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- 0193 Roman Emperor Didius Julianus assassinated.
- 0987 Hugh Capet is elected king of France.
- 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.
- 1252 Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and Len.
- 1283 Treaty of Rheinfelden: Duke Rudolph II of Austria waives his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
- 1485 Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Frederick III
- 1495 Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
- 1495 The first written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller
- 1533 Anne Boleyn crowned queen.
- 1563 Birth - Robert Cecil Earl of Salisbury, English chief minister (1598-1625)
- 1638 The first earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
- 1660 Mary Dyer hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1774 British govt orders Port of Boston closed
- 1789 The first US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
- 1792 Kentucky admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
- 1794 UK hist Battle of Glorious First of June
- 1796 Tennessee admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
- 1801 Birth - Brigham Young religious leader (Mormon church)/polygamist
- 1804 Birth - Mikhail Glinka Novosspaskoye Russia, composer (Jota Aragonesa)
- 1808 The fir1st 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
- 1812 War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
- 1813 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"
- 1813 Captain James Lawrence, commander of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, coins the phrase "Don't give up the ship," during a losing battle with a British frigate.
- 1813 James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, cries out "Don't give up the ship!"
- 1814 Birth - Philip Kearney Civil War general (Union)
- 1815 Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
- 1823 Death - Louis Nicholas Davout French field marshall, dies at 53
- 1825 Birth - John Hunt Morgan Brig General (Confederate cavalry commander)
- 1831 Birth - John B Hood confederate general (lost Atlanta)
- 1831 James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
- 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 American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
- 1855 US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery
- 1857 Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal is published.
- 1861 The first skirmish in the Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va
- 1861 US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
- 1862 American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) - Engagement ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
- 1862 Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines
- 1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, VA
- 1864 Death - Solomon George Washington Dill poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC
- 1866 Renegade Irish Fenians invade Fort Erie Ontario from US
- 1868 James Buchanan, the 15th president of the U.S., dies near Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- 1868 Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
- 1868 Treaty of Bosque Redondo signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- 1870 UK hist Telegraph link to India first open for business
- 1875 Ceremony of turning the first sod on the Canadian Pacific Railway on the left bank of the Kamistiquia River in the townsite of Fort William about four miles from the river's mouth.
- 1877 US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
- 1878 Birth - John Masefield England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads)
- 1879 Napoleon Eugene killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
- 1879 UK hist First Tay Bridge completed (Thomas Bouch)
- 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 first seismograph
- 1889 Europe's Orient Express completes arrangements for travel between Paris and Constantinople without change of train
- 1890 Birth - Frank Morgan NYC, actor (Affairs of Cellini, Annie Get Your Gun)
- 1890 The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
- 1898 Birth - Curtis Stevens US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)
- 1898 Birth - Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild NYC, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show)
- 1898 Birth - Molly Picon actress (Milk & Honey, Fiddler on the Roof)
- 1898 Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha
- 1899 Birth - Werner Janssen NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY)
- 1901 Birth - John W Van Duren playwright (I Remember Mama)
- 1905 Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
- 1907 -27ø F (-33ø C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
- 1907 Birth - Frank Whittle inventor (jet engine)
- 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
- 1910 Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.
- 1911 The first US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ
- 1915 The National Transcontinental Railway is completed between Moncton and Winnipeg via Edmundston, Quebec and Senneterre. Because of the high cost the Grand Trunk refused to lease the line which was operated as a component of the Canadian Government Railways until the formation of the Canadian National System.
- 1915 The first Zeppelin air raid over England
- 1918 World War I Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under John J. Pershing & James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
- 1920 Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
- 1921 Birth - Nelson Riddle Oradell NJ, musical conductor (Batman, Frank Sinatra)
- 1921 Race riot in Tusla Okla (21 whites & 60 blacks killed)
- 1921 Tulsa Race Riot: Civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- 1922 Birth - Abdul Rashid Pakistan, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
- 1922 Birth - Joan Caulfield East Orange NJ, actress (Liz-My Favorite Husband)
- 1922 Royal Ulster Constabulary founded .
- 1925 Birth - Richard Erdman Enid Ok, actor (Stalag 17, Anything Goes)
- 1925 Lou Gehrig plays the first game in his streak of 2,130 consecutive games; it was the longest such streak until broken by Cal Ripken Jr. in 1995.
- 1926 Birth - Andy Griffith Mount Airy NC, actor (Andy Griffith Show, Matlock)
- 1926 Birth - Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Baker], actress (Some Like It Hot)
- 1928 Birth - Bob Monkhouse Kent England, comedian (Bonkers)
- 1928 Birth - Georgi T Dobrovolsky Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
- 1930 Birth - Edward Woodward England, actor (Breaker Morant, Wickerman)
- 1930 Birth - Ty Hardin Ill, actor (Berserk, PT 109)
- 1933 Birth - Alan (the Horse) Ameche Wisc, NFL fullback (Baltimore Colts)
- 1933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
- 1934 Birth - Pat Boone Florida, singer/actor (April Love, Cross & Switchblade)
- 1934 Birth - Peter Masterson Texas, actor (Ambush Bay)
- 1935 Birth - James George US, weightlifter (Olympic-silver-1960/bronze-1956)
- 1935 Birth - Reverend Ike SC, evangelist minister
- 1935 The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom.
- 1937 Birth - Morgan Freeman actor (Driving Mrs Daisy)
- 1938 Superman Comics launched
- 1939 Birth - Cleavon Little Chickasha Okla, actor (Blazing Saddles, Toy Soldiers)
- 1939 British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
- 1939 Maiden flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Wrger (D-OPZE) fighter aeroplane
- 1939 The first televised heavyweight boxing match-Max Baer vs Lou Nova
- 1940 Birth - Ren Auberjonois NYC, actor (Clayton-Benson, McCabe & Mrs Miller)
- 1940 The Leninist Communist Youth League of the Karelo-Finnish SSR holds its first congress.
- 1941 31.98 cm (12.59") rainfall, Burlington, Kansas (state 24-hr record)
- 1941 Birth - Edo de Waart Amsterdam Holland, conductor (Houston Opera-1976)
- 1941 Germany bans all Catholic publications
- 1941 HMS CALCUTTA (AA)sunk in the Eastern Mediterranean, north west of Alexandria, Egypt by 2 bombs from German Ju88 bombers.255 survivors
- 1941 The Farhud, a pogrom in Iraqi Jews, took place in baghdad.
- 1942 Treblinka opens.
- 1942 World War II: The Warsaw paper Liberty Brigade publishes the first news of the concentration camps.
- 1943 Actor Leslie Howard dies today when a civilian flight from Lisbon to London is shot down by the Germans during WWII, killing all on board.
- 1943 Birth - Richard Goode Bronx, concert pianist (1980 Avery Fisher Award)
- 1943 British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- 1944 Birth - Robert Powell England, actor (Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets)
- 1945 Birth - Frederica Von Stade Somerville NJ, mezzo-soprano (Die Zauberflte)
- 1945 Birth - Linda Scott singer (Hey Look at Me Now)
- 1946 Birth - Carol Neblett Modesto California, soprano (NYC Opera)
- 1946 Ion Antonescu executed.
- 1947 Birth - Ron Wood rock guitarist (Faces, Jeff Beck Group, Rolling Stones)
- 1947 The OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
- 1948 Birth - Tom Sneva US auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1983)
- 1949 The first magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
- 1951 S Arend discovers asteroids #1592 Mathieu & #1593 Fagnes
- 1953 Birth - Diana Canova West Palm Beach Fla, actress (Corrine-Soap)
- 1955 Birth - Chiyonofuji sumo wrestler
- 1956 Birth - Lisa Hartman Houston Tx, singer/actress (Tabitha, Knots Landing)
- 1956 Birth - Robin Mattson actress (Gina-Santa Barbara, Bonnie's Kids, Wolf Lake)
- 1958 Charles de Gaulle brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
- 1959 Beginning of the Revolution in Nicaragua.
- 1959 Birth - Alan "Wild"er rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough)
- 1959 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
- 1959 Visitor posting - Philip Cutrone, off-broadway actor was born - USA
- 1960 Death - Lester Patrick NHL coach/star, dies at 76
- 1960 Lester Patrick NHL coach/star, dies at 76
- 1961 Birth - Paul Coffey NHL forward (Edmonton Oilers, Pitts Penguins)
- 1961 Number one hit on UK music charts - Elvis Presley - Surrender
- 1962 Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
- 1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
- 1963 Birth - Mike Joyce rocker (The Smiths-Ask, Panic, London)
- 1963 Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
- 1963 King Victor Emmanual III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1965 A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3ø K primordial background radiation
- 1965 Birth - India Allen Portsmouth Va, playmate of the year (Dec, 1987)
- 1965 Explosion at Fukuoka, Japan kills 237 coal miners
- 1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
- 1967 Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in US & goes gold
- 1967 Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, DC
- 1968 Birth - Jason Donovan rocker/actor (Neighbors)
- 1968 Death - Helen Keller blind & deaf, dies at 87
- 1968 Helen Keller blind & deaf, dies at 87
- 1968 Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1
- 1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
- 1970 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
- 1971 Ed Sullivan's final TV show
- 1973 Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die"
- 1974 Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Wash
- 1974 Flixborough disaster: Explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
- 1974 Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
- 1975 Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0
- 1975 Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist
- 1977 UK hist Road speed limits: 70mph dual roads; 60mph single
- 1979 The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power.
- 1979 Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
- 1979 Wings release "Old Siam, Sir"
- 1980 Barbra Striesand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif
- 1980 Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
- 1980 Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting
- 1984 Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg
- 1985 Alan Garca is proclaimed President of Peru.
- 1985 Death - Richard Greene actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 67
- 1985 Richard Greene actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 67
- 1987 Death - Errol W Barrow PM of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
- 1987 Death - Rashid Karami Lebanon, 10 time PM of Lebanon, dies at 65
- 1987 Visitor posting - Kassie the saint was born ...and it was the best day ever - USA
- 1987 Visitor posting - Alan (Batman) Worfolk was born - Canada
- 1990 CNN, the Cable News Network, makes its debut today.
- 1990 Visitor posting - Ebonie Wiggs born to Denise Sanders - USA
- 1990 Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
- 1990 George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- 1991 Mount Pinatubo (Phillipines) erupts for first time in 600 years
- 1992 Visitor posting - Edward R. Koehler born - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - Daniel Easterday born - USA
- 1997 Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
- 2000 Visitor posting - David and Patricia married in Gattlinburg, TN - USA
- 2001 Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his family during dinner.
- 2001 Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
- 2004 Nevada-tan killed classmate Satomi Mitarai with box cutter, by slitting her throat after Satomi Mitarai left insults on Nevada-tan's journal on her own website.
- 2005 The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
- 2007 Jack Kevorkian was 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.
- 2009 Visitor posting - june 1 2009 bob died
- 2009 Visitor posting - june 1,2009 shawn hild was adopted by jeff hild
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