Today June 1st in history click read more below to view detail events, deaths, births, Holidays and observances, and video clips in hisotry. Please comments, last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
Events
193 – Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
987 – Hugh Capet is elected King of France.
1204 – King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
1215 – 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 Beijing.
1252 – Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León.
1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold 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, cries out Don t give up the ship!
1815 – Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
1855 – American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
1857 – Charles Baudelaire s Fleurs du mal is published.
1862 – American Civil War, Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
1868 – Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1869 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine.
1879 – Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1886 – The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31.
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 Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1920 – Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1922 – Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
1925 – Lou Gehrig plays the first game in his streak of 2,130 consecutive games; it was the longest such streak until broken by Cal Ripken Jr. in 1995.
1935 – The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom.
1939 – Maiden flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger (D-OPZE) fighter aeroplane
1940 – The Leninist Communist Youth League of the Karelo-Finnish SSR holds its first congress.
1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom in Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
1942 – World War II: the Warsaw paper Liberty Brigade publishes the first news of the concentration camps.
1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1946 – Ion Antonescu is executed.
1956 – First international flight (to YUL) from the Atlanta Municipal Airport (ATL; now Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and currently the world s busiest airport)
1958 – Charles de Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
1963 – Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
1967 – The groundbreaking Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band album by The Beatles is released
1974 – Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1978 – The FIFA World Cup kicks off in Argentina with a match held in Buenos Aires between cup holder West Germany and Poland
1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1979 – Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power.
1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1985 – Alan García is proclaimed President of Peru.
1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1997 – Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
2000 – The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
2001 – Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his family during dinner.
2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: an Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2003 – The People s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
2005 – The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
2005 – The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas area occurs in Crosby, Texas. The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company.
2007 – Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.
2007 – Smoking is banned from United Kingdom s public places.
2008 – A fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroys several icons from movies, such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour.
Births
1076 – Mstislav I 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)
1637 – Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
1653 – Georg Muffat, French composer (d. 1704)
1675 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
1762 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (d. 1844)
1771 – Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (d. 1839)
1790 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
1796 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (d. 1832)
1800 – Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879)
1801 – Brigham Young, Mormon church leader (d. 1877)
1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
1815 – Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
1815 – Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
1831 – John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
1833 – John Marshall Harlan, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1911)
1843 – Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
1844 – John J. Toffey, American Civil War hero (d. 1911)
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)
1903 – Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (d. 1973)
1907 – Frank Whittle, English inventor of the jet engine. (d. 1996)
1909 – Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (d. 1986)
1913 – Bill Deedes, British journalist (d. 2007)
1915 – John Randolph, American actor (d. 2004)
1917 – William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader and arranger (d. 1985)
1922 – Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
1922 – Joan Caulfield, American actress (d. 1991)
1922 – Joan Copeland, American actress
1924 – William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
1925 – Dilia Díaz Cisneros, Venezuelan teacher
1926 – Andy Griffith, American actor
1926 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
1928 – Georgi Dobrovolski, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
1928 – Bob Monkhouse, English comedian (d. 2003)
1929 – James Billington – American librarian
1930 – John Lemmon, English logician (d. 1966)
1930 – Edward Woodward, English actor
1933 – Charles Wilson, American politician
1934 – Pat Boone, American singer
1935 – Reverend Ike, American televangelist
1936 – Gerald Scarfe, British illustrator
1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor
1937 – Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress
1937 – Colleen McCullough, Australian novelist (The Thorn Birds)
1939 – Cleavon Little, American actor (d. 1992)
1940 – René Auberjonois, American actor
1940 – Kip Thorne, American physicist
1944 – Robert Powell, English actor
1945 – Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano
1945 – Linda Scott, American singer
1946 – Brian Cox, Scottish actor
1947 – Jonathan Pryce, British actor
1947 – Ron Dennis, CBE, F1 team principal (McLaren)
1947 – Ronnie Wood, English guitarist (Rolling Stones)
1948 – Tomáš Halík, Czech priest and public intellectual
1948 – Michel Plasse, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
1948 – Tom Sneva, American race car driver and Indianapolis 500 winner
1950 – Wayne Nelson, American musician (Little River Band)
1953 – Ronnie Dunn, American musician (Brooks & Dunn)
1953 – David Berkowitz, American serial killer (Son of Sam)
1955 – Ralph Morse, British actor, singer and writer of historical dramas
1955 – Tony Snow, News Anchor, Former White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush (d. 2008)
1956 – Lisa Hartman, American actress
1957 – Dorota Kedzierzawska, Polish film director
1958 – Ahron Bregman, Israeli journalist
1959 – Martin Brundle, British race car driver and F1 television commentator
1959 – Alan Wilder, British musician (Depeche Mode and Recoil)
1960 – Simon Gallup, English bassist (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
1966 – Greg Schiano, American football coach
1967 – Roger Sanchez, American disc jockey
1968 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
1968 – Jeff Hackett, Canadian hockey player
1969 – Teri Polo, American actress
1970 – Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
1970 – Karen Mulder, Dutch supermodel
1970 – R. Madhavan, Indian actor
1971 – Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor and singer
1971 – Roldán González, Cuban singer
1972 – Daniel Casey, English actor
1972 – Mike Dunham, American hockey player
1973 – Frederik Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer
1973 – Adam Garcia, Australian actor
1973 – Derek Lowe, American baseball player
1973 – Heidi Klum, German supermodel
1974 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer-songwriter
1974 – Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
1974 – Melissa Sagemiller, American actress
1974 – Akis Zikos, Greek footballer
1975 – James Storm, American professional wrestler
1975 – Michal Grosek, Czech hockey player
1977 – Danielle Harris, American actress
1977 – Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
1977 – Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player
1977 – Richard Williams, British racing driver
1979 – Santana Moss, American football player
1980 – Oliver James, British actor
1981 – Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
1981 – Brandi Carlile, American singer and songwriter
1982 – Justine Henin (formerly Henin-Hardenne), Belgian tennis player
1983 – Jake Silbermann, American actor
1984 – Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, first Mongolian athlete win gold medal from Olympics
1984 – Oliver Tielemans, Dutch racing driver
1985 – Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
1985 – Nick Young, American basketball player
1986 – Dayana Mendoza, Miss Universe 2008
1987 – Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer
1988 – Nami Tamaki, Japanese pop singer
1992 – Felix Drake, English child actor
Deaths
195 BC – Gaozu of Han of China
193 – Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)
1434 – Wladislaus II of Poland
1571 – John Story, English Catholic
1616 – 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, President of Harvard University (b. 1689)
1795 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
1815 – Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1853)
1823 – Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (b. 1770)
1826 – Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
1830 – Sahajanand Swami, believed to be an incarnation of god by his followers, leaves his mortal body. (b. 1781)
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)
1872 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1795)
1873 – Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
1879 – Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial son of Emperor Napoleon III (b. 1856)
1927 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
1941 – Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (b. 1873)
1943 – Leslie Howard, English actor (b. 1893)
1943 – Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
1946 – Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882)
1948 – Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (b. 1914)
1948 – Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
1952 – John Dewey, American philosopher and educational theorist.
1954 – Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (b. 1869)
1959 – Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
1960 – Lester Patrick, Canadian hockey player (b. 1883)
1960 – Paula Hitler, sister of Adolf Hitler (b. 1896)
1962 – Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official by execution (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)
1968 – André Laurendeau, French Canadian writer, journalist and politician (b. 1912)
1969 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice 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)
1980 – Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
1981 – Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (b. 1883)
1983 – Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903)
1985 – Richard Greene, British actor (b. 1918)
1986 – Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1958)
1987 – Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (b. 1921)
1989 – Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari (b. 1917)
1991 – David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1941)
1994 – Frances Heflin, American actress (b. 1923)
1996 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Fifth President of India (b. 1913)
1998 – Darwin Joston, American actor (b. 1937)
1999 – Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (b. 1910)
2001 – Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
2001 – King Birendra of Nepal (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)
2007 – Arn Shein, American sports writer (b. 1928)
2007 – Tony Thompson, Singer in R&B group Hi-Five (b. 1975)
2008 – Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
2008 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
Holidays and observances
Children s Day in the People s Republic of China.
Sarawak, Borneo part of Malaysia – Gawai Dayak festival
Kenya – Madaraka Day 1963.
Roman Empire – Festival in honour of Carna.
Commemoration of Justin Martyr (Eastern Orthodox).
Saint Crescentinus
Saint Ronan
Saint Fortunatus of Spoleto
National Day Against Homophobia in Canada
St. Nino’s Day (Georgian Orthodox Church)
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