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WillDekkard
06-01-2010, 01:00 PM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 1st
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* 193 – Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
* 987 – Hugh Capet is elected King of France.
* 1204 – King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
* 1215 – Beijing, then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing.
* 1252 – Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and Leσn.
* 1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
* 1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
* 1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
* 1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
* 1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
* 1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
* 1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
* 1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
* 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
* 1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"
* 1815 – Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
* 1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
* 1855 – American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
* 1857 – Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal is published.
* 1862 – American Civil War, Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
* 1868 – Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
* 1869 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine.
* 1879 – Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
* 1886 – The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31.
* 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
* 1910 – Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.
* 1918 – World War I Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
* 1920 – Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
* 1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
* 1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
* 1929 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
* 1935 – The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom.
* 1939 – Maiden flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Wόrger (D-OPZE) fighter aeroplane
* 1940 – The Leninist Communist Youth League of the Karelo-Finnish SSR holds its first congress.
* 1940 – The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation goes out of business, giving the City of New York full control of the subway system in the city.
* 1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
* 1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
* 1942 – World War II: the Warsaw paper Liberty Brigade publishes the first news of the concentration camps.
* 1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
* 1946 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War 2, is executed.
* 1956 – First international flight (to Montreal YUL) from the Atlanta Municipal Airport (ATL; now Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and currently the world's busiest airport)
* 1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
* 1963 – Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
* 1974 – Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
* 1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
* 1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
* 1979 – Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
* 1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
* 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
* 1988 – The 4th Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
* 1989 – Oba Chandler murders an Ohio family on their Florida vacation by drowning them in Tampa Bay.
* 1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
* 1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
* 1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slid and crashed while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
* 2000 – The Patent Law Treaty is signed.
* 2001 – Nepalese royal massacre : the Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shot and killed several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
* 2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: an Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
* 2003 – The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
* 2005 – The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
* 2007 – Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.
* 2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
* 2009 – General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
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