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
- 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.
- 1670 –In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
- 1679 –The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
- 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.
- 1813 –James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: “Don't give up the ship!”
- 1815 –Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
- 1857 –Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal is published.
- 1890 –The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
- 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.
- 1922 –The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
- 1941 –World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
- 1979 –The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
- 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.
- 2003 –The People’s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
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