History Events on June 01

European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.

#European_Central_Bank

War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.

#War_of_1812

The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.

#Roundhead

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.

#American_Airlines_Flight_1420

Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.

#Napoleon

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.

#Air_France_Flight_447

Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of Minnesota officially established.

#Alexander_Ramsey

Capture of USS Chesapeake.

#Capture_of_USS_Chesapeake

World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.

#World_War_II

Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.

#Kentucky

Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of a parole, breaking a Guinness World Record.

#Oklahoma_City_bombing

A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.

#Monk

The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.

#United_States_Census_Bureau

Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.

#Anne_Boleyn

The Farhud, a massive pogrom in Iraq, starts and as a result, many Iraqi Jews are forced to leave their homes.

#Farhud

The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history.

#Canadian_Bank_of_Commerce

General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.

#General_Motors

Kenya becomes a republic with Jomo Kenyatta (1897 - 22 August 1978) as its first President (1964 to 1978).

#Kenya

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.

#Zhongdu

BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

#BOAC_Flight_777

First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft.

#Focke-Wulf_Fw_190

Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675-79).

#Scanian_War

James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the North Magnetic Pole.

#James_Clark_Ross

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.

#Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_Forces_Treaty

Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing after 25 flights.

#Space_Shuttle_Endeavour

Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.

#Tennessee

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others.

#Patriotic_Union_of_Kurdistan

Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.

#Napoléon,_Prince_Imperial

A ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.

#Sinking_of_Dongfang_zhi_Xing

In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

#Dover

A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.

#2011_New_England_tornado_outbreak

Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed.

#Ion_Antonescu

The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.

#Rhodesia

Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.

#Charles_de_Gaulle

Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.

#Cold_War

Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.

#Dolphinarium_discotheque_massacre

Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.

#Philippine_revolts_against_Spain

Robert Falcon Scott's second South Pole expedition leaves Cardiff.

#Robert_Falcon_Scott

Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.

#Adolf_Eichmann

The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.

#Royal_Ulster_Constabulary

World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.

#World_War_I

Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

#Louis_Brandeis

The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.

#Glorious_First_of_June

Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.

#Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

The Greek-Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.

#Greek-Serbian_Alliance_of_1913

Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.

#Charles_Baudelaire

Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.

#Nepalese_royal_massacre

Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.

#Benedict_Arnold

Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.

#CNN

Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. He drowned on his eighth attempt.

#Wolraad_Woltemade

American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is fought.

#American_Civil_War

Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.

#Riga

The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.

#Treaty_of_Bosque_Redondo

A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.

Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.

The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.

The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.

The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.

American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.

The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.

The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.

Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.