Notable Historical Events on June 1st
June 1st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
4000 |
Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central Ukraine (hypothesis only) |
BC AD | |
193 |
Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated. |
794 |
Charles the Great opens general synod in Frankfurt |
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. |
1283 |
Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market |
1283 |
Treaty of Rheinfelden: Duke Rudolph II of Austria waives his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria. |
1459 |
Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua |
1485 |
Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III |
1495 |
First written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller |
1526 |
Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief |
1533 |
Anne Boleyn crowned queen of England |
1562 |
Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I & Sultan Suleiman signs treaty |
1568 |
Duke of Alva oversees beheading of 18 nobles in Brussels as part of Council of Troubles/Council of Blood |
1608 |
Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-government |
1638 |
1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass |
1641 |
France & Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant |
1649 |
Russian Tsar Alexis throws English merchants out of Moscow |
1657 |
1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY) |
1660 |
Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
1670 |
English King Charles II & French King Louis XIV sign secret anti-Dutch treaty |
1676 |
Battle of Öland - a naval battle between allied Danish-Dutch and Swedish fleets in the Baltic Sea, part of the Scanian War (1675—79) for supremacy over the southern Baltic. Allied victory, two Swedish commanders killed. |
1679 |
The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog. |
1746 |
French troops conquer Antwerp |
1774 |
Boston Port Bill: British government orders Port of Boston closed |
1789 |
1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths) |
1792 |
Kentucky admitted as 15th US state |
1794 |
Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win. |
1796 |
Last of Britain's troops withdraws from US |
1796 |
Tennessee admitted as 16th US state |
1808 |
1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio |
1809 |
Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a mile round trip from his home |
1813 |
Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship" |
1815 |
Napoleon Bonaparte swears fidelity to the Constitution of France. |
1834 |
HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street |
1835 |
6th national black convention (Philadelphia) |
1836 |
Charles Darwin returns to Capetown |
1843 |
It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio |
1843 |
Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist |
1845 |
Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days |
1855 |
US adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery |
1857 |
Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal is published. |
1861 |
1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va |
1861 |
British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War |
1861 |
Skirmish at Arlington Mills, VA |
1861 |
US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange |
1862 |
2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Va (11,165 casualties) |
1862 |
General Robert E. Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at Seven Pines |
1862 |
Slavery abolished in all US possessions |
1864 |
-Nov] Shenandoah Valley campaign |
1864 |
Battle of Cold Harbor, VA (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm) |
1864 |
Confederate cruiser Georgia sold to a British merchant in Liverpool. |
1866 |
General Dutch Typographer Union forms |
1866 |
Renegade Irish Fenians from US invade Fort Erie, Ontario |
1868 |
Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin |
1868 |
Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico. |
1869 |
Voting machine patented (Thomas A Edison) |
1872 |
6th Belmont: James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58.25 |
1877 |
Society of American Artists forms |
1877 |
US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico |
1879 |
Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed serving with British forces in the Anglo-Zulu War. He is buried in Farnborough, Hampshire. |
1880 |
1st pay telephone installed |
1880 |
US census at 50,155,783 |
1881 |
Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange |
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. |
1888 |
California gets its 1st seismograph |
1890 |
US census at 62,622,250 |
1893 |
Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin) |
1898 |
Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha |
1899 |
Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last |
1900 |
British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa |
1902 |
Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms |
1905 |
Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon |
1907 |
-27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record) |
1908 |
John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days |
1909 |
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle |
1910 |
SC Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede |
1911 |
1st US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ |
1912 |
Stormvogels soccer team forms in Ijmuiden |
1913 |
The Serbian government concludes a ten-year treaty with Greece against Bulgaria; Serbia wishes to pursue Macedonian aspirations with Greece's help |
1915 |
1st Zeppelin air raid over England |
1916 |
German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun |
1917 |
Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I |
1918 |
Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis |
1918 |
White Sox losing 5-4 against NY Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play |
1918 |
Canadian ace Billy Bishop downs 6 aircrafts over a three-day span, including German ace Paul Bilik, reclaiming his top scoring title from James McCudden |
1919 |
Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden |
1920 |
RKSV Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam |
1920 |
Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico. |
1921 |
Race riot in Tulsa Oklahoma (21 whites & 60 blacks killed) |
1922 |
Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded. |
1923 |
NY Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning |
1925 |
Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consec games) |
1926 |
Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland |
1927 |
Peace Bridge between US & Canada opens |
1930 |
6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (3-6 8-6 6-3 6-1) |
1930 |
6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (6-2 6-1) |
1930 |
Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine |
1930 |
Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia v Hampshire, 240 mins, 26 fours |
1931 |
Rozenburg soccer team forms in Rozenburg |
1932 |
Lunteren soccer team forms in Lunteren |
1933 |
Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago |
1934 |
AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar |
1935 |
Driving test & license plates introduced in England |
1935 |
Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2 |
1936 |
"Lux Radio Theater" moved from NYC to Hollywood |
1936 |
Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY |
1937 |
Chicago White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns, 8-0 |
1937 |
Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier |
1938 |
Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters |
1939 |
1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer |
1939 |
1st night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2) |
1939 |
British submarine "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard |
1939 |
Retired German Col-gen Gerd von Runstedt returns to service |
1940 |
Coffee & tea rationed in Holland |
1940 |
Major General Bernard Montgomery returns to London |
1940 |
Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard |
1941 |
12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, in Burlington, Kansas (state 24-hr record) |
1941 |
British troops occupy Bagdad, Iraq |
1941 |
Germany bans all Catholic publications |
1941 |
Germany occupies Crete |
1941 |
NY Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th HR & his 1,500th RBI |
1943 |
Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die |
1943 |
Pirates Rip Sewell 1st throws his dew-drop (eephus) ball in a game |
1944 |
Gen Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth |
1944 |
Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots |
1945 |
WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM |
1946 |
78th Belmont: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:30.8 |
1946 |
Spijkenisse soccer team forms in Spijkenisse |
1946 |
Ion Antonescu, Romanian soldier and politician convicted of war crimes, is executed. |
1947 |
OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands |
1947 |
Photosensitive glass developed |
1948 |
Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire |
1949 |
1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek) |
1949 |
British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence |
1949 |
KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
Microfilm copies of "Newsweek" magazine 1st offered |
1950 |
WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1951 |
1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada) |
1951 |
International Cheese treaty signed |
1952 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cross Country Weathervane Golf Tournament |
1952 |
Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index |
1953 |
KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2) |
1955 |
Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia |
1957 |
1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) [see May 5, 1956] |
1958 |
Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election |
1958 |
Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France |
1958 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Gatlinburg Golf Open |
1959 |
2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area |
1959 |
Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day) |
1960 |
"Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances |
1960 |
WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1961 |
FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard |
1962 |
Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit |
1962 |
Roda JC soccer team reforms in Kerkrade |
1962 |
USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m |
1963 |
"El Watusi" by Ray Barreto hits #17 |
1963 |
Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st Prime Minister of Kenya |
1964 |
Kenya becomes a republic and Jomo Kenyatta its President |
1965 |
A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3°K primordial background radiation |
1965 |
coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236 |
1966 |
2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights |
1966 |
George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London |
1966 |
Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic |
1966 |
Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW |
1967 |
Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in US & goes gold |
1967 |
Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, DC |
1968 |
100th Belmont: Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2 |
1968 |
Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1 |
1969 |
Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV |
1970 |
"Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1 |
1970 |
Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four" |
1970 |
Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days |
1970 |
Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue |
1971 |
"You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" opens at Golden NYC for 31 perfs |
1971 |
Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS |
1972 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin |
1972 |
Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa |
1972 |
West German police arrest Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader |
1972 |
Iraq nationalizes Iraq Petroleum Company's (IPC) concession owned by British Petroleum, Royal Dutch-Shell, Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, Mobil and Standard Oil of New Jersey |
1973 |
George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold |
1973 |
Greek Pres Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic" |
1973 |
Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die" |
1973 |
Eight OPEC countries raise price of petroleum by 11.9 percent |
1974 |
"My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford hits #12 |
1974 |
Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Wash |
1974 |
Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 28 in UK |
1974 |
The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine. |
1974 |
Arab oil ministers decide to end most restrictions on exports of oil to the United States but continue embargo against the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, and Rhodesia |
1975 |
"Chicago" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 947 performances |
1975 |
21st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
1975 |
California Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0 |
1975 |
Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts |
1975 |
Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist |
1976 |
Great Britain & Iceland end the "cod war" |
1977 |
British Virgin Islands adopts constitution |
1977 |
Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason |
1977 |
SC Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen |
1978 |
Cricket Test debut of David Gower, v Pakistan, Edgbaston, scores 58 |
1978 |
High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten |
1978 |
The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed. |
1979 |
33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Wash Bullets, 4 games to 1 |
1979 |
Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier |
1979 |
Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC |
1979 |
Wings release "Old Siam, Sir" |
1979 |
Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India. |
1979 |
The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power. |
1980 |
1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network |
1980 |
ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa |
1980 |
Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif |
1980 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship |
1980 |
Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Dodger home run |
1982 |
Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year |
1984 |
Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner |
1984 |
KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD |
1984 |
Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles |
1984 |
Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg |
1985 |
"Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12 |
1985 |
Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 v Warwicks cricket |
1985 |
Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP |
1986 |
32nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley |
1986 |
40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport & Mystery of Edwin Drood win |
1987 |
Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530) |
1988 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, LA |
1988 |
"Morton Downey Jr Show" debuts in TV syndication |
1988 |
Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2 |
1989 |
62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator |
1990 |
"Cemetery Club" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 56 perfs |
1990 |
Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting |
1990 |
Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 1974 |
1990 |
Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97 |
1992 |
America West Arena opens in Phoenix |
1992 |
E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced |
1992 |
Snowfall in Colorado |
1992 |
Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games |
1993 |
Brooklyn NY begins recycling |
1993 |
Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News |
1993 |
Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army |
1993 |
Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi |
1994 |
FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts |
1994 |
Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery |
1995 |
68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis |
1995 |
Rangers' Kenny Rogers scoreless inning streak ends after 39 |
1996 |
Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square |
1996 |
Woody Harrelson is arrested in Lee County, Kentucky, after he symbolically planted four hemp seeds to challenge the state law which did not distinguish between industrial hemp and marijuana |
1997 |
10th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $5,400,186 |
1997 |
1st NY Women Film Festival opens |
1997 |
51st Tony Awards: Titanic & Last Night of Ballyhoo win |
1997 |
Ameritech Senior Golf Open |
1997 |
Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Michelob Light Classic |
1997 |
Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race |
1997 |
Heartland LPGA Classic |
1997 |
LA Dodger Wilton Guerrero's bat breaks, revealing it is corked |
1997 |
Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par |
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. |
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 were killed. |
2009 |
General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history. |
2012 |
New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals |
2013 |
Bayern Munich defeat VfB Stuttgart 3-2 to win the DFB-Pokal to become the first German treble-winning team |
2014 |
Kolkata Knight Riders win the Indian Premier League cricket championship |
2016 |
Turkish army kills 14 Islamic State militants near Aleppo |
2016 |
North Korea's missile and nuclear projects unacceptable, Japan envoy says |
2016 |
New York probing Trump's closing of Trump Tower atrium for campaign events |
2016 |
Islamic State urges Muslims to destroy satellite TV sets |
2016 |
California governor Jerry Brown endorses Hillary Clinton |
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