Timeline June 1879

Events in June 1879 4

• 1856 – 1879 Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856-1879) Died 1 June 1879, aged 23 Napoléon, Prince Imperial, was the only child of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie of France and heir to the fallen Bonapartist claim to the French throne. Living in exile in Britain after the fall of the Second Empire, he volunteered to serve with British forces in the Anglo-Zulu War. He was killed in an ambush by Zulu warriors while on a reconnaissance patrol in Natal.
• 1879 – 1945 Alla Nazimova (1879-1945) Russian-born actress and producer, a star of Ibsen on Broadway and of silent film, and owner of the Garden of Allah.
• 1879 Alla Nazimova born in Yalta Alla Nazimova is born in Yalta.
• 1879 F.W. Woolworth Opens First Successful Five-and-Dime Store Lancaster, Pennsylvania store launches a retail empire Frank Winfield Woolworth opened a fixed-price five-and-ten-cent store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after an earlier attempt in Utica, New York had failed. The store's low, fixed-price model proved successful and became the template for the nationwide Woolworth chain. It helped pioneer the modern variety store and five-and-dime retail format.