Events in History
- Jun 12 Possibly the most severe quake in history strikes Assam, India, Shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (low mortality rate given size of earthquake, 1,500 casualties).
- Jun 15 Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
- Jun 16 A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later
- Jun 17 US State Department appoints New Jersey educator William Frank Powell as Envoy to Haiti, and Chargé d’Affaires for Dominican Republic
- Jun 19 Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends
- Jun 22 Bombay plague commissioner Walter Charles Rand shot by Chapekar brothers as protest against his extreme measures to combat city's plague epidemic (dies July 3)
- Jun 24 Hail injures 26 in Topeka, Kansas
- Jun 28 Marquis C de Bonchamps' expedition reaches Gore Ethiopia
Birthdays in History
- Jun 8 John G. Bennett, British scientist and author, born in London (d. 1974)
- Jun 10 Tatiana Nikolaevna, 2nd daughter of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, born in Peterhof Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1918)
- Jun 11 Bruno Frei [Benedikt Freistadt], Austrian Marxist journalist, born in Bratislava (d. 1988)
Anthony Eden (1897-1977)
Jun 12 British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1955-57) and Foreign Secretary, born in Rushyford, England
- Jun 16 Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
- Jun 22 Norbert Elias, English/Dutch philosopher (Process of Civilization)
- Jun 23 Winifred Wagner-William, German organizer (Wagner Festival)
- Jun 24 Daniel K. Ludwig, American shipping magnate (d. 1992)
- Jun 29 Fulgence Charpentier, French Canadian journalist, born in Sainte-Anne-de-Prescott, Ontario, Canada (d. 2001)
Deaths in History
- Jun 9 Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (Sirius B), dies 3 weeks after 1st use of Yerkes 40" lens at 64
- Jun 17 Sebastian Kneipp, Bavarian priest and naturopathist (known for "Kneipp Cure" form of hydrotherapy), dies at 76
- Jun 19 Charles Boycott, Irish estate manager (whose workers refused to work for him amid Irish rent and land issues, origin of the term "boycott"), dies at 65
- Jun 22 Ralph Abercromby, British meteorologist, dies at about 54
- Jun 25 Margaret Oliphant, Scottish novelist and biographer (Beleaguered City), dies at 69
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