June 1
is the
152nd day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (153rd in
leap years), with 213 days remaining.
*
193 -
Roman Emperor Didius Julianus 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 takes
Vienna in his conquest of
Austria (from
Frederick III) and makes 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 by some 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
USS Chesapeake,
Capt. James Lawrence, cries out, "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.
*
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 leads to an official death toll of 39 -- but a commission authorized by the
Oklahoma State Legislature in
1997 concludes 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 until
Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks it in
1995.
*
1935 - The first driving tests are introduced in
Britain.
*
1941 -
World War II:
Battle of Crete ends as
Crete capitulates to
Germany.
*
1942 -
World War II: The
Liberty Brigade, a
Warsaw underground newspaper, published the news of the death camp killings for the very first time. It told the story of
Emanuel Ringelblum, who escaped from
Chelmno after being forced to bury the exterminated bodies.
*
1946 -
Ion Antonescu, prime minister and "Conducător" (Leader) of Romania during World War II is executed; he was found guilty of betraying Romanian people for benefits of Germany and sentenced to death by
Bucharest People's Tribunal.
*
1958 -
Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead
France by decree for six months.
*
1962 - In the nation's only civilian execution in its history,
Adolf Eichmann is hanged in
Israel, having been found guilty of crimes against humanity during
World War II.
*
1967 -
The Beatles album
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released. It knocks
Headquarters by
The Monkees out of the #1 spot and remains there all summer long.
*
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 where he died three days later.
* 2001 -
Hamas suicide bomber kills 21, mostly teenagers, in the Dolphinarium disco in
Tel Aviv,
Israel.
*
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.
*
1076 - Prince
Mstislav of Kiev (d.
1132)
*
1300 -
Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of
Edward I of England (d.
1338)
*
1480 -
Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d.
1550)
*
1503 -
Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (d.
1567)
*
1563 -
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d.
1612)
*
1633 -
Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d.
1687)
*
1653 -
Georg Muffat, French composer (d.
1704)
*
1675 -
Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d.
1755)
*
1771 -
Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (d.
1839)
*
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)
*
1815 -
Philip Kearny, American general (d.
1862)
* 1815 - King
Otto of Greece (d.
1862)
*
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 (d.
1967)
*
1881 -
Charles Kay Ogden, English writer and linguist (d.
1957)
*
1890 -
Frank Morgan, American actor (d.
1949)
*
1898 -
Molly Picon, American actress (d.
1992)
*
1899 -
Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d.
1963)
*
1901 -
John Van Druten, English screen writer (d.
1957)
* 1901 -
Hap Day, Canadian hockey player and manager (d.
1990)
*
1907 - Sir
Frank Whittle, invented the
jet engine (d.
1996)
*
1915 -
John Randolph, American actor (d.
2004)
*
1917 -
William S. Knowles, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
1921 -
Nelson Riddle, American orchestra leader and arranger (d.
1985)
*
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
* 1928 -
Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (d.
2003)
*
1930 -
Edward Woodward, English actor
*
1933 -
Charles Wilson, American politician
*
1934 -
Pat Boone (
Charles Eugene Boone), American singer
*
1936 -
Gerald Scarfe, British cartoonist and illustrator
*
1937 -
Morgan Freeman, American actor
* 1937 -
Colleen McCullough,
Australian novelist
*
1939 -
Cleavon Little, American actor (d.
1992)
* 1939 -
Jackie Stewart, British race car driver
*
1940 -
René Auberjonois, American actor
* 1940 -
Kip Thorne, American physicist
*
1945 -
Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano
* 1945 -
Linda Scott, American signer
*
1946 -
Brian Cox, Scottish actor
*
1947 -
Jonathan Pryce, British actor
* 1947 -
Ron Wood, English guitarist, (
Jeff Beck Group,
The Faces, and
The Rolling Stones)
*
1953 -
Ronnie Dunn, American musician (
Brooks & Dunn)
*
1956 -
Lisa Hartman, American actress
*
1957 -
Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director
*
1958 -
Ahron Bregman, Israeli journalist
*
1959 -
Martin Brundle, British race car driver
* 1959 -
Alan Wilder, British musician (
Depeche Mode and
Recoil)
*
1960 -
Simon Gallup, English guitarist, (
The Cure)
*
1961 -
Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player
*
1963 -
Mike Joyce, English drummer (
The Smiths)
*
1964 -
Mark Curry, American comedian and actor
*
1965 -
Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier
* 1965 -
Nigel Short, English chess player
*
1967 -
Roger Sanchez, American disc jockey
*
1968 -
Jason Donovan, Australian actor
* 1968 -
Jeff Hackett, Canadian hockey player
*
1969 -
Teri Polo, American actress
*
1970 -
Alexi Lalas, American football player
* 1970 -
Karen Mulder, Dutch model
*
1973 -
Adam Garcia, Australian actor
* 1973 -
Heidi Klum, German model
* 1973 -
Derek Lowe, American baseball player
*
1974 -
Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
*
1974 -
Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
*
1975 -
James Storm, American professional wrestler
*
1977 -
Danielle Harris, American voice actress
* 1977 -
Brad Wilkerson, Baseball player
*
1980 -
Oliver James, British actor
*
1981 -
Smush Parker, American basketball player
* 1981 -
Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player
*
1982 -
Justine Henin-Hardenne, Belgian tennis player
*
1985 -
Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
*
1988 -
Gabriel Bonfá Sacho, Brazilian soccer player
*
195 BC -
Gaozu of Han of China
*
193 -
Marcus Severus Didius Julianus,
Roman Emperor (b.
133)
*
1434 - King
Wladislaus II of Poland*
1571 -
John Story, English Catholic (martyred)
*
1616 - Shogun
Tokugawa Ieyasu (b.
1543)
*
1625 -
Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b.
1568)
*
1639 -
Melchior Franck, German composer
*
1660 -
Mary Dyer, English Quaker (
martyred)
*
1710 -
David Mitchell, British admiral (b.
1642)
*
1740 -
Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b.
1657)
*
1769 -
Edward Holyoke, American President of Harvard University (b.
1689)
*
1795 -
Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (b.
1744)
*
1815 -
Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b.
1853)
*
1823 -
Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (b.
1770)
*
1826 -
Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor and philanthropist (b.
1740)
*
1841 -
David Wilkie, Scottish artist (b.
1785)
*
1846 -
Pope Gregory XVI (b.
1765)
*
1864 -
Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b.
1812)
*
1868 -
James Buchanan, 15th
President of the United States (b.
1791)
*
1873 -
Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (b.
1804)
*
1876 -
Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b.
1848)
*
1879 -
Napoléon Eugène Louis John Joseph only child of
Emperor Napoleon III of France (b.
1856)
*
1927 -
J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b.
1861)
*
1941 -
Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (b.
1873)
*
1943 -
Leslie Howard, English actor (b.
1893)
*
1946 -
Ion Antonescu,
Prime Minister of Romania (b.
1882)
*
1948 -
Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (b.
1914)
*
1954 -
Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (b.
1869)
*
1959 -
Sax Rohmer, English author (b.
1883)
*
1960 -
Lester Patrick, Canadian hockey player (b.
1883)
*
1962 -
Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (b.
1906)
*
1965 -
Earl "Curly" Lambeau, American football coach (b.
1898)
*
1966 -
Papa Jack Laine, American musician (b.
1873)
*
1968 -
Helen Keller, American humanitarian (b.
1880)
*
1969 -
Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (b.
1904)
*
1971 -
Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (b.
1892)
*
1973 -
Mary Kornman, American actress (b.
1915)
*
1979 -
Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1904)
*
1980 -
Rube Marquard, baseball player (b.
1886)
*
1981 -
Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (b.
1883)
* 1981 -
Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b.
1897)
*
1983 -
Prince Charles of Belgium (b.
1903)
*
1985 -
Richard Greene, British actor (b.
1918)
*
1987 -
Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (b.
1921)
*
1991 -
David Ruffin, American signer (
The Temptations) (b.
1941)
*
1994 -
Frances Heflin, American actress (b.
1923)
*
1998 -
Darwin Joston, American actor (b.
1937)
*
1999 -
Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (b.
1910)
*
2001 -
Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (shot) (b.
1949)
* 2001 - King
Birendra of Nepal (assassinated) (b.
1945)
* 2001 -
Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b.
1920)
*
2002 -
Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b.
1969)
*
2003 -
Johnny Hopp, baseball player (b.
1916)
*
2004 -
William Manchester, American writer (b.
1922)
*
2005 -
George Mikan, American basketball player (b.
1924)
*
2006 -
Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b.
1944)
*
Children's Day in some countries.
*
Kenya Madaraka Day 1963.
*
Nirvana of
Buddhists.
*
Roman Empire - Festival in honour of
Carna.
*
Samoa -
Independence Day 1962.
*
Tunisia -
Constitution Day /
Victory Day 1959.
*The
Ascension in
Eastern Christianity.
Liturgical feasts
*Commemoration of
Justin Martyr (
Anglican).The following Catholic saints:
*
Saint Conrad of Trier*
Saint Justinus (died 1066)
*
Saint Pamphilus*
Saint Ronan*Blessed
Theobald*
BBC: On This Day*
The New York Times: On This Day*
On This Day in CanadaMay 31 -
June 2 -
May 1 -
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