June 1 is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years). There are 213 days remaining until the end of the year. (Illustration: Cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, released by the Beatles, June 1, 1967.)

Today in History

• Genghis Khan captures Beijing (1215)
• Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky (1495)
• Benedict Arnold is court-martialed (1779)
• Kentucky (1792) and Tennessee (1796) become states
• Captain James Lawrence of the USS Chesapeake gives his final order: “Don’t give up the ship!” (1813)
• The first European reaches the North Pole (1831)
• Tulsa Race Riot ends: Whites attack and burn to the ground the wealthiest Black community in the US, the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma (1921)
• The Focke-Wulf 190 flies for the first time (1939)
• The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
• The Heimlich maneuver is first published (1974)
• General Motors files for bankruptcy (2009)

Birthdays

• Brigham Young, religious leader (1901)
• John Marshall Harlan, Supreme Court justice (1833)
• John Masefield, poet (1878)
• Frank Morgan, actor (1890)
• Frank Whittle, jet engine designer (1907)
• Nelson Riddle, bandleader (1921)
• William Sloane Coffin, activist clergyman (1924)
• Andy Griffith, actor and comedian (1926)
• Marilyn Monroe, icon (1926)
• Pat Boone, singer (1934)
• Reverend Ike, minister (1935)
• Morgan Freeman, actor (1937)
• Colleen McCullough, author (1937)
• Clevon Little, actor (1939)
• René Auberjonois, actor (1940)
• Jonathan Pryce, actor (1947)
• Ronnie Wood, rock musician (1947)
• David Berkowitz, serial killer (1953)
• Mathias Rust, flew into Red Square (1968)
• Heidi Klum, supermodel (1973)
• Alanis Morissette, singer-songwriter (1974)

Deaths

• James Buchanan, US President (1868)
• James Gordon Bennett Sr, newspaper publisher (1872)
• Lizzie Borden, accused murderer (1927)
• Hugh Walpole, author (1941)
• Leslie Howard, actor (1943)
• Ion Antonescu, Romanian dictator (1946)
• Sonny Boy Williamson, blues musician (1948)
• Sax Rohmer, author (1959)
• Adolf Eichmann, Nazi (1962)
• Curly Lambeau, founder of the Green Bay Packers (1965)
• Helen Keller, author and activist (1968)
• Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian (1971)
• Arthur Nielsen, founder of ACNielsen (198)
• Carl Vinson, politician (1981)
• Tito Puente, musician (2000)
• Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (2001)
• William Manchester, historian (2004)
• Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer (2008)
• Ann B. Davis, actress (2014)

Holidays and Celebrations

• Azores Day
• Children’s Day (international)
• Fei Fei Day (Vancouver)
• Global Day of Parents (International)
• Independence Day (Samoa), celebrates the independence of Samoa from New Zealand in 1962.
• Madaraka Day (Kenya)
• National Maritime Day (Mexico)
• National Tree Planting Day (Cambodia)
• Pancasila Day (Indonesia)
• President’s Day (Palau)
• The beginning of Crop over, celebrated until the first Monday of August. (Barbados)
• Victory Day (Tunisia)

Informal and made-up holidays include Heimlich Maneuver Day, National Go Barefoot Day, National Leave the Office Early Day, Oscar the Grouch Day, Say Something Nice Day, and Stand for Children Day.

(*O.S., or Old Style, when used, refers to the fact that Russia did not convert from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar until 1918.)