THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 1
June 1 in history
What happened on June 1: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1916 and 1945, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Jutland
31 May-1 Jun 1916 — The dreadnought fleets meet once: Britain loses more ships and men, Germany returns to port and, at fleet scale, never comes out again. A tactical draw; a strategic verdict.
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— Repatriation of Cossacks at Lienz
1 Jun 1945 — British troops force Cossacks and their families, many of whom had fought for the Germans, onto lorries for handover to the Soviets at Judenburg under the Yalta accords; some die resisting and others take their own lives. Many of those returned were shot or sent to the Gulag. Remember them.
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