Historical Events In June - 01

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

1875  On June - 01 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 June - 01 christo Botew, writer, dies  

1877  On June - 01 uS troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico  

1877  On June - 01 society of American Artists forms  

1878  John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads) on this day in history.  

1879  On June - 01 napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.  

1880  1st pay telephone installed on June - 01.  

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

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

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  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  On this day in history california gets its first seismograph  

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

1889  Europe's Orient Express completes arrangements for travel between Paris and Constantinople without change of train 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  On this day in history amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28)  

1893  On June - 01 opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)  

1898  Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha on this day in history.  

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

1899  On June - 01 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 June - 01.  

1901  John W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama) on June - 01.  

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

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

1905  On this day in history lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon  

1905  Dinora de Carvalho, composer on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1908  On this day in history john Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days  

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

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

1549  On this day in history 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 June - 01 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 June - 01 jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies  

1568  On June - 01 death of duke of Alva, & 18 nobles, beheaded  

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

1616  Death of Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543) on June - 01.  

1625  Death of Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568) on this day in history.