11 Khordad 1401

Events

• 1815 (211 years ago) Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
• 1855 (171 years ago) The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
• 1929 (97 years ago) The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
• 1962 (64 years ago) Adolf Eichmann, former SS officer in Nazi Germany, is hanged in Israel for having committed crimes against humanity, war crimes, and other offenses.
• 1979 (47 years ago) The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
• 1994 (32 years ago) Republic of South Africa becomes a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 2009 (17 years ago) Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.

Births

• 1796 (230 years ago) Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (died 1832)
• 1804 (222 years ago) Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (died 1857)
• 1926 (100 years ago) Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (died 1962)
• 1937 (89 years ago) Morgan Freeman, American actor and producer
• 1961 (65 years ago) Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian oligarch, mercenary chief and restaurateur (died 2023)
• 1973 (53 years ago) Heidi Klum, German-American model, fashion designer, and producer
• 1974 (52 years ago) Alanis Morissette, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
• 1996 (30 years ago) Tom Holland, English actor

Deaths

• 193 (1833 years ago) Marcus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (born 133)
• 1616 (410 years ago) Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (born 1543)
• 1846 (180 years ago) Pope Gregory XVI,
• 1868 (158 years ago) James Buchanan, American lawyer and politician, 15th President of the United States (born 1791)
• 1952 (74 years ago) John Dewey, American psychologist and philosopher (born 1859)
• 1962 (64 years ago) Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer, key organizer of the Holocaust (born 1906)
• 1968 (58 years ago) Helen Keller, American author and activist (born 1880)
• 2008 (18 years ago) Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, founded Saint Laurent Paris (born 1936)

All 391 events, births and deaths of June 1