Historical Events In June - 01

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

1875  On this day in history 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.  

1876  On June - 01 christo Botew, writer, dies  

1877  On June - 01 uS troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico  

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  Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War on this day in history.  

1880  On June - 01 1st pay telephone installed  

1881  On this day in history bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange  

1882  On this day in history john Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)  

1886  On June - 01 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  Ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist on this day in history.  

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

1888  On June - 01 california gets its first seismograph  

1888  On this day in history california gets its 1st seismograph  

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

1890  US census at 62,622,250 on this day in history.  

1890  On June - 01 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 this day in history trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha  

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

1899  On this day in history cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last  

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

1900  British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa on June - 01.  

1901  John W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama) on this day in history.  

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

1903  On June - 01 percy William Whitlock, composer  

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

1905  On June - 01 dinora de Carvalho, composer  

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

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

1907  On this day in history frank A Whittle, England inventor (jet engine)  

1908  John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days on June - 01.  

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1076  On June - 01 birth of mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)  

1300  On this day in history birth of thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)  

1480  On this day in history birth of tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550)  

1503  Wilhelm von Grumbach, German lt col was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history birth of felician Schwab, composer  

1633  Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687) was born on this day in history.  

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

1191  Philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies on this day in history.  

1340  On June - 01 jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies  

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

1568  On June - 01 death of duke of Alva, & 18 nobles, beheaded  

1571  Death of John Story, English Catholic on this day in history.  

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

1625  Death of Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568) on this day in history.