What Happened in June 1873

Historical Events

  • Jun 2 Construction begins on Clay St (San Francisco) for world's 1st cable railroad
  • Jun 4 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrive in Suriname
  • Jun 5 Sultan Bargash bin Said under British pressure closes the infamous slave market of Zanzibar in modern day Tanzania
  • Jun 7 7th Belmont: James Roe aboard Springbok wins in 3:01.75
  • Jun 9 Alexandra Palace in London burns down, after being open for only 16 days

Lord Raleigh Elected to Royal Society

Jun 12 Physicist and mathematician John William Strutt [Lord Raleigh] elected fellow of the Royal Society

Grant Decree for Nez Perce

Jun 16 US President Ulysses Grant decrees a portion of Wallowa Valley, Oregon for the Native American tribe Nez Perce. Order is rescinded two years later and the tribe is forcibly re-located to Oklahoma.

Susan B. Anthony Fined for Voting

Jun 18 Susan B. Anthony fined $100 ($2,200 in 2020 value) for voting for US President in Rochester, New York; she refused to pay and no further action against her was taken


Famous Birthdays

  • Jun 1 Ada Jane Jones, English-American popular singer, among the earliest female singers to be recorded, born in Lancashire, England (d. 1922)
  • Jun 3 Otto Loewi, German physician (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1936), born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (d. 1961)
  • Jun 6 Paul Keller, German writer (Ferien vom Ich), born in Arnsdorf, Lower Silesia, Germany (d. 1932)
  • Jun 7 Landon Ronald, British composer, pianist and teacher (Guildhall School of Music), born in Kensington, London (d. 1938)
  • Jun 16 Antonina Nezhdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto), born in Kryva Balka, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1950)
  • Jun 21 H. M. Tomlinson, British writer (Sea & Jungle), born in London (d. 1958)
  • Jun 24 Thomas Carl Whitmer, American composer, born in Altoona, Pennsylvania (d. 1959)
  • Jun 28 Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, sociologist and biologist (Nobel 1912), born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France (d. 1944)
  • Jun 29 Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (African cultures), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1938)

Famous Deaths

  • Jun 1 Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (3rd Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia), dies at 68
  • Jun 2 François George-Hainl, French cellist and composer, dies at 65
  • Jun 13 Angelo Mariani, Italian composer, dies at 51
  • Jun 14 Friedrich von Raumer, German historian, travel writer (Italy and the Italians) and politician, dies at 92
  • Jun 27 Hiram Powers, American sculptor (Greek Slave), dies at 67
  • Jun 29 Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)