Historical Events In June - 01

1872  6th Belmont: James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58.25 on June - 01.  

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 June - 01.  

1876  On this day in history christo Botew, writer, dies  

1877  US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico on June - 01.  

1877  On June - 01 society of American Artists forms  

1878  John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads) on June - 01.  

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

1880  On this day in history 1st pay telephone installed  

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

1881  Cholera in Egypt on June - 01.  

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

1882  John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln) on June - 01.  

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

1886  On this day in history 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 June - 01.  

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

1888  On this day in history california gets its first seismograph  

1888  California gets its 1st seismograph on this day in history.  

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 this day in history uS census at 62,622,250  

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

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 this day in history.  

1898  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1900  On this day in history british army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa  

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

1905  On June - 01 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  Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550) was born on June - 01.  

1503  Wilhelm von Grumbach, German lt col was born on this day in history.  

1549  On June - 01 birth of allesandre Spontone, composer  

1563  Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister (1598-1612) was born on June - 01.  

1611  Felician Schwab, composer was born on this day in history.  

1633  Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687) was born on June - 01.  

0193  On June - 01 death of didius Julianus, ship owner/emperor of Rome (193), murdered at 61  

1191  On June - 01 philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies  

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

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

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

1571  Death of John Story, English Catholic on this day in history.  

1616  Death of Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543) on this day in history.  

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