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 June - 01.   

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

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  On this day in history 1st pay telephone installed   

1881  Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange on this day in history.   

1881  Cholera in Egypt on June - 01.   

1881  On this day in history fifth cholera pandemic in India, Germany killing 9,000+ people   

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 June - 01.   

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

1887  Clive Brook, London England, actor/director (List of Adrian Messenger) on June - 01.   

1888  California gets its first seismograph on June - 01.   

1888  California gets its 1st seismograph on June - 01.   

1889  On this day in history europe's Orient Express completes arrangements for travel between Paris and Constantinople without change of train   

1889  On this day in history 1890 flu pandemic in Worldwide killing 1 million people   

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

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

1892  On this day in history amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28)   

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

1898  Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha on June - 01.   

1898  On June - 01 curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)   

1899  On June - 01 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  On this day in history john W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama)   

1902  On this day in history blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms   

1903  Percy William Whitlock, composer on this day in history.   

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

1905  On this day in history dinora de Carvalho, composer   

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

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 June - 01 birth of tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550)   

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

1549  On June - 01 birth of allesandre Spontone, composer   

1563  On June - 01 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  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  On June - 01 jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies   

1434  Jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies on this day in history.   

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

1625  On this day in history death of honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)