June 1

1495 Whiskey distillation began in Ireland and crossed via Islay and the Campbeltown peninsula to Scotland. The first written record of Scotch Whisky appeared on June 1, 1495 in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor was the distiller.

1533 Four months after Henry VIII married his second wife Anne Boleyn. she was crowned queen on June 1, 1533. Anne's coronation on June 1, 1533 was marked by the people's hostility, and the crowds refused to remove their hats as a sign of respect for their new queen. When asked what she had made of London at her coronation, Anne replied, "I liked the City well-enough, but I saw few caps in the air and heard few tongues."

1670 England's Charles II and France's Louis XIV signed the Secret Treaty of Dover on June 1, 1670.  The Secret Treaty of Dover meant that Charles publicly declared his politically expedient conversion to Catholicism as it required France to assist England in the king's aim that it would rejoin the Roman Catholic Church. England was also required to assist France in its war of conquest against the Dutch Republic.

1792 Originally part of the territory of Virginia, known as Kentucky County, Kentucky's path to statehood began in 1784 when it was separated from Virginia and becamethe District of Kentucky. Later, in 1790, the District of Kentucky petitioned Congress for statehood. On June 1, 1792, Kentucky was admitted to the Union as the fifteenth state, making it the first state west of the Appalachian Mountains to join the United States.

1796 The first British settlement in what is now Tennessee was built in 1756 by settlers from the colony of South Carolina at Fort Loudoun, near present-day Vonore.  Built to help garner Cherokee support for the British at the outset of the Seven Years' War, Fort Loudoun became the westernmost British outpost to that date. Kentucky was the 16th state to join the nation, on June 1, 1796. It was the first state created from territory under the jurisdiction of the United States federal government.

1868 No US President has ever died during the month of May. The 15th president, James Buchanan, narrowly avoided doing so, dying on the morning of June 1, 1868. Buchanan caught a cold in May 1868, which quickly worsened due to his advanced age. He died from respiratory failure at the age of 77 at his home at Wheatland and was interred in Woodward Hill Cemetery in Lancaster.

Buchanan in his later years

1660 Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston on June 1, 1660 for repeatedly defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She is one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs.

1894 On June 1, 1894, at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford University, the British physicist Oliver Lodge made the first demonstration of wirelessly controlling at a distance. During a memorial lecture on the work of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz and the German scientist's proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves, Lodge made a mirror galvanometer move a beam of light when an electromagnetic wave was artificially generated.

1896 The first recorded theft of a motor car took place in Paris on June 1, 1896. The vehicle in question was a Peugeot, and it belonged to Baron de Zuylen. Surprisingly, the thief turned out to be the baron's own mechanic, who made off with the car without permission. 

1898 In 1897 Charlotte Payne Townshend, an Anglo-Irish woman of wealth and socialist ideals, proposed that she and George Bernard Shaw should marry. He declined, but the following year, as a result of overwork, Shaw's health broke down and Charlotte insisted on nursing him in a house in the country, Shaw, concerned that this might cause scandal, agreed to their marriage. The ceremony between the two 41-year-olds took place in Covent Garden, London registry office on June 1, 1898.

Charlotte and Bernard Shaw (centre) with Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb (foreground)

1907 The lowest temperature ever recorded in South America at low elevation was −32.8 °C (−27.0 °F) in Sarmiento, a small town located on the coast of Argentina, about 1,000 kilometers south of Buenos Aires, on June 1, 1907.

1913 With his first professional bout at age 14, French boxer Georges Carpentier became welterweight champion of Europe in 1911. On June 1, 1913, he beat "Bombardier" Billy Wells in Ghent, Belgium to become heavyweight champion of Europe. Carpentier's sole attempt at the heavyweight Championship of the world came in 1921 when he faced Jack Dempsey in front of boxing's first million dollar gate. He suffered a knockout in the second minute of the fourth round.

1925 On June 1, 1925, Howard Hughes married Ella Botts Rice, socialite daughter of David and Martha Rice of Houston. Soon after their marriage, Howard and Ella moved to Los Angeles, where he hoped to make a name for himself making movies. In 1929, Ella, returned to her home city and filed for divorce. Hughes went on to date many famous women, including Bette Davis, Ava Gardner, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers and Jean Peters whom he married.

1926 Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926. Her mother was emotionally unstable and frequently confined to an asylum, so Norma Jean was reared by a succession of foster parents and in an orphanage. She was discovered while building drone aircraft at Radioplane Company in 1944 and signed a contract with the Blue Book Model Agency. In 1946 Mortenson signed a contract with 20th Century Fox, taking as her screen name Marilyn Monroe.

1934 The Tokyo-based motor car manufacturer Jidosha-Seizo Kabushiki-Kaisha, which means "Automobile Manufacturing Company, Ltd." in Japanese, took on a new name June 1, 1934: The Nissan Motor Company. Nissan is now a major player in the global automobile industry, with operations in over 180 countries. The company produces a wide range of cars, trucks, and SUVs. 

1935 The driving test was introduced in Britain for all new drivers with the Road Traffic Act 1934. The test was initially voluntary to avoid a rush of candidates until June 1, 1935 when all people who had started to drive on or after April 1, 1934 needed to have passed the test. Also on June 1, 1935 Britain introduced the compulsory wearing of 'L' plates for learner drivers.

1941 During the Second World War, the British government found that they needed to reduce production and consumption of civilian clothes to safeguard raw materials and release workers and factory space for war production. As a result, clothes rationing was announced by the British government on June 1, 1941. Rationing lasted, albeit in a gradually reduced format, until March 1949.

1941 The Battle of Crete, which took place from May 20 to June 1, 1941, was a significant conflict during World War II. It involved the invasion of the Greek island Crete by German forces, making it the first primarily airborne invasion in military history. Crete surrendered to Nazi Germany on June 1, 1941.

1942 During the Second World War, 10,445 bombs dropped during 135 separate raids destroyed 731 homes and 296 other buildings in Canterbury. The most devastating raid was on June 1, 1942 during the Baedeker Blitz when much of the eastern part of the city was destroyed by fire.

1946 A television licence was introduced in the UK on June 1, 1946, for households to watch BBC mono transmissions. The licence cost £2 per year and was required for anyone who wanted to watch live television programmes. The licence was introduced to help fund the BBC, which is a public service broadcaster that is funded by a combination of licence fees and advertising. mono transmissions.

1954 Linus's security blanket made its debut in the Peanuts comic strip on June 1st, 1954. This is the date of the first strip where he is depicted holding his blanket, and it sparked the discussion of its purpose and significance among the characters. While the term "security blanket" wasn't explicitly used at the time, it became widely associated with Linus and his attachment to the blanket.

1980 Television station CNN was launched on June 1, 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner as a cable news channel. CNN is widely credited with introducing the concept of 24-hour news coverage. Its services are available to more than 1.5 billion people in over 212 countries and territories.

1996 British Prime Minister David Cameron married Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield, the daughter of Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet on June 1, 1996 at the Church of St. Augustine of Canterbury, East Hendred, Oxfordshire. Samantha was a Marlborough College school friend of Cameron's sister Clare and had been invited on a Cameron family holiday in Tuscany, Italy, where the couple's romance started.

2001 Nepalese Crown Prince Dipendra shot dead his father, King Birendra, his mother Queen Aishwarya and eight other members of the royal family on June 1, 2001. Dipendra then shot himself but was crowned King of Nepal while in a coma before he died three days later. Official reports state that the massacre was caused by Dipendra's anger at being denied his choice of bride.

Crown Prince Dependra Bikram Shah Dev By Nabin K. Sapkota - Purna Nepali

2008 Because plastic bags are so durable, this makes them a concern for the environment. They will not break down easily and as a result are frequently harmful to wildlife. The government of China placed a ban on very thin plastic bags on June 1, 2008. The average consumer in China now uses only 2 or 3 plastic bags a year. In 2011, Italy became the first country in Europe to ban non-biodegradable plastic bags.

2015 US television personality Caitlyn Jenner broke a new Twitter record for fastest time to reach one million followers on Twitter when she reached the one million mark in 4 hours 3 minutes on June 1, 2015. Jenner launched her Twitter account at the same time as a Vanity Fair magazine cover was released, showing her as a transgender woman and revealing the name she will now be using.