Portal:United States/On this day/June 1
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Events
- 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!"
- 1855 - American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1921 - Tulsa Race Riot: Civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- 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.
- 1956 - First international flight (to YUL) from the Atlanta Municipal Airport (ATL; now Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and currently the world's busiest airport)
- 1958 - Charles de Gaulle brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
- 1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
- 1990 - George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- 2005 - The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas area occurred in Crosby, Texas. The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company.
- 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, Michigan.
