What happened on June 1? There are more than 284 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About June 1
June 1 is the 153rd day of the year 2024. There are 213 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday. This day falls under the 22nd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Chandler, Indiana 47610 sunrise will occur at 05:26 AM and sunset will occur at 08:08 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Gemini. The modern birthstone for this month is Pearl while the mystical birthstone is Moonstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 242 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For June 1
- 193Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
- 987Hugh Capet is elected King of France.
- 1204King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
- 1215Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
- 1252Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León.
- 1298Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
- 1495Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
- 1533Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
- 1648The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
- 1660Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1670In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
- 1679The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
- 1779Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
- 1792Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
- 1794The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- 1796Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
- 1812War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
- 1813James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: “Don't give up the ship!”
- 1815Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
- 1831James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
- 1855American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
- 1857Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal is published.
- 1861American Civil War, Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861), first land battle of American Civil War after Battle of Fort Sumter, first Confederate combat casualty.
- 1862American Civil War, Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
- 1868Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- 1879Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
- 1890The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
- 1910Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition leaves England.
- 1913The Greek-Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
- 1916Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
- 1918World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
- 1921Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- 1922The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
- 1929The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
- 1941The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
- 1941World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
- 1943British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- 1946Ion Antonescu, “Conducator” (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
- 1958Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
- 1960New Zealand’s first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
- 1962The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
- 1963Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
- 1974Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
- 1974The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
- 1978The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
- 1979The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
- 1980Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
- 1990George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- 1993Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
- 1999American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
- 2001Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
- 2001Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
- 2003The People’s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
- 2009Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
- 2009General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
- 2011A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts during the event, killing four people.
Who Were Born On June 1?
- 719Yang Yuhuan, consort of Chinese Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (d. 756)
- 1076Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
- 1134Geoffrey, Count of Nantes, brother of Henry II of England (d. 1158)
- 1300Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)
- 1480Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
- 1503Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (d. 1567)
- 1563Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612)
- 1633Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
- 1653Georg Muffat, French composer (d. 1704)
- 1675Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
- 1754Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Austrian governor of the Duchy of Milan and Duke of Breisgau (d. 1806)
- 1762Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (d. 1844)
- 1771Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (d. 1839)
- 1790Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
- 1796Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist (d. 1832)
- 1800Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879)
- 1801Brigham Young, American colonizer and religious leader (d. 1877)
- 1804Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
- 1815Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
- 1825John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate cavalry general (d. 1864)
- 1831John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
- 1833John Marshall Harlan, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1911)
- 1843Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
- 1844John J. Toffey, American army officer (d. 1911)
- 1878John Masefield, English novelist and poet (d. 1967)
- 1889Charles Kay Ogden, English polymath (d. 1957)
- 1890Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949)
- 1898Molly Picon, American actress (d. 1992)
- 1899Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963)
- 1901Hap Day, Canadian hockey player and manager (d. 1990)
- 1901John Van Druten, English screen writer (d. 1957)
- 1903Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian bishop (d. 1973)
- 1907Sir Frank Whittle, English inventor of the jet engine (d. 1996)
- 1908Julie Campbell Tatham, American writer (d. 1999)
- 1909Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (d. 1986)
- 1909Yechezkel Kutscher, Slovakian-born Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist (d. 1971)
- 1912Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1987)
- 1913Bill Deedes, British journalist (d. 2007)
- 1915John Randolph, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1917William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1920Robert Clarke, American actor d. 2005
- 1921Nelson Riddle, American bandleader and arranger (d. 1985)
- 1922Joan Caulfield, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1922Joan Copeland, American actress
- 1922Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
- 1924William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
- 1925Dilia Díaz Cisneros, Venezuelan teacher
- 1925Marie Knight, American gospel singer (d. 2009)
- 1926Andy Griffith, American actor
- 1926Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
- 1928Bob Monkhouse, English comedian (d. 2003)
- 1928Georgi Dobrovolski, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
- 1929James Billington – American librarian
- 1929Nargis, Indian actress (d. 1981)
- 1930Edward Woodward, English actor (d. 2009)
- 1930John Lemmon, English logician (d. 1966)
- 1932Christopher Lasch, American historian and social critic (d. 1994)
- 1933Charles Wilson, American politician (d. 2010)
- 1933Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (d. 1985)
- 1934Pat Boone, American singer
- 1935Reverend Ike, American televangelist (d. 2009)
- 1936Bekim Fehmiu, Yugoslav actor (d. 2010)
- 1936Gerald Scarfe, British illustrator
- 1936Joe Doyle, Irish politician
- 1937Colleen McCullough, Australian novelist (The Thorn Birds)
- 1937Morgan Freeman, American actor
- 1937Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress
- 1938Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani Poet and Scholar
- 1939Cleavon Little, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1940Katerina Gogou, Greek actress and poet (d. 1993)
- 1940Kip Thorne, American physicist
- 1940René Auberjonois, American actor
- 1944Robert Powell, English actor
- 1945Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano
- 1945Linda Scott, American singer
- 1946Brian Cox, Scottish actor
- 1947Jonathan Pryce, British actor
- 1947Ron Dennis, F1 team principal (McLaren)
- 1947Ronnie Wood, English guitarist (Rolling Stones)
- 1948Michel Plasse, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
- 1948Powers Boothe, American actor
- 1948Tomáš Halík, Czech priest and public intellectual
- 1948Tom Sneva, American race car driver and Indianapolis 500 winner
- 1950Wayne Nelson, American musician (Little River Band)
- 1953David Berkowitz, American serial killer known as the Son of Sam
- 1953Ronnie Dunn, American musician (Brooks & Dunn)
- 1955Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 58th Yokozuna
- 1955Tony Snow, American news anchor, former White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush (d. 2008)
- 1956Lisa Hartman, American actress
- 1957Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director
- 1958Ahron Bregman, Israeli journalist
- 1959Alan Wilder, British musician (Depeche Mode and Recoil)
- 1959Martin Brundle, British race car driver and F1 television commentator
- 1960Giorgos Lillikas, Cypriot politician
- 1960Simon Gallup, English bassist (The Cure)
- 1961Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player
- 1961Peter Machajdik, Slovakian composer
- 1963Mike Joyce, English drummer (The Smiths)
- 1964Mark Curry, American comedian and actor
- 1964Tribhuvan, Indian Poet and journalist
- 1965Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier
- 1965Nigel Short, English chess player
- 1966Greg Schiano, American football coach
- 1967Roger Sanchez, American disc jockey
- 1968Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
- 1968Jeff Hackett, Canadian hockey player
- 1968Karen Mulder, Dutch model
- 1969René Liu, Taiwanese actress and singer
- 1969Teri Polo, American actress
- 1970Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
- 1970Paul Schrier, American actor
- 1970R. Madhavan, Indian actor
- 1971Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor and singer
- 1972Daniel Casey, English actor
- 1972Mike Dunham, American hockey player
- 1973Adam Garcia, Australian actor
- 1973Derek Lowe, American baseball player
- 1973Frédérik Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer
- 1973Heidi Klum, German model
- 1974Akis Zikos, Greek footballer
- 1974Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1974Ashok Jadeja, Indian fraudster
- 1974Melissa Sagemiller, American actress
- 1974Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
- 1975James Storm, American professional wrestler
- 1975Michal Grosek, Czech hockey player
- 1977Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player
- 1977Danielle Harris, American actress
- 1977Richard Williams, British racing driver
- 1977Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
- 1978Matthew Hittinger, American poet
- 1979Markus Persson, “Notch”, Programmer and the creator of Minecraft
- 1979Santana Moss, American football player
- 1980Oliver James, British actor
- 1981Brandi Carlile, American singer and songwriter
- 1981Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1981Smush Parker, American basketball player
- 1982Justine Henin (formerly Henin-Hardenne), Belgian tennis player
- 1983Jake Silbermann, American actor
- 1984Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, Mongolian athlete
- 1984Oliver Tielemans, Dutch racing driver
- 1985Ari Herstand, American Singer/Songwriter
- 1985Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
- 1985Nick Young, American basketball player
- 1985Sam Young, American basketball player
- 1985Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian athlete
- 1986Ben Smith, New Zealand rugby player
- 1986Dayana Mendoza, Venezuelan beauty queen and Miss Universe 2008 winner
- 1987Jerel McNeal, American basketball player
- 1987Juan Hernandez, Mexican footballer
- 1987Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer
- 1988Javier Hernández Balcázar, Mexican footballer
- 1988Nami Tamaki, Japanese pop singer
Who Died On June 1?
- 195 BCGaozu of Han of China
- 193Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)
- 1434Wladislaus II of Poland (b. 1362)
- 1571John Story, English Catholic (b. 1504)
- 1616Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)
- 1625Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
- 1639Melchior Franck, German composer (b. 1579)
- 1660Mary Dyer, English Quaker (b. 1611)
- 1710David Mitchell, British admiral (b. 1642)
- 1740Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
- 1769Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard University (b. 1689)
- 1795Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
- 1815Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1753)
- 1823Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (b. 1770)
- 1826Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
- 1830Swaminarayan, Indian Hindu figure (b. 1781)
- 1841David Wilkie, Scottish artist (b. 1785)
- 1846Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765)
- 1861John Quincy Marr (b. 1825), first Confederate States soldier (officer) killed in the American Civil War
- 1864Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel,build Taiping Rebellion (b. 1812)
- 1868James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
- 1872James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1795)
- 1873Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
- 1879Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial son of Emperor Napoleon III (b. 1856)
- 1927J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
- 1935Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Austro-Hungarian Colonel General (d. 1857)
- 1938Ödön von Horváth, Austro-Hungarian-playwright and novelist (b. 1901)
- 1941Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (b. 1873)
- 1943Leslie Howard, English actor (b. 1893)
- 1943Wilfrid B. Israel, German-Jewish activist (b. 1899)
- 1946Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882)
- 1947Anna Hoffman-Uddgren, Swedish director and actor (b. 1868)
- 1948Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
- 1948Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (b. 1914)
- 1952John Dewey, American philosopher and educational theorist (b. 1859)
- 1953Emanuel Vidović, painter and graphic artist from Split, Croatia (b. 1870)
- 1954Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (b. 1869)
- 1955Kathleen, Duchess of Newcastle, British duchess (b. 1872)
- 1959Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
- 1960Lester Patrick, Canadian hockey player (b. 1883)
- 1960Paula Hitler, sister of Adolf Hitler (b. 1896)
- 1965Earl “Curly” Lambeau, American football coach (b. 1898)
- 1966Papa Jack Laine, American musician (b. 1873)
- 1968André Laurendeau, Canadian writer, journalist and politician (b. 1912)
- 1968Helen Keller, American humanitarian (b. 1880)
- 1969Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater (b. 1904)
- 1971Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (b. 1892)
- 1973Mary Kornman, American actress (b. 1915)
- 1979Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1904)
- 1980Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
- 1980Rube Marquard, American baseball player (b. 1886)
- 1981Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (b. 1883)
- 1983Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903)
- 1985Richard Greene, British actor (b. 1918)
- 1986Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (b. 1958)
- 1987Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (b. 1921)
- 1989Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari) (b. 1917)
- 1991David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1941)
- 1994Frances Heflin, American actress (b. 1923)
- 1996Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Fifth President of India (b. 1913)
- 1998Darwin Joston, American actor (b. 1937)
- 1999Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (b. 1910)
- 2001Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
- 2001King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
- 2001Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
- 2002Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
- 2004William Manchester, American writer (b. 1922)
- 2005George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)
- 2006Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
- 2007Arn Shein, American sports writer (b. 1928)
- 2007Tony Thompson, American R&B singer (Hi-Five) (b. 1975)
- 2008Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
- 2008Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
- 2009Thomas Berry, American theologian, deep ecologist (b. 1914)
- 2009Vincent O'Brien, Irish horse trainer (b.1917)
- 2010William H. Ginn Jr., U.S. Air Force officer (b. 1928)
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