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
- 193 –Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
- 1660 –Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1890 –The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
- 1921 –Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- 1922 –The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
- 1941 –World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
- 1974 –The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
- 1990 –George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- 1993 –Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
- 2011 –A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts during the event, killing four people.
Who were born on June 1?
- 1800 –Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879)
- 1898 –Molly Picon, American actress (d. 1992)
- 1901 –Hap Day, Canadian hockey player and manager (d. 1990)
- 1917 –William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1922 –Joan Caulfield, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1967 –Roger Sanchez, American disc jockey
- 1971 –Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor and singer
- 1974 –Ashok Jadeja, Indian fraudster
- 1981 –Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1986 –Ben Smith, New Zealand rugby player
Who died on June 1?
- 1639 –Melchior Franck, German composer (b. 1579)
- 1864 –Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel,build Taiping Rebellion (b. 1812)
- 1879 –Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial son of Emperor Napoleon III (b. 1856)
- 1948 –Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
- 1960 –Lester Patrick, Canadian hockey player (b. 1883)
- 1960 –Paula Hitler, sister of Adolf Hitler (b. 1896)
- 1973 –Mary Kornman, American actress (b. 1915)
- 1991 –David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1941)
- 1994 –Frances Heflin, American actress (b. 1923)
- 2006 –Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
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