Events in History
- Jun 2 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
War Breaks Out Behind Uncle Tom's Cabin
Jun 5 Anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in serial form in "The National Era"
- 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 forces led by Moshoeshoe defeat the British over the British imposed Walden line
Birthdays in History
- Jun 2 Sophus Tromholt, Norwegian astrophysicist and photographer (photographed Sami people), (d. 1896) [1]
- Jun 6 Angelo Moriondo, Italian inventor (patented earliest known espresso machine, 1884), born in Turin, Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia (now Italy) (d. 1914)
- 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, American Lawyer and political activist (US Attorney General (1906-9), born in Baltimore, Maryland (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)
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