June 1Birthdays & History

On this day: June 1 in history

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1. 193The Roman Senate passes a motion proclaiming Septimius Severus emperor, awards divine honours to Pertinax, and sentences current emperor Didius Julianus to death.Europe
2. 1252Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.Europe
3. 1298Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.Europe
4. 1412The Treaty of Lubowla between the kingdoms of Hungary and Poland is confirmed with one of the largest and magnificent royal meetings and feasts ever held in Buda. King Sigismund of Hungary host king Władysław II Jagiełło while several thousand nobles attend.Europe
5. 1494A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.Europe
6. 1533Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.Europe
7. 1535Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.Africa
8. 1648The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.Europe
9. 1649Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.Europe
10. 1670In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.Europe
11. 1676Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79).Europe
12. 1679The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.Europe
13. 1773Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. Both he and his horse, Vonk, are drowned on his eighth attempt.Africa
14. 1779The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.North America
15. 1792Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.North America
16. 1794The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.Europe
17. 1796Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.North America
18. 1812War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.North AmericaEurope
19. 1813Capture of USS Chesapeake.North AmericaEurope
20. 1815Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.Europe
21. 1831James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the North Magnetic Pole.Europe
22. 1849Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of Minnesota officially established.North America
23. 1854Åland War: The British navy destroys merchant ships and about 16,000 tar barrels of the wholesale stocks area in Oulu, Grand Duchy of Finland.Europe
24. 1855The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.North AmericaLatin America
25. 1857The Revolution of the Ganhadores begins in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.Latin America
26. 1857Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.Europe
27. 1861American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is fought.North America
28. 1862American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.North America
29. 1868The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.North AmericaLatin America
30. 1879Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.Africa
31. 1890The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.North America
32. 1913The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.Europe
33. 1916The United States Senate confirms the appointment of Louis Brandeis to the United States Supreme Court, making him the first Jew to be an Associate Justice.North America
34. 1918World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.Europe
35. 1919Prohibition comes into force in Finland.Europe
36. 1922The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.Europe
37. 1929The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.Latin AmericaNorth America
38. 1939First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft.Europe
39. 1941World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.Europe
40. 1941The Farhud, a massive pogrom in Iraq, starts and as a result, many Iraqi Jews are forced to leave their homes.Middle East
41. 1943BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.Europe
42. 1946Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed.Europe
43. 1950The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America.North America
44. 1950The Declaration of Conscience speech, by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith, is delivered in response to Joseph R. McCarthy's speech at Wheeling, West Virginia.North America
45. 1951Washington State Ferries, the largest ferry system in the United States, begins operation under state ownership after a buyout of the Puget Sound Navigation Company.North America
46. 1958Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.Europe
47. 1961The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history.North America
48. 1962Adolf Eichmann, former SS officer in Nazi Germany, is hanged in Israel for having committed crimes against humanity, war crimes, and other offenses.EuropeMiddle East
49. 1974The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.North America
50. 1975The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others.Middle East
51. 1976Aeroflot Flight 418 crashes in Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, killing 46.Africa
52. 1978The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.World
53. 1979The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.Africa
54. 1980Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.North America
55. 1988The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.North AmericaEurope
56. 1990Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.North AmericaEurope
57. 1993Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.Europe
58. 1994Republic of South Africa becomes a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations.Africa
59. 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.North America
60. 2001Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.Asia
61. 2001Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.Middle East
62. 2004Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.North America
63. 2007Cyclone Gonu develops from an area of convection in the Arabian Sea, becoming the worst recorded natural disaster in Oman.Middle East
64. 2008A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.North America
65. 2009General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.North America
66. 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.EuropeLatin America
67. 2011Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing after 25 flights.World
68. 2011A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.EuropeNorth America
69. 2015A ship carrying 458 people capsizes in the Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 442 people.Asia

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