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.
- 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.
- 1660 –Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1779 –Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
- 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.
- 1855 –American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
- 1857 –Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal is published.
- 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.
- 1910 –Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition leaves England.
- 1921 –Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- 1941 –The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
- 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.
- 1974 –The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
- 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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