June 1

June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining.

Events

• 193 – Roman Emperor Marcus Didius is assassinated in his palace.
• 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.
• 1796 – Tennessee becomes the 16th state in the United States.
• 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the U.S. 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 conquers Nicaragua and reinstates 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 consecutive games, an endurance record in major league baseball that stood till 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 batters for the very first time.
• 1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete ends – Crete capitulates to Germany.
• 1943 – A civilian flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all aboard, 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 retirement to lead France by decree 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Births

• 1765 – Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (d. 1816)
• 1780 – Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian general (d. 1831)
• 1790 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright
• 1796 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (d. 1832)
• 1801 – Brigham Young, Mormon church leader and American western settler (d. 1877)
• 1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
• 1815 – Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
• 1826 – Carl Bechstein, piano manufacturer (d. 1900)
• 1831 – John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
• 1843 – Dr Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
• 1878 – John Masefield, English novelist and Poet Laureate (d. 1967)
• 1881 – Charles Kay Ogden, English writer and linguist
• 1890 – Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949)
• 1898 – Molly Picon, actress (d. 1992)
• 1899 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh, mathematician (d. 1963)
• 1901 – John Van Druten, English screen writer (d. 1957)
• 1917 – William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1921 – Nelson Riddle, Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader, arranger (d. 1985)
• 1922 – Joan Caulfield, actress
• 1922 – Povel Ramel , Swedish musician
• 1924 – Dr. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., American clergyman
• 1926 – Andy Griffith, American actor
• 1926 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
• 1928 – Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut
• 1930 – Edward Woodward, English actor
• 1933 – Charles Wilson, American politician
• 1934 – Pat Boone (Charles Eugene Boone), American singer
• 1936 – Gerald Scarfe, British cartoonist and illustrator
• 1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor
• 1939 – Cleavon Little, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1939 – Jackie Stewart, British Formula One champion
• 1940 – René Auberjonois, American actor
• 1945 – Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano
• 1946 – Brian Cox, Scottish actor
• 1947 – Jonathan Pryce, British actor
• 1947  – Ron Wood, English guitarist, ("The Rolling Stones" and the "Jeff Beck Group")
• 1948 – Tomás Halík, Czech priest, scholar and public intellectual
• 1956 – Lisa Hartman American actress
• 1961 – Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey star
• 1965 – Nigel Short, English chess player
• 1968 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor
• 1970 – Alexi Lalas, American football player
• 1973 – Heidi Klum, German supermodel
• 1973 – Derek Lowe, American baseball pitcher
• 1974 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
• 1977 – Danielle Harris, American voice actress
• 1980 – Oliver James, British actor
• 1981 – Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball pitcher
• 1982 – Justine Henin-Hardenne, Belgian tennis player

Deaths

• 195 BC – Gaozu of Han of China (b. 256 BC or 247 BC)
• 1846 – Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765)
• 1868 – James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
• 1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
• 1927 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
• 1943 – Leslie Howard, English actor (b. 1893)
• 1946 – Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator (b. 1882)
• 1948 – Sonny Boy Williamson, American blues musician
• 1959 – Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
• 1960 – Lester Patrick, ice hockey star (b. 1883)
• 1966 – Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (b. 1873)
• 1968 – Helen Keller, American humanitarian (b. 1880)
• 1971 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologist (b. 1892)
• 1980 – Rube Marquard, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1886)
• 1981 – Carl Vinson, United States Congressman (b. 1883)
• 1984 – Nat Nelson, singer
• 1994 – Frances Heflin, American soap opera actress (b. 1923)
• 1999 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace
• 2001  – King Birendra (b. 1945) and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, (shot, possibly murdered)
• 2002 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
• 2003 – Gerhard Rentzsch, radio play author
• 2004 – William Manchester, American biographer, novelist
• 2004 – Satomi Mitarai, Japanese student, murdered by a classmate

Holidays and observances

• Children's Day in some countries
• Commemoration of Justin Martyr (Anglican)
• Kenya Madaraka Day 1963
• Nirvana of Buddhists
• Roman Empire – Festival in honor of Carna
• Samoa – Independence Day 1962
• Tunisia – Constitution Day / Victory Day 1959

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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