June 1

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

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky
1774 - American Revolutionary War: The government of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed
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: President James Madison asks the United States Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom
1831 - James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula
1840 - Samuel Cunard completes passage of a 700 ton wooden paddlewheel steamer from Liverpool, England to Halifax, Nova Scotia
1855 - American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua and reinstates slavery
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
1922 - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
1933 - The Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago, Illinois
1938 - The first Superman comic is published
1958 - Canada-wide television broadcasting starts
1958 - Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months
1966 - First Canadian colour television broadcast
1977 - The Soviet Union charges civil rights leader Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
1979 - Ninety years of white minority rule ends in Rhodesia; to be known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
1980 - The Cable News Network begins broadcasting
2003 - 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 († 1816)
1780 - Carl von Clausewitz, general († 1831)
1801 - Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, settler († 1877)
1815 - Philip Kearny, general († 1862)
1826 - Carl Bechstein, piano manufacturer († 1900)
1890 - Frank Morgan, actor († 1949)
1898 - Molly Picon, actress († 1992)
1921 - Nelson Riddle, band leader († 1985)
1924 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., radical clergyman
1926 - Andy Griffith, actor
1926 - Marilyn Monroe, actress († 1962)
1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut
1934 - Pat Boone, singer
1937 - Morgan Freeman, actor
1940 - Ren� Auberjonois, actor
1946 - Brian Cox, actor
1947 - Ron Wood, guitarist, ("The Rolling Stones" and the "Jeff Beck Group")
1965 - Nigel Short, chess player
1970 - Alexi Lalas, football player
1974 - Alanis Morissette, singer
1978 - Danielle Harris, voice actress

Deaths

1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States
1943 - Leslie Howard, actor
1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson, blues musician
1959 - Sax Rohmer, author
1960 - Lester Patrick, ice hockey star
1968 - Helen Keller, humanitarian
1980 - Rube Marquard, Baseball Hall of Famer
2001 - Hank Ketcham, creator of Dennis the Menace
2001 - King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, (shot, possibly murdererd)
2002 - Hansie Cronje, cricketer
2003 - Gerhard Rentzsch, radio play author

Holidays and observances

Commemoration of Justin Martyr (Anglican)
Roman Empire - Festival in honor of Carna

See Also:

May 31 - June 2 - May 1 - July 1 -- listing of all days

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