About June 1
June 1, 2022 is the 152nd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 235 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1831 –James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
- 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.
- 1916 –Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
- 1921 –Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- 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.
- 1960 –New Zealand’s first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
- 1990 –George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- 2001 –Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
- 2003 –The People’s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
- 2009 –Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
- 2009 –General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
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