Historical Events In June - 01

1872  6th Belmont: James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58.25 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history christo Botew, writer, dies   

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

1877  Society of American Artists forms on this day in history.   

1878  John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads) on June - 01.   

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

1881  On this day in history cholera in Egypt   

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  Smallpox in Montreal killing 3,164 people on this day in history.   

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  Ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist on June - 01.   

1887  On June - 01 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 this day in history 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  US census at 62,622,250 on June - 01.   

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

1892  Amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28) on June - 01.   

1893  Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin) on this day in history.   

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

1899  Werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY) on June - 01.   

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

1901  John W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama) on June - 01.   

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

1903  On June - 01 percy William Whitlock, composer   

1905  Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon on June - 01.   

1905  Dinora de Carvalho, composer on June - 01.   

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

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

1549  Allesandre Spontone, composer was born on June - 01.   

1563  On this day in history birth of robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister (1598-1612)   

1611  On June - 01 birth of felician Schwab, composer   

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

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

1434  Jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies on June - 01.   

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

1571  On June - 01 death of john Story, English Catholic   

1616  Death of Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543) on this day in history.   

1625  Death of Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568) on June - 01.