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| [[1495]] – An entry in the ''[[Auditor of the Exchequer in Scotland|Exchequer Rolls]]'' of Scotland made the first recorded mention of '''[[Scotch whisky]]'''.
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| [[1535]] – [[Ottoman–Habsburg wars]]: The army of [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]] '''[[Conquest of Tunis (1535)|conquered]]''' [[Tunis]] and massacred an estimated 30,000 inhabitants.
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| [[1648]] – [[Second English Civil War]]: [[Roundhead|Parliamentarian troops]] defeated [[Cavalier|Royalist]] forces in the '''[[Battle of Maidstone]]'''.
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| [[1670]] – [[Charles II of England|{{Nowrap|Charles II}}]] and [[Louis XIV of France|{{Nowrap|Louis XIV}}]] signed '''[[Secret Treaty of Dover|a secret treaty]]''', wherein England would aid France in [[Franco–Dutch War|its war against the Dutch Republic]] in return for French assistance in England's attempt to rejoin the [[Roman Catholic Church]].
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|[[1679]] – The [[Covenanter|Scottish Covenanters]] defeated the forces of [[John Graham of Claverhouse]] at the '''[[Battle of Drumclog]]''' in [[South Lanarkshire]], Scotland.
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| [[1879]] – '''[[Napoléon, Prince Imperial]]''' was killed in action during the [[Anglo-Zulu War]], sending shock waves throughout Europe, as he was the last serious hope for the restoration of the [[House of Bonaparte|Bonapartes]] to the French throne.
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|[[1922]] – The '''[[Royal Ulster Constabulary]]''', a police force in [[Northern Ireland]], was founded.
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| [[1941]] – [[World War II]]: After the first mainly [[airborne forces|airborne]] invasion in military history, '''[[Battle of Crete|Crete surrendered]]''' to Nazi Germany.
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| [[1974]] – '''[[Flixborough disaster|An explosion]]''' at a [[chemical plant]] close to the village of [[Flixborough]], England, killed 28 people and seriously injured 36 others.
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| [[1980]] – '''[[CNN]]''' was launched as the first television network to provide 24-hour television news coverage.
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| [[2001]] – Crown Prince [[Dipendra of Nepal]] killed [[Birendra of Nepal|King Birendra]] and several members of the [[Shah dynasty|Shah royal family]] in '''[[Nepalese royal massacre|a shooting spree]]''' at the [[Narayanhity Royal Palace]] in [[Kathmandu]].
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|[[2005]] – In their first national [[referendum]] in over two hundred years, Dutch voters '''[[2005 Dutch European Constitution referendum|rejected]]''' the ratification of the [[Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe|proposed Constitution]] of the [[European Union]].
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| [[2009]] – En route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, '''[[Air France Flight 447]]''' crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 aboard.
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| '''[[Nargis]]''' (b.&nbsp;1929)
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| '''[[Helene Bresslau Schweitzer]]''' (d.&nbsp;1957)
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* [[1676]] – The Swedish warship '''''[[Kronan (ship)|Kronan]]'''''<!-- ''(pictured)''-->, one of the [[List of longest wooden ships|largest ships in the world]] at the time, sank at the '''[[Battle of Öland]]''' with a loss of around 800 men.
* [[1813]] – [[War of 1812]]: Mortally wounded during '''[[Capture of USS Chesapeake|a battle]]''' against the [[Royal Navy]] frigate [[HMS Shannon (1806)|HMS ''Shannon'']], American commander [[James Lawrence]] of the [[USS Chesapeake (1799)|USS ''Chesapeake'']] ordered his crew "Don't give up the ship!", today a popular [[battle cry]].
* [[1831]] – British [[Royal Navy|naval officer]] and explorer '''[[James Clark Ross]]''' successfully led the first expedition to reach the [[North Magnetic Pole]]<!--not bold, refimprove section-->.
* [[1861]] – The '''[[Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861)|first land battle]]''' of the [[American Civil War]] after [[Battle of Fort Sumter|Fort Sumter]] took place in the village of [[Fairfax, Virginia]].
* [[1868]] – The United States signed the '''[[Treaty of Bosque Redondo]]''', allowing the [[Navajo people|Navajos]] to [[Long Walk of the Navajo|return to their lands]]<!--not bold, lots of CN tags--> in [[Arizona Territory|Arizona]] and [[New Mexico Territory|New Mexico]].
* [[1916]] – '''[[Louis Brandeis]]''' became the first [[Jews|Jew]] to be appointed to the [[United States Supreme Court]].
* [[1943]] – Eight German [[Junkers Ju 88]]s shot down '''[[BOAC Flight 777|British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777]]''' over the [[Bay of Biscay]] off the coast of Spain and France, killing actor [[Leslie Howard]]<!-- ''(pictured)''--> and several other notable passengers.
* [[1988]] – The '''[[Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty]]''' between the United States and the Soviet Union came into effect, banning all land-based [[missile]]s with a range of {{convert|500|-|5500|km|mi|0|abbr=on}}.
* [[2001]] – A [[Hamas]]-affiliated [[Islamism|Islamist]] terrorist '''[[Dolphinarium discotheque massacre|blew himself up]]''' outside a nightclub in Tel Aviv, killing 21 people, most of them teenage girls.
* [[2015]] – China's worst peacetime maritime disaster took place when the cruise ship '''[[Sinking of Dongfang zhi Xing|''Dongfang zhi Xing'']]''' capsized in the [[Yangtze]], resulting in 442 deaths.
* Born/died this day: '''[[Empress Dowager Xiao (Tang dynasty)|Empress Dowager Xiao]]''' (d.&nbsp;847){{·}} '''[[Kitabatake Chikafusa]]''' (d.&nbsp;1354){{·}} '''[[Tiedemann Giese]]''' (b.&nbsp;1480){{·}} '''[[Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill]]''' (d.&nbsp;1879){{·}} '''[[Blanche Lazzell]]''' (d.&nbsp;1956){{·}} '''[[Yarisley Silva]]''' (b.&nbsp;1987)
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'''[[June 1]]''': '''[[Laylat al-Qadr|Night of Decree]]''' ([[Sunni Islam]], 2019)
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* [[1660]] – '''[[Mary Dyer]]''' was hanged in Boston for repeatedly defying a law banning [[Quakers]] from the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]].
* [[1794]] – The '''[[Glorious First of June]]''', the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] and the [[French First Republic]] during the [[French Revolutionary Wars]], was fought.
* [[1942]] – [[World War II]]: The crews of three Japanese [[Type A Kō-hyōteki-class submarine]]s scuttled their boats and committed suicide after entering [[Port Jackson|Sydney Harbour]] and launching '''[[Attack on Sydney Harbour|a failed attack]]'''.
* [[1974]] – In an informal article in a medical journal, '''[[Henry Heimlich]]''' introduced the concept of '''[[abdominal thrusts]]''', commonly known as the "Heimlich maneuver", to help [[choking]] victims.
* [[1999]] – On landing at [[Clinton National Airport|Little Rock National Airport]] in the U.S. state of [[Arkansas]], '''[[American Airlines Flight 1420|American Airlines {{nowrap|Flight 1420}}]]''' overran the runway and crashed ''(wreckage pictured)'', resulting in 11 deaths.
'''[[Cornelis Saftleven]]''' (d.&nbsp;1681){{·}} '''[[Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden|Lady Clementina Hawarden]]''' (b.&nbsp;1822){{·}} '''[[Morgan Freeman]]''' (b.&nbsp;1937)
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