Historical Events In June - 01

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

1875  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 on this day in history.  

1876  On June - 01 christo Botew, writer, dies  

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 this day in history john Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads)  

1879  On this day in history napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.  

1880  1st pay telephone installed on June - 01.  

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

1881  On this day in history cholera in Egypt  

1881  Fifth cholera pandemic in India, Germany killing 9,000+ people on June - 01.  

1882  On this day in history john Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)  

1885  Smallpox in Montreal killing 3,164 people on June - 01.  

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  Ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist on this day in history.  

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 this day in history 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  1890 flu pandemic in Worldwide killing 1 million people on June - 01.  

1890  On June - 01 uS census at 62,622,250  

1890  Frank Morgan, [Francis P Wupperman], NYC, actor (Annie Get Your Gun) on June - 01.  

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

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  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 this day in history.  

1900  British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa on June - 01.  

1901  On this day in history john W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama)  

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

1903  On this day in history percy William Whitlock, composer  

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

1905  On June - 01 dinora de Carvalho, composer  

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1076  On June - 01 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 this day in history.  

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 June - 01.  

1563  On June - 01 birth of robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister (1598-1612)  

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 June - 01.  

1340  Jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies on June - 01.  

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

1568  Death of Duke of Alva, & 18 nobles, beheaded on this day in history.  

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

1616  On June - 01 death of tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)  

1625  On June - 01 death of honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)