Date
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Event
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June, 1 |
1925 Businessman Howard Hughes marries 1st wife Ella Rice |
June, 2 |
2002 Crime drama "The Wire" created by David Simon and starring Idris Elba and Dominic West debuts on HBO |
June, 3 |
1988 "Big" film directed by Penny Marshall, starring Tom Hanks premieres in US |
June, 4 |
1924 Physician Frederick Banting (32) weds Marion Robertson |
June, 5 |
1941 NBA coach Red Auerbach (23) weds Dorothy Lewis |
June, 6 |
1956 Three-time Olympic Champion figure skater Sonja Henie (44) weds Norwegian shipping magnate and art patron Niels Onstad (47) |
June, 7 |
1925 Three Stooges leader Moe Howard (28) weds Helen Schonberger |
June, 8 |
1952 American singer and actress Judy Garland (29) weds American producer Sidney Luft (36) in Hollister, California; divorce in 1965 |
June, 9 |
1936 Novelist and journalist George Orwell (33) weds Eileen Maud O'Shaugnessy (30) at St. Mary's Church |
June, 10 |
1989 Detroit Red Wings NHL player Steve Yzerman (24) weds Lisa Brennan |
June, 11 |
1949 American Actress Hattie McDaniel (54) weds interior decorator Larry Williams in Yuma, Arizona; divorced 1950 |
June, 12 |
1981 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (the first Indiana Jones film) directed by Stephen Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford premieres |
June, 13 |
1850 Poet Alfred Tennyson (40) weds Emily Sellwood (36) |
June, 14 |
1904 Ragtime composer Scott Joplin (35) weds Freddie Alexander (19) in Arkansas |
June, 15 |
1928 "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (20) weds playwright-screenwriter John Monk Saunders (30) |
June, 16 |
1943 Actor/comedian Charlie Chaplin (54) marries actress Oona O'Neill (18) |
June, 17 |
1872 Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr (31) weds childhood friend Fanny Bowditch Dixwell |
June, 18 |
1953 Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. (24) marries fellow activist and singer Coretta Scott (26) |
June, 19 |
1850 Swedish/Norwegian crown prince Charles weds Dutch princess Wilhelmina |
June, 20 |
1975 "Jaws", based on the book by Peter Benchley, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Roy Scheider is released |
June, 21 |
1966 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", directed by Mike Nichols and based on the 1962 play of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress 1967) |
June, 22 |
1977 Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released, first Disney film to get a sequel |
June, 23 |
1954 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg (21) weds taxation law expert Martin D. Ginsburg |
June, 24 |
1914 MLB greatest pitcher Walter Johnson (26) weds Hazel Lee Roberts in Northwest, Washington, D.C. |
June, 25 |
1938 Economist Milton Friedman (25) weds Rose Friedman at the Jewish Seminary in New York City |
June, 26 |
1915 Poet T. S. Eliot (26) weds governess Vivienne Haigh-Wood (27) at Hampstead Register Office in London |
June, 27 |
1948 American handheld calculator inventor Jack Kilby (24) weds Barbara Annegers |
June, 28 |
1934 Novelist Kenneth Patchen (22) weds Miriam Patchen in nearby Sharon, Pennsylvania |
June, 29 |
1931 Actress Mary Astor (25) weds Dr. Franklyn Thorpe |
June, 30 |
1973 Prime Minister of Canada Joe Clark (34) weds lawyer Maureen McTeer (21) |