Historical Events
- Jun 2 2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon
Beatty Appointed Captain
Jun 2 British naval officer David Beatty is appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno
42nd Open Championship
Jun 5 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Scotsman Sandy Herd wins by 1 stroke from James Braid and Harry Vardon
'Germanization' of the Slavs
Jun 5 Emperor Wilhelm II responds to growing demands from Polish and other Slavic peoples living within German territory by calling for more 'Germanization' of the Slavs
- Jun 9 1st Automat restaurant opens at 818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia
- Jun 10 Patent for window envelope granted to H. F. Callahan
- Jun 12 Australian parliament agrees to Commonwealth Franchise Act, granting female suffrage
- Jun 12 Horn & Hardart opens 1st "automat" (self-service restaurant) in the US on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Jun 13 Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
- Jun 15 Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time
- Jun 15 Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Texas minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game
- Jun 16 "The Wizard of Oz" musical first opens in Chicago, Illinois
- Jun 17 US Congress pass the New Lands Reclamation Act, which establishes a fund from sale of public lands to build irrigation dams for arid Western lands
Order of Merit Founded
Jun 23 British Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII [1]
Monument to Rossini
Jun 23 Monument to composer Gioachino Rossini unveiled in Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
- Jun 24 British King Edward VII develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation
Target Corporation Founded
Jun 24 Target Corporation is founded by American businessman George Dayton as Goodfellow Dry Goods in Minneapolis
Aga Khan III Honored
Jun 26 Aga Khan III is appointed Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
- Jun 27 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Newport, RI: Marion Jones wins her second US singles title; beats Elisabeth Moore 6-1, 1-0 when the defending champion is forced to retire
- Jun 28 Germany, Italy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire renew their Triple Alliance for six more years
- Jun 28 US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million
- Jun 28 US Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin
- Jun 30 Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive HRs in same inning
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jun 30 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Laurence Doherty wins his first Wimbledon singles title beating defending champion Arthur Gore 6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 6-0
1902 History
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 3 Edward Wayne, English physician (Queen of Scotland, Wayne score), born in Leeds, England (d. 1990)
- Jun 4 Richard Allen, Indian field hockey goalkeeper (Olympic gold 1928), born in Nagpur, India (d. 1969)
- Jun 5 Hugo Huppert, Austrian writer and poet, born in Bielitz, Silesia (d. 1982)
- Jun 6 Avraham Daus, Israeli composer, born in Berlin (d. 1974)
- Jun 6 Harold Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton, British aeronautical engineer, born in Kings Norton, England (d. 1997)
- Jun 6 Jimmie Lunceford, American swing jazz saxophonist and bandleader (Rhythm Is Our Business; For Dancers Only), born in Fulton, Mississippi (d. 1947) [1] [2]
- Jun 7 (Sarah) Hope Summers, American character actress (The Andy Griffith Show & Mayberry RFD - "Clara"), born in Mattoon, Illinois (d. 1979)
- Jun 7 Herman B. Wells, president and chancellor of Indiana University, born in Jamestown, Indiana (d. 2000)
- Jun 8 Albe [Renaut A. Joostens], Flemish writer (Andalusian Diary), born in Mechelen, Flanders, Belgium (d. 1973)
- Jun 9 Nehemiah "Skip" James, American Delta blues singer, guitarist and piano player ("I'm So Glad"), born in Bentonia, Mississippi (d. 1969)
- Jun 10 Gaston Brenta, Belgian composer, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1969)
- Jun 11 Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, Soviet composer, born in Omsk, Russia (d. 1963)
- Jun 12 (Raymond) Lee Morgan, American actor (Dungeons of Harrow; The Last of the Fast Guns), born in Stanford, Texas (d. 1967)
- Jun 12 Hendrik Elias, Flemish historian and Mayor of Ghent (1941-44), born in Machelen, Belgium (d. 1973)
- Jun 14 Carl Esmond, Austrian actor (Ministry of Fear, Smash-Up), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 2004)
- Jun 15 Erik Erikson, American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst (coined the phrase "identity crisis"), born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1994)
- Jun 16 Barbara McClintock, American cytogeneticist (1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of genetic transposition), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1992)
- Jun 16 George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1984)
- Jun 17 Alec Hurwood, Australian cricket spin bowler (2 Tests, 11 wickets, BB 4/22; Queensland), born in Brisbane, Australia (d. 1982)
- Jun 17 Sammy Fain, American popular music composer, born in New York City (d. 1989)
- Jun 19 Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne), born in London, Ontario, (d. 1977)
- Jun 21 Wilhelm Maler, German composer, born in Heidelberg, Germany (d. 1976)
- Jun 22 Arnold J d'Ailly, Dutch mayor of Amsterdam (1946-56), born in Franeker, Netherland (d. 1967)
- Jun 22 David Burns, American actor (The Music Man; Hello Dolly!), born in New York City (d. 1971)
- Jun 22 Marguerite De La Motte, American actress, born in Duluth, Minnesota (d. 1950)
- Jun 23 Howard Engstrom, American computer designer (co-creator Univac computer), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1962)
- Jun 23 Mathias Wieman, German actor (The Blue Light, Fear), born in Osnabrück, Germany (d. 1969)
- Jun 25 Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, brother of Emperor Showa, born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1953)
- Jun 26 Antonia Brico, Dutch-American conductor and pianist, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1989)
- Jun 26 Bill Lear, American engineer, manufacturer and CEO (Lear Jet Corp), born in Hannibal, Missouri (d. 1978)
- Jun 26 Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor and musical educator, born in Corseaux-sur-Vevey, Switzerland (d. 2010)
- Jun 28 Pierre Brunet, French figure skater (Olympic gold pairs 1928, 32 [Andrée Brunet]), born in Paris (d. 1991)
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
Jun 28 American composer, mostly for theater (Rodgers & Hart - "Pal Joey"; "Babes In Arms"; Rodgers & Hammerstein - "Oklahoma!"; "South Pacific"; "The King And I"; "The Sound Of Music") and 1st EGOT (Emmy; Grammy; Oscar; and Tony awards winner), born in New York City
- Jun 29 Carl-Heinz Schroth, German actor and director (Reaching for the Stars), born in Innsbruck, Austria (d. 1989)
- Jun 29 Ellen Clara Pollock, British-German actress (Wicked Lady, Horror Hospital), born in Heidelberg, Germany (d. 1997)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 5 Louis J. Weichmann, American clerk who was the chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, dies at 59
- Jun 10 Auguste Schmidt, German teacher and feminist, dies at 68
- Jun 10 Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
- Jun 16 Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (algebraic logic), dies at 60
- Jun 18 Samuel Butler, English author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh), dies at 66
- Jun 19 John Dalberg-Acton. British politician and historian: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”, dies at 68
