What happend on 1st June

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02.06
1918

World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins.

1910

Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.

1909

The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition world's fair opens in Seattle, Washington, United States.

1907

Cricket: Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded either for a county cricket match or a single day's bowling, and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.

1898

The Trans-Mississippi Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.

1890

The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.

1879

Napoleon Eugene, Prince of France, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.

1869

Thomas Edison of Boston, Massachusetts, receives a patent for his electric voting machine.

1862

American Civil War: Battle of Fair Oaks ends, with both sides claiming victory.

1855

American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua and reinstates slavery.