Major Events
- 4000 BC Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central Ukraine (hypothesis only)
- 1215 Peking [Beijing], then a city of over one million, under the control of Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured and looted for a month by the Mongols under Genghis Khan
- 1676 Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79)
- 1964 Kenya becomes a republic with Jomo Kenyatta as its 1st President
- 1998 European Central Bank is founded in Brussels to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy
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Jun 1 in Film & TV
- 1980 1st transmission of CNN, the Cable News Network
Jun 1 in Music
- 1968 Simon & Garfunkel's single "Mrs Robinson" from "The Graduate" hits #1 (first rock song to win Grammy for Record of the Year)
Jun 1 in Sport
- 1881 Ridden by outstanding English jockey Fred Archer, Iroquois wins the Epsom Derby to become first American-owned and bred horse to take out a European classic race
Did You Know?
The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
Brigham Young
John Hunt Morgan
Yevgeny Prigozhin
Jeffrey Hawkins
Marilyn Monroe
Morgan Freeman
Brian Cox
Heidi Klum
Amy Schumer
Tom Holland
Alanis Morissette
Paul Coffey
Justine Henin
Fun Fact About June 1
First written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller
Famous Weddings
- 1889 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (21) weds socialite Catherine Tobin
- 1896 Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (41) marries Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend (41) in Covent Garden, London.
- 1925 Businessman Howard Hughes marries 1st wife Ella Rice
Famous Divorces
- 1989 Robin Givens and Mike Tyson granted final divorce in New Jersey
- 1994 Guns N' Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
James Buchanan
James Gordon Bennett
Lizzie Borden
Adolf Eichmann
Helen KellerArticles, Photos and Quiz
De humani corporis fabrica
Andreas Vesalius's "De humani corporis fabrica" (1543), page 163
June 1, 1543
Battle of Öland
An allied Danish-Dutch fleet battles the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, off the east coast of Öland
June 1, 1676
Testing Time for Drivers
Deaths caused by accidents on UK roads fell by 1,000 within a year of the official driving test being introduced. But was the half-hour test enough?
June 1, 1935
'The Banality of Evil'
Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann sits in the dock at his 1961 trial in Jerusalem
June 1, 1962
