About June 1
June 1, 2024 is the 153rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 242 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 1
- 193 –Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
- 987 –Hugh Capet is elected King of France.
- 1495 –Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
- 1648 –The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
- 1679 –The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
- 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.
- 1857 –Charles Baudelaire’s Les 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.
- 1890 –The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
- 1913 –The Greek-Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
- 1916 –Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
- 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.
- 1921 –Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- 1960 –New Zealand’s first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
- 1974 –Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
- 1990 –George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- 2001 –Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
- 2001 –Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
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