About June 1
June 1, 2024 is the 153rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 242 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 1
- 193 –Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
- 1204 –King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
- 1648 –The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
- 1670 –In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
- 1779 –Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
- 1792 –Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
- 1794 –The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- 1890 –The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
- 1910 –Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition leaves England.
- 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.
- 1921 –Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- 1929 –The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
- 1941 –The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
- 1941 –World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
- 1963 –Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
- 1974 –The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
- 1979 –The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
- 1990 –George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- 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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