2nd » The President of the United States or U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
10th » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
13th » Great Vancouver Fire named A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
13th » King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
26th » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
30th » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1886
6th » Tyler Brooke, American actor and singer (d. 1943)
7th » Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (d. 1972)
18th » George Mallory, English mountaineer (d. 1924)
18th » Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (d. 1978)
24th » George Shiels, Irish-Canadian playwright (d. 1949)
25th » Henry H. Arnold, American general (d. 1950)
27th » Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer and soldier (d. 1958)
29th » Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1963)
29th » James Van Der Zee, American photographer (d. 1983)