June 1: The Bren light machine gun enters service in the British Army.

June 5: The famous psychoanalysist Sigmund Freud, 82 and frail, arrives in Paris on the Orient Express, having fled persecution by the Nazis in his homeland of Austria. After a few hours of rest he continues on his way to London where he has been granted asylum.

June 7: Sigmund Freud is made a British citizen despite normally requiring five years' residence.

June 10: Hollywood Park Racetrack opens.

June 17: A general election is held in Ireland. Fianna Fáil retain power, winning 77 of 138 seats,

June 18: Babe Ruth accepts a job as a first base coach with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

June 19: Italy defeats Hungary 4-2 in the FIFA World Cup Final in Paris.

June 23: Hermann Goering decrees that effective July 1, all German men and women of any profession or trade can be conscripted to take up work for the state.

June 23: The Royal Air Force launches a new recruitment campaign and receives 1,000 inquiries on the first day alone.

June 25: Douglas Hyde becomes the 1st President of Ireland.

June 29: Frederick William Vanderbilt American railway magnate dies aged 82. (source: Wikipedia)