- Jun 12 British Open Men's Golf, Royal St George's GC: J.H. Taylor wins first Open played outside Scotland; beats Douglas Rolland by 5 strokes
- Jun 15 Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8
- Jun 16 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Helen Hellwig beats defending champion Aline Terry 7-5, 3-6, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3
- Jun 18 Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
- Jun 19 28th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Henry of Navarre wins in 1:56.5
- Jun 20 French bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin discovers bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague in Hong Kong (Yersinia pestis named in his honor)
- Jun 21 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
- Jun 23 The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin
- Jun 24 Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated in Lyon by Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio
- Jun 25 American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike
Kruger Meets Over Uitlanders
Jun 25 Boer leader Paul Kruger meets British High Commissioner, Sir Henry Loch, on Pretoria station in South Africa and accompanies him to his hotel to discuss the grievances of the Uitlanders (Foreigners)
- Jun 27 American Annie Londonderry [Annie Kopchovsky] sets out from Boston to become first woman to bicycle around the world (completes journey September 1895)
- Jun 28 Labor Day established as a holiday for US federal employees
- Jun 28 The Natal Legislature plans to introduce the Indian Franchise Bill, South Africa
- Jun 30 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
- Jun 30 London's Tower Bridge opens across the Thames
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