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June 1:

 * 1860 - Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii was born.
 * 1897 - Yang Zhongjian was born in Huaxian, Shaanxi, China.
 * 2015 - Phillip L. Manning, Victoria M. Egerton, and Mike Romano reported the oldest known sauropod fossil discovered in Britain from the Aalenian Saltwick Formation of Whitby, England.