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 (duchy).
*
1485 -
Matthias of
Hungary took
Vienna in his conquest of
Austria (from
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor) 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 consort.
*
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
U.S. state in the
United States.
*
1796 -
Tennessee becomes the 16th
U.S. state in the
United States.
*
1812 -
War of 1812: U.S. President
James Madison asks the
Congress of the United States to declare war on the
United Kingdom.
*
1813 - The
United States Navy gains 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 Pole on the
Boothia Peninsula.
*
1847 -
Zeta Psi Fraternity is founded.
*
1855 - American adventurer
William Walker (soldier) conquers
Nicaragua and reinstates
slavery.
*
1862 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Fair Oaks ends - Both sides claim victory.
*
1869 -
Thomas Edison of
Boston, Massachusetts, receives 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 (1898) 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.
*
1925 -
Lou Gehrig of the
New York Yankees plays the first game in his record streak of 2,130 consecutive games, an endurance record in
major league baseball that stands till
Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it in
1995.
*
1935 - First driving tests introduced in Britain.
*
1938 - Protective
baseball helmets are 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 is shot down by the
Germanys 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. [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,
United Kindom 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 metres.
*
2005 - The
Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
==Births==
*
1265 -
Dante Alighieri,
Florentine poet (d.
1321)
*
1765 -
Christiane Vulpius, wife of
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (d.
1816)
*
1780 -
Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian general (d.
1831)
*
1790 -
Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d.
1836)
*
1796 -
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (d.
1832)
*
1801 -
Brigham Young, Mormon church leader and American western settler (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, American 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 and linguist (d.
1957)
*
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)
*
1917 -
William S. Knowles, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
1921 -
Nelson Riddle,
Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader, arranger (d.
1985)
*
1922 -
Joan Caulfield, actress
*1922 -
Povel Ramel , Swedish musician
*
1924 - Dr.
William Sloane Coffin, Jr., 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 (politician), American politician
*
1934 -
Pat Boone (
Charles Eugene Boone), American
singer
*
1936 -
Gerald Scarfe,
United Kingdom cartoonist and
illustrator
*
1937 -
Morgan Freeman, American
actor
*
1939 -
Cleavon Little, American
actor (d.
1992 in film)
*1939 -
Jackie Stewart,
United Kingdom Formula One champion
*
1940 -
René Auberjonois, American actor
*1940 -
Kip Thorne, American physicist
*
1945 -
Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano
*
1946 -
Brian Cox, Scottish
actor
*
1947 -
Jonathan Pryce,
United Kingdom actor
*1947 -
Ron Wood, English
guitarist, (the "
Jeff Beck Group," "
The Faces," and "
The Rolling Stones")
*
1948 -
Tomás Halík,
Czech priest,
scholar and
public intellectual
*
1956 -
Lisa Hartman American
actor
*
1959 -
Martin Brundle,
United Kingdom Formula One driver
*
1961 -
Paul Coffey, Canadian
ice hockey star
*
1964 -
Mark Curry, American comedian and actor
*
1965 -
Nigel Short, English
chess player
*
1968 -
Jason Donovan, Australian actor
*
1970 -
Alexi Lalas, American
football player
*
1973 -
Adam Garcia,
Australia actor
*1973 -
Heidi Klum,
Germany supermodel
*1973 -
Derek Lowe, American
baseball pitcher
*
1974 -
Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
*
1974 - Dominic Martínez, British
*
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)
*
193 -
Marcus Severus Didius Julianus,
Roman Emperor (b.
133)
*
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 United States House of Representatives (b.
1883)
*
1984 -
Nat Nelson, singer
*
1994 -
Frances Heflin, American soap opera actress (b.
1923)
*
1999 -
Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer, inventor of the
hovercraft (b.
1910)
*
2001 -
Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, creator of
Dennis the Menace
*2001 -
Birendra of Nepal (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
*2004 -
Satomi Mitarai, Japanese student,
murdered by a
Nevada-tan
*
2005 -
George Mikan, American professional basketball player (b.
1924)
==Holidays and observances==
*
Children's Day in some countries
*Commemoration of
Justin Martyr (
Anglican)
*
Kenya Madaraka Day 1963
*
Nirvana of
Buddhists
*
Roman Empire - Festival in honour of
Carna
*
Samoa - Independence Day
1962
*
Tunisia - Constitution Day / Victory Day
1959
== External links ==
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/1 BBC: On This Day]
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Moved to
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1774 -
American Revolutionary War: The
Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of
Boston, Massachusetts closed.
Nope, was on
March 31. See
Boston Port Act. --
User:Maveric149 05:28, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Moved to
May 2:
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1829 -
James Stirling (Australian governor) founds the
Swan River Colony in
Western Australia.
A ship called the ''Parmelia'' landed that day and the dear governor did not found the colony. Moved to
May 2. --
User:Maveric149 05:28, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Moved to
July 4:
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1840 -
Samuel Cunard completes passage of a 700 ton wooden paddlewheel steamer from
Liverpool,
England to
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The ''Britannia'' was the seond transatlantic ship of the
Cunard Line (but the first to carry passengers as its main cargo). It was launched on
February 5, 1840 and did not depart for its first voyage until
July 4 that year. --
User:Maveric149 05:28, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Moved to
May 4:
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1855 -
United States adventurer
William Walker conquers
Nicaragua and reinstates
slavery
It did happen ''sometime'' in June, but I could not confirm an exact date from a reliable source. He did set sail on May 4. --
User:Maveric149 05:28, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Moved to
May 27:
*
1933 - The
Century of Progress world's fair opens in
Chicago, Illinois
Nope - it started a few days before. --
User:Maveric149 05:28, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Moved to
July 1:
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1958 - The
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links
television broadcasting across
Canada.
*
1966 - First
Canada colour
television broadcast
Nope - those happened on July 1. --
User:Maveric149 05:28, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Removed:
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1977 - The
Soviet Union charges
civil rights leader
Anatoly Sharansky with
treason.
It was sometime in 1977, but I could not confirm an exact date. --
User:Maveric149 05:28, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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2001 -
Nobel Prize-winning mathematician
John Forbes Nash (''
A Beautiful Mind'') remarries ex-wife Alicia; she divorced him in 1963
Not at all relevant to world history. --
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