Historical Events
Grant Meets Red Cloud
Jun 9 US President Ulysses S. Grant meets with Sioux Chief Red Cloud at The White House in Washington, D.C.
Valkyrie Premieres
Jun 26 Richard Wagner's opera "Valkyrie", second in his Ring Cycle premieres in Munich, featuring "Ride of the Valkyries"
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 13 Jules Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (syphillis, Nobel 1919), born in Soignies, Belgium (d. 1961)
- Jun 14 Sophia of Prussia, Queen consort of Constantine I of Greece, born in New Palace, Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1932)
- Jun 15 Maud Barger-Wallach, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1908), born at New York, NY (d. 1954)
- Jun 17 George Cormack, American cereal inventor (invented Wheaties in 1921 at Washburn Crosby Co., born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1953)
- Jun 18 Édouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician, born in Paris France (d. 1954)
- Jun 21 Clara Immerwahr, German chemist, first woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry in Germany, born in Polkendorf, Silesia Province, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1915)
- Jun 24 Horatio Mbelle, South African interpreter, community leader and politician, born in Burgersdorp, Cape Colony (d. 1947)
- Jun 29 Joseph Carl Breil, American lyric tenor, and composer - one of the first to write for film (Les amours de la reine Élisabeth; Birth of a Nation; Intolerance), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1926)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 8 Johann Gottlob Topfer, German composer, dies at 78
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Jun 9 English writer (Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol), dies of stroke at 58
