June 1

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This date in recent years

June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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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 what would become the United States.
1779 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
1792 - Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the United States.
1796 - Tennessee becomes the 16th state of the United States.
1812 - War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress 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 Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
1855 - American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua and reinstates slavery.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Fair Oaks ends, with both sides claiming victory.
1869 - Thomas Edison of Boston, Massachusetts, receives a patent for his electric voting machine.
1879 - Napoleon Eugene, Prince of France, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
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, United States.
1907 - Cricket: 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, United States.
1910 - Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.
1918 - World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins.
1921 - Tulsa Race Riot: Civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma,USA, the official death toll is 39, but a commision authorised by the Oklahoma State Legislature in 1997 concluded that the actual toll may be 150-300.
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 - Baseball: Protective helmets are worn by batters for the very first time.
1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
1943 - A civilian flight from Lisbon to London is 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]
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; Don Dunstan becomes Premier of South Australia
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.
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 the country's 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 multilateral Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
2001 - Crown Prince Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal slaughters his family during a royal dinner. Diprenda was also shot, and was proclaimed king in his hospital bed, dying three days later.
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.