On this day: June 1

Events on June 1

• 193 The Roman Senate passes a motion proclaiming Septimius Severus emperor, awards divine honours to Pertinax, and sentences current emperor Didius Julianus to death. Wikipedia
• 1660 Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston for repeatedly defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Wikipedia
• 1670 Charles II and Louis XIV signed a secret treaty, requiring England to aid France in its war against the Dutch Republic and the future conversion of Charles to Catholicism, in return for Louis making large payments to Charles and promising to aid him if there was a rebellion in England. Wikipedia
• 1676 Scanian War: The Swedish warship Kronan, one of the largest ships in the world at the time, sank at the Battle of Öland with the loss of around 800 men. Wikipedia
• 1794 French Revolutionary Wars: A British fleet captured six French ships of the line in a naval battle off Ushant that came to be known as the Glorious First of June. Wikipedia
• 1796 Tennessee was admitted as the 16th state of the United States. Wikipedia
• 1813 War of 1812: Mortally wounded, U.S. Navy captain James Lawrence ordered his crew "Don't give up the ship!" as USS Chesapeake was captured by HMS Shannon off the coast of Boston. Wikipedia
• 1857 The Revolution of the Ganhadores, the first general strike in Brazil, began in Salvador, Bahia. Wikipedia
• 1861 The first land battle of the American Civil War after Fort Sumter took place in the village of Fairfax, Virginia. Wikipedia
• 1868 The Navajo and the U.S. government signed the Treaty of Bosque Redondo, which allowed those interned at Fort Sumner to return to their ancestral lands. Wikipedia
• 1879 Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War. Wikipedia
• 1913 The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War. Wikipedia
• 1942 World War II: The crews of three Japanese submarines scuttled their vessels and committed suicide after entering Sydney Harbour and launching a failed attack. Wikipedia
• 1943 Eight German Junkers Ju 88s shot down British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay off the coast of Spain and France, killing actor Leslie Howard and several other notable passengers. Wikipedia
• 1958 Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months. Wikipedia
• 1974 In an informal article in a medical journal, Henry Heimlich introduced the concept of abdominal thrusts, commonly known as the Heimlich maneuver, to treat victims of choking. Wikipedia
• 1980 Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting. Wikipedia
• 1988 The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was ratified, banning all American and Soviet land-based missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 km (310 to 3,420 mi). Wikipedia
• 1988 Group representation constituencies were introduced to the parliament of Singapore. Wikipedia
• 1999 On landing at Little Rock National Airport in the U.S. state of Arkansas, American Airlines Flight 1420 overran the runway and crashed, resulting in 11 deaths. Wikipedia
• 2001 A Hamas-affiliated Islamist militant blew himself up outside a nightclub in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 people, most of whom were teenage girls. Wikipedia
• 2007 Cyclone Gonu develops from an area of convection in the Arabian Sea, later becoming the worst recorded natural disaster in Oman. Wikipedia
• 2008 A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroyed the King Kong Encounter and a large archive of music and film master recordings. Wikipedia
• 2009 Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed. Wikipedia
• 2015 The river cruise ship Dongfang zhi Xing capsized in the Yangtze, resulting in 442 deaths in China's worst peacetime maritime disaster. Wikipedia
• 2018 For the first time since its transition to democracy, the Congress of Deputies in Spain passed a motion of no confidence against the government. Wikipedia

Born on June 1

• 1796 Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (died 1832) Wikipedia
• 1801 Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1877) Wikipedia
• 1804 Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (died 1857) Wikipedia
• 1815 Otto of Greece (died 1862) Wikipedia
• 1892 Amanullah Khan, sovereign of the Kingdom of Afghanistan, (died 1960) Wikipedia
• 1917 William Standish Knowles, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012) Wikipedia
• 1926 Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (died 1962) Wikipedia
• 1929 Nargis, Indian actress (died 1981) Wikipedia
• 1935 Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, English architect, founded Foster and Partners Wikipedia
• 1937 Morgan Freeman, American actor and producer Wikipedia
• 1937 Colleen McCullough, Australian neuroscientist and author (died 2015) Wikipedia
• 1940 Kip Thorne, American physicist, astronomer, and academic Wikipedia
• 1947 Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor Wikipedia
• 1961 Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian oligarch, mercenary chief and restaurateur (died 2023) Wikipedia
• 1973 Heidi Klum, German-American model, fashion designer, and producer Wikipedia
• 1974 Alanis Morissette, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress Wikipedia
• 1977 Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress Wikipedia
• 1979 Markus Persson, Swedish game designer, founded Mojang Wikipedia
• 1982 Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player Wikipedia
• 1984 Jean Beausejour, Chilean footballer Wikipedia
• 1988 Javier Hernández, Mexican footballer Wikipedia
• 1996 Tom Holland, English actor Wikipedia

Died on June 1

• 195 BC Emperor Gaozu of Han (born 256 BC) Wikipedia
• 193 Marcus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (born 133) Wikipedia
• 1434 King Wladislaus II of Poland Wikipedia
• 1616 Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (born 1543) Wikipedia
• 1846 Pope Gregory XVI (born 1765) Wikipedia
• 1868 James Buchanan, American lawyer and politician, 15th President of the United States (born 1791) Wikipedia
• 1925 Thomas R. Marshall, American politician, 28th Vice President of the United States (born 1854) Wikipedia
• 1946 Ion Antonescu, Romanian marshal and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Romania (born 1882) Wikipedia
• 1952 John Dewey, American psychologist and philosopher (born 1859) Wikipedia
• 1962 Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer, key organizer of the Holocaust (born 1906) Wikipedia
• 1968 Helen Keller, American author and activist (born 1880) Wikipedia
• 1983 Anna Seghers, German writer (born 1900) Wikipedia
• 1996 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India (born 1913) Wikipedia
• 2008 Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, founded Saint Laurent Paris (born 1936) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Children's Day (International), and its related observances: The Day of Protection of Children Rights (Armenia) Wikipedia
• Children's Day (International), and its related observances: Mothers' and Children's Day (Mongolia) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Alfonso Navarrete Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Annibale Maria di Francia Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Crescentinus Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Fortunatus of Spoleto Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Herculanus of Piegaro Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Íñigo of Oña Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed John Story Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Justin Martyr (Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Ronan of Locronan Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Pamphilus of Caesarea (Roman Catholic only): 256 Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: June 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Gawai Dayak, harvest festival in the state of Sarawak (Malaysia) Wikipedia
• Global Day of Parents (International) Wikipedia
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Samoa from New Zealand in 1962. Wikipedia
• Madaraka Day (Kenya) Wikipedia
• National Maritime Day (Mexico) Wikipedia
• National Tree Planting Day (Cambodia) Wikipedia
• Pancasila Day (Indonesia) Wikipedia
• President's Day (Palau) Wikipedia
• The beginning of Crop over, celebrated until the first Monday of August. (Barbados) Wikipedia
• Victory Day (Tunisia) Wikipedia
• World Milk Day (International) Wikipedia

Sources

• Wikipedia — “June 1” — events, births, deaths and observances (text under CC BY-SA 4.0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikipedia — “Selected anniversaries/June 1” — the anniversaries editors chose for the date and the article each one is about (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikidata — in how many language editions each entry's own article exists, used to fill the lists (CC0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• vacanza/holidays (open-source holiday rules, MIT licence) — holiday rules used to build the lists (checked 2026-10-15)

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “June 1” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for June 1 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.