June 1: Oldsmobile announces the first automatic transmission available to the public.

June 2: German War Minister Werner von Blomberg begins a three-day visit to Italy to discuss German-Italian military ties.

June 3: The Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield (Simpson) are married at the Château de Candé in Monts, France.

June 4: Sylvan Goldman introduces an invention of his called a shopping cart at the Humpty Dumpty supermarket he owned in Oklahoma City.

June 7: Jean Harlow American actress dies of kidney disease aged 26.

June 17: The adventure film King Solomon's Mines premieres in the United Kingdom.

June 19: Scottish author and dramatist J. M. Barrie creator of Peter Pan dies aged 77.

June 21: The Wimbledon Championships are televised for the first time, on BBC Television.

June 24: Paul Robeson makes a important speech on the Spanish Civil War at the Royal Albert Hall in London stating: 'The liberation of Spain from the oppression of fascist reactionaries is not a private matter of the Spaniards, but the common cause of all advanced and progressive humanity.'

June 28: Martin Niemöller gives his last sermon in Nazi Germany, stating, 'No more are we ready to keep silent at man's behest when God commands us to speak. For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.'

June 30: The emergency number 999 is introduced in the United Kingdom, the first emergency telephone number of its kind in the world. (source: Wikipedia)