About June 1
June 1, 2025 is the 152nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 261 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 1
- 1215 –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.
- 1298 –Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
- 1495 –Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
- 1679 –The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
- 1779 –Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
- 1813 –James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: “Don't give up the ship!”
- 1815 –Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
- 1855 –American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
- 1857 –Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal is published.
- 1868 –Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- 1916 –Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
- 1918 –World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
- 1922 –The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
- 1946 –Ion Antonescu, “Conducator” (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
- 1958 –Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
- 1960 –New Zealand’s first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
- 1963 –Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
- 2003 –The People’s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
- 2009 –General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
- 2011 –A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts during the event, killing four people.
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