Historical Events In June - 01

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

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 this day in history.   

1876  Christo Botew, writer, dies on this day in history.   

1877  On this day in history uS troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico   

1877  Society of American Artists forms on this day in history.   

1878  On this day in history john Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads)   

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 June - 01.   

1881  On this day in history cholera in Egypt   

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

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

1885  Smallpox in Montreal killing 3,164 people on this day in history.   

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

1887  Clive Brook, London England, actor/director (List of Adrian Messenger) on June - 01.   

1888  California gets its first seismograph on June - 01.   

1888  On June - 01 california gets its 1st seismograph   

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

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

1890  On June - 01 uS census at 62,622,250   

1890  Frank Morgan, [Francis P Wupperman], NYC, actor (Annie Get Your Gun) on this day in history.   

1892  Amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28) on June - 01.   

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

1898  On this day in history trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha   

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

1899  Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last on June - 01.   

1899  On this day in history werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY)   

1900  On June - 01 british army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa   

1901  On this day in history john W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama)   

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

1903  On June - 01 percy William Whitlock, composer   

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

1905  Dinora de Carvalho, composer on June - 01.   

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1076  Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132) was born on this day in history.   

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  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  Felician Schwab, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1191  Philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies on June - 01.   

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 this day in history death of duke of Alva, & 18 nobles, beheaded   

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

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

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