Events in History
Anglo-Zulu War
Jun 1 Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed serving with British forces in the Anglo-Zulu War. He is buried in Farnborough, Hampshire.
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- Jun 16 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC
- Jun 18 W. H. Richardson, an African-American inventor, patents the children's carriage (Patent no. 405599)
- Jun 21 Frank W. Woolworth opens his 1st successful "F. W. Woolworth Great Five Cent Store" on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Jun 26 Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt
- Jun 30 Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full of stolen goods
Birthdays in History
- Jun 2 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam)
- Jun 3 Pieter J A Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer
- Jun 3 Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
- Jun 4 Mabel Lucie Attwell, English children's author and illustrator, born in Mile End, London (d. 1964)
- Jun 5 Robert Mayer, German-born businessman and philanthropist, born in Mannheim, Germany (d. 1985)
- Jun 6 Patrick Abercrombie, English architect and town planner, born in Ashton upon Mersey, Cheshire, England (d. 1957)
- Jun 7 Knud J. V. Rasmussen, Danish pole explorer (Thule), born in Jakobshavn, North Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark (d. 1933)
- Jun 7 Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer, born in Madioen, Java (d. 1963)
- Jun 9 Oscar Back, Austrian-Dutch viola player
- Jun 13 Johannes Geelkerken, Dutch theologian and vicar, born in Alkmaar, Netherlands (d. 1960)
- Jun 16 Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Novel Law)
- Jun 16 Theo[dorus J] Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees the boy)
- Jun 21 Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist and illustrator (Candide), born in Montemurlo, Italy (d. 1949)
- Jun 22 Thibaudeau Rinfret, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1962)
- Jun 23 William Ewart Berry, 1st viscount Camrose/English nobleman