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 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.
• 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 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] (http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/meet_linus.html)
• 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.
• 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 Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and start destroying each of their nation's stockpiles.
• 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)
• 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
• 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 - Tomáš 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

• 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)
• 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

• Commemoration of Justin Martyr (Kenya Madaraka Day 1963
• Nirvana of Buddhists
• Roman Empire - Festival in honor of Samoa - Independence Day 1962
• Tunisia - Constitution Day / Victory Day 1959

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