Page 4: 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  Christo Botew, writer, dies on June - 01.   

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

1877  On this day in history society of American Artists forms   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

1881  Cholera in Egypt on this day in history.   

1881  On June - 01 fifth cholera pandemic in India, Germany killing 9,000+ people   

1882  On June - 01 john Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)   

1885  On this day in history smallpox in Montreal killing 3,164 people   

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 June - 01 amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28)   

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

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

1898  On this day in history curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)   

1899  Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last on this day in history.   

1899  On June - 01 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 this day in history.   

1902  Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms on this day in history.   

1903  Percy William Whitlock, composer on June - 01.   

1905  Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon on June - 01.   

1905  On this day in history dinora de Carvalho, composer   

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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 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 this day in history birth of geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)   

0193  On this day in history death of didius Julianus, ship owner/emperor of Rome (193), murdered at 61   

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

1340  On June - 01 jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies   

1434  On June - 01 jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies   

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

1571  Death of John Story, English Catholic on June - 01.   

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

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