About June 1
June 1, 2021 is the 152nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 245 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 1
- 1204 –King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
- 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.
- 1252 –Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León.
- 1660 –Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1779 –Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
- 1792 –Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
- 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.
- 1831 –James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
- 1868 –Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- 1921 –Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- 1929 –The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
- 1958 –Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
- 1963 –Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
- 1974 –Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
- 1978 –The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2011 –A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts during the event, killing four people.
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