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 June - 01 society of American Artists forms   

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

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  On this day in history bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange   

1881  Cholera in Egypt on June - 01.   

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

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

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 this day in history ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist   

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

1888  California gets its first seismograph on June - 01.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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  Amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28) on this day in history.   

1893  On this day in history opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)   

1898  On June - 01 trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha   

1898  Curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932) on June - 01.   

1899  On this day in history 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  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  Dinora de Carvalho, composer on June - 01.   

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1076  On this day in history 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  Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550) was born on June - 01.   

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

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 June - 01.   

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 June - 01.   

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

1434  On June - 01 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 June - 01.   

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.