Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: June 1
June 1, 2024 is the 153rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Gemini is your zodiac sign. Pearl is your modern birthstone. Moonstone is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: June 1
- 1298 –Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
- 1495 –Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
- 1831 –James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
- 1857 –Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal is published.
- 1890 –The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
- 1922 –The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
- 1941 –The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
- 1960 –New Zealand’s first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
- 1962 –The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
- 1979 –The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
Who were born on June 1?
- 1300 –Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)
- 1633 –Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
- 1800 –Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879)
- 1889 –Charles Kay Ogden, English polymath (d. 1957)
- 1924 –William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
- 1947 –Ron Dennis, F1 team principal (McLaren)
- 1960 –Giorgos Lillikas, Cypriot politician
- 1968 –Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
- 1970 –R. Madhavan, Indian actor
- 1983 –Jake Silbermann, American actor
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