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This is a list of selected June 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Madaraka Day in Kenya stub
1495 – An entry in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland made the first recorded mention of Scotch whisky. refimprove section
1535Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The army of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor conquered Tunis and massacred an estimated 30,000 inhabitants. largely based one source
1648Second English Civil War: Parliamentarian troops defeated Royalist forces in the Battle of Maidstone. page numbers needed
1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeated the forces of John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. refimprove
1879Napoléon, 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 Bonapartes to the French throne. refimprove
1916Louis Brandeis became the first Jew to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Unreferenced section
1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary, a police force in Northern Ireland, was founded. multiple issues
1941World War II: After the first mainly airborne invasion in military history, Crete surrendered to Nazi Germany. refimprove section
1974An explosion at a chemical plant close to the village of Flixborough, England, killed 28 people and seriously injured 36 others. multiple issues
1980 – The American news channel CNN was launched as the first television network to provide 24-hour television news coverage. Extreme recentism and unsourced section
2001 – Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal killed King Birendra and several members of the Shah royal family in a shooting spree at the Narayanhity Royal Palace in Kathmandu. refimprove section
2005 – In their first national referendum in over two hundred years, Dutch voters rejected the ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union. no footnotes
2009 – En route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 aboard. external links, clean up
Nargis |b|1929 lots of CN tags (8)
Helene Bresslau Schweitzer |d|1957 missing page numbers

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June 1

Wreckage of American Airlines Flight 1420
Wreckage of American Airlines Flight 1420
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