Historical Events
1st National Health Insurance
Jun 15 Germany becomes the first country to introduce a national system of social and health insurance passing "The Act on Health Insurance for Blue-collar Workers" under Otto von Bismarck [1]
- Jun 16 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" - NY Gothams beat Cleveland Blues 5-2 at the Polo Grounds in NYC
- Jun 16 The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 2 Bokke R. S. Pollema, Dutch Frisian journalist, poet, and author (Lok en Lijen (Happiness and Suffering)), born in Makkum, Netherlands (d. 1948)
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
Jun 5 English economist whose ideas changed the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, born in Cambridge, England
- Jun 7 Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy, born in Chester, Pennsylvania (d. 1948)
- Jun 14 Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian New Testament scholar, born in Presles, Belgium (d. 1968)
- Jun 17 Alexandre Eugène Cellier, French organist and composer, born in Molières-sur-Cèze, France (d. 1968)
- Jun 20 Giannotto Bastianelli, Italian musician and composer, born in Fiesole, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1927)
- Jun 20 Jules Verstraete [Julien Gustave de Graef], Flemish actor (rubber, The Three Wishes), born in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1951)
- Jun 20 Leah Baird, American actress (Lady Gangster), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1971)
- Jun 21 Feodor Gladkov, Russian socialist writer (Cement), born in Bolshaya Chernavka, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1958)
- Jun 22 José Rolón, Mexican composer, born in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco (d. 1945)
Pierre Laval (1883-1945)
Jun 28 Prime Minister of France (1931-32 and 1935-36) and Head of Vichy France (1942-44), born in Châteldon, France
Famous Deaths
- Jun 6 Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer, dies at 29
- Jun 10 Carl Grädener, German cellist, conductor, teacher, and composer, dies at 71
- Jun 11 Antonio Cândido Gonçalves Crespo, Brazilian-born Portuguese poet, dies at 37
- Jun 12 John Randolph Tucker, American naval officer (Confederate Navy), dies at 71
- Jun 14 Edward FitzGerald, British poet, writer, and translator (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam), dies at 74
- Jun 20 Gustave Aimard, French world explorer and writer (Grande Filbuste), dies at 64
