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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:25:26 -0500
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Monday, June 01, 2009
Only 213 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Stand for Children Day
On The Way To Today... June 1st
1638 - The first recorded earthquake in U.S. history occurred in
Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts.
1792 - Kentucky became the 15th state to be admitted to the Union.
1794 - A French fleet protecting a wheat convoy under Admiral Villaret
de Joyeuse was intercepted and defeated by the British under Lord Howe
in the second battle of Ushant.
1796 - Tennessee became the 16th state to be admitted to the Union.
1869 - A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Thomas Edison received a
patent for an electric voting machine.
1880 - The first telephone box for public use went into service in the
United States. It was installed by the Connecticut Telephone Co. in
their office at Yale Bank Building in New Haven.
1908 - John Krohn decided to take a walk around the United States -
with his wheelbarrow! He completed the walk around the perimeter of
the U.S. in 357 days. He walked 9,024 miles, went through 11 pair of
shoes, 112 pair of socks, five wheels for his trusty wheelbarrow and
never walked on Sunday.
1938 - The first issue of the comic book "Superman" appeared in news
stands throughout the country. "Superman" was created by two
teenagers: Jerome Siegel and Joseph Shuster. Originally a newspaper
comic strip, Superman was changed to a booklet format to immediate
acclaim.
1941 - In World War II, British forces were finally withdrawn from
Crete with heavy losses. Almost 3,000 Australians were also lost in
the evacuation.
1941 - British forces entered Baghdad returning the regent, six
year-old King Faisal, to power.
1943 - Actor Leslie Howard and 16 others were lost on an overseas
airliner en route from Lisbon to England after being attacked by an
enemy plane.
1944 - The Mexican government decided to do away with the siesta.
1957 - Dow Bowden became the first American to break the four-minute
mile record. He ran the race in 3 minutes, 58.7 seconds.
1968 - The popular and enigmatic British mini-series, "The Prisoner,"
aired for the first time in US television. Starring Patrick McGoohan
as a secret agent held against his will in a remote, controlled
environment known as the Village, "The Prisoner" was one of TV's most
imaginative series. In both the US and England, The Prisoner became an
instant cult series.
1972 - Iraq nationalized some oilfields belonging to the western-owned
Iraq Petroleum Company.
1973 - British Honduras changed its name to Belize.
1973 - The military government in Greece announced the abolition of
the monarchy and proclaimed a republic.
1979 - The former Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, ending 89 years of white
rule.
1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as television's first
all-news service.
1985 - A study released on this date stated that people from the
southern United States hug more than those people living in the
northern part of the country. The study also said that women were
generally more willing to hug than men were.
1990 - U.S. President George Bush and Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev signed a bilateral agreement to stop producing chemical arms
and to begin destroying stocks by the end of 1992.
1994 - South Africa rejoined the Commonwealth after an absence of 33
years.
1998 - Thousands of refugees from Serbia's Kosovo province streamed
into neighboring Albania to escape deadly fighting
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