About June 1
June 1, 2025 is the 152nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 261 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 1
- 193 –Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
- 1204 –King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
- 1252 –Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León.
- 1298 –Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
- 1831 –James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
- 1861 –American Civil War, Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861), first land battle of American Civil War after Battle of Fort Sumter, first Confederate combat casualty.
- 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.
- 1916 –Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
- 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.
- 1960 –New Zealand’s first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
- 1962 –The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
- 1963 –Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
- 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.
- 2003 –The People’s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
- 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.
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