What Happened in June 1869

Historical Events

Electric Vote Recorder

Jun 1 Thomas Edison granted his first patent for the Electric Vote Recorder (U.S. Patent 90,646)

Jun 2 Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st baseball game, against the Cincinnati Red Stockings
Jun 5 3rd Belmont: C Miller aboard Fenian wins in 3:04.25
Jun 8 Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents the 1st vacuum cleaner, calls it a "sweeping machine"
Jun 10 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
Jun 15 Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout

Plastic Celluloid

Jun 15 World's 1st plastic celluloid is patented by John Wesley Hyatt in Albany, NY

William James Passes Med School

Jun 21 William James 'the Father of American Psychology' passes his medical examination at Harvard Medical School

Father of American psychology William James

Jun 28 Amsterdam typographer strike

Events in 1869

Famous Birthdays

Jun 3 Prince Baudouin of Belgium, Count of Flaanders, born in Palais de la Régence, Brussels, Belgium (d. 1891)
Jun 6 Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer and conductor, born in Tribschen, Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 1930)
Jun 10 Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary (La Gazette), born in Brussels (d. 1955)
Jun 13 Ede Poldini, Hungarian composer (La poupée valsante; The Vagabond and the Princess), born in Pest, Hungary (d. 1957)
Jun 22 Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch army officer and Anti-Revolution Party (ARP) politician (Prime Minister, 1925-26 & 1933-39), born in Haarlemmermeer, North Holland, Netherlands (d. 1944)
Jun 26 Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (Pelle Erobreren), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1954)

Emma Goldman (1869-1940)

Jun 27 Russian-American anarchist, writer (Anarchism and Other Essays; Living My Life), publisher (Mother Earth), and feminist, born in Kovno, Russian Empire (now Kaunas, Lithuania) [1]

Jun 27 Hans Spemann, German embryologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1935), born in Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1941)
Jun 27 Kate Carew [Mary Williams], American caricaturist, born in Oakland, California (d. 1961)

Born in 1869