| Date | Weekday | Event |
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| June 1, 1638 | Tuesday | 1st earthquake recorded in U.S. - at Plymouth - Mass |
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| June 1, 1792 | Friday | Kentucky becomes 15th state |
| June 1, 1796 | Wednesday | Tennessee becomes 16th state |
| June 1, 1813 | Tuesday | Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto 'Don't give up the ship' |
| June 1, 1845 | Sunday | Homing pigeon completes 11 -000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days |
| June 1, 1861 | Saturday | US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange |
| June 1, 1865 | Thursday | US adventurer Wm. Walker conquers Nicaragua - reestablishes slavery |
| June 1, 1866 | Friday | Renegade Irish Fenians invade Fort Erie Ontario from US |
| June 1, 1877 | Friday | U.S. troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico |
| June 1, 1918 | Saturday | Yanks turn triple play - beat Tigers 5-4 |
| June 1, 1925 | Monday | Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp starts 2130 game streak |
| June 1, 1933 | Thursday | Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago |
| June 1, 1935 | Saturday | Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2 |
| June 1, 1939 | Thursday | 1st TV heavyweight boxing match - Max Baer vs Lou Nova |
| June 1, 1949 | Wednesday | 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers - Newsweek |
| June 1, 1951 | Friday | 1st self-contained titanium plant opened Henderson Nevada |
| June 1, 1957 | Saturday | 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile - Don Bowden |
| June 1, 1959 | Monday | constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day) |
| June 1, 1965 | Tuesday | A Penzias and R. Wilson detect 3 degree Kelvin primordial background |
| June 1, 1967 | Thursday | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - by the Beatles - is released |
| June 1, 1967 | Thursday | Beatles release "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" |
| June 1, 1970 | Monday | Soyuz 9 launched into earth orbit for 18 days |
| June 1, 1971 | Tuesday | Ed Sullivan's final show |
| June 1, 1984 | Friday | weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg |