Historical Events In June - 01

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

1875  On this day in history 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 June - 01.   

1879  On June - 01 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  On June - 01 cholera in Egypt   

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 June - 01.   

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 June - 01.   

1886  Ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist on this day in history.   

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

1888  On June - 01 california gets its first seismograph   

1888  On this day in history california gets its 1st seismograph   

1889  On this day in history europe's Orient Express completes arrangements for travel between Paris and Constantinople without change of train   

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  Amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28) on June - 01.   

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

1898  Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha on June - 01.   

1898  On June - 01 curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)   

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

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

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

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 this day in history.   

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1076  On this day in history 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 June - 01.   

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  On this day in history birth of robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister (1598-1612)   

1611  On this day in history birth of felician Schwab, composer   

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 this day in history.   

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 June - 01.   

1434  Jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1625  On June - 01 death of honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)