Women Who Made History Today – June 1

55 views0

Women Who Made History Today – June 1

By James Hughes

1533Jun 1, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned as Queen Consort of England.1711Jun 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, 1765.1956Jun 1, Doris Day signed a five-year recording contract with Columbia Records worth $1 million. 1993Jun 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.  1997Jun 1, Betty Shabazz (61), the widow of Malcolm X, was severely burned in a fire set by her grandson (12) in her Yonkers, N.Y., apartment. She died of the burn wounds on Jun 23.  2004Jun 1, Ecuador hosted the Miss Universe pageant. Jennifer Hawkins, a 20-year-old, blue-eyed Australian, was named Miss Universe 2004.2006Jun 1, A German court jailed Sabine Hilschenz (40) for 15 years for killing eight of her newborn babies in the worst case of infanticide in the country’s criminal history. She had buried them in flower pots and a fish tank at her parents’ home.  2008Jun 1, NY Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won Puerto Rico’s Democratic presidential primary 68-32%. Only 16% of the voters went to the polls. 2010Jun 1, Christie Ibori-Ibie was found guilty by London’s Southwark Crown Court on charges of aiding her brother James Ibori, the former governor of Delta state, who himself stands accused of siphoning nearly 300 million dollars of public funds in Nigeria.  2011Jun 1, Iran’s government media said Haleh Sahabi (54), the daughter of a prominent Iranian dissident, died of a heart attack while attending her father’s funeral today, but opposition websites said she died in a scuffle with security forces. The elder Sahabi (81) died a day earlier after being hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage. 2012        Jun 1, In Thailand Suu Kyi spoke to the World Economic Forum in Bangkok where she urged the international community to exercise “healthy skepticism” toward Myanmar’s much-touted reform process.  2013Jun 1, In Russia Maria Alekhina, a jailed member of the punk group Pussy Riot, reportedly ended her 11-day hunger strike after prison authorities met her demands. She had complained that officials at her prison colony in the Ural Mountains attempted to turn fellow inmates against her with a security crackdown.

Discover more from NewsBreakers

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

What's your reaction?

Excited
0
Happy
0
In Love
0
Not Sure
0
Silly
0
James Hughes
Previous
Next

Comments are closed.