Events in History
- Jun 3 John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party national convention chair
- Jun 5 William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected"
- Jun 16 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
- Jun 24 John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention
Birthdays in History
- Jun 5 Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (Manservant and Maidservant), born in Pinner, Middlesex, England (d. 1969)
- Jun 7 Julius P. Hoste, Belgium minister and daily newspaper publisher (Last News), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1954)
- Jun 10 Leone Sextus Tollemache, British Army captain who was incorrectly alleged to have the longest English surname on record (Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache), born in Lincolnshire, England (d. 1917)
- Jun 13 Anton Drexler, founder of the German Worker's Party (d. 1942)
- Jun 13 Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
- Jun 13 Etienne Gilson, French philosopher (d. 1978)
- Jun 17 Christina C Bakker-van Bosse, feminist/pacifist
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Jun 18 Edouard Daladier, 72nd Prime Minister of France (1933, 1934 and 1938-40) and PM at the start of World War II, born in Carpentras, Vaucluse, France (d. 1970)
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- Jun 19 Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer (d. 1974)
- Jun 21 Claude Auchinleck, British Army commander during the Second World War, born in Aldershot, Hampshire, England (d. 1981)
- Jun 25 Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-French art dealer and publisher, born in Mannheim, Germany (d. 1979)
- Jun 27 Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (La psychanalyse du feu), born in Bar-sur-Aube, France (d. 1962)
- Jun 28 Lamina Sankoh, Sierra Leonean pre-independence politician and nationalist, born in Freetown, Sierra Leone (d. 1964)
- Jun 30 Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)