What Happened In June 1897 - Historical Events 1897 June

Historical Events for June, 1897

16th » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
22nd » British Colony called British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.

3rd » Memphis Minnie, American singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
7th » George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (d. 1970)
8th » John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (d. 1974)
10th » Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
11th » Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian activist, founded the Hindustan Republican Association (d. 1927)
12th » Anthony Eden, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
13th » Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (d. 1973)
16th » Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
16th » Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
18th » Martti Marttelin, Finnish runner (d. 1940)
19th » Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
19th » Moe Howard, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1975)
20th » Elisabeth Hauptmann, German author (d. 1973)
22nd » Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (d. 1973)
22nd » Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist and philosopher (d. 1990)
23rd » Alexandru Giugaru, Romanian actor (d. 1986)
24th » Daniel K. Ludwig, American businessman (d. 1992)
24th » Omkarnath Thakur, Indian singer (d. 1967)
29th » Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian journalist (d. 2001)