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General Charles de Gaulle, war hero and leader
of the Rassemblement du Peuple Français (Rally of the French People)
called to serve as Prime Minister of France at the head of a six mont long emergency government
during a crisis over the future of Algeria and the French North African colonies;
becomes founder of the Fifth Republic; ordered the drafting of a new Constitution,
which will be adopted by referendum Sept. 28, 1958 with a 79.2% "Yes" vote;
will be reelected for a second seven-year term on the second ballot with
54.8% of the vote, against François Mitterrand. [picture: with former
President Coty]
06 01 June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining..
0794 06 01 Charles the Great opens general synod in Frankfurt
1283 06 01 Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market
1459 06 01 Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua
1495 06 01 First written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller
1526 06 01 Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief
1533 06 01 Anna Boleyn crowned queen of England
1562 06 01 Emperor Ferdinand & Sultan Suleiman signs treaty
1568 06 01 Duke van Alva beheads 18 nobles in Brussels
1608 06 01 Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-govt
1638 06 01 First earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
1641 06 01 France & Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant
1649 06 01 Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow
1657 06 01 First Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
1670 06 01 Engl king Charles II & Fr king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty
1679 06 01 Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scottish
1746 06 01 French troops conquer Antwerp
1774 06 01 American Revolutionary War: Boston Port Bill: government of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed.
1779 06 01 American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
1789 06 01 First US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
1792 06 01 Kentucky admitted as 15th US state
1794 06 01 English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French
1796 06 01 Last of Britain's troops withdraws from US
1796 06 01 Tennessee admitted as 16th US state
1808 06 01 First US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio
1809 06 01 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 06 01 War of 1812: President James Madison asks the United States Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1813 06 01 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship."
1831 06 01 James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
1834 06 01 HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street
1835 06 01 6th national black convention (Phila)
1836 06 01 Charles Darwin returns to Capetown
1840 06 01 Samuel Cunard completes passage of a 700 ton wooden paddlewheel steamer from Liverpool, England to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1843 06 01 It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio
1843 06 01 Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist
1845 06 01 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
1846 06 01 Pope Gregory XVI. dies
1855 06 01 American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua and reinstates slavery.
1861 06 01 First skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va
1861 06 01 British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War
1861 06 01 Skirmish at Arlington Mills, VA
1861 06 01 US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
1862 06 01 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Va (11,165 casualties)
1862 06 01 Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines
1862 06 01 Slavery abolished in all US possessions
1864 06 01 -Nov] Shenandoah Valley campaign
1864 06 01 Battle of Cold Harbor, VA (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)
1864 06 01 Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English
1866 06 01 General Dutch Typographer Union forms
1866 06 01 Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft Erie Ontario from US
1868 06 01 Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
1868 06 01 James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States. dies
1869 06 01 Voting machine patented (Thomas A Edison)
1872 06 01 6th Belmont: James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58¬
1877 06 01 Society of American Artists forms
1877 06 01 US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
1880 06 01 First pay telephone installed
1880 06 01 US census at 50,155,783
1881 06 01 Bell Phone opens first Dutch telephone exchange
1888 06 01 California gets its first seismograph
1890 06 01 US census at 62,622,250
1890 06 01 The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1893 06 01 Opera Falstaff is produced (Berlin)
1898 06 01 The Trans-Mississippi International Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska.
1899 06 01 Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last
1900 06 01 British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa
1902 06 01 Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms
1905 06 01 Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
1907 06 01 -27øF (-33øC), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
1908 06 01 John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days
1909 06 01 The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition world's fair opens in Seattle, Washington.
1910 06 01 SC Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
1911 06 01 First US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ
1912 06 01 Stormvogels soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
1914 06 01 Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km)
1915 06 01 First Zeppelin air raid over England
1916 06 01 German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun
1917 06 01 Hank Gowdy is first baseball player to enlist during WW I
1918 06 01 Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis
1918 06 01 White Sox losing 5-4 against NY Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play
1919 06 01 Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden
1920 06 01 RKSV Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam
1921 06 01 Race riot in Tulsa Okla (21 whites & 60 blacks killed)
1922 06 01 Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
1923 06 01 NY Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning
1925 06 01 Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (first of record 2130 consec games)
1926 06 01 Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland
1930 06 01 6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (36 86 63 61)
1930 06 01 6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (62 61)
1930 06 01 Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine
1930 06 01 Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia v Hampshire, 240 mins, 26 fours
1931 06 01 Rozenburg soccer team forms in Rozenburg
1932 06 01 Lunteren soccer team forms in Lunteren
1933 06 01 The Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1933 06 01 Charlie Chaplin weds Paulette Goddard
1934 06 01 AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar
1935 06 01 Driving test & license plates introduced in England
1935 06 01 Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2
1936 06 01 Lux Radio Theater moved from NYC to Hollywood
1936 06 01 Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY
1937 06 01 Chic White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns, 8-0
1937 06 01 Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
1938 06 01 Protective baseball helmets first worn by batters
1938 06 01 Superman first appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
1939 06 01 First boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer
1939 06 01 First night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2)
1939 06 01 British sub Thetis sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
1939 06 01 Retired German Col-gen Gerd von Runstedt returns to service
1940 06 01 Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
1940 06 01 Gen-mjr Bernard Montgomery returns to London
1940 06 01 Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
1941 06 01 12.59 (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington Kansas (state 24-hr record)
1941 06 01 British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq
1941 06 01 Germany bans all Catholic publications
1941 06 01 Germany occupies Kreta
1941 06 01 NY Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th HR & his 1,500th RBI
1943 06 01 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die
1943 06 01 Leslie Howard, actor. dies
1943 06 01 Pirates Rip Sewell first throws his dew-drop (eephus) ball in a game
1944 06 01 Gen Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth
1944 06 01 Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots
1945 06 01 WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
1946 06 01 78th Belmont: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:30.8
1946 06 01 Spijkenisse soccer team forms in Spijkenisse
1947 06 01 OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
1947 06 01 Photosensitive glass developed
1948 06 01 Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire
1948 06 01 Sonny Boy Williamson, blues musician. dies
1949 06 01 First magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
1949 06 01 British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence
1949 06 01 KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 06 01 Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz wed for the second time
1949 06 01 Microfilm copies of Newsweek magazine first offered
1950 06 01 WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) first broadcast
1951 06 01 First self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada)
1951 06 01 International Cheese treaty signed
1952 06 01 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cross Country Weathervane Golf Tournament
1952 06 01 Roman Catholic Church puts Andre Gide's Labor on the index of banned books.
1953 06 01 KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 06 01 WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 06 01 Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2)
1955 06 01 Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia
1957 06 01 First US runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) [see May 5, 1956]
1958 06 01 Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election
1958 06 01 Canada-wide television broadcasting starts.
1958 06 01 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Gatlinburg Golf Open
1959 06 01 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area
1959 06 01 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
1959 06 01 Sax Rohmer, author. dies
1960 06 01 Finian's Rainbow closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
1960 06 01 WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 06 01 Lester Patrick, ice hockey star. dies
1961 06 01 FM multiplex stereo broadcasting first heard
1962 06 01 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
1962 06 01 Roda JC soccer team reforms in Kerkrade
1962 06 01 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m
1963 06 01 El Watusi by Ray Barreto hits #17
1963 06 01 Jomo Kenyatta becomes first premier of Kenya
1963 06 01 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia
1965 06 01 A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3øK primordial background radiation
1965 06 01 coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236
1966 06 01 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1966 06 01 George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London
1966 06 01 Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
1966 06 01 Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
1966 06 01 First Canadian colour television broadcast.
1966 06 01 Papa Jack Laine, jazz musician (b. 1873). dies
1967 06 01 Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in US & goes gold
1967 06 01 Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, DC
1968 06 01 100th Belmont: Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2
1968 06 01 Helen Keller, humanitarian. dies
1968 06 01 Simon & Garfunkel's Mrs Robinson hits #1
1969 06 01 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
1970 06 01 Everything Is Beautiful by Ray Stevens hits #1
1970 06 01 Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing Ball Four
1970 06 01 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
1970 06 01 Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue
1971 06 01 You're a Good Man Charlie Brown opens at Golden NYC for 31 perfs
1971 06 01 Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS
1972 06 01 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin
1972 06 01 Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
1972 06 01 West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader
1973 06 01 George Harrison's Living in the Material World goes gold
1973 06 01 Greek Pres Papadopoulos asks for parliamentary presidential republic
1973 06 01 Paul McCartney & Wings release Live & Let Die
1974 06 01 My Girl Bill by Jim Stafford hits #12
1974 06 01 Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Wash
1974 06 01 Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK
1975 06 01 Chicago opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 947 performances
1975 06 01 21st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1975 06 01 Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0
1975 06 01 Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts
1975 06 01 Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist
1976 06 01 Great-Britain & Iceland terminate codfish war
1977 06 01 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
1977 06 01 Soviet Union charges Jewish civil rights activist Anatoly Sharansky with treason.
1977 06 01 SC Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen
1978 06 01 Cricket Test debut of David Gower, v Pakistan, Edgbaston, scores 58
1978 06 01 High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten
1979 06 01 33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Wash Bullets, 4 games to 1
1979 06 01 Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier; ninety years of white minority rule ends in Rhodesia; to be known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.
1979 06 01 Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1979 06 01 Wings release Old Siam, Sir
1980 06 01 ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
1980 06 01 Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif
1980 06 01 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship
1980 06 01 Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Dodger home run
1980 06 01 Rube Marquard, Baseball Hall of Famer. dies
1981 06 01 Carl Vinson, United States Congressman (b. 1883). dies
1982 06 01 Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year
1984 06 01 Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
1984 06 01 KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
1984 06 01 Netherlands' Lubbers govt gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
1984 06 01 Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg
1984 06 01 Nat Nelson, singer. dies
1985 06 01 Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody by David Lee Roth hits #12
1985 06 01 Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 v Warwicks cricket
1985 06 01 Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP
1986 06 01 32nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley
1986 06 01 40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport & Mystery of Edwin Drood win
1987 06 01 Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530)
1988 06 01 Les Miserables, opens at Shubert Theatre, LA
1988 06 01 Morton Downey Jr Show, debuts in TV syndication
1988 06 01 Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2
1989 06 01 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator
1989 06 01 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
1989 06 01 Robin Givens & Mike Tyson granted final divorce in NJ
1990 06 01 Cemetery Club closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1990 06 01 Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1990 06 01 Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for first time since 1974
1990 06 01 Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
1991 06 01 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for first time in 600 years
1991 06 01 Roseanne Arnold & Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later
1992 06 01 America West Arena opens in Phoenix
1992 06 01 E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced
1992 06 01 Snowfall in Colorado
1992 06 01 Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games
1993 06 01 Brooklyn NY begins recycling
1993 06 01 Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News
1993 06 01 Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
1993 06 01 Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi
1994 06 01 FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts
1994 06 01 Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery
1994 06 01 Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai
1995 06 01 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis
1995 06 01 Rangers' Kenny Rogers scoreless inning streak ends after 39
1996 06 01 MTV Movie Awards
1996 06 01 Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square
1997 06 01 10th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $5,400,186
1997 06 01 First NY Women Film Festival opens
1997 06 01 51st Tony Awards: Titanic & Last Night of Ballyhoo win
1997 06 01 Ameritech Senior Golf Open
1997 06 01 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Michelob Light Classic
1997 06 01 Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race
1997 06 01 Heartland LPGA Classic
1997 06 01 LA Dodger Wilton Guerrero's bat breaks, revealing it is corked
1997 06 01 Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par
1999 06 01 DeForest Kelley, actor. dies
2001 06 01 Hank Ketcham, creator of Dennis the Menace. dies
2001 06 01 King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal die; shot, possibly murdererd.
2002 06 01 Hansie Cronje, cricketer. dies
2003 06 01 China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 meters.
2003 06 01 Gerhard Rentzsch, radio play author dies
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