Events in History
Event of Interest
Jun 2 Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission
- Jun 2 James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US
- Jun 4 Pacific Stock Exchange opens
- Jun 5 Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens in San Francisco
- Jun 6 Netherlands joins the gold standard
- Jun 7 California Rifle and Pistol Association founded
- Jun 19 Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio in San Francisco.
- Jun 19 The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins
- Jun 22 Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun & Toulouse, kills about 1,000
Birthdays in History
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
Jun 6 German novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929), born in Lübeck, Germany
- Jun 9 Henry Dale, English physiologist (Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology 1936), born in London, England (d. 1968)
- Jun 13 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson, US politician, 1st US elected woman governor, Governor of Texas (1925-27, 1933-35), born in Bell County, Texas (d. 1961)
- Jun 17 Philipp Abraham Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher and physicist, born in Bonn, Germany (d. 1951)
- Jun 20 Othenio Able, Austrian artist, fossil creator and founder of paleobiology, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1946)
- Jun 23 Carl Milles, Uppsala Sweden, fountain sculptor (Wedding of Rivers)
- Jun 28 Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (Lebesgue integration), born in Beauvais, Oise, France (d. 1941)
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