What Happened in June 1875

Historical Events

1st Sound Transmission

Jun 2 Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission

  • Jun 2 James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US
  • Jun 4 Pacific Stock Exchange opens
  • Jun 5 Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens in San Francisco
  • Jun 6 Netherlands joins the gold standard
  • Jun 7 California Rifle and Pistol Association founded
  • Jun 12 9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42.25
  • Jun 19 Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio in San Francisco
  • Jun 19 The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins
  • Jun 22 Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun & Toulouse, kills about 1,000
1875 History

Famous Birthdays

Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

Jun 6 German novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929), born in Lübeck, Germany

  • Jun 7 George Simpson-Hayward, English cricket spin bowler (5 Tests, 23 wickets @ 18.26; last great underarm bowler; Cambridge University CC, Worcestershire CCC), born in Stoneleigh, England (d. 1936)
  • Jun 9 Henry Dale, English physiologist (Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology 1936), born in London, England (d. 1968)
  • Jun 12 Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor, born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada (d. 1953)
  • Jun 13 Max d'Ollone, French composer and writer (Le Ménestrel), born in Besançon, France (d. 1959)
  • Jun 13 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson, US politician, 1st US elected woman governor, Governor of Texas (1925-27, 1933-35), born in Bell County, Texas (d. 1961)
  • Jun 15 Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian cross-country skier who introduced sport to North America, born in Horten, Norway (d. 1987)
  • Jun 17 Philipp Abraham Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher and physicist, born in Bonn, Germany (d. 1951)
  • Jun 20 Othenio Able, Austrian artist, fossil creator and founder of paleobiology, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1946)
  • Jun 23 Carl Milles, Swedish sculptor (Wedding of Rivers), born in Lagga, Sweden (d. 1955)
  • Jun 26 Camille Zeckwer, American composer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1924)
  • Jun 28 Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (Lebesgue integration), born in Beauvais, Oise, France (d. 1941)
Born in 1875

Famous Deaths

  • Jun 2 Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)

Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

Jun 3 French composer (Carmen), dies of a heart attack at 36

  • Jun 4 Eduard Friedrich Mörike, German poet, dies at 70
  • Jun 9 Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
  • Jun 15 Johan Peter Cronhamm, Swedish composer, dies at 72
  • Jun 25 Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor, dies at 78
  • Jun 29 Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria (1835-48), dies at 82