1st June
1819 William Carey, Ward, and Marshman established the Serampore College in Bengal.
1836 Charles Darwin returns to Cape Town in South Africa
1962 SS officer Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel after being found guilty of war crimes
2nd June
1875 Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission
1964 Lal Bahadur Shastri elected premier of India
3rd June
1915 Sir’ knighthood was granted to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore by the British Government.
1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing
1989 Ayatollah Khomeini [Ruhollah Khomeini], Supreme leader of Iran (1979-89), dies of a heart attack at 89
4th June
1896 Henry Ford takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit
1951 Actress Janet Leigh (23) weds actor Tony Curtis (26) in Greenwich, Connecticut
5th June
1984 Indira Gandhi orders an attack on Sikh’s holiest site, the Golden Temple
1984 Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indies Sikh leader died
6th June
1967 Israeli troops occupy Gaza during the second day of the Six-Day War
1972 Explosion at world’s largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie, Rhodesia)
7th June
1631 Begum Mumtaz Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan, Emperor of India, passed away at Burhanpur a few hours after the birth of a daughter. She was married in 1612 and the Taj Mahal was built for her.
1893 Gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience.
