1533
Jun 1, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned as Queen Consort of England.

1711
Jun 1, The Queen Anne Act, known as The British Post Office Act of 1710, took effect in North America on June 1,

1711. It created a formula that was used to improve the colonial postal system and remained in effect in North America until 1789. Colonists came to view the postal rates set forth in the act as an excessive and unwelcome form of taxation. The rates were revised by a later act, which took effect on October 10, 1765.

1843
Jun 1, Sojourner Truth left NY to begin her career as antislavery activist.

1898
Jun 1, Molly Picon, comic actress and singer, was born.

1936
Jun 1, The Queen Mary arrived in N.Y. on its maiden voyage.

1964
Jun 1, Dolly Parton spent her first day in Nashville in search of a record deal.

2006
Jun 1, A German court jailed Sabine Hilschenz (40) for 15 years for killing eight of her newborn babies in the worst case of infanticide in the country's criminal history. She had buried them in flower pots and a fish tank at her parents’ home.

2013
Jun 1, In Russia Maria Alekhina, a jailed member of the punk group Pussy Riot, reportedly ended her 11-day hunger strike after prison authorities met her demands. She had complained that officials at her prison colony in the Ural Mountains attempted to turn fellow inmates against her with a security crackdown.