TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 1
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.
1792 Kentucky became the 15th state in the United States.
1796 Tennessee became the 16th state in the United States.
1874 The Heimlich maneuver is published Henry Heimlich is credited with developing the technique using abdominal thrusts to stop choking.
1877 U.S. troops are authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico.
1916 The National Defense Act increases the strength of the U.S. National Guard by 450,000 men.
1921 A race riot erupts in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing 85 people.
1923 Both Great Britain and the United States are demanding back the loans made to France borrowed during the First World War but the french answer is both Britain and America are much richer nations and as the war was a world war they should not have to pay the money back, negotiations are continuing at diplomatic levels.1942 America begins sending Lend-Lease materials to the Soviet Union.
1938 Superman created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster made his first appearance in D.C. Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1 which sold for 10 cents.
1942 A Warsaw underground newspaper, the Liberty Brigade, is the first public newspaper to tell the world about the death camps in Poland where tens of thousands of Jews are gassed to death at Chelmno, a death camp in Poland.
1944 Siesta was abolished by the government of Mexico.
1961 Radio listeners in New York, California, and Illinois were introduced to FM multiplex stereo broadcasting. A year later the FCC made this a standard.
1972 In Iraq, The Ba’athist government nationalized the western-owned Iraq Petroleum Company and turned operations over to the Iraq National Oil Company.
1978 The U.S. reports finding wiretaps in the American embassy in Moscow.
1979 Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) ends 90 years of white rule In 1980, the Republic of Zimbabwe achieved sovereignty from the United Kingdom.
1979 In the U.S., the government-controlled ceiling on oil prices ends. The control was phased out over 28 months.
1980 Cable News Network (CNN) debuted.
1990 In a historic meeting between President George Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev they sign a historic agreement to end production of chemical weapons and begin the destruction of reserves of chemical weapons.
1998 A $124 million suit was brought against Goodyear Tire & Rubber that alleged discrimination towards black workers.
2001 Nepal’s Crown Prince Dipendra went on a shooting spree, killing his father, mother, sister, brother, and other members of the royal family before shooting himself.
2009 Air France flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic All 228 people on board died in the crash. It took two years to find and recover the wreckage from the ocean floor.
2009 General Motors filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The filing made GM the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection.
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