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 152^nd 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.

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.

June 1 Historical Events

• 987 –
  Hugh Capet is elected King of France.
• 1648 –
  The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
• 1660 –
  Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1670 –
  In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1794 –
  The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
• 1861 –
  American Civil War, Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861), first land battle of American Civil War after Battle of Fort Sumter, first Confederate combat casualty.
• 1910 –
  Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition leaves England.
• 1921 –
  Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• 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.
• 2003 –
  The People’s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.

Who were born on June 1?

• 1801 –
  Brigham Young, American colonizer and religious leader (d. 1877)
• 1908 –
  Julie Campbell Tatham, American writer (d. 1999)
• 1912 –
  Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1987)
• 1933 –
  Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (d. 1985)
• 1946 –
  Brian Cox, Scottish actor
• 1950 –
  Wayne Nelson, American musician (Little River Band)
• 1967 –
  Roger Sanchez, American disc jockey
• 1972 –
  Mike Dunham, American hockey player
• 1977 –
  Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
• 1985 –
  Ari Herstand, American Singer/Songwriter

Who died on June 1?

• 1616 –
  Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)
• 1872 –
  James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1795)
• 1927 –
  J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
• 1947 –
  Anna Hoffman-Uddgren, Swedish director and actor (b. 1868)
• 1965 –
  Earl “Curly” Lambeau, American football coach (b. 1898)
• 1973 –
  Mary Kornman, American actress (b. 1915)
• 1979 –
  Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1904)
• 1980 –
  Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
• 1985 –
  Richard Greene, British actor (b. 1918)
• 2001 –
  Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949)