The Roundheads defeated the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War on June 1, 1648.
The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, began on this date in 1779.
Kentucky was admitted as the 15th state of the United States in 1792 on the same day of the month.
Tennessee was admitted as the 16th state of the United States exactly four years later.
Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of Minnesota officially established — 1849.
The Treaty of Bosque Redondo was signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico, in 1868.
The United States Census Bureau began using, on June 1, 1890, Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
Adolf Eichmann, a former SS officer in Nazi Germany, was hanged on June 1, 1962, in Israel … for having committed crimes against humanity, war crimes, and other offenses.
The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims was first published in the June 1, 1974, issue of Emergency Medicine.
George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty to end chemical weapon production in 1990, on the first day of June.
