01 June History


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  • 193    -    The Roman emperor, Marcus Didius, is murdered in his palace.
  • 1533    -    Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's new queen, is crowned.
  • 1774    -    The British government orders the port of Boston closed.
  • 1789    -    The first U.S. congressional act on administering oaths becomes law.
  • 1812    -    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!"
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  • 1862    -    General Robert E. Lee assumes command of the Confederate army outside Richmond after General Joe Johnston is injured at Seven Pines.
  • 1864    -    The Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, begins as Confederate general Robert E. Lee tries to turn Union general Ulysses S. Grant's flank.
  • 1868    -    James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, dies.
  • 1877    -    U.S. troops are authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico.
  • 1915    -    Germany conducts the first zeppelin air raid over England.
  • 1916    -    The National Defense Act increases the strength of the U.S. National Guard by 450,000 men.
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  • 1921    -    A race riot erupts in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing 85 people.
  • 1939    -    The Douglas DC-4 makes its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York.
  • 1941    -    The German Army completes the capture of Crete as the Allied evacuation ends.
  • 1942    -    America begins sending Lend-Lease materials to the Soviet Union.
  • 1958    -    Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France.
  • 1963    -    Governor George Wallace vows to defy an injunction ordering integration of the University of Alabama.
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  • 1978    -    The U.S. reports finding wiretaps in the American embassy in Moscow.

  • 01 June Birthdays

  • 1563    -    Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury.
  • 1801    -    Brigham Young, American religious leader.
  • 1814    -    Philip Kearney, Union general.
  • 1831    -    John B. Hood, Confederate general.
  • 1878    -    John Masefield, English poet.
  • 1898    -    Molly Picon, comic actress and singer.
  • 1901    -    John van Druten, English playwright (I am a Camera).
  • 1926    -    Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker), film actress and icon.
  • 1932    -    Christopher Lasch, American social critic and writer.