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
- 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.
- 1495 –Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
- 1533 –Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
- 1648 –The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
- 1660 –Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 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.
- 1796 –Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
- 1813 –James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: “Don't give up the ship!”
- 1855 –American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
- 1890 –The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
- 1941 –World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
- 1946 –Ion Antonescu, “Conducator” (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
- 1958 –Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
- 1960 –New Zealand’s first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
- 1963 –Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
- 1979 –The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
- 1980 –Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
- 2009 –General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
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