June 1
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June 1 is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events [change]
- 70 BC – An earthquake in Shandong, China, kills 6,000 people.
- 193 – Roman Emperor Marcus Didius is killed in his big house.
- 1283 – Treaty of Rheinfelden – Duke Rudolph II of Austria has to waive his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
- 1485 – Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.
- 1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
- 1533 – Henry VIII of England's new wife, Anne Boleyn, is crowned as queen.
- 1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered to be the last religious martyr in North America.
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
- 1792 – Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the United States, with Isaac Shelby as its first Governor.
- 1796 – Tennessee becomes the 16th state in the United States.
- 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the United States Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
- 1813 – The United States Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said, 'Don't give up the ship'.
- 1815 – Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
- 1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
- 1847 – Zeta Psi Fraternity is founded.
- 1855 – American adventurer William Walker defeats Nicaragua and brings back slavery.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Fair Oaks ends – Both sides claim victory.
- 1869 – Thomas Edison of Boston, Massachusetts, received a patent for his electric voting machine.
- 1879 – Eugene Louis Napoleon, Prince of France killed in the Zulu Wars
- 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
- 1898 – The Trans-Mississippi Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska.
- 1907 – Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded either for a county cricket match or a single day's bowling, and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
- 1909 – The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition world's fair opens in Seattle, Washington.
- 1910 – Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England
- 1918 – World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins –
- 1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: A race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma kills at least 85 people.
- 1922 – Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
- 1925 – Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees played the first game in his record streak of 2,130 games in a row, an endurance record in Major League Baseball that stood until Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it in 1995.
- 1935 – First driving tests introduced in Britain.
- 1938 – Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
- 1938 – Protective baseball helmets were worn by people with bats for the very first time.
- 1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete ends – Crete capitulates to Germany.
- 1943 – A not soldier flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all on the plane, including actor Leslie Howard.
- 1954 – The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time. [1]
- 1958 – Charles De Gaulle is brought out of resting to lead France by order for six months.
- 1967 – The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
- 1974 – Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, UK kills 28 people.
- 1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
- 1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, ousting Ian Smith and changing its name to Zimbabwe
- 1980 – The Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
- 1989 – Oba Chandler murders an Ohio family on their Florida vacation by drowning them in Tampa Bay.
- 1990 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and start destroying each of their nation's stockpiles.
- 1994 – South Africa re-joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 2000 – The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
- 2003 – The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 meters.
- 2005 – Voters in the Netherlands reject the proposed EU Constitution.
- 2009 – Air France Flight 447: An Air France plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Brazil, killing all 228 people on board.
- 2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- 2011 – Sepp Blatter is controversially re-elected as FIFA President.
Births [change]
- 719 – Yang Yuhuan, Chinese princess and consort (d. 756)
- 1076 – Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
- 1503 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (d. 1567)
- 1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician (d. 1612)
- 1633 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
- 1771 – Ferdinand Paer, Italian composer (d. 1839)
- 1790 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
- 1801 – Brigham Young, American Mormon leader (d. 1877)
- 1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
- 1815 – King Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
- 1833 – John Marshall Harlan, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1911)
- 1843 – Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
- 1878 – John Masefield, English novelist and poet (d. 1967)
- 1889 – Charles Kay Ogden, book writer who created the idea of Basic English (d. 1957)
- 1890 – Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949)
- 1898 – Molly Picon, American actress (d. 1992)
- 1901 – Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
- 1907 – Frank Whittle, British aircraft engineer (d. 1996)
- 1912 – Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1987)
- 1917 – William S. Knowles, American chemist
- 1922 – Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
- 1922 – Joan Caulfield, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1926 – Andy Griffith, American actor
- 1926 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
- 1928 – Bob Monkhouse, British comedian (d. 2003)
- 1928 – Georgi Dobrovolski, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
- 1930 – Edward Woodward, British actor (d. 2009)
- 1933 – Haruo Remeliik, President of Palau (d. 1985)
- 1933 – Charles Wilson, American politician (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Pat Boone, American singer
- 1935 – Norman Foster, British architect
- 1935 – Hazel Dickens, American singer, songwriter and musician
- 1937 – Ezio Pascutti, Italian footballer
- 1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor
- 1938 – Carlo Caffarra, Italian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bologna
- 1946 – Brian Cox, Scottish actor
- 1947 – Jonathan Pryce, British actor
- 1947 – Ronnie Wood, British musician
- 1953 – Xi Yinping, Chinese politician
- 1953 – David Berkowitz, American serial killer (Son of Sam)
- 1959 – Martin Brundle, British racecar driver
- 1960 – Simon Gallup, British musician (The Cure)
- 1961 – Paul Coffey, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 – Mike Joyce, British musician (The Smiths)
- 1965 – Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier
- 1965 – Nigel Short, British chess player
- 1968 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
- 1970 – Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
- 1972 – Daniel Casey, English actor
- 1973 – Adam Garcia, Australian actor
- 1973 – Heidi Klum, German model
- 1974 – Alanis Morissette, a Canadian singer
- 1974 – Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
- 1982 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
- 1984 – Naidangiin Tuvshinbayar, Mongolian athlete
- 1985 – Mario Hipolito, Angolan footballer
- 1987 – Zoltan Harsanyi, Slovakian footballer
- 1988 – Nami Tamaki, Japanese pop singer
- 1988 – Javier Hernandez Balcazar, Mexican footballer
Deaths [change]
- 195 BC – Gaozu of Han of China (born 256 BC or 247 BC)
- 193 – Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)
- 1434 – Wladislaus II of Poland (b. 1362)
- 1616 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1543)
- 1660 – Mary Dyer, English-born Quaker (b. 1611)
- 1740 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
- 1841 – Nicolas Appert, French inventor (b. 1749)
- 1846 – Pope Gregory XVI (born 1765)
- 1868 – James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (born 1791)
- 1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (born 1848)
- 1879 – Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial of France (b. 1856)
- 1927 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian (born 1861)
- 1938 – Odon V. Horvath, Austro-Hungarian writer (b. 1901)
- 1943 – Leslie Howard, English actor (born 1893)
- 1946 – Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator (born 1882)
- 1948 – Sonny Boy Williamson, American blues musician (born 1914)
- 1952 – John Dewey, American philosopher (born 1859)
- 1959 – Sax Rohmer, English author (born 1883)
- 1960 – Lester Patrick, ice hockey star (born 1883)
- 1966 – Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (born 1873)
- 1968 – Helen Keller, American humanitarian (born 1880)
- 1969 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater (born 1904)
- 1971 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (born 1892)
- 1979 – Werner Forssmann, German physician (born 1904)
- 1980 – Rube Marquard, American Baseball Hall of Famer (born 1886)
- 1981 – Carl Vinson, United States Congressman (born 1883)
- 1983 – Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903)
- 1991 – David Ruffin, American singer (b. 1941)
- 1994 – Frances Heflin, American soap opera actress (born 1923)
- 1996 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India (born 1913)
- 1999 – Christopher Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (born 1910)
- 2001 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace (born 1920)
- 2001 – King Birendra (born 1945) (shot)
- 2001 – Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (born 1949) (shot)
- 2002 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (born 1969)
- 2004 – William Manchester, American biographer and novelist (born 1922)
- 2004 – Satomi Mitarai, Japanese student, murdered by a classmate
- 2005 – George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
- 2008 – Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
- 2010 – Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet (b. 1933)
- 2010 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (b. 1906)
- 2011 – Haleh Sahabi, Iranian human rights activist (b. 1957)
