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 .
1935 - First driving tests introduced in Britain.
1938 - Action Comics issues the first Superman 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 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 , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 's wife (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, settler, founder of Salt Lake City (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 , 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 , linguist and creator of Basic English
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 )
1921 - Nelson Riddle , Grammy Award -winning orchestra leader, arranger (d. 1985 )
1922 - Joan Caulfield , actress
1922 - Povel Ramel , Swedish Musicman
1924 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin , Jr., radical 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
Holidays and observances
External links
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