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What Happened on June 1st This Day in History

Year	Name
2015	A ship carrying 458 people capsizes in the Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.
2011	A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
2011	Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing after 25 flights.
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 are killed.
2009	General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
2008	A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.
2004	Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of a parole, breaking a Guinness World Record.
2001	Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.
2001	Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
1999	American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
1994	Republic of South Africa becomes a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993	Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
1990	Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1988	European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.
1988	The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.
1980	Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1979	The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
1978	The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1975	The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others.
1974	The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1964	Kenya becomes a republic with Jomo Kenyatta as its first President.
1962	Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
1961	The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history.
1958	Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
1950	The Declaration of Conscience speech, by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith: "The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny - Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear."
1950	The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America.
1946	Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed.
1943	BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1941	World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
1941	The Farhud, a massive pogrom in Iraq, starts and as a result, many Iraqi Jews are forced to leave their homes.
1939	First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft.
1930	The Deccan Queen is introduced as first intercity train between Bombay VT (Now Mumbai CST) and Poona (Pune) to run on electric locomotives.
1929	The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
1922	The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
1919	Prohibition comes into force in Finland.
1918	World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1916	Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
1913	The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
1890	The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1879	Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1868	The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1862	American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
1861	American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is fought.
1857	Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
1857	The Revolution of the Ganhadores begins in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
1855	The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
1854	Åland War: The British navy destroys merchant ships and about 16,000 tar barrels of the wholesale stocks area in Oulu, Grand Duchy of Finland.
1849	Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of Minnesota officially established.
1831	James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the North Magnetic Pole.
1815	Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
1813	Capture of USS Chesapeake.
1812	War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1796	Tennessee is admitted as the 16th 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.
1792	Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
1779	The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
1773	Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. Both he and his horse, Vonk, drowned on his eighth attempt.
1679	The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
1676	Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79).
1670	In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
1649	Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
1648	The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
1535	Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
1533	Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1495	A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
1298	Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
1252	Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
1215	Zhongdu (now 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 Zhongdu.

Famous People Born on June 1

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Year	Name
1959	Alan Wilder, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
1950	Jean Lambert, English educator and politician
1985	Nick Young, American basketball player
1935	Jack Kralick, American baseball player (d. 2012)
1984	Nikki Glaser, American comedian
1936	Gerald Scarfe, English illustrator and animator
1522	Dirck Coornhert, Dutch writer and scholar (d. 1590)
1928	Georgy Dobrovolsky, Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (d. 1971)
1946	Brian Cox, Scottish actor
1984	Jean Beausejour, Chilean footballer

Famous People Deaths On June 1

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on June 1. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1795	Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (b. 1744)
2000	Tito Puente, American drummer, composer, and producer (b. 1923)
1962	Adolf Eichmann, a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (b. 1906)
2004	William Manchester, American historian and author (b. 1922)
1991	David Ruffin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
1946	Ion Antonescu, Romanian marshal and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882)
1908	Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (b. 1867)
1953	Emanuel Vidović, Croatian painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
1979	Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1876	Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and journalist (b. 1848)