Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza Returns Home
Jun 2 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza returns from his travels in the Congo and Gabon to a great welcome in France
- Jun 5 Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die
- Jun 6 Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay, India) drowns 100,000 (disputed event)
- Jun 6 Electric iron patented by New York inventor Henry W. Seely. It weighed almost 15 pounds and was very slow to heat up.
- Jun 6 Ethiopia: Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
- Jun 8 16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43
- Jun 10 Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
- Jun 16 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
- Jun 17 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
- Jun 24 National League expels umpire Richard Higham from baseball for dishonesty after his links with gambling on games are confirmed
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