What Happened in June 1877

Historical Events

  • Jun 1 Society of American Artists forms
  • Jun 1 US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
  • Jun 9 11th Belmont: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:46

1st African American Graduates West Point

Jun 15 Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy

Battle of White Bird Canyon

Jun 17 Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon - the Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory

  • Jun 21 The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons

Famous Birthdays

  • Jun 3 Raoul Dufy, French Fauvist painter (Palm), born in Le Havre, France (d. 1953)
  • Jun 4 Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist (bile acids-Nobel 1927), born in Pforzheim, Baden, Germany (d. 1957)
  • Jun 5 Johan Willem Albarda, 1st Dutch socialist minister (1939-45), born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1957)
  • Jun 7 Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist (1917 Nobel Prize for Physics for X-ray scattering), born in Widnes, England (d. 1944)
  • Jun 9 Rudolf Borchardt, German writer, born in Königsberg, Germany (d. 1945)
  • Jun 11 Renee Vivien, English-born poet, wrote in French, born in London (d. 1909)
  • Jun 12 Thomas C. Hart, U.S. admiral and commander (Pacific Fleet), born in Davison, Michigan (d. 1971)
  • Jun 13 Joseph Stella, Italian-American futurist Painter (Brooklyn Bridge), born in Muro Lucano, Italy (d. 1946) [1]
  • Jun 14 Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano, born in Paris, France (d. 1970)
  • Jun 17 Russell Simpson, American actor (San Francisco, Abraham Lincoln), born in Danville, California (d. 1959)
  • Jun 18 James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator ("I want you" Uncle Sam), born in Pelham, New York (d. 1960)
  • Jun 19 Charles Coburn, American actor (Around the World in 80 Days, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1961)
  • Jun 23 Blair Fairchild, American composer and diplomat, born in Belmont, Massachusetts (d. 1933)
  • Jun 23 Hermann Stephani, German organist, and musicologist, born in Grimma, German Empire (d. 1960)
  • Jun 24 Aleksei M. Remizov, Russian writer (Iveren), born in Moscow (d. 1957)

Famous Deaths

  • Jun 3 Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo while travelling with Stanley
  • Jun 3 Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (Köchel catalogue of Mozart's works), dies of cancer at 77
  • Jun 3 Sophie of Württemberg, Queen of Netherlands as wife of William III, dies at 58
  • Jun 5 Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca tribe Chief Standing Bear, dies during forced removal to Oklahoma Indian Reservation
  • Jun 7 Winand Staring, Dutch geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68
  • Jun 9 Hugh W. Mercer, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 68