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June 1 is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 193 – Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is 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.
• 1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
• 1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
• 1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
• 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.
• 1796 – Tennessee is 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, gives his final order: "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 is published.
• 1862 – American Civil War, Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
• 1868 – Treaty of Bosque Redondo is 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, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is 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 and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
• 1920 – Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
• 1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• 1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
• 1929 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
• 1935 – The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom.
• 1939 – Maiden flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger (D-OPZE) fighter aeroplane
• 1940 – The Leninist Communist Youth League of the Karelo-Finnish SSR holds its first congress.
• 1940 – The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation goes out of business, giving the City of New York full control of the subway system in the city.
• 1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
• 1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes 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, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War 2, is executed.
• 1956 – First international flight (to Montreal YUL) from the Atlanta Municipal Airport (ATL; now Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and currently the world's busiest airport)
• 1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
• 1962 – Adolf Eichmann becomes only person ever to receive a death penalty in Israel
• 1963 – Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
• 1974 – Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
• 1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
• 1974 The punishment of bread and water in prisons was abolished.
• 1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
• 1979 – Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
• 1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
• 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
• 1988 – The 4th Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
• 1989 – Oba Chandler murders an Ohio family on their Florida vacation by drowning them in Tampa Bay.
• 1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
• 1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
• 1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slid and crashed while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
• 2000 – The Patent Law Treaty is signed.
• 2001 – Nepalese royal massacre : the Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shot and killed several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
• 2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: an 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.
• 2005 – The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
• 2007 – Jack Kevorkian is 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, Michigan.
• 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.
• 2009 – General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.

Births

• 719 – Yang Yuhuan (d. 756)
• 1076 – Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
• 1300 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, 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, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 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, marchese di Maffei, 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)
• 1790 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
• 1796 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist (d. 1832)
• 1800 – Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879)
• 1801 – Brigham Young, American colonizer and religious leader (d. 1877)
• 1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
• 1815 – Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
• 1815 – Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
• 1825 – John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate cavalry general (d. 1864)
• 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)
• 1898 – Molly Picon, American actress (d. 1992)
• 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)
• 1903 – Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (d. 1973)
• 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 Caulfield, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1922 – Joan Copeland, American actress
• 1924 – William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Dilia Díaz Cisneros, Venezuelan teacher
• 1925 – Marie Knight, American gospel singer (d. 2009)
• 1926 – Andy Griffith, American actor
• 1926 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
• 1928 – Georgi Dobrovolski, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
• 1928 – Bob Monkhouse, English comedian (d. 2003)
• 1929 – James Billington – American librarian
• 1930 – John Lemmon, English logician (d. 1966)
• 1930 – Edward Woodward, English actor (d. 2009)
• 1932 – Christopher Lasch, American historian and social critic (d. 1994)
• 1933 – Charles Wilson, American politician
• 1933 – Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (d. 1985)
• 1934 – Pat Boone, American singer
• 1935 – Reverend Ike, American televangelist (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Joe Doyle, Irish politician
• 1936 – Gerald Scarfe, British illustrator
• 1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor
• 1937 – Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress
• 1937 – Colleen McCullough, Australian novelist (The Thorn Birds)
• 1939 – Cleavon Little, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1940 – René Auberjonois, American actor
• 1940 – Kip Thorne, American physicist
• 1944 – Robert Powell, English actor
• 1945 – Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano
• 1945 – Linda Scott, American singer
• 1946 – Brian Cox, Scottish actor
• 1947 – Jonathan Pryce, British actor
• 1947 – Ron Dennis, F1 team principal (McLaren)
• 1947 – Ronnie Wood, English guitarist (Rolling Stones)
• 1948 – Tomáš Halík, Czech priest and public intellectual
• 1948 – Michel Plasse, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
• 1948 – Tom Sneva, American race car driver and Indianapolis 500 winner
• 1950 – Wayne Nelson, American musician (Little River Band)
• 1953 – Ronnie Dunn, American musician (Brooks & Dunn)
• 1953 – David Berkowitz, American serial killer (Son of Sam)
• 1955 – Tony Snow, News Anchor, Former White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush (d. 2008)
• 1956 – Lisa Hartman, American actress
• 1957 – Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director
• 1958 – Ahron Bregman, Israeli journalist
• 1959 – Martin Brundle, British race car driver and F1 television commentator
• 1959 – Alan Wilder, British musician (Depeche Mode and Recoil)
• 1960 – Simon Gallup, English bassist (The Cure)
• 1960 – Giorgos Lillikas, Cypriot politician
• 1961 – Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player
• 1961 – Peter Machajdik, Slovakian composer
• 1963 – Mike Joyce, English drummer (The Smiths)
• 1964 – Tribhuvan, Indian Poet and journalist
• 1964 – Mark Curry, American comedian and actor
• 1965 – Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier
• 1965 – Nigel Short, English chess player
• 1966 – Greg Schiano, American football coach
• 1967 – Roger Sanchez, American disc jockey
• 1968 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
• 1968 – Jeff Hackett, Canadian hockey player
• 1968 – Karen Mulder, Dutch supermodel
• 1969 – René Liu, Taiwanese actress and singer
• 1969 – Teri Polo, American actress
• 1969 – Mark Gonzalez, the "Gonz", a professional skateboarder and artist
• 1970 – Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
• 1970 – R. Madhavan, Indian actor
• 1971 – Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor and singer
• 1971 – Roldán González, Cuban singer
• 1972 – Daniel Casey, English actor
• 1972 – Mike Dunham, American hockey player
• 1973 – Frederik Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer
• 1973 – Adam Garcia, Australian actor
• 1973 – Derek Lowe, American baseball player
• 1973 – Heidi Klum, German supermodel
• 1974 – Ashok Jadeja, Indian self-proclaimed Godman
• 1974 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1974 – Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
• 1974 – Melissa Sagemiller, American actress
• 1974 – Akis Zikos, Greek footballer
• 1975 – James Storm, American professional wrestler
• 1975 – Michal Grosek, Czech hockey player
• 1977 – Danielle Harris, American actress
• 1977 – Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
• 1977 – Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player
• 1977 – Richard Williams, British racing driver
• 1979 – Santana Moss, American football player
• 1980 – Oliver James, British actor
• 1981 – Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
• 1981 – Brandi Carlile, American singer and songwriter
• 1981 – Smush Parker, American basketball player
• 1982 – Justine Henin (formerly Henin-Hardenne), Belgian tennis player
• 1983 – Jake Silbermann, American actor
• 1984 – Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, first Mongolian athlete win gold medal from Olympics
• 1984 – Oliver Tielemans, Dutch racing driver
• 1985 – Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
• 1985 – Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian Athlete
• 1985 – Nick Young, American basketball player
• 1986 – Dayana Mendoza, Venezuelan beauty queen and Miss Universe 2008 winner
• 1987 – Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer
• 1987 – Jerel McNeal, American basketball player
• 1988 – Nami Tamaki, Japanese pop singer
• 1989 – Ariana Kukors, American swimmer

Deaths

• 195 BC – Gaozu of Han of China
• 193 – Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)
• 1434 – Wladislaus II of Poland (b. 1362)
• 1571 – John Story, English Catholic (b. 1504)
• 1616 – Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)
• 1625 – Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
• 1639 – Melchior Franck, German composer (b. 1579)
• 1660 – Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred) (b. 1611)
• 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. 1753)
• 1823 – Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (b. 1770)
• 1826 – Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
• 1830 – Sahajanand Swami, believed to be an incarnation of god by his followers, leaves his mortal body. (b. 1781)
• 1841 – David Wilkie, Scottish artist (b. 1785)
• 1846 – Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765)
• 1864 – Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel,build Taiping Rebellion (b. 1812)
• 1868 – James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
• 1872 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1795)
• 1873 – Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
• 1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
• 1879 – Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial 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)
• 1948 – Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
• 1952 – John Dewey, American philosopher and educational theorist (b. 1859)
• 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, sister of Adolf Hitler (b. 1896)
• 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 (b. 1958)
• 1987 – Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (b. 1921)
• 1989 – Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari (b. 1917)
• 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)
• 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)
• 2008 – Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Thomas Berry, American theologian, deep ecologist (b. 1914)
• 2009 – Vincent O'Brien Irish Horse Trainer Best In The (b.1917)

Holidays and observances

• Saint Justin Martyr's Current Feast Day
• Commemoration of Justin Martyr (Eastern Orthodox).
• Justin Martyr
• International Children's Day
• Cambodia: National Tree Planting Day
• Canada: National Day Against Homophobia

• • Vancouver, British Columbia: Fei Fei Day
• Kentucky, Tennessee: Statehood Day
• Kenya: Madaraka Day
• Mongolia: Mothers' and Children's Day
• Palau: President's Day
• Samoa: Independence Day
• Sarawak: First day of the Gawai Dayak festival.
• Roman Empire – Festival in honour of Carna.
• Saint Crescentinus
• Saint Fortunatus of Spoleto
• Saint Íñigo of Oña
• Saint Ronan of Locronan, Irish saint in Lower Brittany
• St. Nino’s Day (Georgian Orthodox Church)
• first day of Hurricane Season in the North Atlantic and Central Pacific

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. ~ G. I. Gurdjieff

• selected by Kalki

2005

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it. ~ Alanis Morissette (born 1 June 1974)

• This was the last quotation that was selected from the Quote of the Day proposals page, prior to setting up the current system of ranking quotes to be used for each day of the year. It was first proposed on that page on 8 August 2004 by IP 24.167.93.227 ~ Kalki

2006

Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war. ~ Carl von Clausewitz (born 1 June 1780)

• selected by Kalki

2007

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea. ~ Carl von Clausewitz

• selected by Kalki

2008

There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom. ~ Carl von Clausewitz

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Suggestions

Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action. ~ Carl von Clausewitz

• 3 because those who are smart aren't always those who are the victors in a dangerous situation. Sometimes it takes more than intellect to overcome unparalleled odds. And this quote I cherish because many people can write and fight with words, but few can actually show action. Zarbon 17:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war. ~ Carl von Clausewitz

• 3 because this is true. The very existence of these vast improvements in artillery signal that the idea of war will always be stagnant. Zarbon 17:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

...the side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain. ~ Carl von Clausewitz

• 4 because those who are far from heavy sympathy and peacefulness are those who end up obtaining most of the power, and hence, "the better bargain". Zarbon 17:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas. ~ Carl von Clausewitz

• 3 because something that is beautiful for one may not be beautiful for another and vice versa. Zarbon 17:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum. ~ Carl von Clausewitz

• 3 because execution is the final judgment, but alas, a weaker form of proving a point where intellect fails. Zarbon 17:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

...it intuitively seems correct that the brain is just some sort of computer—it just seems natural. ... But it has undermined almost all of our work to build intelligent machines and understand thinking. It's just wrong ... the brain isn't like a computer at all. ~ Jeff Hawkins (born June 1)

• 2 because the functions of the brain and its capacity in similarity to the workings of a computer have been compared often. Zarbon 16:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I never have hurt any person any other way except with this unruly member, my tongue. ~ Brigham Young (born June 1)

• 2 because words are a weapon. Zarbon 16:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through...All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through. ~ Brigham Young

• 2 eh, I just like the credit given to angels having experience beforehand. I shortened the quote since it was rather long. Zarbon 16:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Never let a day so pass that you will have cause to say, "I will live better tomorrow." ~ Brigham Young

• 3 because the desired tomorrow may never come. Zarbon 16:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master. ~ Brigham Young

• 2 I think what Young is trying to say here is that making the law one's servant is the same as serving the law...which is actually corresponding with law. To master the law, would actually be going against it...nice way of putting it, a little confusing, but nice nonetheless. Zarbon 16:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a "genius". ~ Carl von Clausewitz

• 2 Kalki 20:08, 31 May 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 03:24, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents. ~ Carl von Clausewitz

• 3 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 03:24, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. ~ Carl von Clausewitz

• 4 Kalki 20:08, 31 May 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 03:24, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien. ~ Carl von Clausewitz

• 3 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 03:24, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on June 1.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 1998
  • Dr. Mario for the SNES in Japan

• 1995
  • EarthBound for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in North America

• 1994
  • Uniracers for the SNES in North America

From Familypedia

June 1 is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of the year.

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 is published.
• 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 aeroplane
• 1940 - 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)
• 1898 - Molly Picon, American actress (d. 1992)
• 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 actor
• 1926 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
• 1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut
• 1928 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian (d. 2003)
• 1930 - Edward Woodward, English actor
• 1930 - John Lemmon, English logician
• 1933 - Charles Wilson, American politician
• 1934 - Pat Boone, American singer
• 1936 - Gerald Scarfe, British illustrator
• 1937 - Morgan Freeman, American actor
• 1937 - Colleen McCullough, Australian novelist
• 1939 - Cleavon Little, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1940 - René Auberjonois, American actor
• 1940 - Kip Thorne, American physicist
• 1944 - Robert Powell, English actor
• 1945 - Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano
• 1945 - Linda Scott, American singer
• 1946 - Brian Cox, Scottish actor
• 1947 - Jonathan Pryce, British actor
• 1947 - 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 driver
• 1950 - 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 actress
• 1957 - Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director
• 1958 - Ahron Bregman, Israeli journalist
• 1959 - Martin Brundle, British race car driver
• 1959 - Alan Wilder, British musician (Depeche Mode and Recoil)
• 1960 - Simon Gallup, English guitarist (The Cure)
• 1961 - Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player
• 1963 - Mike Joyce, English drummer (The Smiths)
• 1964 - Mark Curry, American comedian and actor
• 1965 - Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier
• 1965 - Nigel Short, English chess player
• 1966 - Greg Schiano, American football coach
• 1967 - Cathy Cavadini, American voice actress
• 1967 - Roger Sanchez, American disc jockey
• 1968 - Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
• 1968 - Jeff Hackett, Canadian hockey player
• 1969 - Teri Polo, American actress
• 1970 - Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
• 1970 - Karen Mulder, Dutch model
• 1970 - R. Madhavan, Indian actor
• 1971 - Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor
• 1973 - Adam Garcia, Australian actor
• 1973 - Derek Lowe, American baseball player
• 1973 - Heidi Klum, German supermodel
• 1974 - Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1974 - Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
• 1974 - Akis Zikos, Greek footballer
• 1975 - James Storm, American professional wrestler
• 1975 - Michal Grosek, Czech hockey player
• 1977 - Veronika Vařeková, Czech supermodel
• 1977 - Richard Williams, British racing driver
• 1980 - Oliver James, British actor
• 1981 - Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
• 1982 - Justine Henin (formerly Henin-Hardenne), Belgian tennis player
• 1984 - Oliver Tielemans, Dutch racing driver
• 1985 - Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
• 1987 - Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer

Deaths

• 195 BC - Gaozu of Han of China
• 193 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)
• 1434 - Wladislaus II of Poland
• 1571 - John Story, English Catholic
• 1616 - Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)
• 1625 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
• 1639 - Melchior Franck, German composer
• 1660 - 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

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada