Events on June 1 58
Year 1215
Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
Year 1298
Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
Year 1535
Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
Year 1648
The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
Year 1649
Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
Year 1660
Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Year 1670
In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
Year 1679
The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
Year 1773
Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. He drowned on his eighth attempt.
Year 1779
Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
Year 1794
The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Year 1812
War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
Year 1813
James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"
Year 1849
Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of Minnesota officially established.
Year 1862
American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
Year 1868
The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
Year 1890
The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
Year 1913
The Greek-Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
Year 1916
Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
Year 1918
World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
Year 1929
The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
Year 1943
BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Year 1946
Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed.
Year 1958
Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
Year 1961
The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history.
Year 1974
The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
Year 1978
The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
Year 1979
The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
Year 1990
George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
Year 1993
Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
Year 1999
American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
Year 2001
Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.
Year 2001
Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
Year 2004
Oklahoma state prosecutors sentence Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of a parole breaking a Guinness World Record.
Year 2009
Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
Year 2009
General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
Year 2011
A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
Year 2015
A ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.