Historical Events
- Jun 1 Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
- Jun 1 Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico
- Jun 4 Van Bosse/Fock government begins
- Jun 9 1st meeting of Board of Regents, University of California
- Jun 10 2nd Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02
- Jun 13 Oscar Dunn becomes first African American to be elected a Lieutenant Governor, of Louisiana
- Jun 19 Major General E. R. S. Canby removes mayor of Columbia, South Carolina
- Jun 21 Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg" premieres in Munich
- Jun 22 Arkansas re-joins the US
Sholes and Glidden Typewriter
Jun 23 Christopher Latham Sholes patents the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful of its kind
- Jun 25 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina readmitted to US
- Jun 25 US President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 2 John Hope, American educator (President of Atlanta Baptist/Morehouse College,1906-36 and Atlanta University, 1929-36), born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1936)
- Jun 3 (Ivar) Henning Mankell, Swedish pianist and composer, born in Härnösand, Sweden (d. 1930)
- Jun 3 Aristides Agramonte y Simoni, Cuban-American Physician, Pathologist and Bacteriologist (yellow fever), born in Camagüey, Cuba (d. 1931)
- Jun 5 James Connolly, Irish socialist (founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Party), born in Cowgate, Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1916)
Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)
Jun 6 British explorer and leader of the ill-fated south pole expedition, born in Plymouth, England
- Jun 7 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator, born in Townhead, Glasgow (d. 1928)
- Jun 12 Sol White, American Baseball HOF executive (Philadelphia Giants 4 x consecutive black C'ships 1904–1907), born in Bellaire, Ohio (d. 1955)
- Jun 13 Wallace Sabine, American physicist (father of architectural acoustics), born in Richwood, Ohio (d. 1919) [1]
Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943)
Jun 14 Austrian immunologist and pathologist (Nobel 1930 for the discovery of different blood groups), born in Baden bei Wien, Austria-Hungary
- Jun 18 Miklós Horthy, Hungarian navy admiral, military leader, and statesman (Regent of Kingdom of Hungary, 1920-44), born in Kenderes, Austria-Hungary (d. 1957)
- Jun 19 Heinrich Schenker, Austrian musicologist (Urlinie) know for his Schenkerian analysis of music, born in Wisniowczyki, Austrian Galicia (now Vyshnivchyk, Ukraine) (d. 1935)
- Jun 20 Helen Miller Shepard, American philanthropist who established Hall of Fame, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1938)
- Jun 21 Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist, born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England (d. 1946)
- Jun 29 George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (discovery of magnetic fields in sunspot), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1938)
- Jun 30 C. V. France, British actor (The Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail), born in Bradford, England (d. 1949)
Famous Deaths
James Buchanan (1791-1868)
Jun 1 15th US President (1857-61), dies at 77
- Jun 5 Anselm Hüttenbrenner, Austrian composer, dies at 73
James Brooke (1803-1868)
Jun 9 British adventurer and 1st Rajah of Sarawak (1841-68), dies of a stroke at 65
- Jun 10 Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Serbia (1839-42,1860-68), murdered at 44
- Jun 22 Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (Church of the Latter Day Saints), dies at 67
- Jun 25 Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse), dies at 88
- Jun 25 Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist (bioelectricity), dies at 57
