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Events [ ] 193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus assassinated .987 - Hugh Capet is elected king of France .1204 - King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen .1215 - 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 Beijing .1252 - Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León .1283 - Treaty of Rheinfelden : Duke Rudolph II of Austria waives his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria .1485 - Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Frederick III 1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky .1533 - Anne Boleyn crowned queen .1660 - Mary Dyer hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony .1779 - American Revolutionary War : Benedict Arnold court-martialed for malfeasance .1792 - Kentucky admitted as the 15th state of the United States .1796 - Tennessee admitted as the 16th state of the United States .1812 - War of 1812 : U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom .1813 - James Lawrence , the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake , cries out "Don't give up the ship!"1815 - Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France .1831 - James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole .1855 - American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua .1857 - Charles Baudelaire 's Fleurs du mal 1862 - American Civil War Peninsula Campaign : Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) - Engagement ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.1868 - Treaty of Bosque Redondo signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico .1869 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine .1879 - Napoleon Eugene killed in the Anglo-Zulu War .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 31.1890 - 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 & James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm .1920 - Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico .1921 - Tulsa Race Riot : Civil unrest in Tulsa .1922 - Royal Ulster Constabulary founded .1925 - Lou Gehrig plays the first game in his streak of 2,130 consecutive games; it was the longest such streak until broken by Cal Ripken Jr. in 1995 .1935 - The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom .1939 - Maiden flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger (D-OPZE) fighter aeroplane1940 - The Leninist Communist Youth League of the Karelo-Finnish SSR holds its first congress.1941 - World War II : Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany .1941 - The Farhud , a pogrom in Iraqi Jews, took place in baghdad.
1942 - World War II: The Warsaw paper Liberty Brigade publishes the first news of the concentration camps.1943 - British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s , killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill .1946 - Ion Antonescu executed.1958 - Charles de Gaulle brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.1959 - Beginning of the Revolution in Nicaragua .1962 - Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel .1963 - Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day ).1974 - Flixborough disaster : Explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.1978 - The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty filed.1979 - Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh , India .1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power.
1980 - Cable News Network (CNN ) begins broadcasting .1985 - Alan García is proclaimed President of Peru .1990 - George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.1997 - Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia .2000 - The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) signed.2001 - Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his family during dinner.2001 - Dolphinarium massacre : A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv .
2003 - The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam .2004 - Nevada-tan killed classmate Satomi Mitarai with box cutter, by slitting her throat after Satomi Mitarai left insults on Nevada-tan's journal on her own website.2005 - The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.2007 - Jack Kevorkian was released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County .Births [ ] 1076 - Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132 )1300 - Thomas of Brotherton , son of Edward I of England (d. 1338 )1480 - Tiedemann Giese , Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550 )1503 - Wilhelm von Grumbach , German adventurer (d. 1567 )1563 - Robert Cecil , English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612 )1633 - Geminiano Montanari , Italian astronomer (d. 1687 )1637 - Jacques Marquette , French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675 )1653 - Georg Muffat , French composer (d. 1704 )1675 - Francesco Scipione , Italian archaeologist (d. 1755 )1762 - Edmund Ignatius Rice , Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (d. 1844 )1771 - Ferdinando Paer , Italian composer (d. 1839 )1780 - Carl von Clausewitz , Prussian general (d. 1831 )1790 - Ferdinand Raimund , Austrian playwright (d. 1836 )1796 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot , French mathematician (d. 1832 )1800 - Edward Deas Thomson , Australian politician (d. 1879 )1801 - Brigham Young , Mormon church leader (d. 1877 )1804 - Mikhail Glinka , Russian composer (d. 1857 )1815 - Philip Kearny , American general (d. 1862 )1815 - Otto of Greece (d. 1862 )
1831 - John Bell Hood , American Confederate general (d. 1879 )1833 - John Marshall Harlan , Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1911 )1843 - Henry Faulds , Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930 )1844 - John J. Toffey , American Civil War hero (d. 1911 )1878 - John Masefield , English novelist and poet (d. 1967 )1881 - Charles Kay Ogden , English writer and linguist (d. 1957 )1890 - Frank Morgan , American actor (d. 1949 )1899 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh , English mathematician (d. 1963 )1901 - John Van Druten , English screen writer (d. 1957 )1901 - Hap Day , Canadian hockey player and manager (d. 1990 )
1907 - Frank Whittle , English inventor of the jet engine . (d. 1996 )1909 - Hans Vogt , Norwegian linguist (d. 1986 )1913 - Bill Deedes , British journalist (d. 2007 )1915 - John Randolph , American actor (d. 2004 )1917 - William S. Knowles , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate 1921 - Nelson Riddle , American bandleader and arranger (d. 1985 )1922 - Povel Ramel , Swedish entertainer (d. 2007 )1922 - Joan Copeland , American actress
1924 - William Sloane Coffin , American clergyman (d. 2006 )1926 - Andy Griffith , American actor1926 - Marilyn Monroe , American actress (d. 1962 )
1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski , cosmonaut1928 - Bob Monkhouse , English comedian (d. 2003 )
1930 - Edward Woodward , English actor1930 - John Lemmon , English logician
1933 - Charles Wilson , American politician1934 - Pat Boone , American singer1936 - Gerald Scarfe , British illustrator1937 - Morgan Freeman , American actor1937 - Colleen McCullough , Australian novelist
1939 - Cleavon Little , American actor (d. 1992 )1940 - René Auberjonois , American actor1940 - Kip Thorne , American physicist
1944 - Robert Powell , English actor1945 - Frederica von Stade , American mezzo-soprano1945 - Linda Scott , American singer
1946 - Brian Cox , Scottish actor1947 - Jonathan Pryce , British actor1947 - Ron Wood , English guitarist
1947 - Ron Dennis , Formula One team principal
1948 - Michel Plasse , French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006 )1948 - Tom Sneva , American race car driver1950 - Wayne Nelson , American musician (Little River Band )1953 - Ronnie Dunn , American musician (Brooks & Dunn )1953 - David Berkowitz , American serial killer, a.k.a. The Son of Sam
1956 - Lisa Hartman , American actress1957 - Dorota Kędzierzawska , Polish film director1958 - Ahron Bregman , Israeli journalist1959 - Martin Brundle , British race car driver1959 - Alan Wilder , British musician (Depeche Mode and Recoil )
1960 - Simon Gallup , English guitarist (The Cure )1961 - Paul Coffey , Canadian hockey player1963 - Mike Joyce , English drummer (The Smiths )1964 - Mark Curry , American comedian and actor1965 - Larisa Lazutina , Russian cross-country skier1965 - Nigel Short , English chess player
1966 - Greg Schiano , American football coach1967 - Cathy Cavadini , American voice actress1967 - Roger Sanchez , American disc jockey
1968 - Jason Donovan , Australian actor and singer1968 - Jeff Hackett , Canadian hockey player
1969 - Teri Polo , American actress1970 - Alexi Lalas , American soccer player1970 - Karen Mulder , Dutch model
1970 - R. Madhavan , Indian actor
1971 - Mario Cimarro , Cuban actor1973 - Adam Garcia , Australian actor1973 - Derek Lowe , American baseball player
1973 - Heidi Klum , German supermodel
1974 - Alanis Morissette , Canadian singer-songwriter1974 - Michael Rasmussen , Danish cyclist
1974 - Akis Zikos , Greek footballer
1975 - James Storm , American professional wrestler1975 - Michal Grosek , Czech hockey player
1977 - Veronika Vařeková , Czech supermodel1977 - Richard Williams , British racing driver
1980 - Oliver James , British actor1981 - Carlos Zambrano , Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
1982 - Justine Henin (formerly Henin-Hardenne), Belgian tennis player1984 - Oliver Tielemans , Dutch racing driver1985 - Mário Hipólito , Angolan footballer1987 - Zoltán Harsányi , Slovakian footballer1996- Tom Holland, English actor and dancer Deaths [ ] 195 BC - Gaozu of Han of China193 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus , Roman Emperor (b. 133 )1434 - Wladislaus II of Poland 1571 - John Story , English Catholic1616 - Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543 )1625 - Honoré d'Urfé , French writer (b. 1568 )1639 - Melchior Franck , German composer1660 - Mary Dyer , English Quaker (martyred)1710 - David Mitchell , British admiral (b. 1642 )1740 - Samuel Werenfels , Swiss theologian (b. 1657 )1769 - Edward Holyoke , President of Harvard University (b. 1689 )1795 - Pierre-Joseph Desault , French anatomist (b. 1744 )1815 - Louis Alexandre Berthier , French marshal (b. 1853 )1823 - Louis Nicolas Davout , French marshal (b. 1770 )1826 - Jean Frédéric Oberlin , Alsatian pastor (b. 1740 )1841 - David Wilkie , Scottish artist (b. 1785 )1846 - Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765 )1864 - Hong Xiuquan , Chinese rebel (b. 1812 )1868 - James Buchanan , 15th President of the United States (b. 1791 )1872 - James Gordon Bennett , American newspaper publisher (b. 1795 )1873 - Joseph Howe , Canadian politician (b. 1804 )1876 - Hristo Botev , Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848 )1879 - Napoléon Eugène son of Emperor Napoleon III (b. 1856 )1927 - J. B. Bury , Irish historian (b. 1861 )1941 - Hans Berger , German neuroscientist (b. 1873 )1943 - Leslie Howard , English actor (b. 1893 )1943 - Wilfrid B. Israel , Jewish activist
1946 - Ion Antonescu , Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882 )1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson I , American musician (b. 1914 )1954 - Martin Andersen Nexø , Danish writer (b. 1869 )1959 - Sax Rohmer , English author (b. 1883 )1960 - Lester Patrick , Canadian hockey player (b. 1883 )1960 - Paula Hitler , Adolf Hitler 's final living sibling (b. 1896 )
1962 - Adolf Eichmann , Nazi official (b. 1906 )1965 - Earl "Curly" Lambeau , American football coach (b. 1898 )1966 - Papa Jack Laine , American musician (b. 1873 )1968 - Helen Keller , American humanitarian (b. 1880 )1968 - André Laurendeau , French Canadian writer, journalist and politician (b. 1912 )
1969 - Ivar Ballangrud , Norwegian ice skater (b. 1904 )1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr , American theologian (b. 1892 )1973 - Mary Kornman , American actress (b. 1915 )1979 - Werner Forssmann , German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1904 )1980 - Rube Marquard , baseball player (b. 1886 )1980 - Arthur Nielsen , American market analyst (b. 1897 )
1981 - Carl Vinson , U.S. Congressman (b. 1883 )1983 - Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903 )1985 - Richard Greene , British actor (b. 1918 )1986 - Jo Gartner , Austrian racing driver (d. 1958 )1987 - Rashid Karami , Lebanese statesman (b. 1921 )1991 - David Ruffin , American singer (The Temptations ) (b. 1941 )1994 - Frances Heflin , American actress (b. 1923 )1996 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy , Fifth President of India (b. 1913 )1998 - Darwin Joston , American actor (b. 1937 )1999 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell , British engineer and inventor (b. 1910 )2001 - Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949 )2001 - King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945 )
2001 - Hank Ketcham , American cartoonist (b. 1920 )
2002 - Hansie Cronje , South African cricketer (b. 1969 )2003 - Johnny Hopp , baseball player (b. 1916 )2004 - William Manchester , American writer (b. 1922 )2005 - George Mikan , American basketball player (b. 1924 )2006 - Rocío Jurado , Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944 )2007 - Arn Shein , American sports writer (b. 1928 )2007 - Tony Thompson , Singer in R&B group Hi-Five (b. 1975 ) External links [ ]
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200 Familypedia people died on June 1
261 Familypedia people were first married on June 1