June 1

Events

• 1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
• 1533 - Anne Boleyn crowned Queen of England.
• 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.
• 1922 - Royal Ulster Constabulary, the police force in Northern Ireland is founded
• 1979 - Black rule begins in Rhodesia.
• 1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.

Births

• 1801 - Brigham Young, Mormon church leader (d. 1877)
• 1831 - John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
• 1899 - Mary Phagan, child laborer and murder victim of Leo Frank (d. 1913)
• 1907 - Frank Whittle, English inventor of the jet engine. (d. 1996)
• 1924 - William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
• 1935 - Reverend Ike, Black American televangelist

Deaths

• 1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
• 1943 - Leslie Howard, English actor (b. 1893)
• 1946 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882)
• 1960 - Paula Hitler, Adolf Hitler's sister (b. 1896)
• 1962 - Adolf Eichmann, German officer martyred by Israel (b. 1906)
• 1968 - Helen Keller, American communist (b. 1880)
• 2004 - William Manchester, American writer (b. 1922)