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, 485,760 hours 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.
- 1252 –Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León.
- 1779 –Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
- 1812 –War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
- 1879 –Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
- 1974 –Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
- 1990 –George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on June 1?
- 1800 –Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879)
- 1901 –John Van Druten, English screen writer (d. 1957)
- 1921 –Nelson Riddle, American bandleader and arranger (d. 1985)
- 1928 –Georgi Dobrovolski, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
- 1936 –Bekim Fehmiu, Yugoslav actor (d. 2010)
- 1940 –René Auberjonois, American actor
- 1948 –Tomáš Halík, Czech priest and public intellectual
- 1955 –Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 58th Yokozuna
- 1965 –Nigel Short, English chess player
- 1986 –Ben Smith, New Zealand rugby player
Who died on June 1?
- 1434 –Wladislaus II of Poland (b. 1362)
- 1660 –Mary Dyer, English Quaker (b. 1611)
- 1864 –Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel,build Taiping Rebellion (b. 1812)
- 1943 –Wilfrid B. Israel, German-Jewish activist (b. 1899)
- 1947 –Anna Hoffman-Uddgren, Swedish director and actor (b. 1868)
- 1968 –Helen Keller, American humanitarian (b. 1880)
- 1971 –Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (b. 1892)
- 1981 –Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (b. 1883)
- 2001 –Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
- 2007 –Tony Thompson, American R&B singer (Hi-Five) (b. 1975)
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