What Happened in June 1786

Historical Events

  • Jun 8 Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr Hall in NYC)
  • Jun 10 A landslide dam on the Dadu River caused by earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China
  • Jun 29 Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario

Famous Birthdays

  • Jun 13 Winfield Scott, American army general (Union) and presidential candidate, born in Petersburg, Virginia (d. 1866)
  • Jun 20 Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (Bouquets et prières), born in Douai, France (d. 1859)

Famous Deaths

Nathanael Greene (1742-1786)

Jun 19 American military leader (major general during the American Revolutionary War), dies at 43