Historical Events In June - 01

1872  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1877  On this day in history uS troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico  

1877  On June - 01 society of American Artists forms  

1878  On June - 01 john Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads)  

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.  

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

1886  On this day in history 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.  

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

1887  On this day in history clive Brook, London England, actor/director (List of Adrian Messenger)  

1888  California gets its first seismograph on this day in history.  

1888  California gets its 1st seismograph on this day in history.  

1889  On this day in history europe's Orient Express completes arrangements for travel between Paris and Constantinople without change of train  

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

1890  On June - 01 frank Morgan, [Francis P Wupperman], NYC, actor (Annie Get Your Gun)  

1892  On this day in history amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28)  

1893  On this day in history opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)  

1898  Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha on June - 01.  

1898  On this day in history curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)  

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

1899  Werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY) on this day in history.  

1900  On this day in history british army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa  

1901  On June - 01 john W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama)  

1902  On this day in history blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms  

1903  On this day in history percy William Whitlock, composer  

1905  Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon on this day in history.  

1905  On this day in history dinora de Carvalho, composer  

1907  -27ø F (-33ø C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record) on this day in history.  

1907  -27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record) on this day in history.  

1907  On June - 01 frank A Whittle, England inventor (jet engine)  

1908  On this day in history john Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days  

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1076  On this day in history birth of mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)  

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 this day in history.  

1503  On this day in history birth of wilhelm von Grumbach, German lt col  

1549  Allesandre Spontone, composer was born on this day in history.  

1563  On June - 01 birth of robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister (1598-1612)  

1611  On June - 01 birth of felician Schwab, composer  

1633  Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687) was born on June - 01.  

0193  Death of Didius Julianus, ship owner/emperor of Rome (193), murdered at 61 on this day in history.  

1191  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)