Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 1

This is a list of selected June 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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  James Lawrence
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  Louis Brandeis
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  The Glorious First of June by Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1795
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  Lord Howe's Action, or the Glorious First of June
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  Kronan
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  Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte
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  Leslie Howard
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  James Clark Ross
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  Mary Dyer being led to the gallows

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Madaraka Day in Kenya	stub
1495 – An entry in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland made the first recorded mention of Scotch whisky.	refimprove section
1535 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The army of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor conquered Tunis and massacred an estimated 30,000 inhabitants.	largely based one source
1648 – Second English Civil War: Parliamentarian troops defeated Royalist forces in the Battle of Maidstone.	page numbers needed
1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeated the forces of John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.	refimprove
1879 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial was killed in action during the Anglo-Zulu War, sending shock waves throughout Europe, as he was the last serious hope for the restoration of the Bonapartes to the French throne.	refimprove
1916 – Louis Brandeis became the first Jew to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court.	Unreferenced section
1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary, a police force in Northern Ireland, was founded.	multiple issues
1941 – World War II: After the first mainly airborne invasion in military history, Crete surrendered to Nazi Germany.	refimprove section
1974 – An explosion at a chemical plant close to the village of Flixborough, England, killed 28 people and seriously injured 36 others.	multiple issues
1980 – The American news channel CNN was launched as the first television network to provide 24-hour television news coverage.	Extreme recentism and unsourced section
2001 – Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal killed King Birendra and several members of the Shah royal family in a shooting spree at the Narayanhity Royal Palace in Kathmandu.	refimprove section
2005 – In their first national referendum in over two hundred years, Dutch voters rejected the ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union.	no footnotes
2009 – En route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 aboard.	external links, clean up
Nargis |b|1929	lots of CN tags (8)
Helene Bresslau Schweitzer |d|1957	missing page numbers

Eligible

• 1660 – Mary Dyer (pictured) was hanged in Boston for repeatedly defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 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.
• 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 (pictured).
• 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.
• 1831 – British explorer James Clark Ross led the first expedition to reach the north magnetic pole.
• 1861 – The first land battle of the American Civil War after Fort Sumter took place in the village of Fairfax, Virginia.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 2015 – The river cruise ship Dongfang zhi Xing capsized in the Yangtze, resulting in 442 deaths in China's worst peacetime maritime disaster.
• 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.
• Born/died this day: | Empress Dowager Xiao |d|847| Theodosius Romanus |d|896| Marguerite Porete |d|1310| Tiedemann Giese |b|1480| Cornelis Saftleven |d|1681| Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden |b|1822| J. F. Oberlin |d|1826| Morgan Freeman |b|1937| Parveen Kumar |b|1942| Blanche Lazzell |d|1956| Nambaryn Enkhbayar |b|1958| Yarisley Silva |b|1987|

June 1

Wreckage of American Airlines Flight 1420

• 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.
• 1857 – The Revolution of the Ganhadores, the first general strike in Brazil, began in Salvador, Bahia.
• 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.
• 1988 – Group representation constituencies were introduced to the parliament of Singapore.
• 1999 – On landing at Little Rock National Airport in the U.S. state of Arkansas, American Airlines Flight 1420 overran the runway and crashed (wreckage pictured), resulting in 11 deaths.

• Kitabatake Chikafusa (d. 1354)
• Louisa Caroline Tuthill (d. 1879)
• Tom Holland (b. 1996)
• Faizul Waheed (d. 2021)

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