June 1893 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jun 7 Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.

Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi

Jun 16 German-American F.W. Rueckheim introduces "Cracker Jack" brand snack food consisting of caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts

Murder of Interest

Jun 20 Lizzie Borden acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts

Jun 21 1st Ferris wheel opens at Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois
Jun 22 British fleet under Vice Admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut
Jun 27 Great stock crash on NY stock exchange
Jun 30 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) then world's largest, discovered in Jagersfontein Mine, South Africa

Birthdays in History

Jun 4 Armand Călinescu, Prime Minister of Romania, born in Piteşti, Romania (d. 1939)
Jun 4 Daan Boens, Flemish poet (Man who sold his Wife), born in Ostend, Belgium (d. 1977)
Jun 13 Dorothy L. Sayers, English novelist (The Nine Tailors), born in Oxford, England (d. 1957)
Jun 19 Adriaan Franciscus Dussenbroek, Dutch doctor and co-founder (Union National Arubano), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1965)
Jun 29 Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet and resistance fighter, born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1945)

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972)

Jun 29 Indian scientist and applied statistician (Mahalanobis distance), whose birthdate is celebrated annually in India as "National Statistics Day", born in Calcutta, Bengal, British India

Jun 30 Harold Laski, English economist and Labour Party leader (1945-46), born in Manchester, England (d. 1950)

Walter Ulbricht (1893-1973)

Jun 30 German politician (Head Of State, German Democratic Republic), born in Leipzig, Saxony, German Empire

Deaths in History

Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893)

Jun 5 American-Canadian publisher and anti-slavery campaigner, 1st African American newspaper publisher, dies of stomach cancer at 69

Leland Stanford (1824-1893)

Jun 21 American business tycoon (Southern Pacific Railroad), 8th Governor of California and founder of Stanford University, dies of heart failure at 69