Historical Events
- Jun 1 Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange
- Jun 1 Ridden by outstanding English jockey Fred Archer, Iroquois wins the Epsom Derby to become first American-owned and bred horse to take out a European classic race
- Jun 2 Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens
- Jun 7 15th Belmont: T. Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:47
- Jun 12 The USS Jeannette, under the command of George Washington De Long, is crushed by Arctic ice after 21 months of ice-bound drifting
- Jun 13 The USS Jeannette, under the command of George Washington De Long, sinks in the Arctic circle following 21 months of drifting after becoming trapped in the ice
- Jun 14 Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Jun 16 Austria-Hungary and Serbia sign military treaty
- Jun 19 Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan
- Jun 24 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla, Mexico
- Jun 30 Henry Highland Garnet named US minister to Liberia
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 1 Charles Kay Ogden, English writer and linguist (d. 1957)
- Jun 3 Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
- Jun 4 Natalia Goncharova, Russian avant-garde artist and painter, born in Nagaevo, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1962)
- Jun 7 Kanno Sugako, Japanese anarcho-feminist journalist, hanged for her role in the plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji, born in 881, Kita Ward, Osaka, Japan (d. 1911)
- Jun 8 Próspero Bisquertt, Chilean composer, born in Santiago, Chile (d. 1959)
Tommy Burns (1881-1955)
Jun 17 Canadian boxer (World Heavyweight Champion 1906–08), born in Hanover, Ontario
Famous Deaths
- Jun 2 Émile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801)
- Jun 3 Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian
- Jun 6 Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violin prodigy, composer, and teacher (Brussels Conservatory), dies at 61
- Jun 13 Joseph Škoda, Bohemian physician, dies at 75
- Jun 16 Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner, dies at 79
- Jun 16 Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
- Jun 28 Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (Prime Minister of France 1871-73), dies at 82
