June 1

Events

• 1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky
• 1774 - American Revolutionary War: The government of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed
• 1779 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property
• 1792 - Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the United States.
• 1796 - Tennessee becomes the 16th state in the United States
• 1812 - War of 1812: President James Madison asks the United States Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom
• 1831 - James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula
• 1840 - Samuel Cunard completes passage of a 700 ton wooden paddlewheel steamer from Liverpool, England to Halifax, Nova Scotia
• 1855 - American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua and reinstates slavery
• 1890 - The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns
• 1898 - The Trans-Mississippi Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska
• 1909 - The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition world's fair opens in Seattle, Washington
• 1922 - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
• 1933 - The Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago, Illinois
• 1938 - The first Superman comic is published
• 1958 - Canada-wide television broadcasting starts
• 1958 - Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months
• 1966 - First Canadian colour television broadcast
• 1977 - The Soviet Union charges civil rights leader Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
• 1979 - Ninety years of white minority rule ends in Rhodesia; to be known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
• 1980 - The Cable News Network begins broadcasting
• 2003 - China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 meters.

Births

• 1765 - Christiane Vulpius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's wife († 1816)
• 1780 - Carl von Clausewitz, general († 1831)
• 1796 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, mathematician († 1832)
• 1801 - Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, settler († 1877)
• 1815 - Philip Kearny, general († 1862)
• 1826 - Carl Bechstein, piano manufacturer († 1900)
• 1890 - Frank Morgan, actor († 1949)
• 1898 - Molly Picon, actress († 1992)
• 1899 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh, mathematician († 1963)
• 1921 - Nelson Riddle, band leader († 1985)
• 1924 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., radical clergyman
• 1926 - Andy Griffith, actor
• 1926 - Marilyn Monroe, actress († 1962)
• 1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut
• 1934 - Pat Boone, singer
• 1937 - Morgan Freeman, actor
• 1940 - René Auberjonois, actor
• 1946 - Brian Cox, actor
• 1947 - Ron Wood, guitarist, ("The Rolling Stones" and the "Jeff Beck Group")
• 1965 - Nigel Short, chess player
• 1970 - Alexi Lalas, football player
• 1974 - Alanis Morissette, singer
• 1978 - Danielle Harris, voice actress
• 1982 - Justine Henin-Hardenne, tennis player

Deaths

• 1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States
• 1943 - Leslie Howard, actor
• 1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson, blues musician
• 1959 - Sax Rohmer, author
• 1960 - Lester Patrick, ice hockey star
• 1968 - Helen Keller, humanitarian
• 1980 - Rube Marquard, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 2001 - Hank Ketcham, creator of Dennis the Menace
• 2001 - King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, (shot, possibly murdererd)
• 2002 - Hansie Cronje, cricketer
• 2003 - Gerhard Rentzsch, radio play author

Holidays and observances

• Commemoration of Justin Martyr (Anglican)
• Roman Empire - Festival in honor of Carna

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