Events in History
- Jun 2 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
- Jun 9 San Francisco Committee of Vigilance forms (1st time)
- Jun 15 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory
- Jun 22 Fire destroys part of San Francisco, including City Hall and Jenny Lind Theatre, city's seventh fire in 2 years
- Jun 30 Battle of Viervoet (Basotho-British war)
Birthdays in History
- Jun 8 Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist and inventor of the moving-coil D'Arsonval galvanometer, born in La Porcherie, France (d. 1940)
- Jun 9 Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921)
- Jun 12 Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist, early radio pioneer, born in Penkhull, England (d. 1940)
- Jun 21 Daniel Carter Beard, American author, social reformer and founder of the Boy Scouts of America, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1941)