June 9, 1900 (Saturday)
- Birsa Munda, the 24-year-old rebel who led the Munda rebellion in British India's Bihar region, died in prison in Ranchi under mysterious circumstances, becoming one of the martyred heroes of the Indian independence movement. In his memory are named the Birsa Agricultural University and the Birsa Munda Airport, both in Ranchi, and the Birsa Institute of Technology at Sindri.
- In Beijing, Imperial Chinese troops surrounded the legation quarter, where the diplomatic corps from Western powers and Japan were headquartered. Britain's minister, Sir Claude MacDonald, telegraphed "Situation extremely grave. Unless arrangements are made for immediate advance to Pekin, it will be too late."
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Famous quotes containing the word june:
“Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June is past, the fading rose;
For in your beauty’s orient deep
These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.
Ask me no more whither do stray
The golden atoms of the day;
For in pure love heaven did prepare
Those powders to enrich your hair.”
—Thomas Carew (1589–1639)