On this day: 1 June
Events, births and deaths on 1 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Jonathan Joss
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Marilyn Monroe
- Births · Andy Griffith
- Births · Richard Schweiker
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 29
- 1298(Julian date)Battle of Turaida — 1298 middle ages battle
- 1648Battle of Maidstone — 1648 battle that took place during the Second English Civil War
- 1670Secret Treaty of Dover — International agreement
- 1676(Julian date)Battle of Öland — 1676 naval battle between an allied Danish-Dutch fleet and the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea
- 1679Battle of Drumclog — 1679 battle of the Scottish Covenanter Wars
- 1792Kentucky — state of the United States of America
- 1794Glorious First of June — 1794 naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars
- 1796Tennessee — state of the United States of America
- 1813Capture of USS Chesapeake — 1813 naval battle between an American ship and a British ship
- 1857Revolution of the Ganhadores — 1857 strike in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- 1861Battle of Fairfax Court House — 1861 battle of the American Civil War
- 1868Treaty of Bosque Redondo — 1868 agreement between the Navajo and the US Federal Government
- 1913
- 1918Battle of Belleau Wood — 1918 battle
- 1941Farhud — anti-Jewish massacres (pogroms) that took place in Baghdad (Iraq) in 1941
- 1943BOAC Flight 777 — 1943 shoot-down of a civilian airliner
- 1961Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce — Canadian banking institution
- 1975Patriotic Union of Kurdistan — political party
- 1976Aeroflot Flight 418 — aviation accident
- 1980CNN — American news channel
- 1993Dobrinja mortar attack — 1993 massacre of Bosnian civilians in Sarajevo
- 1999American Airlines Flight 1420 — June 1999 runway overrun and crash in Arkansas, US
- 2001Nepalese royal massacre — event on 1 June 2001 in Kathmandu, Nepal in which Crown Prince Dipendra killed most of the royal family (including King Birendra and himself) with a gun
- 2001Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing — suicide bombing against a discotheque located in Tel Aviv
- 2007Cyclone Gonu — North Indian cyclone in 2007
- 20082008 Universal Studios fire — 2008 fire that destroyed media archives
- 2009Air France Flight 447 — 2009 plane crash of an Air France Airbus A330 in the Atlantic Ocean
- 2015Sinking of Dongfang zhi Xing — Chinese ship sunk on 1 June 2015
- 20182018 vote of no confidence in the government of Mariano Rajoy — Vote of no confidence against the Prime Minister of Spain Mariano Rajoy
Births · 60
- 1637Jacques Marquette — French Jesuit and explorer (1637–1675)
- 1790Ferdinand Raimund — Austrian dramatist, actor and writer (1790-1836)
- 1796Nicolas Carnot — French physicist (1796–1832)
- 1801Brigham Young — American religious leader, second president of the LDS Church, and governor of Utah Territory (1801–1877)
- 1804Michael Glinka — Russian composer (1804–1857)
- 1815Otto of Greece — King of Greece from 1832 to 1862 (1815–1867)
- 1863Hugo Münsterberg — German-American psychologist (1863-1916)
- 1878John Masefield — English poet and writer (1878–1967)
- 1890Frank Morgan — actor (1890-1949)
- 1892Amanullah Khan — King and Emir of Afghanistan (1892-1960)
- 1907Frank Whittle — British Royal Air Force engineer air officer (1907–1996)
- 1917William Standish Knowles — American chemist (1917–2012)
- 1926Marilyn Monroe — American actress and model (1926–1962)
- 1926Andy Griffith — American actor, comedian, television producer, singer, and writer (1926–2012)
- 1928Georgy Dobrovolsky — Soviet cosmonaut (1928-1971)
- 1929Nargis — Indian actress (1929–1981)
- 1934Pat Boone — American singer (born 1934)
- 1935Norman Foster — British architect (born 1935)
- 1937Morgan Freeman — American actor and producer (born 1937)
- 1937Colleen McCullough — Australian author (1937-2015)
- 1940Kip S. Thorne — American physicist (born 1940)
- 1940René Auberjonois — American actor (1940–2019)
- 1941Toyo Ito — Japanese architect (born 1941)
- 1944Guy Scott — Zambian politician (1944-2026)
- 1946Brian Cox — Scottish actor
Deaths · 60
- 195 BCEEmperor Gaozu of Han — founding emperor of the Han dynasty (256–195 BC)
- 193(Julian date)Didius Julianus — emperor of ancient Rome (193 CE)
- 1310(Julian date)Marguerite Porete — French mystic
- 1434(Julian date)Władysław II Jagiełło — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1362-1434)
- 1616Tokugawa Ieyasu — founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1543–1616)
- 1625Honoré d'Urfé — French writer (1568-1625)
- 1660Mary Dyer — Quaker martyr
- 1815Luis Alejandro Berthier — Marshal and Vice-Constable of France (1753-1815)
- 1823Louis-Nicolas Davout — Marshal of France (1770–1823)
- 1830Swaminarayan — Founder and deity of the Swaminarayan sect
- 1832Jean Maximilien Lamarque — French commander of the Napoleonic Wars and politician (1770-1832)
- 1833Oliver Wolcott — United States federal judge; second U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1760-1833)
- 1841Nicolas Appert — French inventor of airtight food preservation (1749–1841)
- 1841David Wilkie — Scottish painter (1785-1841)
- 1846Gregory XVI — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1831 to 1846 (1765–1846)
- 1864Hong Xiuquan — Chinese revolutionary and leader of Taiping Rebellion (1814–1864)
- 1868James Buchanan — president of the United States from 1857 to 1861
- 1876Hristo Botev — Bulgarian poet, journalist and revolutionary (1847–1876)
- 1879Napoléon, Prince Imperial — French prince (1856–1879)
- 1925Thomas R. Marshall — vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921
- 1927Lizzie Borden — American murder suspect (1860–1927)
- 1927John Bagnell Bury — Anglo-Irish historian and classical scholar (1861–1927)
- 1935Arthur Arz von Straußenburg — Austro-Hungarian general
- 1938Ödön von Horváth — Austro-Hungarian writer (1901–1938)
- 1941Hugh Walpole — British writer (1884-1941)
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