Historical Events
Alaska Purchase
Jun 20 US President Andrew Johnson announces the Alaska Purchase
Famous Birthdays
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867-1951)
Jun 4 Finnish general and 6th President of Finland (1944-46), born in Askainen, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Jun 8 American architect (Guggenheim) recognized as "the greatest American architect of all time", born in Richland Center, Wisconsin
- Jun 11 Charles Fabry, French physicist, discoverer of ozone layer in upper atmosphere, born in Marseille, France (d. 1945)
- Jun 15 Konstantin Balmont, Russian writer, born in Gumnishchi, Shuya (d. 1945)
- Jun 17 Henry Lawson, Australian writer and poet (n the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses), born in Grenfell, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1922)
- Jun 17 John Robert Gregg, Irish-American inventor of a shorthand system Gregg Shorthand, born in Rockcorry, Ireland (d. 1948)
- Jun 19 Frank Iredale, Australian cricketer (Australian batsman 1894-99), born in Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1926)
- Jun 28 Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Six Characters in Search of An Author-Nobel 1934), born in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy (d. 1936)
- Jun 28 William Courtleigh, Canadian actor (The Birth of Character, Ashes, The Nightingale), born in Guelph, Ontario (d. 1930)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 1 Karl von Staudt, German mathematician (projective geometry), dies at 69
Maximilian I (1832-1867)
Jun 19 Austrian archduke and the 1st and only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire (1864-67), executed by firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro at 34
- Jun 22 Leopold Marquard, South African clergyman, missionary and educationist, dies at 80
