4th » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
10th » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulg
15th » Eadweard Muybridge takes Sallie Gardner at a Gallop known as a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of film called motion pictures.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1878
1st » John Masefield, English author and poet (d. 1967)
2nd » Wallace Hartley, English violinist and bandleader (d. 1912)
3rd » Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946)