Historical Events
- Jun 4 3rd national black convention meets (Philadelphia)
- Jun 5 Anti-monarchist forces launch an uprising in Paris, starting the unsuccessful June Rebellion
- Jun 6 The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end
- Jun 6 The Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad opens its initial line from Philadelphia to Germantown, Pennsylvania; run is 6 miles (9.7 km) long and creates first US 'railroad suburb'
- Jun 7 Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada
- Jun 16 Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Illinois - Illinois militia fight small force of Native Americans
- Jun 22 John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine
- Jun 28 Gerrit Moll measures noise of guns
Famous Birthdays
Nicolaus Otto (1832-1891)
Jun 10 German engineer who invented the internal combustion engine, born in Holzhausen an der Haide, Duchy of Nassau, German Confederation
- Jun 17 William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (Crookes-pipe, thallium), born in London (d. 1919)
- Jun 21 Joseph Rainey, American politician, 1st African American in US House of Representatives (1870-1879), born in Georgetown, South Carolina (d. 1887)
- Jun 24 Edward Harland, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Norwich, Connecticut (d. 1915)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 2 Manuel del Popolo García, Spanish composer and tenor, dies at 57
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Jun 6 English philosopher, social reformer and founder of modern utilitarianism, dies at 84