What Happened In June 1894 - Historical Events 1894 June

Historical Events for June, 1894

23rd » The International Olympic Committee is founded at the University of Paris known as Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
24th » Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
28th » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.

4th » La Bolduc, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1941)
5th » Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher (d. 1976)
7th » Alexander P. de Seversky, Georgian-American pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (d. 1974)
10th » Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia (d. 1918)
11th » Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (d. 1952)
11th » Dai Vernon, Canadian-American magician (d. 1992)
13th » Leo Kanner, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (d. 1981)
13th » Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (d. 1986)
14th » Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
15th » Robert Russell Bennett, American composer (d. 1981)
15th » Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1947)
16th » Norman Kerry, American actor (d. 1956)
20th » Lloyd Hall, American chemist (d. 1971)
21st » F. R. G. Heaf, English physician and academic (d. 1973)
21st » Milward Kennedy, English journalist and civil servant (d. 1968)
23rd » Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
23rd » Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
25th » Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (d. 1989)

3rd » Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1812)
22nd » Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (b. 1823)
25th » Marie François Sadi Carnot, French politician, 5th President of France (b. 1837)