Events in History
- Jun 1 US census at 62,622,250
- Jun 6 United States Polo Association forms, NYC
- Jun 13 Eagle Avenue in the Bronx is cut out and named
- Jun 23 In an effort to solve the "Uitlander" grievances regarding voting rights, President of Transvaal Paul Kruger institutes a Second Volksraad, responsible for controlling local matters
Event of Interest
Jun 27 Cecil Rhodes' colonists attack Motlousi in Matabeleland
Cecil Rhodes
Birthdays in History
- Jun 6 Dorothy Heyward, American playwright (Porgy), born in NYC, New York (d. 1961)
- Jun 10 Paul J M Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author
- Jun 12 Egon Schiele, Austrian painter and graphic artist, born in Tulln an der Donau, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1918)
- Jun 15 Georg Wüst, Posen, German Oceanographer who provided the first complete understanding of the temperature, salinity and deep-current structure of the Atlantic Ocean
- Jun 21 Frank Sherman Land, founder of the Order of DeMolay, born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1959)
- Jun 25 Hans Marchwitza, German writer and communist, born in Scharley, Upper Silesia (d. 1965)