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Events of the Day - 1 June

Can you identity these events that occurred on 1 June in various years?
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195 BCE
Death of the founder of this Chinese dynasty
Gaozu of Han
193
Death of Didius Julianus, an Emperor in the 'Year of ___ Emperors'
Five
1215
Zhongdu in China is taken by the Mongols. What is this urban location nowadays?
Beijing
1298
Battle of Turaida: the Livonian Order is defeated by residents of which Baltic city?
Riga
1434
Death of Lithuanian ruler, noted for the Battle of Grunwald, also king of Poland
Jogaila
1533
This wife of Henry VIII is crowned Queen (later decapitated)
Anne Boleyn
1535
This European monarch attacks Ottoman forces near Tunis
Charles V
1616
Death of Japanese shogun; according to the story he who would wait for the bird to sing
Tokugawa Ieyasu
1648
Riots over salt tax changes break out in this Russian city
Moscow
1679
Battle of Drumclog takes place, later depicted in a work by which famous Scottish novelist?
Walter Scott
1780
Birth of Prussian military theorist, noted for calling war "the continuation of politics by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz
1864
Death of Hong Xiuquan, leader of the Taiping Rebellion. Who did he claim as his brother?
Jesus
1879
Death of Frenchman in the Anglo-Zulu war ends the restoration hopes of this dynasty
Bonaparte
1921
In this city, racist attacks destroy "Black Wall Street"
Tulsa
1932
This man becomes Chancellor of Germany
Franz von Papen
1941
The 'Farhud', a pogrom, takes place in this Middle Eastern city
Baghdad
1941
Battle ends on this Greek island
Crete
1946
Execution of this Romanian wartime leader
Ion Antonescu
1962
This Nazi is hanged in Jerusalem
Adolf Eichmann
2001
In this country, the crown prince kills several relatives, including the king
Nepal
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