Today in History for June 1895
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Months in 1895: January February March April May July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 10 of 10
11th - 1st auto race
11th - Charles E Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile
13th - Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
17th - US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan
20th - 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
20th - Canal of Smock official opens
20th - Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
21st - British Roseberry govt falls
28th - El Salvador, Honduras & Nicaragua form Central American Union
29th - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 16 of 16
3rd - Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, India, diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance)
4th - Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations (1925-32)
5th - August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Coriolanus)
5th - William Boyd, Ohio, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy)
10th - Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision)
11th - Nikolai A Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58)
14th - Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", Hannibal Missouri, singer (54th Street Revue, When You Wish Upon a Star)
14th - Louis Finkelstein, US historian/theologist (Pharizees)
14th - Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (d. 1968)
16th - Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
17th - Slavko Osterc, composer
18th - Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish supercentenarian
24th - Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26)
26th - Jankel Adler, Polish painter
26th - George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1950)
28th - Kazimierz Sikorski, composer
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 3 of 3
15th - Richard Genee, composer, dies at 72
23rd - Joseph Paul Skelly, composer, dies at 44
29th - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
