June 1
| 193 | The Roman emperor, Marcus Didius, is murdered in his palace. | |
| 1533 | Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's new queen, is crowned. | |
| 1774 | The British government orders the port of Boston closed. | |
| 1789 | The first U.S. congressional act on administering oaths becomes law. | |
| 1812 | American navy captain James Lawrence, mortally wounded in a naval engagement with the British, exhorts to the crew of his vessel, the Chesapeake, "Don't give up the ship!" | |
| 1862 | General Robert E. Lee assumes command of the Confederate army outside Richmond after General Joe Johnston is injured at Seven Pines. | |
| 1864 | The Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, begins as Confederate general Robert E. Lee tries to turn Union general Ulysses S. Grant's flank. | |
| 1868 | James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, dies. | |
| 1877 | U.S. troops are authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico. | |
| 1915 | Germany conducts the first zeppelin air raid over England. | |
| 1916 | The National Defense Act increases the strength of the U.S. National Guard by 450,000 men. | |
| 1921 | A race riot erupts in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing 85 people. | |
| 1939 | The Douglas DC-4 makes its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York. | |
| 1941 | The German Army completes the capture of Crete as the Allied evacuation ends. | |
| 1942 | America begins sending Lend-Lease materials to the Soviet Union. | |
| 1958 | Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France. | |
| 1963 | Governor George Wallace vows to defy an injunction ordering integration of the University of Alabama. | |
| 1978 | The U.S. reports finding wiretaps in the American embassy in Moscow. |
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