Historical Events In June - 01

1872  On June - 01 6th Belmont: James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58.25  

1875  Ceremony of turning the first sod on the Canadian Pacific Railway on the left bank of the Kamistiquia River in the townsite of Fort William about four miles from the river's mouth on this day in history.  

1876  Christo Botew, writer, dies on June - 01.  

1877  US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico on this day in history.  

1877  Society of American Artists forms on June - 01.  

1878  John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads) on this day in history.  

1879  On June - 01 napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.  

1880  1st pay telephone installed on June - 01.  

1881  Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange on June - 01.  

1881  Cholera in Egypt on this day in history.  

1881  On June - 01 fifth cholera pandemic in India, Germany killing 9,000+ people  

1882  John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln) on June - 01.  

1885  On this day in history smallpox in Montreal killing 3,164 people  

1886  The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31 on June - 01.  

1886  On this day in history ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist  

1887  Clive Brook, London England, actor/director (List of Adrian Messenger) on June - 01.  

1888  California gets its first seismograph on June - 01.  

1888  California gets its 1st seismograph on June - 01.  

1889  On June - 01 europe's Orient Express completes arrangements for travel between Paris and Constantinople without change of train  

1889  On this day in history 1890 flu pandemic in Worldwide killing 1 million people  

1890  On June - 01 uS census at 62,622,250  

1890  On this day in history frank Morgan, [Francis P Wupperman], NYC, actor (Annie Get Your Gun)  

1892  On June - 01 amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28)  

1893  On June - 01 opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)  

1898  On June - 01 trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha  

1898  Curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932) on June - 01.  

1899  Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last on June - 01.  

1899  On June - 01 werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY)  

1900  British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa on this day in history.  

1901  On this day in history john W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama)  

1902  Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms on this day in history.  

1903  On this day in history percy William Whitlock, composer  

1905  On June - 01 lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon  

1905  On this day in history dinora de Carvalho, composer  

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1076  Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132) was born on June - 01.  

1300  Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338) was born on June - 01.  

1480  Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550) was born on June - 01.  

1503  Wilhelm von Grumbach, German lt col was born on June - 01.  

1549  On June - 01 birth of allesandre Spontone, composer  

1563  Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister (1598-1612) was born on this day in history.  

1611  Felician Schwab, composer was born on June - 01.  

1633  On this day in history birth of geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)  

0193  On June - 01 death of didius Julianus, ship owner/emperor of Rome (193), murdered at 61  

1191  On June - 01 philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies  

1340  On this day in history jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies  

1434  On June - 01 jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies  

1568  Death of Duke of Alva, & 18 nobles, beheaded on this day in history.  

1571  Death of John Story, English Catholic on June - 01.  

1616  On June - 01 death of tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)  

1625  On June - 01 death of honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)