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June 1
June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining.
Events
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193 - Roman Emperor Marcus Didius is assassinated in his palace.
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1283 - Treaty of Rheinfelden - Duke Rudolph II of Austria has to waive his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
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1485 - Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.
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1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
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1533 - Henry VIII of England's new wife, Anne Boleyn, is crowned as queen.
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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.
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1779 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
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1792 - Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the United States.
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1796 - Tennessee becomes the 16th state in the United States.
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1812 - War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the U.S. Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
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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'.
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1815 - Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
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1831 - James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
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1847 - Zeta Psi Fraternity is founded.
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1855 - American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua and reinstates slavery.
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1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Fair Oaks ends - Both sides claim victory.
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1869 - Thomas Edison of Boston, Massachusetts, received a patent for his electric voting machine .
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1879 - Eugene Louis Napoleon , Prince of France killed in the Zulu Wars
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1890 - The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
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1898 - The Trans-Mississippi Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska.
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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.
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1909 - The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition world's fair opens in Seattle, Washington.
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1910 - Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England
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1918 - World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins -
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1921 - Tulsa Race Riot: A race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma kills at least 85 people.
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1922 - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
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1935 - First driving tests introduced in Britain.
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1938 - Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
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1938 - Protective baseball helmets were worn by batters for the very first time.
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1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete ends - Crete capitulates to Germany.
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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.
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1954 - The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time. [1]
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1958 - Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
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1967 - The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
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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.
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1974 - Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, UK kills 28 people.
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1978 - The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
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1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, ousting Ian Smith and changing its name to Zimbabwe
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1980 - The Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
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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.
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2000 - The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
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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
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1765 - Christiane Vulpius , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's wife (d. 1816)
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1780 - Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian general (d. 1831)
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1790 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright
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1796 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (d. 1832)
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1801 - Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, settler, founder of Salt Lake City (d. 1877)
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1804 - Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
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1815 - Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
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1826 - Carl Bechstein , piano manufacturer (d. 1900)
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1831 - John Bell Hood, Confederate general (d. 1879)
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1843 - Dr Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
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1878 - John Masefield, English novelist and Poet Laureate (d. 1967)
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1881 - Charles Kay Ogden, English writer, linguist and creator of Basic English
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1890 - Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949)
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1898 - Molly Picon, actress (d. 1992)
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1899 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh, mathematician (d. 1963)
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1901 - John Van Druten, English screen writer (d. 1957)
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1921 - Nelson Riddle, Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader, arranger (d. 1985)
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1922 - Joan Caulfield , actress
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1922 - Povel Ramel , Swedish Musicman
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1924 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., radical American clergyman
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1926 - Andy Griffith, American actor
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1926 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
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1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut
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1930 - Edward Woodward, English actor
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1933 - Charles Wilson, American politician
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1934 - Pat Boone (Charles Eugene Boone), American singer
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1936 - Gerald Scarfe, British cartoonist and illustrator
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1937 - Morgan Freeman, American actor
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1939 - Cleavon Little, American actor (d. 1992)
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1939 - Jackie Stewart, British Formula One champion
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1940 - René Auberjonois, American actor
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1945 - Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano
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1946 - Brian Cox, Scottish actor
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1947 - Jonathan Pryce, British actor
- 1947 - Ron Wood, English guitarist, ("The Rolling Stones" and the "Jeff Beck Group")
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1948 - Tomás Halík , Czech priest, scholar and public intellectual
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1956 - Lisa Hartman American actress
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1961 - Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey star
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1965 - Nigel Short, English chess player
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1968 - Jason Donovan, Australian actor
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1970 - Alexi Lalas, American football player
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1973 - Heidi Klum, German supermodel
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1973 - Derek Lowe, American baseball pitcher
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1974 - Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
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1977 - Danielle Harris, American voice actress
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1980 - Oliver James , British actor
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1981 - Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball pitcher
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1982 - Justine Henin-Hardenne, Belgian tennis player
Deaths
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195 BC - Gaozu of Han of China (b. 256 BC or 247 BC)
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1846 - Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765)
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1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
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1876 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
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1927 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
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1943 - Leslie Howard, English actor (b. 1893)
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1946 - Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator (b. 1882)
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1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson, American blues musician
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1959 - Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
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1960 - Lester Patrick, ice hockey star (b. 1883)
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1966 - Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (b. 1873)
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1968 - Helen Keller, American humanitarian (b. 1880)
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1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologist (b. 1892)
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1980 - Rube Marquard, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1886)
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1981 - Carl Vinson, United States Congressman (b. 1883)
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1984 - Nat Nelson , singer
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1994 - Frances Heflin, American soap opera actress (b. 1923)
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1999 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
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2001 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace
- 2001 - King Birendra (b. 1945) and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, (shot, possibly murdered)
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2002 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
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2003 - Gerhard Rentzsch , radio play author
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2004 - William Manchester, American biographer, novelist
Holidays and observances
External links
May 31 - June 2 - May 1 - July 1 -- listing of all days
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