Historical Events In June - 05

1863  CSS "Alabama" captures the "Tailsman" in the Mid Atlantic on June - 05.   

1863  On this day in history battle of Franklin's Crossing, VA (Deep Run)   

1863  On June - 05 arthur Somervell, composer   

1864  On June - 05 battle of Piedmont, VA (Augusta City)   

1864  William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Conf brig-gen, dies in battle at 39 on June - 05.   

1868  Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer, dies at 73 on June - 05.   

1869  3rd Belmont: C Miller aboard Fenian wins in 3:04.25 on June - 05.   

1870  On June - 05 constantinople in fire; 900 die   

1872  On this day in history republican National Convention meets (Phila)   

1873  Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar on this day in history.   

1874  On June - 05 jack Chesbro, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees   

1875  On this day in history pacific Stock Exchange formally opens   

1876  On this day in history bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Phila   

1877  Johan W Albarda, 1st Dutch socialist minister (1939-45) on June - 05.   

1878  On June - 05 the birth of Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary   

1878  On June - 05 franklyn Farnum, actor (Cowboy & Bandit, Scarlet Car, Frontier Days)   

1879  On June - 05 13th Belmont: George Evans aboard Spendthrift wins in 2:42.75   

1879  On this day in history adolf Wiklund, composer   

1880  Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Betuwsche Novellen), dies at 52 on this day in history.   

1882  On this day in history the birth of Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer and conductor   

1882  On June - 05 storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die   

1882  Igor F Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) [OS] on June - 05.   

1883  John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge England, economist/math/journalist on this day in history.   

1884  William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected" on June - 05.   

1884  On June - 05 ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist   

1885  On June - 05 j Palisa discovers asteroid #248 Lameia   

1885  Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French Foreign minister (-1940) on June - 05.   

1885  On June - 05 julius Benedict, composer (Protoghesi), dies at 80   

1886  On this day in history 20th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Inspector B wins in 2:41   

1887  Ruth Benedict, US, anthropologist (Patterns of Culture) on June - 05.   

1888  On this day in history democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president   

1888  Raden Mas Nato Suroto, Indonesia, poet (Melatiknoppen) on this day in history.   

1892  On June - 05 alexander Loudon, diplomat (Washington)   

1894  On this day in history immanuel Faisst, composer, dies at 70   

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1341  On this day in history birth of edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)   

1493  Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555) was born on this day in history.   

1523  Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1573) was born on this day in history.   

1553  On this day in history birth of bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)   

1554  On June - 05 birth of elisabeth of Austria, queen consort of France (d. 1592)   

1640  On this day in history birth of pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)   

1646  On June - 05 birth of elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)   

1660  Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744) was born on June - 05.   

0535  On this day in history death of epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople   

0754  Boniface, [Winfrid], English saint/archbishop (Dokkum), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1017  Death of Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 976) on June - 05.   

1118  On this day in history death of robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester   

1288  Hendrik VI, earl of Luxembourg/Laroche (1281-88), dies in battle on this day in history.   

1296  On this day in history death of edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)   

1383  On this day in history death of dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)   

1443  Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies on June - 05.