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
- 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.
- 1298 –Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
- 1495 –Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
- 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.
- 1779 –Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
- 1796 –Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
- 1815 –Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1962 –The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
- 1974 –Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
- 1974 –The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
- 1990 –George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- 2009 –General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
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