Events in History
Event of Interest
Jun 1 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
Event of Interest
Jun 8 US President Theodore Roosevelt sends identical notes to Japan and Russia urging them to negotiate and end hostilities, offering his personal services
Event of Interest
Jun 30 Conservative Australian Prime Minister George H. Reid is forced to resign and Alfred Deakin returns to power on July 5
- Jun 30 In Russia, the "Potemkin" arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the '1905 Revolution'
- Jun 30 The crew of the Russian battleship "Georgei Pobiedonosets" mutinies in support of the "Potemkin", which mutinied three days earlier
Birthdays in History
- Jun 3 Martin Gottfried Weiss, German commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946, by execution)
- Jun 8 Brian Coffey, Irish poet (Avent), born in Dublin (d. 1995)
- Jun 11 Richard Loeb, American murderer of Bobby Franks along with Nathan Leopold, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1936)
- Jun 13 Chen Yun, Chinese political leader during and after the Chinese Civil War, considered one of the Eight Elders of the Communist Party of China, born in Qingpu, Shanghai, China (d. 1995)
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)
Jun 20 American playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Jun 21 French existentialist philosopher and writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined), born in Paris
- Jun 23 Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
- Jun 26 Jack Longland, British director of education (Derbyshire), born in London (d. 1993)
- Jun 26 Jan Louis Guillaume Doornik, Dutch resistance fighter in France, born in Paris (d. 1941)
- Jun 27 Ruby Middleton Forsythe, African-American teacher (50 years in 1 room school in SC), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1992)
- Jun 29 Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, Anglican bishop of Zululand and Swaziland, born in South Africa (d. 1988)
- Jun 29 Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet and publisher (La lenta libertad), born in Málaga, Spain (d. 1959)
Weddings in History
- Jun 15 Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden.
Deaths in History
- Jun 13 Theodoros Delyannis, premier Greece, murdered
- Jun 13 Tippo-Tip [Hamed ben Mohammed], Zanzibar merchant, dies at about 67
- Jun 15 Hermann Wissmann, German African explorer and governor of East-Africa,, dies at 51
- Jun 18 Hermann Lingg, German poet and playwright, dies at 85
- Jun 22 Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
- Jun 30 John Hay, US politician (secretary of State and private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, dies at 66
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