What happened on 1 June?

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

1. 1949 Beauvoir's The Second Sex Founding text of second-wave feminism; 'one is not born, but becomes, a woman'.
2. 1943 Sartre's Being and Nothingness Foundational text of French existentialism.
3. 1926 Born: Marilyn Monroe American actress and 20th-century icon; Some Like It Hot, The Misfits.
4. 2003 Three Gorges Dam impounded World's largest hydroelectric dam begins impounding water.
5. 1984 Operation Blue Star Indian army storms the Golden Temple to flush out Sikh militants; triggers Indira Gandhi's assassination.
6. 2019 Black Summer bushfires Unprecedented Australian fire season burns more than 24 million hectares and kills billions of animals.
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 1533 Coronation of Anne Boleyn Six months pregnant, Anne is crowned queen by Archbishop Cranmer in Westminster Abbey after a four-day pageant through a sullen London.
11. 1985 Kurosawa's Ran King Lear transposed to a warlord's three sons in feudal Japan — the 75-year-old Kurosawa's last epic, filmed in vast fields of colour.
12. 1885 State funeral of Victor Hugo Some two million people follow the pauper's hearse Hugo asked for from the Arc de Triomphe, where he lay in state, to the Panthéon, rededicated to receive him.
13. 1670 Secret Treaty of Dover In return for French subsidies Charles II secretly promises Louis XIV to join his war on the Dutch and to declare himself a Catholic when the time is right.
14. 1843 Isabella Baumfree becomes Sojourner Truth Freed from slavery in New York and now a domestic worker, Isabella Baumfree renames herself Sojourner Truth and sets out on foot to preach abolition and women's rights.