It happened on this day, June 1st
events:
636 – The Muslims, led by Abu Ubaida bin Al-Jarrah, conquer the city of Homs after severely besieging it. The city was forced to sue for peace, so the Muslims wrote its inhabitants a letter of security for themselves and their money. .
987 – Hugues Capet is elected king of France.
1671 – The Ottomans declare war on Poland.
1812 – U.S. President James Madison asks Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom in what is known as the War of 1812.
1920 – Adolfo de la Huerta assumes the presidency of Mexico for a period of transition.
1921 – The Tulsa Race Massacre, when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses owned by them in the Greenwood area of Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America, during which hundreds of Black Americans were killed.
1938 – First issue of the “Superman” comic book magazine.
(1945–French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle announces that he has ordered French forces in Syria to cease fire in response to British requests in order to provide an opportunity for consultations between France, Great Britain, the United States and the Arab countries on the situation in the Middle East
1949 – Italians are evacuated from Libya and King Muhammad Idris Al-Senussi declares the independence of the “State of Cyrenaica”.
1955 – Independence of Tunisia.
1958 – Canada begins television broadcasting covering all Canadian territories.
1959 – The Tunisian Constitution is promulgated.
1973 – Greek Prime Minister Giorgios Papadopoulos abolishes the monarchy, and this abolition is approved in a referendum in 1974.
1980 – CNN begins operations.
1987 – Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami by blowing up his helicopter.
2001 – Death of Nepalese King Birendra, his wife, children and siblings who were on the throne after his son, Crown Prince Debendar Bikram, deposed them and his brother Gyanendra took power.
2004 – Ghazi Al-Yawar assumes the presidency of Iraq for a transitional period, becoming Iraq's first president after the fall of Saddam Hussein's government in 2003 following the US invasion.
2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes over the Atlantic Ocean after being exposed to severe turbulence during its flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
✴️ American automobile manufacturer General Motors officially declares bankruptcy after filing for protection against its creditors under Chapter 11 of American law.
2010 – Midterm elections for Egypt's Shura Council are held.
2016 – The Gotthard Base Tunnel opens in the Swiss Alps, becoming the longest and deepest railway tunnel in the world.
2017 – U.S. President Donald Trump announces the United States' withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, which it signed in late 2016.
2018 – Pedro Sanchez takes over as head of the Spanish government after Parliament chooses him to succeed Mariano Rajoy.
2019 – Liverpool FC wins the 2019 Champions League title after beating Tottenham in the final with a score of 0/2.
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Births:
1637 – Jacques Marquette, French explorer.
1796 – Sadi Carnot, French physicist.
1846 – Eugène Gripault, French Egyptologist.
1885 – Hussein Al-Qudaihi, Saudi jurist, hadith specialist, poet and writer.
1897 – Yang Zhongjian, Chinese archaeologist.
1917 – William Knowles, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001.
1925 – Italo De Zan, Italian cyclist
1926 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress.
**Andy Griffith, American actor.
1929 – James Billington, American university professor.
1930 – Muhammad Al-Manea, Kuwaiti actor.
1932 – Naguib Sorour, Egyptian poet.
1933 – Charles Wilson, American politician.
1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor.
** Taroub, Lebanese singer.
(1945–ShimonOhionIsraeli politician
1946 – Brian Cox, Scottish actor.
1953 – Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
1957 – Yamashita Yasuhiro, Japanese judoka.
1958 – Azza Labib, Egyptian actress.
1960 – Bashir Ghoneim, Saudi actor.
1969 – Annie Carrera, Indonesian actress and singer.
1971 – Gilad Tsukerman, linguist and linguist.
1973 – Adam Garcia, Australian actor.
1974 – Joanna Mallah, Lebanese singer.
1976 – Zaid Al-Mawlid, Saudi footballer.
1977 – Sarah Wayne Calles, American actress.
1983 – Yara, Lebanese singer. Abdullah Maksour, Syrian novelist and journalist.
1985 – Mario Hipolito, Angolan footballer.
1987 – Zoltan Harsanyi, Slovak footballer.
1993 – Hisham Gamal, Egyptian artist.
1996 – Tom Holland, British actor
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Death:
1868 – James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States.
1925 – Suleiman Al-Bustani, Lebanese writer.
1946 – Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania.
1949 – Khalil Mutran, Lebanese poet.
1968 – Helen Keller, American writer.
1979 – Werner Forssmann, German doctor who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1956.
1987 – Rashid Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon.
2008 – Muhammad Reda al-Husseini al-Shirazi, Shiite religious authority.
** Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer.
2010 – Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman Al-Ghadian, member of the Saudi Council of Senior Researchers.
2014 – Sheikh Munir Al-Ghadhban, former comptroller general of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.
2018 – Razan Al-Najjar, Palestinian nurse.
2021 – Nizar Abdeen, Syrian journalist, writer, writer and researcher.
** Khaled Jamaei, Moroccan journalist, writer and political analyst.
** Hicham Jait, Tunisian historian and thinker.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Children's Day in North Korea.
