On this day in History - Jun 1

• 0195 BC - Gaozu of Han of China dies (b. 256 BC or 247 BC)
• 0193 - Roman Emperor Marcus Didius is assassinated in his palace.
• 0987 - Hugh Capet is elected king of France.
• 1076 - Prince Mstislav of Kiev was born (d. 1132).
• 1204 - King Philip August of France conquers Rouen.
• 1252 - Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León.
• 1283 - Treaty of Rheinfelden - Duke Rudolph II of Austria has to waive his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
• 1300 - Thomas of Brotherton was born (d. 1338). 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England
• 1480 - Tiedemann Giese was born (d. 1550). Polish Catholic bishop.
• 1485 - Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.
• 1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
• 1503 - Wilhelm von Grumbach was born (d. 1567). German adventurer.
• 1533 - Henry VIII of England's new wife, Anne Boleyn, is crowned as queen.
• 1563 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury was born (d. 1612). English statesman and spymaster.
• 1633 - Geminiano Montanari was born (d. 1687). Italian astronomer.
• 1641 - Tratado de aliança e confederação entre D. João IV e o rei de França.
• 1653 - Georg Muffat was born (d. 1704). French composer.
• 1660 - Mary Dyer is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered to be the last religious martyr in North America.
• 1675 - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei was born (d. 1755). Italian archaeologist.
• 1765 - Christiane Vulpius was born (d. 1816). Wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• 1771 - Ferdinando Paer was born (d. 1839). Italian composer.
• 1779 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
• 1780 - Carl von Clausewitz was born (d. 1831). Prussian general.
• 1790 - Ferdinand Raimund was born (d. 1836). Austrian playwright
• 1792 - Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the United States.
• 1796 - Tennessee becomes the 16th state in the United States.
• 1796 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was born (d. 24 Aug 1832). French physicist: pioneer in thermodynamics: discovered the 2nd law of thermodynamics;
• 1801 - Brigham Young was born (d. 1877). Mormon church leader and American western settler.
• 1804 - Mikhail Glinka was born (d. 1857). Russian composer.
• 1812 - War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the U.S. Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
• 1813 - The United States Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said, 'Don't give up the ship'.
• 1815 - Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
• 1815 - Philip Kearny was born (d. 1862). American general.
• 1815 - King Otto of Greece was born (d. 1862).
• 1826 - Carl Bechstein was born (d. 1900). Piano manufacturer.
• 1831 - John Bell Hood was born (d. 1879). American Confederate general.
• 1831 - James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
• 1843 - Dr Henry Faulds was born (d. 1930). Scottish fingerprinting pioneer.
• 1846 - Pope Gregory XVI dies (b. 1765)
• 1847 - Zeta Psi Fraternity is founded.
• 1851 - Isaac Peral was borm. Spanish inventor
• 1855 - American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua and reinstates slavery.
• 1855 - Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal is published.
• 1859 - António Feijó was born (d. 1917). Portuguese poet. / Nasce em Ponte de Lima o poeta António Feijó (m. Estocolmo 1917)
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Fair Oaks ends - Both sides claim victory.
• 1868 - James Buchanan dies (b. 1791). 15th President of the United States.
• 1869 - Thomas Edison of Boston, Massachusetts, received a patent for his electric voting machine.
• 1876 - Hristo Botev dies (b. 1848). Bulgarian revolutionary.
• 1878 - John Masefield was born (d. 1967). English novelist and Poet Laureate.
• 1879 - Eugene Louis Napoleon, Prince of France killed in the Zulu Wars
• 1881 - Charles Kay Ogden was born. English writer and linguist.
• 1882 - Giuseppe Garibaldi dies in Italy.
• 1890 - Frank Morgan was born (d. 1949). American actor.
• 1890 - The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
• 1890 - Camilo Castelo Branco commites suicide (b. 1825). Portuguese writer/ Por suicídio morreu o escritor Camilo Castelo Branco (n. 1825), autor de obras como Doze Casamentos Felizes e Amor de Perdição.
• 1893 - Silva Porto dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1897 - General José Maria Reina Barrios assume a Presidencia da Guatemala e instala um regime ditatorial
• 1898 - The Trans-Mississippi Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska.
• 1898 - Molly Picon was born (d. 1992). American actress.
• 1899 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh was born (d. 1963). English mathematician.
• 1901 - John Van Druten was born (d. 1957). English screen writer.
• 1906 - Club Atlético Talleres - Argentina - is founded
• 1907 - Cricket: Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded either for a county cricket match or a single day's bowling, and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
• 1909 - The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition world's fair opens in Seattle, Washington.
• 1910 - Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England
• 1917 - William S. Knowles was born. American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1918 - World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins.
• 1920 - Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
• 1921 - Tulsa Race Riot: A race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma kills at least 85 people.
• 1921 - Nelson Riddle was born (d. 1985). American Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader, arranger.
• 1922 - Royal Ulster Constabulary founded .
• 1922 - Joan Caulfield was born. Actress.
• 1922 - Povel Ramel was born. Swedish musician
• 1924 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin Jr. was born. American clergyman
• 1925 - Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees played the first game in his record streak of 2,130 consecutive games, an endurance record in major league baseball that stood till Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it in 1995.
• 1926 - Andy Griffith was born. American actor.
• 1926 - Ignacy Mocicki was elected president of Poland.
• 1926 - Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortensen] was born in Los Angeles (d. 05 Aug 1962). American actress ( Gentleman Prefer Blondes, The Seven-Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, Bus Stop, The Asphalt Jungle, Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend, The Misfits, Scudda-Hoo!Scudda-Hay!; famous centerfold: Playboy [1952];
• 1927 - J. B. Bury dies (b. 1861). Irish historian.
• 1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski was born. Cosmonaut.
• 1928 - Bob Monkhouse was born (d. 2003). English comedian and game show host.
• 1928 - Francisco de Paula Ramos de Azevedo dies (b. 1851). Brazilian architect.
• 1930 - Edward Woodward was born. English actor.
• 1930 - Maria de Lurdes Modesto was born. Portuguese chef and publicist.
• 1930 - Eugénio Tavares dies. Cape-Verdean poet.
• 1933 - Expo Universal of Chicago is open
• 1933 - Charles Wilson was born. American politician
• 1934 - Pat Boone (Charles Eugene Boone) was born. American singer
• 1935 - The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom.
• 1935 - Fernand Bouisson assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da França.
• 1936 - Gerald Scarfe was born. British cartoonist and illustrator
• 1937 - Morgan Freeman was born. American actor ( Driving Miss Daisy, Glory, Unforgiven, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Queen, Another World, Outbreak, Amistad, Deep Impact; director: Bopha)
• 1938 - Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
• 1938 - Protective baseball helmets were worn by batters for the very first time.
• 1939 - Cleavon Little was born (d. 1992). American actor
• 1939 - Jackie Stewart was born. British Formula One champion
• 1940 - René Auberjonois was born. American actor
• 1940 - Kip Thorne was born. American physicist .
• 1941 - Germany banned all Catholic publications.
• 1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete ends - Crete capitulates to Germany.
• 1942 - World War II: The Liberty Brigade, a Warsaw underground newspaper, published the news of the death camp killings for the very first time. It told the story of Emanuel Ringelblum, who escaped from Chelmno after being forced to bury the exterminated bodies.
• 1943 - A civilian flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.
• 1943 - Leslie Howard dies (b. 1893). English actor.
• 1944 - O governo português suspende as exportações de volfrâmio para os países em guerra. A decisão prejudica sobretudo a Alemanha.
• 1944 - Ivan Ivanov Bagrianov assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Bulgária
• 1945 - Frederica von Stade was born. American mezzo-soprano
• 1946 - Brian Cox was born. Scottish actor
• 1946 - Ion Antonescu dies (b. 1882). Romanian prime minister and dictator.
• 1947 - Jonathan Pryce was born. British actor.
• 1947 - Ron Wood was born. English guitarist, ("The Rolling Stones" and the "Jeff Beck Group")
• 1948 - Tomás Halík was born. Czech priest, scholar and public intellectual
• 1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson dies. American blues musician.
• 1948 - Viana da Mota dies. Portuguese composer and pianist.
• 1953 - Foi inaugurada a TAP - Transportadora Aérea Portuguesa
• 1954 - The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time.
• 1954 - Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2)
• 1956 - Lisa Hartman was born. American actress
• 1958 - Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
• 1958 - Ahron Bregman was born. Author and Journalist, Arab-Israeli conflict
• 1959 - Beginning of the Revolution in Nicaragua.
• 1959 - Alan Wilder was born. British electronic musician, (Depeche Mode, Recoil)
• 1959 - Martin Brundle was born. British Formula One driver
• 1959 - Sax Rohmer dies (b. 1883). English author.
• 1959 - Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
• 1960 - Lester Patrick dies (b. 1883). Ice hockey star.
• 1960 - Teodoro Picado Michalski dies. President of Costa Rica (1944-1948)
• 1961 - Paul Coffey was born. Canadian hockey star
• 1962 - Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel.
• 1965 - Nigel Short was born. English chess player
• 1965 - Explosion at Fukuoka, Japan kills 237 coal miners
• 1966 - Papa Jack Laine dies (b. 1873). American jazz musician.
• 1967 - The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
• 1967 - Don Dunstan becomes Premier of South Australia
• 1968 - Jason Donovan was born. Australian actor
• 1968 - Jeff Hackett was born. Canadian hockey player
• 1968 - Helen Keller dies (b. 1880). American humanitarian. She had been deaf and blind since the age of 18 months. During her life she learned to speak, ride horses, and the waltz. he also graduated from Radcliffe cum laude.
• 1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono record Give Peace a Chance, the first single recorded by a solo Beatle, from their hotel bed.
• 1969 - Teri Polo was born. American actress
• 1970 - Alexi Lalas was born. American soccer player
• 1970 - Karen Mulder was born. Dutch model
• 1970 - R. Madhavan was born. Indian actor
• 1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
• 1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr dies (b. 1892). American theologist.
• 1973 - Adam Garcia was born. Australian actor
• 1973 - Heidi Klum was born. German supermodel. See here Heidi Klum wallpapers
• 1973 - Derek Lowe was born. American baseball pitcher.
• 1973 - É proclamada a República na Grécia, presidida pelo general Papadopoulos de forma provisória.
• 1974 - Flixborough disaster: Explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
• 1974 - Alanis Morissette was born. Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1974 - Melissa Sagemiller was born. American actress
• 1974 - Michael Rasmussen was born. Danish cyclist
• 1974 - Akis Zikos was born. Greek footballer
• 1975 - James Storm was born. American professional wrestler
• 1975 - Michal Grosek was born. Czech hockey player
• 1977 - Veronika Vařeková was born. Czech supermodel (See here Veronica Varekova wallpaper)
• 1977 - Danielle Harris was born. American voice actress
• 1978 - The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
• 1978 - FIFA World CUP in football begins on Argentine.
• 1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, ousting Ian Smith and changing its name to Zimbabwe
• 1980 - The Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
• 1980 - Oliver James was born. British actor
• 1980 - Rube Marquard dies (b. 1886). American Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 1981 - Smush Parker was born. American basketball player
• 1981 - Carlos Zambrano was born. Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
• 1981 - Carl Vinson dies (b. 1883). United States Congressman.
• 1982 - Justine Henin-Hardenne was born. Belgian tennis player
• 1984 - Nat Nelson dies. Singer.
• 1984 - José Napoleón Duarte Fuentes assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência de El Salvador
• 1984 - Oliver Tielemans was born. Dutch racing driver
• 1985 - Alan García is proclaimed President of Peru.
• 1985 - Mário Hipóliton was born. Angolan footballer
• 1987 - Realizou-se, pela primeira vez em Portugal, um transplante terapêutico da medula.
• 1987 - Zoltán Harsányi was born. Slovakian footballer
• 1987 - Rashid Karami dies at 65. 10 time Prime Minister of Lebanon.
• 1987 - Errol W Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
• 1988 - Nami Tamaki was born. Japanese singer
• 1989 - Em Portugal, foi aprovada a Segunda Revisão Constitucional
• 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and start destroying each of their nation's stockpiles.
• 1993 - Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
• 1994 - Frances Heflin dies (b. 1923). American soap opera actress.
• 1996 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy dies. President of India (1977 - 1982)
• 1997 - LTD (of WACCOE fame) loses virginity to a farmyard animal, later prosecuted for sodomy.
• 1997 - Hugo Banzer wins the Presidental elections in Bolivia.
• 1997 - Georgos Livanos dies. Greek armador, one of the ten richest men im the World
• 1999 - DeForest Kelley dies (b. 1920). American actor.
• 2000 - The Expo 2000 opened in Hanover (Germany) and ran to Oct 31.
• 2000 - The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
• 2001 - Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
• 2001 - Hank Ketcham dies. American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace
• 2001 - King Birendra (b. 1945), Queen Aiswarya and other ten members of Royal Family of Nepal die shot by Prince Dipendra, during a dinner, before shooting himself . There was an apparent dispute over his upcoming marriage.
• 2001 - Hank Ketcham dies (b. 1920). American cartoonist.
• 2002 - Hansie Cronje dies (b. 1969). South African cricketer.
• 2002 - A Selecção da Alemanha derrota a Arábia Saudita por 8-0 para o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol 2002.
• 2003 - The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 meters.
• 2003 - Same-sex marriage comes into force in Belgium (Timeline of same-sex marriage)
• 2003 - Gerhard Rentzsch dies. Radio play author.
• 2003 - Johnny Hopp dies (b. 1916). Baseball player.
• 2004 - William Manchester dies (b. 1922). American biographer and novelist.
• 2004 - Satomi Mitarai dies. Japanese student, murdered by a classmate .
• 2004 - Realiza-se em Bona - Alemanha a Conferência Mundial sobre Energias Renováveis
• 2004 - Australian Jennifer Hawkins is elected Miss Universo 2004, in Ecuador.
• 2005 - The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
• 2005 - George Mikan dies (b. 1924). American basketball player.
• 2006 - Rocío Jurado dies (b. 1944). Spanish singer and actress.
• Children's Day in some countries (Unicef)
• Commemoration of Justin Martyr (Anglican)
• U.S. - National Accordion Awareness Month begins.
• Kenya - Madaraka Day 1963.
• Nirvana of Buddhists.
• Roman Empire - Festival in honour of Carna.
• Samoa - Independence Day 1962.
• Tunisia - Constitution Day / Victory Day 1959.
• The Ascension in Eastern Christianity.
• Foundation Day in Western Australia