3rd » The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the 'San Francisco Examiner'.
5th » The 1888 Río de la Plata earthquake named Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
15th » Crown Prince William II, German Emperor Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors William I, German Emperor Wilhelm I and Frederick III, German Emperor Frederick III, 1888 is
Famous Birthdays on June in 1888
3rd » Tom Brown (trombonist) named Tom Brown, American trombonist (d. 1958)
7th » Clarence DeMar, American long-distance runner (d. 1958)
11th » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-American criminal (d. 1927)
12th » Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
13th » Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (d. 1935)
15th » Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (d. 1921)
16th » Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)