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June 1 in History
Historical Events on June 1
193
The Roman emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
1215
Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
1252
Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
1298
Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
1495
A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
1533
Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1535
Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
1648
The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
1649
Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
1660
Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1670
In 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.
1679
The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
1773
Wolraad 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. He drowned on his eighth attempt.
1779
Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
1792
Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
1794
The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1796
Tennessee is admitted as 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
James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"
1815
Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
1831
James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the North Magnetic Pole.
1849
Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of Minnesota officially established.
1855
The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
1857
Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
1861
American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is fought.
1862
American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
1868
The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1879
Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1890
The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1910
Robert Falcon Scott's second South Pole expedition leaves Cardiff.
1913
The Greek-Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
1916
Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
1918
World 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.
1922
The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
1929
The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
1939
First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bomber airplane.
1941
World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
1943
BOAC 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.
1946
Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed.
1958
Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
1961
The 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.
1962
Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
1967
The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released.
1974
The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1978
The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1979
The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
1980
Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1988
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.
1990
George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1993
Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
1999
American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
2001
Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.
2001
Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2004
Oklahoma state prosecutors sentence Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of a parole breaking a Guinness World Record.
2009
Air 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.
2009
General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
2011
A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
2015
A ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.
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