Saturday, June 1, 2013

On This Day in History - June 1

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

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.

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.

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"

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

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

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

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