June 1

1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
1495 – A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1535 – Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
1649 – Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1773 – Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. He drowned on his eighth attempt.
1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1831 – James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the North Magnetic Pole.
1868 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.

1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
1929 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1988 – The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.
1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.
2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.

Births
1522 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch writer and scholar (d. 1590)
1843 – Henry Faulds, Scottish physician and missionary, developed fingerprinting (d. 1930)
1926 – Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (d. 1962)

Deaths
1868 – James Buchanan,  15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
1872 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr.,  founded the New York Herald (b. 1795)
1989 – Aurelio Lampredi, Italian engineer, designed the Ferrari Lampredi engine (b. 1917)
2001 – Hank Ketcham,  cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (b. 1920)
2008 – Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer, founded Saint Laurent Paris (b. 1936)

Edited from various sources including historyorb.com, the NYTimes.com
Wikipedia and other internet searches