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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 England1918 - 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] (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 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 politician1934 - 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 champion1940 - René Auberjonois , American actor1945 - Frederica von Stade , American mezzo-soprano1946 - 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 star1965 - Nigel Short , English chess player1968 - Jason Donovan , Australian actor1970 - Alexi Lalas , American football player1973 - Heidi Klum, German supermodel 1973 - Derek Lowe , American baseball pitcher 1974 - Alanis Morissette , Canadian singer1977 - 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 musician1959 - 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, singer1994 - 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 author2004 - William Manchester , American biographer, novelist
Holidays and observances May 31 - June 2 - May 1 - July 1 -- listing of all days
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June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing an extra day or month in order to keep the calendar year in sync with an astronomical or seasonal year. June 19 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver. On June 19, 1851 he married Louise of the Netherlands, granddaughter of William I of the Netherlands.
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June 1st , 1943 : BdU (C-in-C U-boats) adopts a new policy of fighting back at Allied sub-hunting aircraft with the U-boats' own AA guns while crossing the Bay of Biscay on the surface; this tactic proves to be largely unsuccesful and is soon abandoned. June 6th, 1941 : Hittler issues a directive for the implementation of the Kommissarbefehl (Commissar Order) which calls for the summary execution of all Soviet political commissars attached to the Red Army; this order is tacitly disobeyed by most German army and corps commanders who deem it contrary to German military custom and tradition. June 17th, 1943 : The British battleships Valiant and Warspite are transferred from Scapa Flow to Oran and Alexandria in North Africa in preparation for Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily.
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