June 1


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

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 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)
   * 1826 - Carl Bechstein, piano manufacturer (+ 1900)
   * 1890 - Frank Morgan, actor (+ 1949)
   * 1898 - Molly Picon, actress (+ 1992)
   * 1921 - Nelson Riddle, band leader (+ 1985)
   * 1926 - Andy Griffith, actor
   * 1926 - Marilyn Monroe, actress (+ 1962)
   * 1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut
   * 1934 - Pat Boone, singer
   * 1937 - Morgan Freeman, actor
   * 1940 - RenŽ 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

Holidays and observances

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