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

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 June - 01 napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.  

1880  On this day in history 1st pay telephone installed  

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

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

1886  On June - 01 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 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  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  

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 this day in history.  

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

1898  On this day in history trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha  

1898  On June - 01 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 June - 01 british army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa  

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

1902  On June - 01 blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms  

1903  On June - 01 percy William Whitlock, composer  

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

1905  On this day in history dinora de Carvalho, composer  

1907  On June - 01 -27ø F (-33ø C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)  

1907  On this day in history -27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)  

1907  On June - 01 frank A Whittle, England inventor (jet engine)  

1908  John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days on this day in history.  

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1076  On June - 01 birth of mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)  

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 June - 01 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  Felician Schwab, composer was born on this day in history.  

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 June - 01.  

1191  Philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies on this day in history.  

1340  Jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies on this day in history.  

1434  On this day in history jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies  

1568  Death of Duke of Alva, & 18 nobles, beheaded on June - 01.  

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

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

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