Today in History

1495Jun 1The first written record of Scotch Whiskey appeared in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor was the distiller.
1533Jun 1Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned as Queen Consort of England.
1563Jun 1Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, Chief Minister of England, was born.
1568Jun 1Duke of Alba beheaded 18 nobles in Brussels.
1638Jun 1The first earthquake was recorded in the U.S. at Plymouth, Mass.
1657Jun 11st Quakers arrived in New Amsterdam (NY).
1679Jun 1Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beat the Scottish.
1711Jun 1The 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.
1757Jun 1Ignaz J. Pleyel, Austrian composer, piano builder (Piano method), was born.
1774Jun 1The 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).
1783Jun 1Last British troops sailed from New York.
1789Jun 1Congress passed its first act which mandated the procedure for administering oaths of public office.
1792Jun 1Kentucky became the 15th state of the Union.
1794Jun 1English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeated the French. (MC, 6/1/02)
1796Jun 1Tennessee became the 16th state of the Union.
1801Jun 1Mormon leader Brigham Young (d.1877), the second president of the Mormon Church, was born in Whitingham, Vt.
1808Jun 1The first US land-grant university was founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio.
1812Jun 1American 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!”
1813Jun 1The 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.
1814Jun 1Philip Kearney, Union Civil War general, was born. He was killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Virginia.
1815Jun 1James Gillray (b.1757), British caricaturist and printmaker, died. He is famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810.
1818Jun 1Mathematician 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.
1831Jun 1John B. Hood Confederate Civil War general, was born.
1836Jun 1In 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.
1843Jun 1Sojourner Truth left NY to begin her career as antislavery activist.
1845Jun 1A homing pigeon completed an 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days.
1855Jun 1William 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.
1861Jun 1The US and the Confederacy simultaneously stopped mail interchange.
1862Jun 1Slavery was abolished in all U.S. possessions.
1864Jun 1Shenandoah Valley campaign began. (MC, 6/1/02)
1868Jun 1The Texas constitutional convention met in Austin.
1869Jun 1The Electric Voting Machine was patented by Thomas A. Edison.
1877Jun 1The Society of American Artists was formed.
1880Jun 1The first pay telephone was installed in the Yale Bank Building in New Haven, Conn.
1888Jun 1California got its first seismographs as three of the devices were installed at the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, Ca.
1893Jun 1“Falstaff,” the last opera by Giuseppe Verdi, was produced in Berlin.
1898Jun 1The US battleship Oregon, having steamed around Cape Horn from San Francisco, took part in the blockade of Santiago Bay, Cuba.
1901Jun 1John van Druten, English playwright (I am a Camera), was born.
1907Jun 1Frank A. Whittle, England inventor (jet engine), was born.
   
1915Jun 1Germany conducted the first zeppelin air raid over England.
1932Jun 1Christopher Lasch, American social critic and writer, was born.
1935Jun 1Driving test and license plates were introduced in England.
1936Jun 1The Queen Mary arrived in N.Y. on its maiden voyage.
1939Jun 1The Douglas DC-4 made its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York.
1940Jun 1Rene Auberjonois, actor (Clayton-Benson, Star Trek Deep Space 9), was born.
1941Jun 1British troops occupied Baghdad, Iraq.
1942Jun 1America began sending Lend-Lease materials to the Soviet Union.
1947Jun 1The OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbanded.
1948Jun 1“We The People”, TV Talk Show, radio from ’36; debuted on CBS
1949Jun 1KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting.
1951Jun 1The first self-contained titanium plant opened in Henderson Nevada.
1955Jun 1The TV series “Front Row Center” debuted on CBS.
   
1958Jun 1“Youth Wants To Know”, TV Public Affairs; last aired on NBC. Apparently, they didn’t want to know.
1959Jun 1“Juke Box Jury” began its long run on BBC-TV.
1960Jun 1The ABC Television Network reached 100 affiliates.
1961Jun 1R.C., “Surrender” by Elvis Presley peaked at #1 on the U.K. pop singles chart.
1962Jun 1“The Dinah Shore Show” (TV Variety) aired for the last time on NBC after 10 years.
   
1963Jun 1R.C., “El Watusi” by Ray Barreto peaked at #17 on the pop singles chart.
1964Jun 1The 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.
1965Jun 1Near Fukuoka, Japan, a coal mine explosion killed 236.
1966Jun 12,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights. 1990 Dow Jones Avg. hits a record high of 2,900.97.
1967Jun 1In 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.
1968Jun 1The British television series “The Prisoner,” starring Patrick McGoohan, had its American premiere on CBS.
1970Jun 1The Canadian dollar was allowed to float.
1971Jun 1The two-room shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, where Elvis Presley was born, was opened to the public as a tourist attraction.
1972Jun 1Iraq nationalized the Iraq Petroleum Company controlled by British, American, Dutch and French oil companies.
1973Jun 1Paul McCartney & Wings released “Live & Let Die
1974Jun 1The song “Midnight At The Oasis” by Maria Muldaur peaked at #6 on the pop singles chart.
1977Jun 1The 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.
1978Jun 1The TV Crime Drama “Baretta,” starring Robert Blake, aired for the last time on ABC. It was first telecast on Jan 17, 1975.
1979Jun 1Paul McCartney and Wings released “Old Siam, Sir” on its Back to the Egg album.
1980Jun 1Barbra Streisand appeared at an ACLU Benefit in Calif.
1981Jun 1The China Daily newspaper was launched as China’s first English-language daily.
1982Jun 1The Rolling Stones released their “Still Life” album.
1984Jun 1“Tattletales” second run, TV Game Show; last aired on CBS.
1985Jun 1The song “Axel F” by Harold Faltermeyer peaked at #3 on the pop singles chart.
1986Jun 1“The Mystery of Edwin Drood” and “I’m Not Rappaport” won the Tony Awards for best musical and best play on Broadway.
1987Jun 1The 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.
1988Jun 1President 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.
1989Jun 1Former 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.
1990Jun 1E! Entertainment Television was launched.
1991Jun 1“Silent Lucidity” by Queensryche peaked at #5 on the pop singles chart.
1992Jun 1The US Treasury Department, responding to UN sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia, froze an estimated $200 million in assets of the Serb-led Yugoslav government.
1993Jun 1Connie Chung joined Dan Rather as co-anchor of the “CBS Evening News”. She was dropped from the show two years later in May, 1995.
1994Jun 1Fox Channel, Cable Network, debuted.
1995Jun 1President Clinton visited Billings, Montana, where he met with farmers and presided over a televised town hall meeting.
1997Jun 1The “General Hospital” soap opera spin-off “Port Charles” debuted as a movie on ABC, then joined the ABC daytime lineup the following day.
1998Jun 1President 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.
1999Jun 1President 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.
2000Jun 1In Atlanta 3 federal appellate judges ruled that immigration officials acted reasonably in denying Elian Gonzalez an asylum hearing.
2001Jun 1Hank Ketcham (b.1920), the creator of the “Dennis the Menace” cartoon, died in Pebble Beach at age 81.
2002Jun 1President 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.”
2003Jun 1President 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.
2004Jun 1The 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.
2005Jun 1In 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.
2006Jun 1A contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility for the flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
2007Jun 1The US government warned consumers to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.
2008Jun 1In California a fire ripped through the back lot of Universal Studios destroying film-set facades, videos and movie reels.
2009Jun 1A 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.
2010Jun 1The 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.”
2011Jun 1San Francisco Mayor Lee rolled out his first budget, a $6.8 billion spending plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
2012Jun 1In 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.
2013Jun 1Protesters 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.
2014Jun 1The 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.
   
Source: Timelines of History   

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