June 1

Today in History
• 0193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated
• 0794 - Charles the Great (aka Charlemagne) opens general synod in Frankfurt
• 1459 - Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua
• 1495 - First written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland
• 1533 - Anne Boleyn crowned Queen of England
• 1638 - 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Massachusetts
• 1657 - 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
• 1991 - Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Gawai Dayak
• Intergenerational Day
• National Moonshine Day
• National Roman Day
• Samoa Independence Day
• Statehood Day in Kentucky
• Statehood Day in Tennessee
• World Outlander Day

Birthdays
• 1757 - Ignaz J Pleyel, Austria composer/piano builder, Piano method
• 1762 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers
• 1776 - John George Schetky, American violoncellist, music teacher and composer
• 1796 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, mechanical engineer and mathematician known as the "father of thermodynamics"
• 1801 - Brigham Young, religious leader of the Mormon church
• 1806 - John B Floyd, American Governor (Virginia), Secretary of War (1857-60)
• 1815 - Otto of Greece, King of Greece (1832-62), born in Salzburg, Bavaria
• 1843 - Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer