Page 4: Historical Events In June - 01

1875  Ceremony of turning the inaugural 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   

1877  US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico   

1877  Society of American Artists forms.   

1878  John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads)   

1879  Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War   

1880  1st pay telephone installed.   

1881  Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange   

1881  Fifth cholera pandemic in India, Germany killing 9000+ people.   

1882  John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)   

1885  Smallpox in Montreal killing 3164 people   

1886  The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31.   

1886  Ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist   

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

1888  California gets its inaugural seismograph.   

1888  California gets its 1st seismograph   

1889  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   

1890  US census at 62622250   

1890  Frank Morgan, [Francis P Wupperman], NYC, actor (Annie Get Your Gun)   

1892  Amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28)   

1893  Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)   

1898  Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha.   

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

1899  Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes and Victor Trumper in Grace's last.   

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

1900  British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa   

1901  John W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama)   

1902  Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms.   

1903  Percy William Whitlock, composer.   

1905  Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon   

1905  Dinora de Carvalho, composer.   

1907  -27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record).   

1907  Frank A Whittle, England inventor (jet engine)   

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1076  Mstislav i of kiev: Mstislav i of kiev (d. 1132)   

1300  Thomas of brotherton: 1st earl of norfolk, son of edward i of england   

1480  Tiedemann giese: Polish catholic bishop   

1503  Wilhelm von grumbach: German lt col   

1549  Allesandre spontone: Composer   

1563  Robert cecil: Earl of salisbury, english prime minister (1598-1612)   

1611  Felician schwab: Composer   

1633  Geminiano montanari: Italian astronomer   

0193  Death of Didius julianus: Ship owner/emperor of rome (193), murdered at 61   

1191  Death of Philips van de elzas: Count of vlanderen,   

1340  Jan iii van: Jan iii van   

1434  Death of Jagiello: King of lithuania/poland,   

1568  Death of Duke of alva: & 18 nobles, beheaded   

1571  John story: English catholic   

1616  Death of Tokugawa ieyasu: Tokugawa ieyasu (b. 1543)   

1625  Honoré d'urfé: French writer (b. 1568)