Historical Events
- Jun 1 It snows in Buffalo and Rochester, NY, & Cleveland, Ohio
Sojourner Truth Hears the Spirit
Jun 1 Sojourner Truth hears the Spirit of God and changes her name from Isabella Baumfree, leaving NY to begin travelling giving speeches against slavery [1]
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 1 Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
- Jun 3 Frederik VIII, King of Denmark (1906-12), born in Yellow Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1912)
- Jun 5 Samuel Garman, American zoologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and namesake of a Jamaican lizard, born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania (d. 1927)
Susan Blow (1843-1916)
Jun 7 American educator who pioneered kindergarten education and was known as the "Mother of the Kindergarten", born in St. Louis, Missouri
- Jun 9 Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist (1st woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905), born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1914)
- Jun 10 Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1900)
- Jun 15 Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (Bewitched One), born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1907)
- Jun 16 David Popper, Bohemian composer and cellist, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1913)
- Jun 16 Jan Malát, Czech composer, pedagogue, and musicologist, born in Starý Bydžov, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1915)
- Jun 19 Charles-Édouard Lefebvre, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1917)
- Jun 30 Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat and scholar, born in Clapton, London, England (d. 1929)
