UN
Day
Global
Day of Parents
Events
of the day
Helen
Keller Day
In 1971, the Board of Directors of Lions Clubs International
declared that henceforth June 1 would be remembered as "Helen
Keller Day." Lions around the world implement sight-related
service projects on Helen Keller Day.
Born Helen
Adams Keller on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA, the
child developed a fever at 18 months of age. Afterwards, Keller
was blind, deaf, and mute.
193
β Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
987 β Hugh Capet is elected King of France.
1204 β King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
1215 β Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the
Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols
under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
1252 β Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and LeΓ³n.
1298 β Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated
the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
1495 β Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch
whisky.
1533 β Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1648 β The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of
Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
1660 β Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers
from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1670 β 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.
1679 β The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse
at the Battle of Drumclog.
1779 β Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during
the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
1792 β Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United
States.
1794 β The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the
first naval engagement between Britain and France during the
French Revolutionary Wars.
1796 β Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United
States.
1812 β War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress
to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1813 β James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the
USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the
ship!"
1815 β Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
1831 β James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
1855 β American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
1857 β Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
1861 β 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.
1862 β American Civil War, Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven
Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with
both sides claiming victory.
1868 β Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos
to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1879 β Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed
in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1890 β The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's
tabulating machine to count census returns.
1910 β Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.
1913 β The Greek-Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving
the way for the Second Balkan War.
1916 β Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the
United States Supreme Court.
1918 β World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood β
Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage
Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1921 β Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1922 β The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
1929 β The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin
America is held in Buenos Aires.
1941 β World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates
to Germany.
1941 β The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
1943 β British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot
down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing
actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was
an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1946 β Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania
during World War II, is executed.
1958 β Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France
by decree for six months.
1960 β New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences
at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
1962 β The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among
other things, that the British public did not want commercial
radio broadcasting.
1963 β Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
1974 β Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant
kills 28 people.
1974 β The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is
published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1978 β The first international applications under the Patent
Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1979 β The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
in 90 years takes power.
1980 β Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1990 β George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty
to end chemical weapon production.
1993 β Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded
when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja,
west of Sarajevo.
1999 β 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 β 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.
2001 β Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21
at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2003 β The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir
behind the Three Gorges Dam.
2009 β 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.
2009 β General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is
the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
2011 β A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong
EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts during the event,
killing four people.
Holidays
and observances
Azores Day
(Azores)
Christian Feast Day:
Crescentinus
Fortunatus of Spoleto
ΓΓ±igo of OΓ±a
Justin Martyr (Eastern Orthodox)
Ronan of Locronan
June 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
International Children's Day (International), and its related
observances:
Children's Day (Albania)
Children's Day (Cape Verde)
Children's Day (Romania)
The Mothers and Childrenβs Day (Mongolia)
Fei Fei Day (Vancouver)
Madaraka Day (Kenya)
Marine's Day (Mexico)
National Day Against Homophobia (Canada)
National Tree Planting Day (Cambodia)
Pancasila Day (Indonesia)
President's Day (Palau)
The first day of the Gawai Dayak festival (Sarawak)
Victory Day (Tunisia)
Global Day of Parents
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