What Happened in June 1882

Historical Events

Jun 2 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza returns from his travels in the Congo and Gabon to a great welcome in France

Jun 5 Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die
Jun 6 Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay, India) drowns 100,000 (disputed event)
Jun 6 Electric iron patented by New York inventor Henry W. Seely. It weighed almost 15 pounds and was very slow to heat up.
Jun 6 Ethiopia: Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
Jun 8 16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43
Jun 10 Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
Jun 16 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
Jun 17 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
Jun 24 National League expels umpire Richard Higham from baseball for dishonesty after his links with gambling on games are confirmed

Jun 1 John Drinkwater, English poet and playwright (Abraham Lincoln), born in Leytonstone, Essex (d. 1937)
Jun 4 Karl Valentin, Bavarian comedian and film producer, born in Munich (d. 1948)
Jun 9 Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter (1909 Olympics), born in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland (d. 1963)
Jun 10 Neville Henderson, British diplomat and Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Nazi Germany (1937-39), born in Sedgwick, Sussex, England (d. 1942)
Jun 14 Ion Antonescu, Romanian soldier and authoritarian politician (1940-1944), born in Argeș County, Romania (d. 1946)
Jun 14 Michael Zadora, American pianist and composer, born in New York City (d. 1946)
Jun 16 Josef Christiaens, Belgian auto racer (first foreigner to enter Indianapolis Motor Speedway "Harvest Classic"), born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium (d. 1919)

Jun 16 Prime Minister of Iran (1951-53) who was overthrown in a coup d'état aided by the CIA and the British SIS, born in Tehran, Persia

Jun 17 Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, born in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (d. 1918)

Jun 17 New Zealand father of modern plastic surgery who pioneered skin graft techniques on injured soldiers in WWI, born in Dunedin, New Zealand [1]

Jun 17 Russian composer (Le Sacre du Printemps - The Rite of Spring; The Firebird), born in Oranienbaum, Russia

Jun 18 Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader (Prime Minister 1946-49), born in Kovachevtsi, Bulgaria (d. 1949)
Jun 21 Lluís Companys, Spanish politician, 123rd President of the Generalitat of Catalonia (1933-40), born in El Tarròs, Urgell, Catalonia, Spain (d. 1940)
Jun 21 Rockwell Kent, American artist, painter and illustrator (Canterbury Tales), born in Tarrytown, New York (d. 1971)
Jun 24 Athanase David, Canadian politician and businessman (d. 1953)
Jun 24 Carl Diem, German Olympic official (d. 1962)
Jun 27 Eduard Spranger, German psychologist and educator, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1963)

Jun 2 Italian general and nationalist (Risorgimento) who helped unify Italy, dies at 74

Jun 3 Christian Wilberg, German painter, dies at 42
Jun 11 Louis Désiré Maigret, French Catholic prelate, dies at 77
Jun 24 Joseph Joachim Raff, German opera composer (Cavatine), dies at 60
Jun 25 François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
Jun 30 Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman, dies at 55

Jun 30 American assassin of US President James A. Garfield, hanged at 40