What Happened in June 1893

Historical Events

  • Jun 1 Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)

Indian History

Jun 7 Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience

  • Jun 10 27th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Commanche wins in 1:53.25
  • Jun 16 German-American F.W. Rueckheim introduces "Cracker Jack" brand snack food consisting of caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts

Murder of Interest

Jun 20 Lizzie Borden acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts

  • Jun 21 1st Ferris wheel opens at Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois
  • Jun 22 British fleet under Vice Admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut
  • Jun 23 US National Championship Women's Tennis: Aline Terry wins her lone major title; beats Augusta Schultz 6-1, 6-3
  • Jun 27 Great stock crash on NY stock exchange
  • Jun 30 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) then world's largest, discovered in Jagersfontein Mine, South Africa
1893 History

Famous Birthdays

  • Jun 3 Asen Karastoyanov, Bulgarian composer, born in Samokov, Bulgaria (d. 1976)
  • Jun 4 Armand Călinescu, Prime Minister of Romania, born in Piteşti, Romania (d. 1939)
  • Jun 4 Daan Boens, Flemish poet (Man who sold his Wife), born in Ostend, Belgium (d. 1977)
  • Jun 6 Ludovic Feldman, Romanian composer, born in Galați, Romania (d. 1987)
  • Jun 7 Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater (Olympic gold 1920, 24, 28), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1938)
  • Jun 9 Irish Meusel, American baseball left fielder (World Series 1921, 22; NL RBI leader 1923; Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants), born in Oakland, California (d. 1963)
  • Jun 9 Samuel N. Behrman, American screenwriter (Tale of 2 Cities, Daddy Long Legs), born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1973)
  • Jun 10 Franz Andre, Belgian conductor, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1975)
  • Jun 12 Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor and radio play director (Tomorrow It Will Be Better), born in Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1982)
  • Jun 13 Dorothy L. Sayers, English novelist (The Nine Tailors), born in Oxford, England (d. 1957)
  • Jun 14 Siggie Nordstrom, American singer (The Nordstrom Sisters), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1980)
  • Jun 19 Adriaan Franciscus Dussenbroek, Dutch doctor and co-founder (Union National Arubano), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1965)
  • Jun 21 Alois Hába, Czech composer, born in Vizovice, Zlín Region, Czech Republic (d. 1973)
  • Jun 22 Osvald Chlubna, Czech composer (Symphony of Life and Love; In Spring), and musicologist, born in Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) (d. 1971)
  • Jun 23 Donald MacBride, American stage and screen character actor (Topper Returns; The Seven Year Itch; My Friend Irma - "Mr. Clyde"), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1957)
  • Jun 24 Roy O. Disney, American businessman and co-founder of the Walt Disney Company with brother Walt, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1971)
  • Jun 26 "Big" Bill Broonzy, American blues singer and guitarist (Blues by Broonzy), born in Scott, Mississippi (d. 1958)
  • Jun 28 Luciano Gallet, Brazilian pianist, composer, conductor, and educator, born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 1931)
  • Jun 28 Nils Björkander, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1972)
  • Jun 29 Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (Lemminkäinen; Juha; Schott Concerto), and educator, born in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland (d. 1958)
  • Jun 29 Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet and resistance fighter, born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1945)

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972)

Jun 29 Indian scientist and applied statistician (Mahalanobis distance), whose birthdate is celebrated annually in India as "National Statistics Day", born in Calcutta, Bengal, British India

  • Jun 30 Harold Laski, English economist, academic, and poitical leader (Labour Party chairman,1945-46), born in Manchester, England (d. 1950)

Walter Ulbricht (1893-1973)

Jun 30 German politician (Head Of State, German Democratic Republic), born in Leipzig, Saxony, German Empire


Born in 1893

Famous Deaths

Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893)

Jun 5 American-Canadian anti-slavery campaigner, suffragist and 1st African American newspaper publisher ("The Provincial Freeman"), dies of stomach cancer at 69 [1]

Edwin Booth (1833-1893)

Jun 7 American Shakespearean actor (Hamlet), dies at 59

  • Jun 7 Johann Schrammel, Austrian composer, dies at 43
  • Jun 10 Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel, dies at 49
  • Jun 15 Ferenc Erkel, Hungarian composer (Himnusz), dies at 82

Leland Stanford (1824-1893)

Jun 21 American business tycoon (Southern Pacific Railroad), 8th Governor of California and founder of Stanford University, dies of heart failure at 69

  • Jun 23 Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817)