Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!
King Philip Augustus took over Rouen and, a decade later, Genghis Khan took over Beijing. The first written document for Scottish Whiskey was on this date. Kentucky and Tennessee both became states. The first skirmish of the Civil War took place on this date. The last in the Bonaparte line was killed on this date, in the Anglo-Zulu War. California got it's first seismograph. The British occupied Pretoria. The Germans launched their first ever air attack on Britain using a zeppelin, during World War I. George Harrison was very impressed with a concert that he saw with Ravi Shankar. A year later, the Beatles released the now legendary album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the United States, and it was quickly number one. Paul McCartney and Wings released "Live and Let Die". Ron Woods joined the Rolling Stones. The first black majority government took over in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe. The ANC continued it's bombing of important sites in South Africa. CNN began to air. Recycling started in Brooklyn. All that, and more on this date. Here's a closer look:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
Jun 1, 1967: The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bob Dylan's instant reaction to the recently completed album Paul McCartney brought by his London hotel room for a quick listen in the spring of 1967 may not sound like the most thoughtful analysis ever offered, but it still to hit the nail on the head. "Oh I get it," Dylan said to Paul on hearing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band for the first time, "you don't want to be cute anymore." In time, the Beatles' eighth studio album would come to be regarded by many as the greatest in the history of rock and roll, and oceans of ink would be spilt in praising and analyzing its revolutionary qualities. But what Bob Dylan picked up on immediately was its meaning to the Beatles themselves, who turned a critical corner in their career with the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on this day in 1967.
Writing in The Times of London in 1967, the critic Kenneth Tynan called the release of Sgt. Pepper "a decisive moment in the history of Western civilization," but 30 years later, Paul McCartney called it a decisive moment of a more personal nature. "We were not boys, we were men," is how he summed up the Beatles' mindset as they gave up live performance and set about defining themselves purely as a studio band. "All that boy [stuff], all that screaming, we didn't want any more," McCartney said. "There was now more to it." With Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles announced their intention to be seen "as artists rather than just performers."
Sgt. Pepper is often cited as the first "concept album," and as the inspiration for other great pop stars of the 60s, from the Stones and the Beach Boys to Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, to reach for new heights of creativity. For the Beatles themselves, 1967 marked not just a new creative peak, but also the beginning of a three-year period in which the group recorded and released an astonishing five original studio albums, including two—1968's The Beatles (a.k.a. "The White Album") and 1969's Abbey Road—that occupy the 10th and 14th spots, respectively, on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the Greatest Albums of All Time. Also in the top 15 on that list are Rubber Soul (1965) at #5, Revolver (1966) at #3 and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at #1.
June 1, 1980: CNN launches
On this day in 1980, CNN (Cable News Network), the world's first 24-hour television news network, makes its debut. The network signed on at 6 p.m. EST from its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, with a lead story about the attempted assassination of civil rights leader Vernon Jordan. CNN went on to change the notion that news could only be reported at fixed times throughout the day. At the time of CNN's launch, TV news was dominated by three major networks--ABC, CBS and NBC--and their nightly 30-minute broadcasts. Initially available in less than two million U.S. homes, today CNN is seen in more than 89 million American households and over 160 million homes internationally.
CNN was the brainchild of Robert "Ted" Turner, a colorful, outspoken businessman dubbed the "Mouth of the South." Turner was born on November 19, 1938, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and as a child moved with his family to Georgia, where his father ran a successful billboard advertising company. After his father committed suicide in 1963, Turner took over the business and expanded it. In 1970, he bought a failing Atlanta TV station that broadcast old movies and network reruns and within a few years Turner had transformed it into a "superstation," a concept he pioneered, in which the station was beamed by satellite into homes across the country. Turner later bought the Atlanta Braves baseball team and the Atlanta Hawks basketball team and aired their games on his network, TBS (Turner Broadcasting System). In 1977, Turner gained international fame when he sailed his yacht to victory in the prestigious America's Cup race.
In its first years of operation, CNN lost money and was ridiculed as the Chicken Noodle Network. However, Turner continued to invest in building up the network's news bureaus around the world and in 1983, he bought Satellite News Channel, owned in part by ABC, and thereby eliminated CNN's main competitor. CNN eventually came to be known for covering live events around the world as they happened, often beating the major networks to the punch. The network gained significant traction with its live coverage of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and the network's audience grew along with the increasing popularity of cable television during the 1990s.
In 1996, CNN merged with Time Warner, which merged with America Online four years later. Today, Ted Turner is an environmentalist and peace activist whose philanthropic efforts include a 1997 gift of $1 billion to the United Nations.
Jun 1, 1779: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed
The court-martial of Benedict Arnold convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After a relatively clean record in the early days of the American Revolution, Arnold was charged with 13 counts of misbehavior, including misusing government wagons and illegally buying and selling goods. Although his notorious betrayal was still many months away, Arnold's resentment over this order and the perceived mistreatment by the American Army would fuel his traitorous decision.
Abruptly interrupted at its outset by a British attack north of New York City, the court-martial did not get underway again until December 23 in Morristown, New Jersey. Although Arnold was cleared of most charges, General George Washington issued a reprimand against him, and Arnold became increasingly angered.
While on a trip to the important West Point base to make sure that it could withstand a British attack, Arnold stewed over his slight by Washington and the Americans. He thought that he had never been properly rewarded or acknowledged for his military success on their behalf. He began corresponding with British spies about the possibility of changing sides. Arnold negotiated his defection to the British and the subversion of West Point over several months. The British already held control of New York City and believed that by taking West Point they could effectively cut off the American's New England forces from the rest of the fledgling nation.
In August 1780, Sir Henry Clinton offered Arnold £20,000 for delivering West Point and 3,000 troops. Arnold told General Washington that West Point was adequately prepared for an attack even though he was busy making sure that that it really wasn't. He even tried to set up General Washington's capture as a bonus. His plan might have been successful but his message was delivered too late and Washington escaped. The West Point surrender was also foiled when an American colonel ignored Arnold's order not to fire on an approaching British ship.
Arnold's defection was revealed to the Americans when British officer John André, acting as a messenger, was robbed by AWOL Americans working as pirates in the woods north of New York City. The notes revealing Arnold's traitorous agreement were stashed in his boots. Arnold and his wife Peggy, who fooled American officers into believing she had no involvement in the betrayal, escaped to New York City.
At the British surrender at Yorktown, Benedict Arnold was burned in effigy and his name has since become synonymous with traitor. The British didn't treat him very well after the war either. After prevailing in a libel action, he was awarded only a nominal amount because his reputation was already so tarnished. He died in 1801 and was buried in England without military honors.
Jun 1, 1942: News of death camp killings becomes public for first time
On this day in 1942, a Warsaw underground newspaper, the Liberty Brigade, makes public the news of the gassing of tens of thousands of Jews at Chelmno, a death camp in Poland—almost seven months after extermination of prisoners began.
A year earlier, the means of effecting what would become the "Final Solution," the mass extermination of European Jewry, was devised: 700 Jews were murdered by channeling gas fumes back into a van used to transport them to the village of Chelmno, in Poland. This "gas van" would become the death chamber for a total of 360,000 Jews from more than 200 communities in Poland. The advantage of this form of extermination was that it was silent and invisible.
One month before the infamous Wannsee Conference of January 1942, during which Nazi officials decided to address formally the "Jewish question," the gas vans in Chelmno were used to kill up to 1,000 Jews a day. The vans provided the "Final Solution" for Adolf Eichmann and other Wannsee attendees. The mass gassings were the most orderly and systematic means of eliminating European Jewry. Eventually, more such vans were employed in other parts of Poland. There was no thought of selecting out the "fit" from the "unfit" for slave labor, as in Auschwitz. There was only one goal: utter extermination.
On June 1, 1942, the story of a young Jew, Emanuel Ringelblum, (who escaped from the Chelmno death camp after being forced to bury bodies as they were thrown out of the gas vans), was published in the underground Polish Socialist newspaper Liberty Brigade. The West now knew the "bloodcurdling news... about the slaughter of Jews," and it had a name—Chelmno.
Jun 1, 1977: Soviets charge Shcharansky with treason
The Soviet government charges Anatoly Shcharansky, a leader among Jewish dissidents and human rights activists in Russia, with the crime of treason. The action was viewed by many in the West as a direct challenge to President Jimmy Carter's new foreign policy emphasis on human rights and his criticism of Soviet repression.
Shcharansky, a 29-year-old computer expert, had been a leading figure in the so-called "Helsinki group" in the Soviet Union. This group came into existence in 1975, after the signing of the European Security Act. The European Security Act, also referred to as the Helsinki Accords, was the result of U.S. and Soviet efforts to reinvigorate the spirit of dÝtente. The two nations called 35 other countries together to discuss a variety of topics, and the final agreements signed at the meeting included guidelines for human rights. Although the Soviets signed the act, Jewish dissidents in Russia complained that their rights continued to be violated, particularly their right to emigrate. These Jewish dissidents and other human rights activists in the Soviet Union came together to form the Helsinki group, which was designed to monitor Russian respect of the 1975 act. Shcharansky was one of the best known of this group, particularly because of his flair for sparking public interest in human rights violations in Russia. President Carter used the situation of Russian Jews as an example of the human rights violations he wished to curtail when he came into office in 1977. The Soviets responded with a series of arrests of Helsinki group leaders and the deportation of others. Shcharansky, the most vociferous of the group, came in for the harshest treatment. In June 1977, he was charged with treason, specifically with accepting funds from the CIA in order to create dissension in the Soviet Union. After a perfunctory trial, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He was finally released in February 1986, when he and four other prisoners were exchanged for four Soviet spies who had been held in the West.
Shcharansky's arrest and imprisonment elicited a good deal of criticism from the American people and government, but the criticism seemed merely to harden the Soviet position. It was not until after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985, promising a freer political atmosphere in the Soviet Union, that Shchransky and other political dissidents, such as Andrei Sakharov, were freed from prison and internal exile. Despite the relatively freer atmosphere of the Gorbachev years, members of the Helsinki group, as well as other Soviet dissidents, continued to press for greater democratic freedom and human rights right up to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Jun 1, 1958: De Gaulle reassumes French leadership
During a French political crisis over the military and civilian revolt in Algeria, Charles de Gaulle is called out of retirement to head a new emergency government. Considered the only leader of sufficient strength and stature to deal with the perilous situation, the former war hero was made the virtual dictator of France, with power to rule by decree for six months.
A veteran of World War I, de Gaulle unsuccessfully petitioned his country to modernize its armed forces in the years before the outbreak of World War II. After French Premier Henri Petain signed an armistice with Nazi Germany in June 1940, de Gaulle fled to London, where he organized the Free French forces and rallied French colonies to the Allied cause. His forces fought successfully in North Africa, and in June 1944 he was named head of the French government in exile.
On August 26, following the Allied invasion of France, de Gaulle entered Paris in triumph and in November was unanimously elected provisional president of France. He resigned two months later, claiming he lacked sufficient governing power. He formed a new political party that had only moderate electoral success, and in 1953 he retired. However, five years later, in May 1958, the Algerian revolt created a political crisis in France, and he was called out of retirement to lead the nation. A new constitution was passed, and in late December he was elected president of the Fifth Republic.
During the next decade, President de Gaulle granted independence to Algeria and attempted to restore France to its former international stature by withdrawing from the U.S.-dominated NATO alliance and promoting the development of French atomic weapons. However, student demonstrations and workers' strikes in 1968 eroded his popular support, and in 1969 his proposals for further constitutional reform were defeated in a national vote. On April 28, 1969, Charles de Gaulle, at 79 years old, retired permanently. He died the following year.
Jun 1, 1900: Future President Hoover caught in Boxer Rebellion
On this day in 1900, future President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou are caught in the middle of the Boxer Rebellion in China.
After marrying in Monterey, California, on February 10, 1899, Herbert and Lou Hoover left on a honeymoon cruise to China, where Hoover was to start a new job as a mining consultant to the Chinese emperor with the consulting group Bewick, Moreing and Co. The couple had been married less than a year when Chinese nationalists rebelled against colonial control of their nation, besieging 800 westerners in the city of Tientsin. Hoover led an enclave of westerners in building barricades around their residential section of the city, while Lou volunteered in the hospital. Legend holds that, during the ensuing month-long siege, Hoover rescued some Chinese children caught in the crossfire of urban combat.
After an international coalition of troops rescued the Hoovers and spirited them and other westerners out of China, Herbert Hoover was made a partner at Bewick, Moreing and Co. He and Lou split their time between residences in California and London and traveled the world between 1901 and 1909. They then returned to the U.S. and, after serving as secretary of commerce under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge from 1921 to 1924, Hoover headed the American Child Health Association and served as chairman of the Federal Street and Highway Safety Commission. During World War I, Lou chaired the American Women's War Relief Fund and worked on behalf of other war-related charitable organizations. Both Hoovers, inspired by their experience in China, were active in helping refugees and tourists stranded in hostile countries.
In 1928, Hoover ran for president and won. Unfortunately, the couple's charitable reputation was soon tarnished by Hoover's ineffective leadership in staving off the Great Depression, and Lou's ostentatious White House social functions, which appeared heartless, frivolous and irresponsible at a time when many Americans could hardly make ends meet. As the Depression deepened, a growing number of shanty towns full of destitute unemployed workers sprang up in city centers; they became known as Hoovervilles.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
4000 BC - Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central Ukraine (hypothesis only)
193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
794 - Charles the Great opens general synod in Frankfurt
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.
1283 - Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market
1283 - Treaty of Rheinfelden: Duke Rudolph II of Austria waives his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
1459 - Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua
1485 - Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Frederick III
1495 - 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller
1526 - Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief
1533 - Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s new queen, was crowned queen of England.
1562 - Emperor Ferdinand & Sultan Suleiman signs treaty
1568 - Duke of Alva oversees beheading of 18 nobles in Brussels as part of Council of Troubles/Council of Blood
1608 - Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-government
1638 - 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
1641 - France & Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant
1649 - Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow
1657 - 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
1660 - Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Louis XIV, the "Sun King" of France
1670 - English king Charles II and Fr king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty
1679 - The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
1746 - French troops conquer Antwerp
1774 - The British government ordered the Port of Boston closed.
1789 - The first U.S. congressional act on administering oaths became law.
1792 - Kentucky became the 15th state in the United States.
1794 - Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win.
1796 - Last of Britain's troops withdraws from US
1796 - Tennessee became the 16th state in the United States.
1808 - 1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio
1809 - Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a mile round trip from his home
1813 - Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"
French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
1815 - Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
1834 - HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street
1835 - 6th national black convention (Philadelphia)
1836 - Charles Darwin returns to Capetown
1843 - It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio
1843 - Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist
1845 - Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
1855 - US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery
1857 - Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal is published.
1861 - The first skirmish of the U.S. Civil War took place at the Fairfax Court House, Virginia.
1861 - British territorial waters and; ports off-limits during Civil War
1861 - Skirmish at Arlington Mills, VA
1861 - US and Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
1862 - 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Va (11,165 casualties)
1862 - Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines
1862 - Slavery abolished in all US possessions
1864 - -Nov] Shenandoah Valley campaign
1864 - Battle of Cold Harbor, VA (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)
1864 - Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English
1866 - General Dutch Typographer Union forms
1866 - Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft Erie Ontario from US
1868 - Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
1868 - Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1869 - Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric voting machine.
1872 - 6th Belmont: James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58.25
1877 - Society of American Artists forms
1877 - US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
1879 - Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1880 - 1st pay telephone installed
1880 - US census at 50,155,783
1881 - Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange
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.
1888 - California gets its 1st seismograph
1890 - US census at 62,622,250 1893 - Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)
1898 - Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha
1899 - Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes and Victor Trumper in Grace's last
1900 - British army occupies Pretoria South-Africa
1902 - Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms
1905 - Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
1907 - -27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
1908 - John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days
1909 - Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
1910 - SC Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
1911 - 1st US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ
1912 - Stormvogels soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
1915 - Germany conducted the first zeppelin air raid over England.
1916 - The National Defense Act increased the strength of the U.S. National Guard by 450,000 men.
1916 - German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun
1917 - Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I
1918 - Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis
1918 - White Sox losing 5-4 against NY Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play
1919 - Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden
1920 - RKSV Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam
1920 - Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
1921 - Race riot in Tulsa Oklahoma (21 whites and 60 blacks killed)
1922 - Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
1923 - NY Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning
1925 - Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consec games)
1926 - Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland
1927 - Peace Bridge between US and Canada opens
1930 - 6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (36 86 63 61)
1930 - 6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (62 61)
1930 - Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine
1930 - Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia v Hampshire, 240 mins, 26 fours
1931 - Rozenburg soccer team forms in Rozenburg
1932 - Lunteren soccer team forms in Lunteren
1933 - Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
1934 - AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar
1935 - Driving test and license plates introduced in England
1935 - Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2
1935 - The Ingersoll-Waterbury Company reported that it had produced 2.5 million Mickey Mouse watches during its 2-year association with Disney.
1936 - "Lux Radio Theater" moved from NYC to Hollywood
1936 - Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY
1937 - Chic White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns, 8-0
1937 - Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
1938 - The first issue of Action Comics was published. it featured Superman, the world's first super hero. This issue is.now worth a tremendous amount of money.
1938 - Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters
1938 - Baseball helmets were worn for the first time.
1939 - The Douglas DC-4 made its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York.
1939 - 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer
1939 - 1st night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2)
1939 - British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
1939 - Retired German Col-gen Gerd von Runstedt returns to service
1940 - Coffee and tea rationed in Holland
1940 - Gen-mjr Bernard Montgomery returns to London
1940 - Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
1941 - 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington Kansas (state 24-hr record)
1941 - British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq
1941 - Germany bans all Catholic publications
1941 - NY Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th HR & his 1,500th RBI
1941 - The German Army completed the capture of Crete (Kreta) as the Allied evacuation ended.
1942 - The U.S. began sending Lend-Lease materials to the Soviet Union.
1943 - During World War II, Germans shot down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London. All passengers died.
1943 - Pirates Rip Sewell 1st throws his dew-drop (eephus) ball in a game
1944 - Gen Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth
1944 - The French resistance was warned by a coded message from the British that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
1944 - Siesta was abolished by the government of Mexico.
1944 - Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots
1945 - WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
1946 - 78th Belmont: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:30.8
1946 - Spijkenisse soccer team forms in Spijkenisse
1946 - Ion Antonescu is executed.
1947 - OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
1947 - Photosensitive glass developed 1948 - Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire
1949 - 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
1949 - British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence
1949 - KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz wed for the second time
1949 - Microfilm copies of "Newsweek" magazine 1st offered
1950 - WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
1951 - 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada)
1951 - International Cheese treaty signed
1952 - Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index
1953 - KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Raymond Burr made his network-TV acting debut. It was in "The Mask of Medusa" on ABC-TV's "Twilight Theater."
1954 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Linus' security blanket made its debut.
1954 - Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2)
1955 - Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia
1957 - 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) [see May 5, 1956]
1958 - Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election
French President Charles De Gaulle
1958 - Charles de Gaulle was elected premier of France
1959 - 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from
1959 - Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area
1959 - Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
1960 - "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
1960 - WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - Radio listeners in New York, California, and Illinois were introduced to FM multiplex stereo broadcasting. A year later the FCC made this a standard.
1962 - Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
1962 - Roda JC soccer team reforms in Kerkrade
1962 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m
1963 - Governor George Wallace vowed to defy an injunction that ordered the integration of the University of Alabama.
1963 - "El Watusi" by Ray Barreto hits #17
1963 - Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya
1963 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia
1965 - A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3°K primordial background radiation
1965 - coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236
1966 - 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1966 - George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London
1966 - Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
1966 - Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
The iconic cover of the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album by the Beatles
1967 - Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in US and it goes gold
1967 - Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, DC
1968 - Helen Keller, blind and deaf author-lecturer, died.
1968 - 100th Belmont: Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2
1968 - Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1
1969 - Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio and TV
1970 - "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1
1970 - Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four"
1970 - Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
1970 - Zimbabwe came into existence. It was formerly known as Rhodesia.
1970 - Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue
1971 - "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" opens at Golden NYC for 31 perfs
1971 - Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS
1972 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin
1972 - Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
1972 - West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader
1973 - George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold
1973 - Greek Pres Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"
1973 - The James Bond movie "Live and Let Die" opened.
1973 - Paul McCartney and Wings release "Live and Let Die"
1974 - "My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford hits #12
1974 - Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Wash
1974 - Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 28 in UK
1974 - The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1975 - "Chicago" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 947 performances
1975 - California Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0
1975 - Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts
1975 - Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist
1976 - Great-Britain andIceland terminate codfish war
1977 - British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
1977 - The Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. He was imprisoned until 1986.
1977 - SC Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen
1978 - Cricket Test debut of David Gower, v Pakistan, Edgbaston, scores 58
1978 - High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten
1978 - The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1978 - The U.S. reported the finding of wiretaps in the American embassy in Moscow.
1979 - 33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Wash Bullets, 4 games to 1
1979 - Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier
1979 - Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1979 - Wings release "Old Siam, Sir"
1979 - Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power.
1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as the first all-news station.
1980 - ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
1980 - Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif
1980 - Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Dodger home run
1980 - Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting
1982 - Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year
1984 - Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
1984 - KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
1984 - Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
1984 - Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg
1985 - "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12
1985 - Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 v Warwicks cricket
1985 - Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP
1986 - 40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport & Mystery of Edwin Drood win
1987 - Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530)
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Shubert Theatre, LA
1988 - "Morton Downey Jr Show," debuts in TV syndication
1988 - Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2
1989 - 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator
1989 - Robin Givens and Mike Tyson granted final divorce in NJ
1990 - "Cemetery Club" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1990 - Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1990 - Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for first time since 1974
1990 - Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
1991 - Roseanne Arnold and Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later
1992 - America West Arena opens in Phoenix
1992 - E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced
1992 - Snowfall in Colorado
1992 - Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games
1993 - Brooklyn NY begins recycling
1993 - Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News
1993 - Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
1993 - Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi
1994 - FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts
1994 - Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery
1994 - Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai
1995 - 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis
1995 - At Disneyland Paris, the attraction "Space Mountain: From The Earth to the Moon" opened.
1995 - Rangers' Kenny Rogers scoreless inning streak ends after 39
1996 - MTV Movie Awards
1996 - Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square
1997 - 10th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $5,400,186
1997 - 1st NY Women Film Festival opens
1997 - 51st Tony Awards: Titanic and Last Night of Ballyhoo win
1997 - Ameritech Senior Golf Open
1997 - Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race
1997 - LA Dodger Wilton Guerrero's bat breaks, revealing it is corked
1997 - Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par
1997 - Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
1998 - In the U.S., the FDA approved a urine-only test for the AIDS virus.
1998 - A $124 million suit was brought against Goodyear Tire & Rubber that alleged discrimination towards black workers.
2000 - The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
2001 - Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal wiped out most of the royal family during dinner before shooting himself.
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.
2005 - The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas area occurs in Crosby, Texas. The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company.
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.
2007 - Smoking is banned from United Kingdom's public places.
2008 - A fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroys several icons from movies, such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour.
2008 - The Phoenix Mars Lander became the first NASA spacecraft to scoop Martian soil.
2009 - The first event, a George Strait concert, was held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX. Today in Texas History
2009 - General Motors filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The filing made GM the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection.
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 were killed.
2009 - General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
2012 - New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jun01.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
