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Events on June 1

• 1485 After a siege lasting around four months, the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus enters the city of Vienna, where he often resided until his death in 1490.
• 1794 The General State Laws come into force in Prussia. They mark the first attempt to codify the entire legal system in a single legislative code.
• 1848 The New Rhine Gazette, founded by Karl Marx in Cologne, is published with its first issue.
• 1927 The Hindenburg Dam, which connects the island of Sylt with the mainland, is opened.
• 1932 At the urging of his old friend Kurt von Schleicher, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Franz von Papen Chancellor of the German Reich as Heinrich Brüning's successor.
• 1961 Schering AG launches the pill on the German market.
• 1972 Andreas Baader and other RAF members are arrested in Frankfurt am Main after a shootout.
• 1980 The ARD and ZDF teletext service is launched in Germany.
• 1990 Karl-Marx-Stadt is renamed Chemnitz after 76 percent of citizens voted for the old name in a poll.
• 1998 The European Central Bank is founded as the legal successor to the European Monetary Institute. Under its President Wim Duisenberg, it makes preparations for the third and final stage of the European Monetary Union: the introduction of the euro as the Community currency.
• 2000 In Hanover, Expo 2000 begins as the first World's Fair in Germany.
• 2016 The Gotthard Base Tunnel is opened.

Born on June 1

• 1875 Carl Severing, German politician
• 1902 Leopold Lindtberg, Austrian director
• 1912 Wolfgang Büttner, German actor
• 1912 Herbert Tichy, Austrian writer, geologist, journalist and mountaineer
• 1960 Andreas Hoppe, German actor
• 1970 René Marik, German puppeteer, singer and actor
• 1971 Pasquale Aleardi, Swiss actor and musician
• 1981 Amy Schumer, American actress and screenwriter
• 1982 Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
• 1990 Roman Josi, Swiss ice hockey player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „1. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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