June 1900 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1900 British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa
• 05 Jun 1900 Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
• 07 Jun 1900 Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal
• 08 Jun 1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of 6 Napoleons (BG)
• 12 Jun 1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power.
• 14 Jun 1900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
• 18 Jun 1900 Gen Luigi Pelloux resigns as Premier of Italy
• 20 Jun 1900 Boxer Rebellion: Boxers gather about 20,000 people near Peking and kill hundreds of European citizens, including the German ambassador.
• 21 Jun 1900 Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers
• 26 Jun 1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever.
• 30 Jun 1900 A wharf fire at the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey owned by the North German Lloyd Steamship line spreads to German passenger ships ''.'' The fire engulfs the adjacent piers and nearby ships, killing 326 people.

Famous Birthday

• Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  French pilot and writer (Born 1900).

• Martin Bormann

  German Nazi official, one of the most powerful but least known Nazis; he was called "Hitler's evil genius.

• José Gomes Ferreira
• Lord Louis Mountbatten
• Paul Dupré-Lafon
• Camille Guérini

  French theatre, film and television actor, known for his jovial personality.

• André Chamson

  French writer, politician, historian, geographer, also archaeologist & museum curator, married once, one child.

• Pol Ferjac

  French cartoonist and caricaturist.

• Carmen Polo 1st Lady of Meirás
• Hermann Reutter

  German pianist and composer of operas, oratorios and other choral works, a ballet, chamber music, piano works and songs.

• Catherine Hessling
• Laurence Spivak
• Pierre Mingand

  France Actor.

• Prosper Cocquyt

  Belgian brewer / pilot, dies at 54.

• Beatrix Loughran
• Victor Kugler
• Alfredo Le Pera
• Gunnar Ek

  Composer.

• Ernest White

  Composer.

• Jan van Tilburg

  Governor Suriname (PVDA, 1955-62).

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Famous Deaths

• Charles Swinnerton Heap

  Composer, dies at 53.

• Polibo Fumagalli

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin

  Russian mathematician (Born 1827).

• Stephen Crane

  American restaurateur once married to Lana Turner and the father of their daughter, Cheryl.

Top #1 songs in the USA

1. Harry Macdonough - My Sunny Southern Home