Historical Events
- Jun 10 Chicago Tribune begins publishing
Bunsen Burner
Jun 14 Robert Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
First Photo of Lightning?
Jun 18 American photographer Thomas Martin Easterly takes the earliest known photograph of lightning using the daguerreotype process in St. Louis, Missouri [1]
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 6 Gerben Postma, Frisian-Dutch poet (Swealtsjeblommen - Swallowtail Flowers) and lexicograper (Lytse Fryske Spraekleare - Little Frisian Language Learner), born in Dantumawâld, Netherlands (d. 1925)
- Jun 8 Ida McKinley, US First Lady (1897-1901) and wife of the 25th US President William McKinley, born in Canton, Ohio (d. 1907)
- Jun 11 Millicent Fawcett, English leader of women's rights, born in London (d. 1929)
- Jun 24 Gaston Salvayre, French composer, born in Toulouse, France (d. 1916)
- Jun 28 Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Icelandic composer (Lofsöngur - National Anthem of Iceland), born in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland (d. 1927)
- Jun 30 Jacob Theodoor Cremer, Dutch tobacco magnate and administrator for the Deli Company in Sumatra, born in Zwolle, Netherlands (d. 1923)
