TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JUNE 1
4000 BC Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central Ukraine (hypothesis only)
0193 The Roman emperor, Marcus Didius, is murdered in his palace.
1495 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller
1533 Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s new queen, is crowned.
1774 The British government orders the port of Boston closed.
1792 Kentucky became the 15th state in the United States.
1796 Tennessee became the 16th state in the United States.
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!”
1831 The British explorer James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole
1855 US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery
1877 U.S. troops are authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico.
1869 Voting Machine patented by Thomas Edison
1892 The General Electric Company (GE) began operations after the merging of the Edison General Electric and the Thomson-Houston Electric companies.
1916 The National Defense Act increases the strength of the U.S. National Guard by 450,000 men.
1942 America begins sending Lend-Lease materials to the Soviet Union.
1944 Siesta was abolished by the government of Mexico.
1963 Governor George Wallace vows to defy an injunction ordering integration of the University of Alabama.
1964 Kenya becomes a republic with Jomo Kenyatta as its 1st President
1974 The Heimlich maneuver is published
1978 The U.S. reports finding wiretaps in the American embassy in Moscow.
1979 In the U.S., the government-controlled ceiling on oil prices ends. The control was phased out over 28 months.
1979 Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) ends 90 years of white rule. In 1980, the Republic of Zimbabwe achieved sovereignty from the United Kingdom.
1980 1st transmission of CNN, the Cable News Network
1998 European Central Bank is founded in Brussels to define and execute the European Union’s monetary policy
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.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
