Historical Events In June - 01

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

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  Christo Botew, writer, dies on this day in history.  

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

1877  On this day in history society of American Artists forms  

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

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

1880  On this day in history 1st pay telephone installed  

1881  On June - 01 bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange  

1881  On June - 01 cholera in Egypt  

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

1882  On June - 01 john Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)  

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  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  California gets its first seismograph on June - 01.  

1888  On June - 01 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  

1889  1890 flu pandemic in Worldwide killing 1 million people on June - 01.  

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

1893  Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin) on June - 01.  

1898  On this day in history trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha  

1898  Curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932) on this day in history.  

1899  Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last on this day in history.  

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  Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon on June - 01.  

1905  On June - 01 dinora de Carvalho, composer  

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

1300  On June - 01 birth of thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)  

1480  Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550) was born on this day in history.  

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

1611  Felician Schwab, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

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

1191  On this day in history philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies  

1340  Jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies on this day in history.  

1434  On this day in history jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies  

1568  On this day in history death of duke of Alva, & 18 nobles, beheaded  

1571  On this day in history death of john Story, English Catholic  

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)