June 1929

Saturday, June 1, 1929

• In an elaborate state ceremony, the remains of Sun Yat-sen were relocated from Beijing and buried in the newly constructed Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing.
• Born: Rodolfo Escalera, artist, in Gómez Palacio, Durango

  Sunday, June 2, 1929

• Eighteen nations signed a pact in London providing for uniform safety regulations of passenger ships at sea, including the requirement that ships carry enough lifeboats for all passengers.
• The Young Brothers shot and killed Town Marshal Mark Seworth Noe of the Republic, Missouri Police Department. They would kill six more law enforcement officers in the Young Brothers massacre on January 2, 1932.
• Died: Charles Moyer, 62, American labor leader

  Monday, June 3, 1929

• The Treaty of Lima was signed, settling a territorial dispute between Peru and Chile.
• The U.S. Supreme Court decided Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner.
• Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Joan Crawford were married in New York. They would divorce in 1933.
• Born:
• *Werner Arber, Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist and geneticist, honored for his role in developing recombinant DNA technology; in Gränichen
• *Chuck Barris, U.S. television game show host and producer, known for creating The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game; in Philadelphia

  Tuesday, June 4, 1929

• Stanley Baldwin resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• Born: Karolos Papoulias, President of Greece from 2005 to 2015; in Ioannina

  Wednesday, June 5, 1929

• In a written letter, Pope Pius XI criticized recent statements by Benito Mussolini as "heretical, modernistic, ponderously erudite, full of errors and inexact." The pope was particularly angered by a statement in which Mussolini said that Christianity gained its worldwide influence by attaching itself to the pagan Roman Empire.
• Ramsay MacDonald of the Labour Party became British Prime Minister for the second time.

  Thursday, June 6, 1929

• The Westlake exposition opened in Hangzhou, Republic of China.
• The surrealist short film Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí premiered in Paris.
• Born: Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, producer, director and politician, in Jhelum, Punjab, British Raj

  Friday, June 7, 1929

• Vatican City became an independent state as the Lateran Treaty went into effect.
• The Young Plan report was submitted to all governments concerned.
• During the Loray Mill Strike in Gastonia, North Carolina, 150 workers marched to the mill to call out the night shift, but were dispersed by police. Later that night, police confronted the nearby tent city and ordered its guards to hand over their weapons, causing another fight to break out. Chief of Police Orville Frank Aderholt was killed and several wounded.
• Born: John Turner, Prime Minister of Canada for 11 weeks in 1984; in Richmond, London, England

  Saturday, June 8, 1929

• Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald made his first radio address to the British public, saying that international disarmament was a matter of "overshadowing importance" and stressing the need for dialogue with foreign powers.
• Blue Larkspur won the Belmont Stakes horse race.
• Leon Trotsky asked Britain for political asylum.
• Died: Bliss Carman, 68, Canadian poet

  Sunday, June 9, 1929

• Actress Carmel Myers married her second husband, attorney Ralph Blum, in Temple B'nai B'rith in Los Angeles.
• Born: Jean Rougeau, Canadian professional wrestler, in Quebec
• Died:
• *Louis Bennison, 44, silent film actor, killed actress Margaret Lawrence and himself in New York City.
• *Margaret Lawrence, 39, stage actress, murdered.

  Monday, June 10, 1929

• Pope Pius XI promulgated 21 articles laying out the basic laws of Vatican City. The laws gave extensive powers to the pope that were transferred to the College of Cardinals during times when the papacy was vacant.
• Prince Charles of Belgium was fined 100 francs for failing to vote in provincial elections the previous day, in violation of the country's compulsory voting law.
• Born: E. O. Wilson, American sociobiologist, researcher and theorist, in Birmingham, Alabama

  Tuesday, June 11, 1929

• German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann accepted a French proposal to participate in an international conference to discuss an end to the occupation of the Rhineland.
• Ten German communists were sentenced to prison terms of three to twelve months for their participation in the Berlin May Day riots; three defendants were acquitted.
• Born:
• *Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, British occult writer
• *Frank Thomas, American baseball player, in Pittsburgh
• Died: William Dickson Boyce, 70, American entrepreneur and founder of the Boy Scouts of America

  Wednesday, June 12, 1929

• The war film The Four Feathers, starring William Powell and Fay Wray, premiered at the Criterion Theatre in New York City.
• Born: Anne Frank, whose book The Diary of Anne Frank brought her worldwide fame after her death in a Nazi concentration camp; in Frankfurt, Germany

  Thursday, June 13, 1929

• Soviet troops crossed the Chinese border in retaliation for raids on Soviet consulates.
• Ohio State University professor of veterinary medicine James H. Snook killed a student with whom he had been having an affair for the past three years. The sensational murder trial that followed would become the subject of national media attention.
• Born: Ralph McQuarrie, conceptual designer and illustrator, in Gary, Indiana

  Friday, June 14, 1929

• The National Party of South Africa led by Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog, was declared the winner of an outright majority of the seats in the June 12 elections for the House of Assembly. Hertzog's government increased its share of the 148 seats from 63 to 78.
• Born: Johnny Wilson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, in Kincardine, Ontario

  Saturday, June 15, 1929

• U.S. President Herbert Hoover signed the Agricultural Marketing Act into law.

  Sunday, June 16, 1929

• Johnny Salo, a Finnish-born police officer from Passaic, New Jersey, won the second Trans-American Footrace from New York City to Los Angeles by just 2 minutes and 47 seconds, claiming a $25,000 prize. The race began on March 31 and covered 3,635 miles.
• Gibraltar switched to driving on the right side of the road rather than the left, with the change going into effect at 5:00 in the morning.
• Died: Bramwell Booth, 73, 2nd General of the Salvation Army

  Monday, June 17, 1929

• Seven of the 13 people aboard an Imperial Airways airliner were killed when the plane crashed. The Handley Page W.10 twin engine plane, designated as City of Ottawa, plunged into the English Channel during a flight from London to Paris.
• 1929 Murchison earthquake, local New Zealand time, 16th June in Europe. Data from the earthquake was analyzed by Inge Lehmann.

  Tuesday, June 18, 1929

• Charles G. Dawes, in his new post as the American ambassador to Britain, called for a naval disarmament conference during a speech in London.
• Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie recorded the blues song When the Levee Breaks for Columbia Records, later to be famously covered by Led Zeppelin.
• The United States Congress enacted the Reapportionment Act of 1929. It froze the size of the United States House of Representatives. This is a significant event, given the wording of the first proposed amendment to the United States Constitution, the Congressional Apportionment Amendment. Before Congress altered the House version of the amendment by changing the word "less" to "more", the amendment stipulated that there not be less than one representative for every 50,000 persons. Currently there is, on average, less than one representative for every 700,000 persons.

  Wednesday, June 19, 1929

• The American League-leading Philadelphia Athletics purchased the contract of veteran first baseman George Burns from the New York Yankees.
• In Manhattan, New York City, two Interborough Rapid Transit Company trains collided on the elevated tracks along Eighth Avenue, killing an IRT Company employee and injuring 34 passengers. Assistant Fire Marshal William F. Emerson of the New York City Fire Department Bureau of Fire Investigation died of heat stroke after climbing an ladder to investigate the crash site.
• Born: Thelma Barlow, English actress and writer, in Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire

  Thursday, June 20, 1929

• A brawl broke out in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies during a debate over the recent dismissal of government employees. Deputies hurled inkwells and other objects, and two agreed to a pistol duel the next day.
• Corrections Employee Robert George Warnke of the Federal Bureau of Prisons was beaten to death with an iron bar by serial killer Carl Panzram, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas. Panzram had claimed to have committed 22 murders and had been involved in the murder of Superintendent Harry Minto of the Oregon Department of Corrections in September 1915. Panzram was subsequently hanged for Warnke's murder.
• The musical film The Hollywood Revue of 1929 premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
• Born:
• *Anne Weale, reporter and writer, in England
• *Edith Windsor, American LGBT rights activist and plaintiff in the landmark 2013 case of United States v. Windsor; in Philadelphia

  Friday, June 21, 1929

• The Mexican government made peace with the Vatican, signing an accord in which Mexico agreed to revise its anti-clerical policies to allow churches to reopen while maintaining separation of church and state.
• The musical film Broadway Babies, starring Alice White, premiered at the Central Theatre in New York City.