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
- 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.
- 1533 –Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
- 1660 –Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1794 –The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- 1855 –American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
- 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.
- 1879 –Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
- 1916 –Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
- 1929 –The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
- 1941 –World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
- 1943 –British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- 1958 –Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
- 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.
- 1979 –The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
- 1993 –Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
- 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.
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