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
- 1660 –Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1792 –Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
- 1794 –The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1868 –Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- 1879 –Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
- 1890 –The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
- 1913 –The Greek-Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
- 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.
- 1941 –The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
- 1974 –Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
- 1978 –The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
- 1980 –Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
- 1990 –George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- 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.
- 2009 –General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
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