F. Humphrey, 81, Medal of Honor recipient and U.S. Army officer

  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 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
• *Morio Obata, Japanese mathematician known for the Lichnerowicz–Obata theorem; in Busan, Japanese-occupied Korea

  June 6, 1926 (Sunday)

• In Australia, the Forrest River massacre of the indigenous Australians, 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".
• SpVgg Greuther Fürth|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.
• 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..
• Born:
• *Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor; in Merseburg
• *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
• *Patricia Peterson, American journalist who served as the fashion editor of The New York Times from 1957 to 1977; in Chicago

  June 7, 1926 (Monday)

• Kazys Grinius was elected President of Lithuania by the Baltic republic's parliament, the Seimas. Grinius received 50 of the 79 votes cast, while another 25 cards were left blank and three other candidates received one or two votes.
• Carl Gustaf Ekman formed a government as the new Prime Minister of Sweden, succeeding Rickard Sandler, whose government had resigned after receiving a vote of no confidence.
• Adly Yakan Pasha became the Prime Minister of Egypt, succeeding Ahmed Zeiwar Pasha, after being asked by King Fuad I to form a new government.
• 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.
• Born: Andrey Gaponov-Grekhov, Soviet Russian physicist; in Moscow

  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.
• Born: John Diebold, American businessman who specialized in the use of application of information technology to corporate business, and founder of the Diebold Group; in Weehawken, New Jersey
• Died:
• *Emily Hobhouse, 66, British welfare campaigner known for exposing the conditions at British internment camps in South Africa during the Second Boer War
• *Saint Mariam Thresia Chiramel, 50, Roman Catholic nun who would be canonized in 2019, died from complications of diabetes and an infected injury to her leg.
• *Jurgis Dobkevičius, 26, Lithuanian aircraft designer and pilot who created the sports plane Dobi-I, the surveillance craft Dobi-II and the fighter Dobi-III, was killed on the second test flight of the Dobi-III.

  June 9, 1926 (Wednesday)

• Amanullah Khan Barakzai, the emir of the British protectorate of Afghanistan, declared the independence of the Asian emirate and founded the Kingdom of Afghanistan, with himself as the first monarch.
• Born:
• *Max Raab, American film producer and fashion marketer; in Philadelphia
• *Dr. André Hellegers, Dutch-born American gynecologist and advocate on bioethics, founder of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics; in Venlo
• Died:
• *Sanford B. Dole, 82, Hawaiian-born American businessman who led the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1894, declared a republic, and served as the first President of Hawaii, then later as its first territorial governor
• *Wilford H. Smith, 62, African-American lawyer who became the first black attorney to win a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, with a victory in ''Carter v. Texas''

  June 10, 1926 (Thursday)

• The "June Tenth Movement" began in Korea, at the time a colony of the Japanese Empire, to coincide with the elaborate funeral of the last Korean Emperor, Sunjong, who had died on April 26. During the funeral procession, students shouted for independence and handed out fliers to observers. Japanese police arrested 210 student protesters in Seoul, and 1,000 others in other Korean cities. All but 53 of the people rounded up were released without being tried or sentenced.
• At the League of Nations in Geneva, Brazil's Ambassador Afrânio de Melo Franco announced that the South American nation was withdrawing from the League Council, where it was one of the seven non-permanent members, after the Council had postponed additions to the four permanent members. At the same time, the League ambassador for Spain announced that his nation would withdraw if was not given a similar privilege. De Mello Franco said that withdrawal was limited ot the Council and not to the League Assembly, but hinted that complete departure would be next.
• 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.
• The Egyptian news and political magazine Al-Fath published its first issue, and would continue for 22 years.
• Born:
• *Lionel Jeffries, British actor, director and screenwriter; in Forest Hill, London
• *Asrul Sani, Indonesian screenwriter; in Rao, West Sumatra, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia
• Died: Antoni Gaudí, 73, Catalonian architect

  June 11, 1926 (Friday)

• The National Parks Act of 1926 was enacted in South Africa, clearing the way for the national government's creation of the Kruger National Park.
• The Ford Trimotor transport airplane, with three engines for additional power, made its first flight. Designed by William Bushnell Stout, the 4-AT Trimotor was made from a Stout Metal Airplane Company single-engine monoplane modified for three Curtis-Wright air-cooled engines.
• Born:
• *Carlisle Floyd, American operatic composer known for the 1955 opera Susannah; in Latta, South Carolina
• *Frank Plicka, Czech photographer, in Kladno, Czechoslovakia