A birthday on the globe
1 June on the globe: what happened in the world on this day, and who was born
For 1 June, the English Wikipedia lists 73 events and 208 births. 37 of the events stand at their places as rays of light; six more are dashed circles, where the sentence links only to a country or a sea. The taller the ray, the longer ago it happened. The people born that day come further down, as blue points.
A birthday, yours or someone else’s:
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The day you were born, on the globe.
Three things from your day
Scroll: your day first, then 1 June through the years
The Earth on 1 June
The picture on the globe was assembled by NASA from satellite photographs taken in June 2004: the snow, the ice and the green are those of the month.
On 1 June the Sun passes straight overhead at noon along the parallel of 22.1° north. In London, the day lasts about 16 hours 20 minutes.
Beyond 68° north the Sun no longer sets; beyond 68° south it no longer rises.
The line between day and night is tilted on the globe exactly as on this day of the year. On the dark side you can see the lights of towns.
Europe · Palacio de las Cortes
2018
For the first time since its transition to democracy, the Congress of Deputies in Spain passed a motion of no confidence against the government.
On the map: Palacio de las Cortes.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Chinese.
Wikipedia: 2018 vote of no confidence in the government of Mariano Rajoy
Latin America · Salvador, Bahia
1857
The Revolution of the Ganhadores begins in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
On the map: Salvador, Bahia.
Latin America · Bosque Redondo
1868
The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
On the map: Bosque Redondo.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
Latin America · Buenos Aires
1929
The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
On the map: Buenos Aires.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
Wikipedia: 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America
North America · United States Census Bureau
1890
The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
On the map: United States Census Bureau.
North America · Supreme Court of the United States
1916
The United States Senate confirms the appointment of Louis Brandeis to the United States Supreme Court, making him the first Jew to be an Associate Justice.
On the map: Supreme Court of the United States.
North America · Wheeling, West Virginia
1950
The Declaration of Conscience speech, by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith, is delivered in response to Joseph R. McCarthy's speech at Wheeling, West Virginia.
On the map: Wheeling, West Virginia.
1 June
What the other Wikipedias remember#
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Romanian and Spanish and were translated for this page.
From Wikipedia in Romanian · South Pole
1910
The members of the South Pole expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott, leave England.
On the map: South Pole.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Romanian.
From Wikipedia in Spanish · Montreal
1969
During their bed-in for peace, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono, together with other celebrities, record the song "Give Peace a Chance" in Montreal (Canada).
On the map: Montreal.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Spanish.
The article on Wikipedia in Spanish: Encamada por la paz de John y Yoko
1 June
Born on 1 June#
The English Wikipedia lists 208 births for this day. The blue points are the birthplaces of 59 of these people: those written about in the most Wikipedia editions, where Wikidata gives a place of birth.
Born on 1 June
1926
Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (died 1962)
Place of birth: Los Angeles.
Born on 1 June
1937
Morgan Freeman, American actor and producer
Place of birth: Memphis.
Born on 1 June
1996
Tom Holland, English actor
Place of birth: Kingston Hospital.
Born on 1 June
1974
Alanis Morissette, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
Place of birth: Ottawa.
Born on 1 June
1973
Heidi Klum, German-American model, fashion designer, and producer
Place of birth: Bergisch Gladbach.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1947
Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor
Place of birth: Carmel.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1965
Nigel Short, English chess grandmaster
Place of birth: Leigh.
1 June
Number one in the charts that week
At the cinema
An animal recorded that day
The record can be seen in GBIF, which brings together wildlife records from around the world.
All your birthdays
The weather that day
Data: Met Office Hadley Centre (HadCET); NOAA (GHCN-Daily, Mauna Loa).
Above the Earth
Sources: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (launches); GFZ Potsdam (Kp index). Days are counted in Universal Time.
Football that day
International matches played that day:
Source: the “International football results” dataset kept by Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
Also that day
The earthquake’s page at the USGS
Source: the USGS catalogue. The day is counted in Universal Time (UTC).
In those days
Make a link for someone
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Below: 1 June through the years.
The whole globe of the day
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Everything Wikipedia lists for 1 June
The list is the English Wikipedia’s, in its own wording, as it stood in October 2026. 30 events have no place on the map: the sentence links to no place with coordinates, only to places too wide to mark, or to several countries.
- 193
The Roman Senate passes a motion proclaiming Septimius Severus emperor, awards divine honours to Pertinax, and sentences current emperor Didius Julianus to death.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Roman Senate - 1252
Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
Europe · Kingdom of LeónWikipedia: Alfonso X of Castile - 1298
Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
Europe · Battle of TuraidaWikipedia: Battle of Turaida - 1412
The Treaty of Lubowla between the kingdoms of Hungary and Poland is confirmed with one of the largest and magnificent royal meetings and feasts ever held in Buda. King Sigismund of Hungary host king Władysław II Jagiełło while several thousand nobles attend.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Treaty of Lubowla - 1494
A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Monk - 1533
Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Anne Boleyn - 1535
Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
Africa · TunisWikipedia: Conquest of Tunis - 1648
The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
Britain & Ireland · Battle of MaidstoneWikipedia: Battle of Maidstone - 1649
Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
Asia · Northern SamarWikipedia: Philippine revolts against Spain - 1660
Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston for repeatedly defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Mary Dyer - 1670
In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
Britain & Ireland · DoverWikipedia: Secret Treaty of Dover - 1676
Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79).
Europe · Battle of ÖlandWikipedia: Battle of Öland - 1679
The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
Britain & Ireland · Battle of DrumclogWikipedia: Battle of Drumclog - 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. Both he and his horse, Vonk, are drowned on his eighth attempt.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Wolraad Woltemade - 1779
The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
no place on the mapWikipedia: American Revolutionary War - 1792
Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
North America · KentuckyWikipedia: Kentucky - 1794
The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Oceans · Glorious First of JuneWikipedia: Glorious First of June - 1796
Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
North America · TennesseeWikipedia: Tennessee - 1812
War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
North America · United States CongressWikipedia: War of 1812 - 1813
Capture of USS Chesapeake.
North America · Capture of USS ChesapeakeWikipedia: Capture of USS Chesapeake - 1815
Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Charter of 1815 - 1831
James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the North Magnetic Pole.
no place on the mapWikipedia: James Clark Ross - 1849
Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of Minnesota officially established.
North America · Minnesota TerritoryWikipedia: Alexander Ramsey - 1854
Åland War: The British navy destroys merchant ships and about 16,000 tar barrels of the wholesale stocks area in Oulu, Grand Duchy of Finland.
Europe · OuluWikipedia: Åland War - 1855
The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
Latin America · NicaraguaWikipedia: Adventure - 1857
Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Charles Baudelaire - 1857
The Revolution of the Ganhadores begins in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Latin America · Salvador, BahiaWikipedia: Revolution of the Ganhadores - 1861
American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is fought.
North America · Battle of Fairfax Court HouseWikipedia: American Civil War - 1862
American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
North America · Peninsula campaignWikipedia: Peninsula campaign - 1868
The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
Latin America · Bosque RedondoWikipedia: Treaty of Bosque Redondo - 1879
Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Anglo-Zulu War - 1890
The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
North America · United States Census BureauWikipedia: United States Census Bureau - 1913
The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
Europe · ThessalonikiWikipedia: Greek–Serbian Alliance of 1913 - 1916
The United States Senate confirms the appointment of Louis Brandeis to the United States Supreme Court, making him the first Jew to be an Associate Justice.
North America · Supreme Court of the United StatesWikipedia: Supreme Court of the United States - 1918
World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
Europe · Battle of Belleau WoodWikipedia: World War I - 1919
Prohibition comes into force in Finland.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Prohibition - 1922
The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Royal Ulster Constabulary - 1929
The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
Latin America · Buenos AiresWikipedia: 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America - 1939
First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Focke-Wulf Fw 190 - 1941
The Farhud, a massive pogrom in Iraq, starts and as a result, many Iraqi Jews are forced to leave their homes.
Asia · BaghdadWikipedia: Farhud - 1941
World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
Europe · Battle of CreteWikipedia: World War II - 1942
World War II: The crews of three Japanese submarines scuttled their vessels and committed suicide after entering Sydney Harbour and launching a failed attack.
Oceania · Attack on Sydney HarbourWikipedia: Attack on Sydney Harbour - 1943
BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Oceans · BOAC Flight 777Wikipedia: BOAC Flight 777 - 1946
Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Ion Antonescu - 1950
The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America.
North America · Chinchaga fireWikipedia: Chinchaga fire - 1950
The Declaration of Conscience speech, by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith, is delivered in response to Joseph R. McCarthy's speech at Wheeling, West Virginia.
North America · Wheeling, West VirginiaWikipedia: Declaration of Conscience - 1951
Washington State Ferries, the largest ferry system in the United States, begins operation under state ownership after a buyout of the Puget Sound Navigation Company.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Washington State Ferries - 1958
Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Charles de Gaulle - 1961
The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Canadian Bank of Commerce - 1962
Adolf Eichmann, former SS officer in Nazi Germany, is hanged in Israel for having committed crimes against humanity, war crimes, and other offenses.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Israel - 1974
The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Heimlich maneuver - 1975
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Patriotic Union of Kurdistan - 1976
Aeroflot Flight 418 crashes in Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, killing 46.
Africa · Aeroflot Flight 418Wikipedia: Aeroflot Flight 418 - 1978
The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Patent Cooperation Treaty - 1979
The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Rhodesia - 1980
Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
no place on the mapWikipedia: CNN - 1988
Group representation constituencies were introduced to the parliament of Singapore.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Group representation constituency - 1988
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 1990
Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Cold War - 1993
Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
Europe · Dobrinja mortar attackWikipedia: Dobrinja mortar attack - 1994
Republic of South Africa becomes a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations.
Africa · South AfricaWikipedia: South Africa - 1999
American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
North America · American Airlines Flight 1420Wikipedia: American Airlines Flight 1420 - 2001
Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
Asia · Dolphinarium discotheque bombingWikipedia: Dolphinarium discotheque bombing - 2001
Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.
Asia · Nepalese royal massacreWikipedia: Nepalese royal massacre - 2004
Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.
North America · Oklahoma City bombingWikipedia: Oklahoma City bombing - 2007
Cyclone Gonu develops from an area of convection in the Arabian Sea, becoming the worst recorded natural disaster in Oman.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Cyclone Gonu - 2008
A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.
North America · 2008 Universal Studios fireWikipedia: 2008 Universal Studios fire - 2009
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.
Oceans · Air France Flight 447Wikipedia: Air France Flight 447 - 2009
General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
no place on the mapWikipedia: General Motors - 2011
A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
North America · Springfield, MassachusettsWikipedia: 2011 Springfield tornado - 2011
Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing after 25 flights.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Space Shuttle Endeavour - 2015
A ship carrying 458 people capsizes in the Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 442 people.
Asia · Sinking of Dongfang zhi XingWikipedia: Sinking of Dongfang zhi Xing - 2018
For the first time since its transition to democracy, the Congress of Deputies in Spain passed a motion of no confidence against the government.
Europe · Palacio de las CortesWikipedia: 2018 vote of no confidence in the government of Mariano Rajoy
What the other Wikipedias remember
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Romanian and Spanish and were translated for this page.
- 1910
The members of the South Pole expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott, leave England.
- 1969
During their bed-in for peace, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono, together with other celebrities, record the song "Give Peace a Chance" in Montreal (Canada).
North America · MontrealTranslated from the list on Wikipedia in SpanishWikipedia: Encamada por la paz de John y Yoko
Who was born on 1 June
In order of how many Wikipedia editions have an article about each. The first 60 of 208 are shown.
- 1926
Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (died 1962)
Los AngelesWikipedia: Marilyn Monroe - 1937
Morgan Freeman, American actor and producer
MemphisWikipedia: Morgan Freeman - 1996
Tom Holland, English actor
Kingston HospitalWikipedia: Tom Holland - 1961
Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian oligarch, mercenary chief and restaurateur (died 2023)
Saint PetersburgWikipedia: Yevgeny Prigozhin - 1974
Alanis Morissette, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
- 1973
Heidi Klum, German-American model, fashion designer, and producer
Bergisch GladbachWikipedia: Heidi Klum - 1796
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (died 1832)
- 1804
Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (died 1857)
NovospasskoyeWikipedia: Mikhail Glinka - 1988
Javier Hernández, Mexican footballer
GuadalajaraWikipedia: Javier Hernández - 1935
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, English architect, founded Foster and Partners
StockportWikipedia: Norman Foster - 1940
Kip Thorne, American physicist, astronomer, and academic
- 1982
Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
- 1979
Markus Persson, Swedish game designer, founded Mojang
StockholmWikipedia: Markus Persson - 1815
Otto of Greece (died 1862)
Mirabell PalaceWikipedia: Otto of Greece - 1801
Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1877)
WhitinghamWikipedia: Brigham Young - 1977
Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
La GrangeWikipedia: Sarah Wayne Callies - 1937
Colleen McCullough, Australian neuroscientist and author (died 2015)
WellingtonWikipedia: Colleen McCullough - 1892
Amanullah Khan, sovereign of the Kingdom of Afghanistan, (died 1960)
PaghmanWikipedia: Amanullah Khan - 1917
William Standish Knowles, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)
- 1929
Nargis, Indian actress (died 1981)
KolkataWikipedia: Nargis - 1946
Brian Cox, Scottish actor
DundeeWikipedia: Brian Cox - 1947
Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor
- 1984
Jean Beausejour, Chilean footballer
ChimbarongoWikipedia: Jean Beausejour - 1965
Nigel Short, English chess grandmaster
- 1968
Mathias Rust, German aviator
- 1926
Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
Mount AiryWikipedia: Andy Griffith - 1947
Ronnie Wood, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
LondonWikipedia: Ronnie Wood - 1975
Frauke Petry, German politician
DresdenWikipedia: Frauke Petry - 1981
Amy Schumer, American comedian and actress
Upper East SideWikipedia: Amy Schumer - 1940
René Auberjonois, American actor (died 2019)
ManhattanWikipedia: René Auberjonois - 1958
Nambaryn Enkhbayar, Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Mongolia
UlaanbaatarWikipedia: Nambaryn Enkhbayar - 1907
Frank Whittle, English airman and engineer, developed the jet engine (died 1996)
CoventryWikipedia: Frank Whittle - 1934
Pat Boone, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1977
Danielle Harris, American actress
PlainviewWikipedia: Danielle Harris - 1878
John Masefield, English author and poet (died 1967)
LedburyWikipedia: John Masefield - 1890
Frank Morgan, American actor (died 1949)
New York CityWikipedia: Frank Morgan - 1941
Toyo Ito, Japanese architect, designed the Torre Realia BCN and Hotel Porta Fira
SeoulWikipedia: Toyo Ito - 1948
Powers Boothe, American actor (died 2017)
SnyderWikipedia: Powers Boothe - 1790
Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (died 1836)
- 1928
Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (died 1971)
- 1986
Chinedu Obasi, Nigerian footballer
- 1999
Technoblade, American YouTuber and streamer (died 2022)
- 1952
Şenol Güneş, Turkish footballer and manager
TrabzonWikipedia: Şenol Güneş - 1981
Brandi Carlile, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
RavensdaleWikipedia: Brandi Carlile - 1991
Zazie Beetz, German-American actress
BerlinWikipedia: Zazie Beetz - 1959
Martin Brundle, English racing driver and sportscaster
King's LynnWikipedia: Martin Brundle - 1947
Ron Dennis, English businessman, founded the McLaren Group
WokingWikipedia: Ron Dennis - 1968
Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
City of StonningtonWikipedia: Jason Donovan - 1637
Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (died 1675)
- 1959
Alan Wilder, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
HammersmithWikipedia: Alan Wilder - 1978
Antonietta Di Martino, Italian high jumper
Cava de' TirreniWikipedia: Antonietta Di Martino - 1953
David Berkowitz, American serial killer and arsonist
BrooklynWikipedia: David Berkowitz - 1961
Peter Machajdík, Slovak-German pianist and composer
BratislavaWikipedia: Peter Machajdík - 1970
Alexi Lalas, American soccer player, manager, and sportscaster
BirminghamWikipedia: Alexi Lalas - 1973
Adam Garcia, Australian actor
WahroongaWikipedia: Adam Garcia - 1819
Francis V, Duke of Modena (died 1875)
- 1907
Jan Patočka, Czech philosopher (died 1977)
TurnovWikipedia: Jan Patočka - 1930
Edward Woodward, English actor (died 2009)
CroydonWikipedia: Edward Woodward - 1969
Teri Polo, American actress
DoverWikipedia: Teri Polo - 1936
Bekim Fehmiu, Bosnian actor (died 2010)
SarajevoWikipedia: Bekim Fehmiu
What is celebrated on 1 June
- Children's Day (International), and its related observances: The Day of Protection of Children Rights (Armenia)
- Children's Day (International), and its related observances: Mothers' and Children's Day (Mongolia)
- Christian feast day: Blessed Alfonso Navarrete
- Christian feast day: Annibale Maria di Francia
- Christian feast day: Crescentinus
- Christian feast day: Fortunatus of Spoleto
- Christian feast day: Herculanus of Piegaro
- Christian feast day: Íñigo of Oña
- Christian feast day: Blessed John Story
- Christian feast day: Justin Martyr (Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran)
- Christian feast day: Ronan of Locronan
- Christian feast day: Pamphilus of Caesarea (Roman Catholic only)
- Christian feast day: June 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Gawai Dayak, harvest festival in the state of Sarawak (Malaysia)
A greeting link for someone
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How the globe is made
Where the events come from
Each edition of this page uses the day’s list from Wikipedia in its own language: Romanian, English, Spanish, Chinese. The lists are written by volunteers and differ from one edition to the next; the text of each event is Wikipedia’s, with a link to the article. A row that appears twice in a list is shown once. The lists have not been checked event by event: they are Wikipedia’s, mistakes included.
For events before 1582, and for countries that moved to the Gregorian calendar later (Britain in 1752, Russia in 1918), the same day may be counted Old Style in one list and New Style in another.
The chapter “What the other Wikipedias remember” adds up to five events a day from the lists of the other three editions, only for years in which the English list has nothing on that day. They were translated for this page, passed the same filters as the tour, and are not counted among the events of the English list.
How an event gets onto the map
The place comes from Wikidata. If the sentence links to the article about the event itself (a battle, an opening, an earthquake), dated to the same year, the ray stands on its coordinates or on those of its location. Otherwise it stands on the first place the sentence links to: a town, a building, a mountain, an island. This second step can be wrong: sometimes the sentence only mentions the place. That is why the page says, under each event, which place the ray stands on.
When the sentence links to a single state or province, or to a single sea, lake or desert larger than 5,000 km², the globe shows a dashed circle, not a ray. The circle has the area Wikidata gives, with its radius kept between 1.2° and 16°, or a radius of 4.5° when Wikidata gives no area; it says only that the sentence links to that place. Organisations, ships, spacecraft, museum objects, rivers, mountain ranges, languages and continents are never used as places. When a sentence names several states and no exact place, the event stays in the list only.
What the height means
The height of a ray shows how many years have passed, on a logarithmic scale: 10 years, 100 years and 1,000 years are equal steps apart; anything older than about 2,600 years has the tallest ray. The colour runs from pale yellow for recent years to violet for antiquity.
Where the tour stops
In each region the tour stops at up to three events (five in Britain and Ireland), chosen mainly by three things: whether Wikipedia’s editors put the event in the “On this day” box of their main page (the English, Spanish and Chinese editions), how many Wikipedia editions have an article about it, and how many of the four lists include it. Events whose sentence or article is about a war, an attack, a crime or a disaster are left out of the tour; they stay in the whole list, in Wikipedia’s wording. The filter is a list of words and a list of Wikidata types, so it can miss some.
The tour of births names the people with articles in the most editions and leaves aside those whom the list or Wikidata describes as rulers, politicians, commanders, leaders of movements or criminals; they stay in the list.
The Earth and the Sun
The daytime images are NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation mosaics, one for each month of 2004; the night side is Black Marble 2016. The tilt of the line between day and night is computed for the day; the hour is chosen so that the place being read is in daylight. The latitude where the Sun stands overhead is the average of the four years of the leap cycle; in a given year it can differ by up to 0.4°.
The day you were born
The number ones come from the weekly lists on Wikipedia: Billboard for the United States (from 1940; the Hot 100 from August 1958), the UK Singles Chart (from November 1952), Los 40 Principales for Spain (from July 1966) and, for Romania, the Romanian Top 100 and Airplay 100 (2001–2021, with missing weeks). The page shows the chart of the week in which the day of birth falls, with its date; Billboard and the UK chart are dated at the end of their week. For Romania before 2001 and for China these sources have no weekly chart.
The films are those that reached cinemas in the United States up to ten days before or three days after that day (some of them in a few cinemas at first), from the English Wikipedia’s yearly lists (from 1968), in order of how many editions have an article about them. The events “in those days” are the ones on the neighbouring days’ lists that carry the year of birth, passed through the same filter as the tour.
The day of birth, year included
The Moon, the star sign and the constellation are worked out by the page itself, for noon Universal Time on the day. The lit part of the Moon is rounded and can differ by a few per cent from that at the hour of birth. The sign follows the usual zodiac of twelve equal parts starting at the March equinox; the constellation is the one the Sun actually stood in front of, by the borders set by the International Astronomical Union, and within a day of a border the page does not name it. When the Sun changes sign while it is that day anywhere on Earth, the page gives the moment of crossing, rounded to ten minutes and accurate to within about a quarter of an hour, and the clock time in a few cities, with the time zone and summer time of that year.
The year in the Chinese calendar is the one your device’s own calendar gives for the date, checked against the Hong Kong Observatory’s tables. “All your birthdays” uses the same sources as the rest of the chapter for the same day in every year since the birth: the temperature, well-known launches that took place on that very day, matches of the teams the edition follows, snow deeper than 10 cm and strong geomagnetic storms. The three things at the top and the four on the picture are chosen in a fixed order (the song, the animal, a full Moon, a well-known launch before an ordinary earthquake); on the picture you can change them.
When the link carries a year of birth, the page adds a few things about that exact day. The weather is the Met Office’s Central England temperature record and the readings from New York’s Central Park; the “usual high” is the average of the daily highs of 1961–1990 for that date, with two days either side. The carbon dioxide figure is the monthly mean at the Mauna Loa observatory, where measurements begin in March 1958.
The earthquake is the one with the largest magnitude in the USGS catalogue for that day, counted in Universal Time. Before the 1960s the catalogue has gaps even above magnitude 5.5, so in the older years many days have no earthquake. The page gives only the magnitude and the place: the country the epicentre falls in or, when the epicentre is at sea within 300 km of a coast, the nearest country; farther out, only the ocean.
The launches are those that reached orbit or left for the Moon and the planets, from Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT catalogue. If nothing left that day, the page shows the nearest launch within three days before or after, and says how many days away it was. The geomagnetic storm appears only when the Kp index reached at least 5 in one of the day’s eight three-hour intervals.
The animal comes from GBIF: an observation made by a person (the animal seen or heard, or its tracks), dated to that exact day, with coordinates and a CC0 or CC BY licence. Only a few hundred well-known species are searched (mammals, birds, turtles, butterflies); of those noted that day, mammals and species with articles in many Wikipedia editions come first; birds noted almost every day, and species used recently, wait their turn. Observations dated 1 January are left out, because records without a day are often filed there. An observation shows that the animal was recorded there, not how many animals there were.
The matches are those between national teams. Only matches of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada and Australia are shown, along with those at the big final tournaments. The picture to send is drawn in the page from the day’s globe and the facts above, and stays on your device until you send it.
Sources
- Events, births and holidays: the day’s page on Wikipedia, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates, places of birth and the number of editions: Wikidata (CC0).
- The Earth by day: NASA Blue Marble Next Generation. The Earth by night: NASA Black Marble 2016.
- Borders and regions: Natural Earth.
- World population and births per year: UN World Population Prospects 2024.
- Charts and films: Wikipedia’s lists for Billboard, the UK Singles Chart, Los 40 Principales, Romanian Top 100, Airplay 100 and American films by year (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Weather: Met Office Hadley Centre, HadCET (Open Government Licence) and NOAA GHCN-Daily, New York Central Park. Carbon dioxide: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Mauna Loa.
- Earthquakes: the USGS catalogue. Launches: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (CC BY). Kp index: GFZ Potsdam (CC BY 4.0). Matches: International football results, Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
- Animal observations: GBIF, with a link to each record; species names come from Wikidata.