SomeFacts | June 1

On this day - June 1

1252 — Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.

1298 — Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the ...

1412 — Treaty of Lubowla: The royal gathering continues in Buda. It ...

1495 — A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch ...

1533 — Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.

1535 — Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the ...

1648 — The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone ...

1649 — Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led ...

1670 — In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of ...

1676 — Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish ...

1679 — The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at ...

1773 — Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope ...

1779 — The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

1813 — Capture of USS Chesapeake.

1815 — Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a ...

1831 — James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the North ...

1849 — Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory ...

1854 — Åland War: The British navy destroys merchant ships and about ...

1855 — The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.

1857 — The Revolution of the Ganhadores begins in Salvador, Bahia, ...

1857 — Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.

1861 — American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is ...

1862 — American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven ...

1868 — The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to ...

1879 — Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the ...

1890 — The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman ...

1913 — The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way ...

1916 — The United States Senate confirms the appointment of Louis ...

1918 — World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied ...

1919 — Prohibition comes into force in Finland.

1922 — The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.

1929 — The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America ...

1939 — First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft.

1941 — The Farhud, a massive pogrom in Iraq, starts and as a result, ...

1941 — World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to ...

1943 — BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German ...

1946 — Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of ...

1950 — The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the ...

1950 — The Declaration of Conscience speech, by U.S. Senator from ...

1951 — Washington State Ferries, the largest ferry system in the ...

1958 — Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by ...

1961 — The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada ...

1962 — Adolf Eichmann, former SS officer in Nazi Germany, is hanged ...

1974 — The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is ...

1975 — The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal ...

1976 — Aeroflot Flight 418 crashes in Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, ...

1978 — The first international applications under the Patent ...

1979 — The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in ...

1980 — Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.

1988 — The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.

1990 — Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a ...

1993 — Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded ...

1994 — Republic of South Africa becomes a republic in the ...

1999 — American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing ...

2001 — Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber ...

2001 — Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots ...

2004 — Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is ...

2007 — Cyclone Gonu develops from an area of convection in the ...

2008 — A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, ...

2009 — General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the ...

2009 — Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the ...

2011 — Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing after 25 ...

2011 — A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 ...

2015 — A ship carrying 458 people capsizes in the Yangtze river in ...