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 this day in history christo Botew, writer, dies   

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

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 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 June - 01.   

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 June - 01 smallpox in Montreal killing 3,164 people   

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  On June - 01 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.   

1889  On June - 01 1890 flu pandemic in Worldwide killing 1 million people   

1890  US census at 62,622,250 on June - 01.   

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  Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin) on this day in history.   

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

1898  Curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932) on this day in history.   

1899  On this day in history cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last   

1899  Werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY) on this day in history.   

1900  British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa on this day in history.   

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

1902  On this day in history blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms   

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  Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132) was born on June - 01.   

1300  On June - 01 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 June - 01 birth of wilhelm von Grumbach, German lt col   

1549  Allesandre Spontone, composer was born on this day in history.   

1563  Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister (1598-1612) was born on June - 01.   

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

1633  Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687) was born on June - 01.   

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

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

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

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

1616  On this day in history death of tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)   

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