Historical Events on June 1

Events 1 - 200 of 270

• 4000 BC Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central Ukraine (hypothesis only)

• 987 Hugh Capet (Hugh the Great) crowned King of the Franks in Noyon
• 1204 King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen

• 1283 Albert I, son of Rudolf I of Hapsburg made sole ruler of the Duchies of Austria and Styria under Treaty of Rheinfelden, removing his brother Rudolph II as co-ruler (leads later to Rudolph's son murdering his uncle)
• 1459 Pope Pius II opens the Council of Mantua to call for a new crusade against the Ottoman Empire - crusade never amounts to much (Council disbanded January 1560)
• 1485 Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III
• 1495 First written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller

• 1568 Duke of Alva oversees beheading of 18 nobles in Brussels as part of Council of Troubles/Council of Blood
• 1608 Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-government
• 1638 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Massachusetts
• 1641 France and Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant
• 1649 Russian Tsar Alexis throws English merchants out of Moscow
• 1657 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
• 1660 Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony

• 1679 The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog
• 1746 French troops conquer Antwerp

• 1789 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
• 1792 Kentucky admitted as 15th US state
• 1794 Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win.
• 1796 Last of Britain's troops withdraws from USA
• 1796 Tennessee admitted as 16th US state
• 1809 Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a mile round trip from his home
• 1813 Captain John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"

• 1831 British explorer James Clark Ross discovers the magnetic North Pole on the west coast of Boothia peninsula [1]
• 1834 HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street
• 1835 6th national black convention (Philadelphia)

• 1843 It snows in Buffalo and Rochester, NY, & Cleveland, Ohio

• 1845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days

• 1855 US adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery
• 1857 Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) is published.
• 1861 1st skirmish in US Civil War at Fairfax Court House, Virginia
• 1861 British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War
• 1861 Skirmish at Arlington Mills, Virginia
• 1861 US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
• 1862 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Virginia (11,165 casualties)
• 1862 African Slave Trade Treaty Act: Bilateral treaty between the US and UK abolishing the slave trade in all US possessions

• 1864 -Nov] Shenandoah Valley campaign
• 1864 Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)
• 1864 Confederate cruiser Georgia sold to a British merchant in Liverpool
• 1866 General Dutch Typographer Union forms
• 1866 Renegade Irish Fenians from US invade Fort Erie, Ontario
• 1868 Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
• 1868 Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico

• 1872 Charles Albanel's expedition sets off for Hudson Bay overland accompanied by sixteen Amerindian canoeists (they will be the first Europeans to reach it overland about 25 days later) [1]
• 1877 Society of American Artists forms
• 1877 US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico

• 1880 The first pay telephone service in the United States is installed in New Haven, Connecticut
• 1880 US census is 50,155,783
• 1881 Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange
• 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
• 1886 The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31
• 1888 California gets its 1st seismograph
• 1890 US census at 62,622,250
• 1893 Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)
• 1898 Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha

• 1900 British army occupies Pretoria, South Africa

• 1907 -27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
• 1908 John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days
• 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
• 1910 Sportclub Enschede soccer club forms in Enschede, Netherlands; merge with Enschedese Boys to form FC Twente in 1965
• 1911 1st Inter-Empire Sports Championships close in London
• 1911 1st US group insurance policy written in Passaic, New Jersey
• 1912 Dutch soccer club Stormvogels forms in Ijmuiden; merges with VSV to form Telstar in 1963
• 1913 The Serbian government concludes a ten-year treaty with Greece against Bulgaria; Serbia wishes to pursue Macedonian aspirations with Greece's help
• 1916 US Senate confirms Louis Brandeis for the Supreme Court of the United States, by a vote of 47 to 22, over 4 months after his nomination
• 1917 Boston Braves first baseman Hank Gowdy is first active MLB player to enlist for service in World War I; only player to fight in both World War I & II

• 1918 Chicago White Sox losing 5-4 against NY Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs; Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a rare game winning triple play
• 1919 Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden
• 1920 Adolfo de la Huerta becomes President of Mexico
• 1920 Dutch soccer club RKSV forms in Volendam; merges with FC Volendam in 1977

• 1922 Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded
• 1923 New York Giants rout Philadelphia Phillies, 22-5 at the Baker Bowl; first time in 20th century a MLB team has scored in every inning

• 1926 Ignacy Mocicki elected President of Poland
• 1927 Peace Bridge between US and Canada opens

• 1933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago

• 1936 "Lux Radio Theater" moved from NYC to Hollywood
• 1936 Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY
• 1937 Chicago White Sox pitcher Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns, 8-0 at Comiskey Park, Chicago

• 1937 Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
• 1939 British submarine "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard

• 1939 First night MLB game takes place at Philadelphia's Shribe Park; Phillies lose 5-2 to Pittsburgh Pirates
• 1939 Retired German Colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt returns to service
• 1940 Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
• 1940 Major General Bernard Montgomery returns to London
• 1940 Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
• 1941 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, in Burlington, Kansas (state 24-hr record)
• 1941 British troops occupy Baghdad, Iraq

• 1941 Germany bans all Catholic publications
• 1941 Germany occupies Crete after Allied evacuation
• 1943 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, 13 passengers, included actor Leslie Howard, and 4 crew die
• 1943 Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Rip Sewell patents his "eephus" or "blooper ball" pitch; uses pitch on way to a 20-win campaign

• 1944 Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots
• 1944 Washington Senators MLB outfielder Stan Spence goes 6-for-6 in an 11-5 win over the St. Louis Browns; collects 5 singles and a home run
• 1945 WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
• 1947 OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
• 1947 The development of photosensitive glass, which had occurred ten years previously, is announced publicly
• 1948 Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire
• 1949 British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence
• 1949 KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1950 WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
• 1951 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada)
• 1951 International Cheese treaty signed
• 1951 Massey Commission issues its landmark report in Canada, advocating for funding wide range of cultural activities (resulted in the founding of the National Library of Canada) [1]

• 1953 KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1954 Czech distance runner Emile Zatopek breaks his own 10,000m world record, clocking 28:54.2 in Brussels, Belgium
• 1955 Tunisian nationalist leader Habib Bourguiba returns to Tunisia after imprisonment and exile in France
• 1957 Don Bowden becomes first American to run a sub-4 minute mile (3:58.7) at the Pacific Association AAU Meet in Stockton, California
• 1958 Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election

• 1958 The Riverside International Raceway in Southern California opens with three 500-mile races in one weekend; Eddie Gray wins the Crown America 500 for NASCAR Grand National cars
• 1959 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
• 1959 Two-time defending champion Monterrey, Mexico ruled ineligible to compete in Little League Baseball World Series for using players outside predetermined geographical area
• 1960 WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, West Vrirginia (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1961 FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard
• 1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit

• 1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m
• 1963 "El Watusi" by Ray Barreto hits #17

• 1964 Rolling Stones arrive in New York's Kennedy International Airport for 1st US tour, greeted by about 500 fans

• 1965 Coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236
• 1965 Robert Manry begins his 78 day voyage to sail a 13.5-foot yacht "Tinkerbelle" across the Atlantic Ocean
• 1966 2,400 people attend White House Conference on Civil Rights

• 1966 Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic for the second time
• 1966 Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW

• 1967 Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, D.C.
• 1968 Simon & Garfunkel's single "Mrs Robinson" from "The Graduate" hits #1 (first rock song to win Grammy for Record of the Year)
• 1968 St. Louis Cardinals side-arming left-hander Joe Hoerner ties NL record for most consecutive strikeouts by a relief pitcher, fanning the final 6 batters to earn a 6-5 victory over the New York Mets
• 1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV

• 1970 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days

• 1972 Iraq nationalizes Iraq Petroleum Company's (IPC) concession owned by British Petroleum, Royal Dutch-Shell, Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, Mobil and Standard Oil of New Jersey
• 1972 Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa

• 1973 Eight OPEC countries raise price of petroleum by 11.9 percent
• 1973 George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" album goes gold, 2 days after its US release
• 1973 Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"

• 1974 "My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford hits #12
• 1974 Arab oil ministers decide to end most restrictions on exports of oil to the United States but continue embargo against the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, and Rhodesia
• 1974 Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Washington
• 1974 Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincolnshire killing 28 in UK
• 1974 The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine

• 1975 Cars in the Netherlands required to have seatbelts
• 1975 Ronnie Wood replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stones guitarist
• 1976 Great Britain and Iceland end the "cod war"
• 1977 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
• 1977 Dutch soccer club FC Volendam is established as a result of split up with RKSV; 6-time Eerste Divisie champions
• 1977 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
• 1978 England cricket fast bowler Chris Old becomes only third man to capture 4 wickets in 5 balls in a Test, as Pakistan dismissed for 164 in 1st Test at Edgbaston; Old 5 for 70

• 1978 The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed
• 1979 Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe Rhodesia's 1st black Prime Minister, the first leader of a black-led government in 90 years
• 1979 Los Angeles passes its first homosexual rights bill
• 1979 Ted Coombs begins 5,193 mile roller skate from Los Angeles to New York City
• 1979 Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
• 1979 Wings release "Old Siam, Sir"
• 1980 1st transmission of CNN, the Cable News Network
• 1980 ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa

• 1984 Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
• 1984 KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD

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