What happened on 1 June?

13 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1889 Van Gogh's The Starry Night Painted from the asylum at Saint-Remy-de-Provence; among the most reproduced images ever made.
2. 1907 Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Five fractured nudes that broke open Cubism.
3. 1949 Beauvoir's The Second Sex Founding text of modern feminism; 'one is not born, but becomes, a woman'.
4. 1967 The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Concept album that redefined the LP as a unified statement.
5. 1942 Camus's The Stranger L'Étranger — defining novel of absurdist philosophy.
6. 1943 Sartre's Being and Nothingness Foundational text of French existentialism.
7. 1926 Born: Marilyn Monroe American actress and 20th-century icon; Some Like It Hot, The Misfits.
8. 2003 Three Gorges Dam impounded World's largest hydroelectric dam begins impounding water.
9. 1984 Operation Blue Star Indian army storms the Golden Temple to flush out Sikh militants; triggers Indira Gandhi's assassination.
10. 2019 Black Summer bushfires Unprecedented Australian fire season burns 19 million hectares and kills billions of animals.
11. 1945 The Interim Committee recommends use Stimson's committee of officials and scientists advises Truman that the bomb be used against Japan as soon as possible, without warning, on a target that will show its power — reje
12. 1879 The Prince Imperial killed in Zululand Louis-Napoléon, only child of Napoleon III and Bonapartist pretender to the French throne, is speared in a skirmish while serving with the British as an observer — his escort havin
13. 1864 Death of Hong Xiuquan Starving in besieged Nanjing, the Heavenly King dies — of illness, or of eating the weeds he told his subjects were manna — seven weeks before the city falls. His teenage son is ca