What are the important events that happened on June 1? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 1: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 1 is the 152nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 19, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,748,736,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentacontadigon’ day.
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Gemini is the zodiac 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 261 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,545 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 1 Historical Events
- 1204 –King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
- 1495 –Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
- 1796 –Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
- 1813 –James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: “Don't give up the ship!”
- 1910 –Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition leaves England.
- 1918 –World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
- 1974 –Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
- 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.
- 2001 –Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
- 2001 –Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
Who were born on June 1?
- 1480 –Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
- 1796 –Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist (d. 1832)
- 1901 –John Van Druten, English screen writer (d. 1957)
- 1913 –Bill Deedes, British journalist (d. 2007)
- 1922 –Joan Caulfield, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1930 –John Lemmon, English logician (d. 1966)
- 1936 –Bekim Fehmiu, Yugoslav actor (d. 2010)
- 1938 –Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani Poet and Scholar
- 1953 –Ronnie Dunn, American musician (Brooks & Dunn)
- 1959 –Alan Wilder, British musician (Depeche Mode and Recoil)
Who died on June 1?
- 1625 –Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
- 1815 –Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1753)
- 1868 –James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
- 1927 –J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
- 1941 –Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (b. 1873)
- 1943 –Leslie Howard, English actor (b. 1893)
- 1959 –Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
- 1965 –Earl “Curly” Lambeau, American football coach (b. 1898)
- 2001 –Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
- 2008 –Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
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