Meanwhile, reporter Florence Dempsey ( Glenda Farrell ) is sent out by her editor, Jim ( Frank McHugh ) to investigate the suicide of a model named Joan Gale ( Monica Bannister ).

* Glenda Farrell as Florence Dempsey

* February 22 – Florence Ballard, American singer ( The Supremes ) ( b. 1943 )

According to Peter Marshall ( Florence Henderson Show, 2008 ) and Kaye Ballard ( E True Hollywood Story, 2000 ) the comedic actor would sometimes verbally ridicule his friends when inebriated.

Other regulars and semi-regulars over the years included Nanette Fabray, Kaye Ballard, Wally Cox, Morey Amsterdam, Florence Henderson, Marty Allen, Wayland Flowers and Madame, Barbara Eden, George Gobel, Vincent Price, Charo, Sandy Duncan, Carol Wayne, Jonathan Winters, Karen Valentine, and Joan Rivers.

The group featuring the most popular lineup of Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard appeared 15 times from December 1964 through May 1967.

However, promotion of the album and its singles stopped abruptly when Cindy Birdsong, who had spent months as a stand-in for Supremes founder Florence Ballard, suddenly left the Bluebelles to become a full-fledged member of The Supremes.

* July 29 – Motown Records releases " Reflections ," the first single by the group's new billing, " Diana Ross & The Supremes " and after firing founding member Florence Ballard ; Ballard, nevertheless, sings on the record and appears on the vinyl's cover alongside group members Ross and Wilson because the song was recorded before her dismissal.

* February 22 – Florence Ballard of the Supremes is released from her contract with Motown.

During the 1960s, Ballard's cousin, Florence Ballard, was a member of the Detroit girl group The Supremes.

Florence Ballard was born in Detroit in 1943.

Billed as " Florence ' Flo ' Ballard " and with her husband serving as her manager, Ballard released the singles " It Doesn't Matter How I Say It ( It's What I Say That Matters )" and " Love Ain't Love " on ABC Records.

The 1980 song " Romeo's Tune ", from Mississippian Steve Forbert's album Jackrabbit Slim is " dedicated to the memory of Florence Ballard ".

The central character of Effie White, like Florence Ballard, is criticized for being overweight, and is fired from the group.

In her Golden Globe acceptance speech, Hudson dedicated her win to Florence Ballard.

The music video for the Diana Ross song " Missing You " pays tribute to Marvin Gaye, Florence Ballard, and Paul Williams, all former Motown artists who had died.

At Detroit's Northeastern High School, her vocal coach was Abraham Silver, who also worked with Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson ( of The Supremes ) and Bobby Rogers ( of The Miracles ).

In 1958, Mary Wilson met Florence Ballard while both attended junior high school.

In 1967, after three years of phenomenal success, Motown chief Berry Gordy changed the name of the group to Diana Ross & the Supremes and at Mary and Diana's request replaced Florence Ballard with Cindy Birdsong.

**" Long Gone Lover " – also from Where Did Our Love Go – has the lead on the intro ( and repeats her part in the break ), with Florence Ballard on lead on the outro and Diana Ross leading the rest of the song

* Unsung: Florence Ballard – interviewee ( 2009 )

In 1965, Williams began an affair with Winnie Brown, hair stylist for The Supremes and a relative of Supremes member Florence Ballard.

The music video for the Diana Ross song " Missing You " pays tribute to Marvin Gaye, Florence Ballard, and Paul Williams, all former Motown artists who had died.

Even though the sleeve of the album Jackrabbit Slim ( 1979 ) states that " Romeo's Tune " is " dedicated to the memory of Florence Ballard ," the song is not really about the Supremes singer who died in 1976.

Other notable productions in Europe from the 1980s included the March 1986 presentation by the Scottish Opera in Glasgow ; a June 1990 production in Florence by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

Bartolomeo Ammannati ( 18 June 1511 – 13 April 1592 ) was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence.

In June 1376 Catherine went to Avignon herself as ambassador of Florence to make peace with the Papal States, but was unsuccessful.

The first American University for service personnel was established in June 1945 at the School of Aeronautics in Florence, Italy.

Surrounded by hills in a river valley, Florence can be hot and humid from June to August.

On a trip to Florence in June 1910, she conceived the idea of creating a museum-house.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (, 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527 ) was an Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.

In June 1055, Victor met the Emperor at Florence and held a council, which reinforced Pope Leo IX's condemnation of clerical marriage, simony, and the loss of the church's properties.

Florence and Fleming were initiated August 13, 1870, and initiated 11 other men on June 16, 1871.

* June 4 – The very first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography ( for Julia Ward Howe ).

* June 1 – Percy and Florence Arrowsmith are married.

This couple, who celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary June 1, 2005 ( Percy aged 105, and wife Florence 100 ), are acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as record-holders for the longest marriage for a living couple and the greatest aggregate age of a married couple.

* June 26 – Battle of Casalecchio: Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Duke of Milan, crushes the forces of Bologna and Florence, but he dies from a fever later this year and is succeeded by his son Gian Maria Visconti.

* June – Niccolò Machiavelli is elected by the Great Council as the second chancellor of the Republic of Florence.

From 1974-1976, Viola worked as technical director at Art / Tapes / 22, a pioneering video studio in Florence, Italy where he encountered video artists Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, and Vito Acconci.

* June 1 – Battle of San Romano: Florence defeats Siena.

The last original member of the community, Ella Florence Underwood ( 1850 – 1950 ), died on June 25, 1950 in Kenwood, New York near Oneida, New York.

* June 11 – The Italian Guelph and Ghibelline factions fight in the Battle of Campaldino ; the Guelph victory secures their position of power in Florence.

After some delay, apparently due to the interference of his former professor, fra Vincenzo Bandelli, now Vicar General of the Order, Lorenzo succeeded in bringing Savonarola back to Florence, where he arrived in May or June of that year.

Forty-four years after his death, on 7 June 1871, his remains were brought to Florence, and with all the pride, pomp and circumstance of a great national mourning, found their final resting-place beside the monuments of Machiavelli and Alfieri, of Michelangelo and Galileo, in the church of Santa Croce, the pantheon of Italian glory he had celebrated in Dei sepolcri.

Vasari died at Florence on 27 June 1574.

In his review of Callas's June 11, 1951 concert in Florence, music critic Rock Ferris of '' Musical Courier said, " Her high E's and F's are taken full voice.

In June 1434 the pope had to flee a revolt in Rome and began a ten year exile in Florence.

Gian Gastone staged a fête in honour of the Patron Saint of Florence, Jean-Baptiste, on 24 June.

* June 4-The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography ( for Julia Ward Howe ).