June 1 in history: • 1676 – Scanian War: The Swedish warship Kronan, one of the largest ships in the world at the time, sank at the Battle of Öland (depicted) with the loss of around 800 men. → go there • 1796 – Tennessee was admitted as the 16th state of the United States. → go there • 1943 – Eight German Junkers Ju 88s shot down British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay off the coast of Spain and France, killing actor Leslie Howard and several other notable passengers. → go there • 2001 – A Hamas-affiliated Islamist militant blew himself up outside a nightclub in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 people, most of whom were teenage girls. → go there • 2015 – The river cruise ship Dongfang zhi Xing capsized in the Yangtze, resulting in 442 deaths in China's worst peacetime maritime disaster. → go there Died 1310: Marguerite Porete Wiki link Died 1826: J. F. Oberlin Wiki link Born 1926: Marilyn Monroe Wiki link Born 1999: Technoblade Wiki link Pictured: Battle of Öland.