What Happened in June 1874

Historical Events

  • Jun 13 8th Belmont: G Barbee aboard Saxon wins in 2:39.5
  • Jun 20 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
  • Jun 22 American physician Dr Andrew T. Still founds the study of Osteopathy
  • Jun 22 Game of lawn tennis introduced by Welsh Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, introducing a rubber ball to bounce on grass
  • Jun 28 Freedmen's Bank closes
  • Jun 29 Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.

Famous Birthdays

Jack Chesbro (1874-1931)

Jun 5 American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (MLB wins leader 1902, 04 [41 wins], NY Highlanders), born in North Adams, Massachusetts

  • Jun 7 Theodor Streicher, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1940)
  • Jun 11 Richard Stöhr, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1967)
  • Jun 12 Willem Landré, Dutch composer and music educator, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1948)
  • Jun 13 Leopoldo Lugones, Argentine poet (Las montañas del oro), born in Villa Maria del Rio Seco, Argentina (d. 1938)
  • Jun 14 Edward Bowes, American radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1946)

Arthur Meighen (1874-1960)

Jun 16 9th Prime Minister of Canada (C: 1920-21, 1926), born in Anderson, Ontario

  • Jun 16 Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, Russian composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1936)
  • Jun 17 Grant Mitchell, American actor (The Man Who Came to Dinner), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1957)
  • Jun 19 Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist, born in Sig, Varde, Denmark (d. 1941)
  • Jun 26 Albert Relf, English cricket all-rounder (13 Tests, 1 x 50, 25 wickets, BB 5/85; Sussex CCC, Auckland CA), born in Burwash, East Sussex, England (d. 1937)
  • Jun 28 Oley Speaks, American composer (On the Road to Mandalay), born in Canal Winchester, Ohio (d. 1948)
  • Jun 29 Georg Göhler, German composer (Rückert), born in Zwickau, German Empire (d. 1954)

Famous Deaths

  • Jun 8 Cochise, Chiricahua Apache principal nantan and war leader during the Apache Wars (1861-72), dies of natural causes at 68 or 69
  • Jun 21 Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (Spectroscopy), dies at 59
  • Jun 22 Howard Staunton, English World Chess Champion, designer of chess pieces, dies at 84