What Happened in June 1869

Historical Events


InventionHistoric Invention

Jun 1 Thomas Edison granted his first patent for the Electric Vote Recorder (U.S. Patent 90,646)

Inventor Thomas Edison
Inventor
Thomas Edison
  • Jun 2 Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game (vs Cincinnati Red Stockings)
  • Jun 5 3rd Belmont: C Miller aboard Fenian wins in 3:04.25
  • Jun 8 Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents the 1st vacuum cleaner, calls it a "sweeping machine"

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Jun 9 Charles E. Hires sells his 1st root beer, in Philadelphia

Pharmacist and Root Beer Brewer Charles E. Hires
Pharmacist and Root Beer Brewer
Charles E. Hires
  • Jun 10 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
  • Jun 15 World's 1st plastic Celluloid is patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY
  • Jun 15 Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout

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Jun 21 William James passes his medical examination

Father of American psychology William James
Father of American psychology
William James
  • Jun 28 Amsterdam typographer strike

Famous Birthdays

  • Jun 2 Jack O'Connor, baseball player (d. 1937)
  • Jun 3 Maria Radulphus, inspector on Curacao (Radulphus College)
  • Jun 4 Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Vlaanderen
  • Jun 6 Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer and conductor, born in Tribschen, Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 1930)
  • Jun 10 Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary/headed La Gazette
  • Jun 13 Ede Poldini, Hungarian composer (La poupée valsante), born in Pest (d. 1957)
  • Jun 22 Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (AR 1933-39)
  • Jun 26 Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (Pelle Erobreren), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1954)
  • Jun 27 Emma Goldman, American anarchist and publisher (Mother Earth), born in Kovno, Lithuania, Russian Empire (d. 1940)
  • Jun 27 Kate Carew [Mary Williams], American caricaturist, born in Oakland, California (d. 1961)
  • Jun 27 Hans Spemann, German embryologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1935), born in Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1941)

Famous Weddings


HeartWedding of Interest

Jun 3 Composer Georges Bizet (30) weds Genevieve Halevy

Composer Georges Bizet
Composer
Georges Bizet

Famous Deaths

  • Jun 15 Albert Grisar, composer, dies at 60
  • Jun 16 Charles Sturt, English explorer (Australia), dies at 74
  • Jun 20 Toshizou Hijikata, Shinsengumi vice-commander (b. 1835)