1495 | Jun 1 | The first written record of Scotch Whiskey appeared in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor was the distiller. |
1533 | Jun 1 | Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned as Queen Consort of England. |
1563 | Jun 1 | Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, Chief Minister of England, was born. |
1568 | Jun 1 | Duke of Alba beheaded 18 nobles in Brussels. |
1638 | Jun 1 | The first earthquake was recorded in the U.S. at Plymouth, Mass. |
1657 | Jun 1 | 1st Quakers arrived in New Amsterdam (NY). |
1679 | Jun 1 | Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beat the Scottish. |
1711 | Jun 1 | The Queen Anne Act, known as The British Post Office Act of 1710, took effect in North America on June 1, 1711. It created a formula that was used to improve the colonial postal system and remained in effect in North America until 1789. Colonists came to view the postal rates set forth in the act as an excessive and unwelcome form of taxation. The rates were revised by a later act, which took effect on October 10, 1765. |
1757 | Jun 1 | Ignaz J. Pleyel, Austrian composer, piano builder (Piano method), was born. |
1774 | Jun 1 | The Boston Port Bill, the first bill of the Intolerable Acts (called by the Colonists) became effective. It closed Boston harbor until restitution for the destroyed tea was made (passed Mar. 25, 1774). |
1783 | Jun 1 | Last British troops sailed from New York. |
1789 | Jun 1 | Congress passed its first act which mandated the procedure for administering oaths of public office. |
1792 | Jun 1 | Kentucky became the 15th state of the Union. |
1794 | Jun 1 | English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeated the French. (MC, 6/1/02) |
1796 | Jun 1 | Tennessee became the 16th state of the Union. |
1801 | Jun 1 | Mormon leader Brigham Young (d.1877), the second president of the Mormon Church, was born in Whitingham, Vt. |
1808 | Jun 1 | The first US land-grant university was founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio. |
1812 | Jun 1 | American navy captain James Lawrence, mortally wounded in a naval engagement with the British, exhorts to the crew of his vessel, the Chesapeake, “Don’t give up the ship!” |
1813 | Jun 1 | The U.S. Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the U.S. frigate “Chesapeake”, Captain James Lawrence (b.1871) was heard to say, “Don’t give up the ship!”, during a losing battle with a British frigate “Shannon”; his ship was captured by the British frigate. |
1814 | Jun 1 | Philip Kearney, Union Civil War general, was born. He was killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Virginia. |
1815 | Jun 1 | James Gillray (b.1757), British caricaturist and printmaker, died. He is famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810. |
1818 | Jun 1 | Mathematician James Camak demarcated the border between Georgia and Tennessee. Due to a faulty sextant and bad astronomical charts he drew the line a mile south of the intended boundary, the 35th parallel. |
1831 | Jun 1 | John B. Hood Confederate Civil War general, was born. |
1836 | Jun 1 | In NYC the doors of the luxurious Astor House hotel opened to the public. It was a near copy on a grander scale of the earlier, fashionable Trement House in Boston, also designed by Isaiah Rogers. |
1843 | Jun 1 | Sojourner Truth left NY to begin her career as antislavery activist. |
1845 | Jun 1 | A homing pigeon completed an 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days. |
1855 | Jun 1 | William Walker (1824-1860), US adventurer, stormed into Granada, Nicaragua. On July 12, 1857, he declared himself president. Walker reestablished slavery and planned an 18-mile canal from Lake Nicaragua to the Pacific. |
1861 | Jun 1 | The US and the Confederacy simultaneously stopped mail interchange. |
1862 | Jun 1 | Slavery was abolished in all U.S. possessions. |
1864 | Jun 1 | Shenandoah Valley campaign began. (MC, 6/1/02) |
1868 | Jun 1 | The Texas constitutional convention met in Austin. |
1869 | Jun 1 | The Electric Voting Machine was patented by Thomas A. Edison. |
1877 | Jun 1 | The Society of American Artists was formed. |
1880 | Jun 1 | The first pay telephone was installed in the Yale Bank Building in New Haven, Conn. |
1888 | Jun 1 | California got its first seismographs as three of the devices were installed at the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, Ca. |
1893 | Jun 1 | “Falstaff,” the last opera by Giuseppe Verdi, was produced in Berlin. |
1898 | Jun 1 | The US battleship Oregon, having steamed around Cape Horn from San Francisco, took part in the blockade of Santiago Bay, Cuba. |
1901 | Jun 1 | John van Druten, English playwright (I am a Camera), was born. |
1907 | Jun 1 | Frank A. Whittle, England inventor (jet engine), was born. |
1915 | Jun 1 | Germany conducted the first zeppelin air raid over England. |
1932 | Jun 1 | Christopher Lasch, American social critic and writer, was born. |
1935 | Jun 1 | Driving test and license plates were introduced in England. |
1936 | Jun 1 | The Queen Mary arrived in N.Y. on its maiden voyage. |
1939 | Jun 1 | The Douglas DC-4 made its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York. |
1940 | Jun 1 | Rene Auberjonois, actor (Clayton-Benson, Star Trek Deep Space 9), was born. |
1941 | Jun 1 | British troops occupied Baghdad, Iraq. |
1942 | Jun 1 | America began sending Lend-Lease materials to the Soviet Union. |
1947 | Jun 1 | The OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbanded. |
1948 | Jun 1 | “We The People”, TV Talk Show, radio from ’36; debuted on CBS |
1949 | Jun 1 | KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting. |
1951 | Jun 1 | The first self-contained titanium plant opened in Henderson Nevada. |
1955 | Jun 1 | The TV series “Front Row Center” debuted on CBS. |
1958 | Jun 1 | “Youth Wants To Know”, TV Public Affairs; last aired on NBC. Apparently, they didn’t want to know. |
1959 | Jun 1 | “Juke Box Jury” began its long run on BBC-TV. |
1960 | Jun 1 | The ABC Television Network reached 100 affiliates. |
1961 | Jun 1 | R.C., “Surrender” by Elvis Presley peaked at #1 on the U.K. pop singles chart. |
1962 | Jun 1 | “The Dinah Shore Show” (TV Variety) aired for the last time on NBC after 10 years. |
1963 | Jun 1 | R.C., “El Watusi” by Ray Barreto peaked at #17 on the pop singles chart. |
1964 | Jun 1 | The Rolling Stones arrived in the U.S. for the first time, landing at Kennedy Airport in New York. Their first date was at a high school stadium in MA. |
1965 | Jun 1 | Near Fukuoka, Japan, a coal mine explosion killed 236. |
1966 | Jun 1 | 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights. 1990 Dow Jones Avg. hits a record high of 2,900.97. |
1967 | Jun 1 | In Israel pressure from the army and a threat by some parties to quit the governing coalition forced PM Levi Eshkol to bring in Moshe Dayan as defense minister. |
1968 | Jun 1 | The British television series “The Prisoner,” starring Patrick McGoohan, had its American premiere on CBS. |
1970 | Jun 1 | The Canadian dollar was allowed to float. |
1971 | Jun 1 | The two-room shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, where Elvis Presley was born, was opened to the public as a tourist attraction. |
1972 | Jun 1 | Iraq nationalized the Iraq Petroleum Company controlled by British, American, Dutch and French oil companies. |
1973 | Jun 1 | Paul McCartney & Wings released “Live & Let Die |
1974 | Jun 1 | The song “Midnight At The Oasis” by Maria Muldaur peaked at #6 on the pop singles chart. |
1977 | Jun 1 | The Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. In 1978 he was convicted and imprisoned. In 1986 he was released to the West. |
1978 | Jun 1 | The TV Crime Drama “Baretta,” starring Robert Blake, aired for the last time on ABC. It was first telecast on Jan 17, 1975. |
1979 | Jun 1 | Paul McCartney and Wings released “Old Siam, Sir” on its Back to the Egg album. |
1980 | Jun 1 | Barbra Streisand appeared at an ACLU Benefit in Calif. |
1981 | Jun 1 | The China Daily newspaper was launched as China’s first English-language daily. |
1982 | Jun 1 | The Rolling Stones released their “Still Life” album. |
1984 | Jun 1 | “Tattletales” second run, TV Game Show; last aired on CBS. |
1985 | Jun 1 | The song “Axel F” by Harold Faltermeyer peaked at #3 on the pop singles chart. |
1986 | Jun 1 | “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” and “I’m Not Rappaport” won the Tony Awards for best musical and best play on Broadway. |
1987 | Jun 1 | The 20th anniversary of the release of “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was marked by the release of the CD in the U.K. |
1988 | Jun 1 | President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev concluded their Moscow summit by exchanging documents of ratification of the intermediate-range nuclear arms treaty they’d signed the previous December. |
1989 | Jun 1 | Former Sunday school teacher John E. List, sought for 18 years in the slayings of his mother, wife and three children in Westfield, N.J., was arrested in Richmond, Va. List was later sentenced to life in prison. |
1990 | Jun 1 | E! Entertainment Television was launched. |
1991 | Jun 1 | “Silent Lucidity” by Queensryche peaked at #5 on the pop singles chart. |
1992 | Jun 1 | The US Treasury Department, responding to UN sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia, froze an estimated $200 million in assets of the Serb-led Yugoslav government. |
1993 | Jun 1 | Connie Chung joined Dan Rather as co-anchor of the “CBS Evening News”. She was dropped from the show two years later in May, 1995. |
1994 | Jun 1 | Fox Channel, Cable Network, debuted. |
1995 | Jun 1 | President Clinton visited Billings, Montana, where he met with farmers and presided over a televised town hall meeting. |
1997 | Jun 1 | The “General Hospital” soap opera spin-off “Port Charles” debuted as a movie on ABC, then joined the ABC daytime lineup the following day. |
1998 | Jun 1 | President Clinton abruptly abandoned his executive privilege claim in the Monica Lewinsky investigation, reducing the prospect of a quick Supreme Court review of a dispute over the testimony of presidential aides. |
1999 | Jun 1 | President Clinton ordered a government investigation into whether””and how””the entertainment business markets violence to children. In a report released in September 2000, federal regulators said the movie, video game and music industries aggressively marketed to underage youths violent products that carried adult ratings. |
2000 | Jun 1 | In Atlanta 3 federal appellate judges ruled that immigration officials acted reasonably in denying Elian Gonzalez an asylum hearing. |
2001 | Jun 1 | Hank Ketcham (b.1920), the creator of the “Dennis the Menace” cartoon, died in Pebble Beach at age 81. |
2002 | Jun 1 | President Bush told West Point graduates the United States would strike pre-emptively against suspected terrorists if necessary to deter attacks on Americans, saying “the war on terror will not be won on the defensive.” |
2003 | Jun 1 | President Bush arrived in France from St. Petersburg and had a smile and firm handshake for this year’s Group of Eight nations summit host, French Pres. Jacques Chirac. |
2004 | Jun 1 | The US Dept. of Homeland Security awarded a contract, valued as much as $10 billion, to a group of companies led by a unit of Accenture Ltd., a Bermuda-based business consultancy. |
2005 | Jun 1 | In his first day on the job, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said he hoped the bank could help transform Africa from a continent of despair to one of hope. |
2006 | Jun 1 | A contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility for the flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. |
2007 | Jun 1 | The US government warned consumers to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze. |
2008 | Jun 1 | In California a fire ripped through the back lot of Universal Studios destroying film-set facades, videos and movie reels. |
2009 | Jun 1 | A federal judge ordered the United States to publicly reveal unclassified versions of its allegations and evidence justifying the continued imprisonment of more than 100 detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay. |
2010 | Jun 1 | The US Supreme Court ruled that suspects must explicitly tell police they want to be silent to invoke Miranda protections during criminal interrogations, a decision one dissenting justice said turns defendants’ rights “upside down.” |
2011 | Jun 1 | San Francisco Mayor Lee rolled out his first budget, a $6.8 billion spending plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1. |
2012 | Jun 1 | In California federal prosecutors announced charges against 2 Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies, Ryan McGowan (31) and Thomas Lu (42), accused of illegally selling dozens of weapons. |
2013 | Jun 1 | Protesters dressed as badgers and led by Queen guitarist Brian May marched through central London demanding that the government scrap a plan to cull badgers, aimed at slowing the spread of a cattle disease. |
2014 | Jun 1 | The crown prince of Abu Dhabi and other international donors said they are committing a combined $80 million to fund the conservation of lions, tigers and other wild cats. |
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