Events in History
- Jun 3 Belgian King Leopold II claims Congo as his private possession
- Jun 5 Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet
- Jun 6 Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz)
- Jun 7 Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
- Jun 9 Boston Beaneaters (NL) end 19-game losing streak beat Cards 6-3
- Jun 14 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
- Jun 22 Haakon VII crowned King of Norway
- Jun 27 The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) established in London with Lord Kelvin as President to standardize electrical units and terms [1]
- Jun 29 US Congress pass the Hepburn Act, permitting the regulation of rates charged by railroads, pipelines, and terminals engaged in interstate commerce
- Jun 30 John Hope becomes 1st black president of Atlanta Baptist College (later known as Morehouse College)
Event of Interest
Jun 30 US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' in particular)
Birthdays in History
- Jun 5 John Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale, British soldier and businessman (d. 1993)
- Jun 6 Max August Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn), born in Krefeld, Rhenish Prussia, Germany (d. 1993)
- Jun 12 Sandro Penna, Italian poet, born in Perugia, Italy (d. 1977)
- Jun 13 Bruno de Finetti, Italian probabilist statistician and actuary, born in Innsbruck, Austria-Hungary (d. 1985)
- Jun 15 Léon Degrelle, Belgian Walloon Rexist Party leader, and Nazi collaborator, born in Bouillon, Belgium (d. 1994)
- Jun 15 Louis RJ Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor (Zoelen)
- Jun 17 Thomas Cowling, British mathematician and astronomer, born in Walthamstow, Essex (d. 1990)
- Jun 19 Ernst Chain, German-British chemist and bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945 - for his work on penicillin), born in Berlin, German Empire (d. 1979)
- Jun 19 Walter Rauff, German colonel (d. 1984)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001)
Jun 22 American author and aviator (Gift from the Sea), born in Englewood, New Jersey
- Jun 23 Wolfgang Koeppen, German author (Death in Rome), born in Greifswald, Pomerania (d. 1996)
- Jun 26 Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia), born in Dhrönchen (d. 1970)
- Jun 26 Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer, born in Sebring, Ohio (d. 2008)
- Jun 27 Catherine Cookson, English novelist (Bannaman Legacy), born in Jarrow, Durham, England (d. 1998)
- Jun 27 Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd), born in Maesteg, Wales (d. 1967)
- Jun 28 Maria Goeppert-Mayer, American-German atomic physicist (Nobel 1963), born in Kattowitz, German Empire (d. 1972)
- Jun 28 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, English painter and educationalist, born in Maidstone, England (d. 1995)
- Jun 29 Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (youngest ever Soviet general of the army), born in Uman, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1945)
- Jun 30 Tribhuwan Bir Bikram Shah, King of Nepal (1911-55), born in Kathmandu, Nepal (d. 1955)
Deaths in History
- Jun 5 Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
- Jun 6 Johan Philip van der Kellen, Dutch stamp cutter, lithographer and writer, dies at 74
- Jun 7 Johan P. Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74
- Jun 10 Richard Seddon, New Zealand politician (longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1893-1906), dies at 61
- Jun 11 Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit), dies at 50
- Jun 17 William Dale, international legal consultant, dies
- Jun 20 John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840)
- Jun 22 Fritz Schaudinn, German zoologist (examined syphilis), dies at 34
- Jun 25 Stanford White, American architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit at 52
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