About the day » Saturday June 2, 1888Calender converter

• Gebben, Geest, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1888)
• Abraham Zoeter, Oosterland
• Adriana de Smit, Wissenkerke († 1944)
• Aletta Oskam, Vleuten
• Albertus Buitenhuis, Apeldoorn {GE} († 1917)
• Agnes Maria Agatha Wijffelman, Woerden, Netherlands († 1971)
• Walraven, Aarlanderveen († 1888)
• Aartje Lammers, Heerde, Nederland († 1976)
• Adrianus Kolsteeg, Ouder-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1958)
• Aaltje Honders, Ingen,, Gelderland, Nederland

• Anna Maria Bans (69), Tilburg
• Adrianus Kersemans (0), Baarle-Nassau
• Anetta Domenie (55), Gasselte, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albertje Scholten (5), Giethoorn
• Wijnen (0), Wilnis
• Meiring (0), Slochteren, Groningen, Netherlands
• (54), ROTTERDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Schiks (10), Mill en St. Hubert
• Aalt Jonker (6), Lenthe, Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Annechien Muntinga (30), Nieuwe-Pekela

• 1869 » Jack O'Connor, American baseball player and manager († 1937)
• 1875 » Charles Stewart Mott, American businessman and politician, 50th Mayor of Flint, Michigan († 1973)
• 1878 » Wallace Hartley, English violinist and bandleader († 1912)
• 1881 » Walter Egan, American golfer († 1971)
• 1891 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral and pilot († 1945)
• 1891 » Thurman Arnold, American lawyer and judge († 1969)
• 1899 » Edwin Way Teale, American environmentalist and photographer († 1980)
• 1899 » Lotte Reiniger, German animator and director († 1981)
• 1904 » Frank Runacres, English painter and educator († 1974)
• 1904 » Johnny Weissmuller, Hungarian-American swimmer and actor († 1984)

• 1853 » Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English general (b. 1777)
• 1865 » Ner Middleswarth, American judge and politician (b. 1783)
• 1875 » Józef Kremer, Polish psychologist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1806)
• 1881 » Émile Littré, French lexicographer and philosopher (b. 1801)
• 1882 » Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician (b. 1807)
• 1901 » George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary and author (b. 1844)
• 1927 » Hüseyin Avni Lifij, Turkish painter (b. 1886)
• 1929 » Enrique Gorostieta, Mexican general (b. 1889)
• 1933 » Frank Jarvis, American runner and triple jumper (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Aaltje
11. Neeltje
12. Jacoba
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
• June 15 » Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
• June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
• August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
• September 8 » In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
• September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.

The temperature on June 2, 1888 was about 11.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.