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2009/06/02 01:58 |
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Only 212 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
National Trails Day
On The Way To Today... June 2nd
1420 - Henry V of England married Catherine of Valois, daughter of
Charles VI, king of France.
1734 - In the War of the Polish Succession, Russia and Austria finally
took Danzig after a siege which had begun the previous October.
1774 - The Quartering Act was revived in Britain, forcing people in
America to provide housing for British troops.
1780 - Riots began in London led by Lord George Gordon in protest
against Parliament's plans to extend the Catholic Relief Act (1778)
canceling restrictions on Roman Catholics.
1835 - P. T. Barnum and his circus began their first tour of the
United States.
1851 - Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting
alcohol.
1886 - When he exchanged vows with Florence Folsom, Grover Cleveland
became the first United States President to marry in the White House.
1896 - Guglielmo Marconi was granted a patent for his electro-magnetic
wave communication system, later to be called radio.
1897 - After reading his obituary while in London, author Mark Twain
cabled a New York newspaper, "The reports of my death are greatly
exaggerated".
1899 - Spain ceded the Carolinas, Pelews, Marianne and Ladrones to
Germany.
1924 - U.S. Congress conferred citizenship upon all American Indians.
1932 - Major Frank Holmes, a New Zealand engineer, struck oil for the
first time in Bahrain.
1933 - The first swimming pool to be built inside the White House was
given the go-ahead by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As the only
President elected to four terms, Roosevelt also got more use out of
the pool. For his final term, Roosevelt was elected over Herbert
Hoover, Alf Landon, Wendell Wilkie and Thomas E. Dewey.
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II, then 27-years old, had her coronation
broadcast on television. The coronation was one of the first
international news events to have complete television coverage. All
three of America's television networks, along with the British
Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, provided detailed descriptions of
the ceremonious preceedings. Because color television was not yet the
standard, most viewers only saw the coronation in black and white.
Compared to today's instant, clear international broadcasts, the
quality of the pictures was poor. Wtih no satellite transmission at
that time, the "live" coverage had to be relayed by telephone cable.
1966 - The U.S. spacecraft Surveyor I made a successful soft landing
on the moon and began sending back the first closeup pictures of the
moon's surface.
1969 - 74 American sailors were killed when the Australian aircraft
carrier Melbourne collided with the U.S. destroyer Frank E. Evans in
the South China Sea.
1979 - Pope John Paul II arrived in Poland in the first visit by a
Pope to a communist country.
1985 - The R.J. Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco,
National Biscuit Company, that would have created a $4.9 billion
conglomerate of food distribution and other merchandise. Among the
other goods provided would have been tobacco.
1988 - In Canberra, the High Court unanimously rejected Britain's bid
to ban further publication in Australia of the "Spycatcher" memoirs of
former secret agent Peter Wright.
1992 - Denmark's voters rejected the EC Maastricht Treaty by the
slimmest of margins, stunning the European Community and their own
overwhelmingly pro-Treaty leaders.
1994 - 29 people, including top Northern Ireland undercover police
fighting the IRA, were killed when their helicopter crashed on a
remote Scottish headland.
1997 - Romania and Ukraine put decades of mistrust behind them by
signing a long-delayed border treaty.
1997 - Timothy McVeigh was found guilty on all counts in the 1995
bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people.
1998 - Voters in California passed Proposition 227, which effectively
abolished the state's 30-year-old bilingual educational program by
requiring that all children be taught in English.
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