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 this day in history christo Botew, writer, dies  

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

1877  On June - 01 society of American Artists forms  

1878  On this day in history 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  1st pay telephone installed on June - 01.  

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

1881  Cholera in Egypt on June - 01.  

1881  Fifth cholera pandemic in India, Germany killing 9,000+ people on this day in history.  

1882  John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln) on this day in history.  

1885  Smallpox in Montreal killing 3,164 people on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1886  On June - 01 ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist  

1887  Clive Brook, London England, actor/director (List of Adrian Messenger) on this day in history.  

1888  On this day in history california gets its first seismograph  

1888  On June - 01 california gets its 1st seismograph  

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

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

1890  US census at 62,622,250 on June - 01.  

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

1892  On June - 01 amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28)  

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

1898  Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha on this day in history.  

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

1899  On June - 01 cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last  

1899  On this day in history werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY)  

1900  British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa on this day in history.  

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

1902  Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms on June - 01.  

1903  Percy William Whitlock, composer on June - 01.  

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

1905  On June - 01 dinora de Carvalho, composer  

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

1611  On this day in history birth of felician Schwab, composer  

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

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

1571  On this day in history 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 this day in history.