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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- June 1st
c/p from Wikipedia
* 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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