Today in History - June 1
Return to home
The Atlantic hurricane season begins.
(HFA, '96, p.32)
193AD Jun 1, The
Roman Emperor, Marcus Didius (61), was murdered in his palace.
(HN, 6/1/99)(MC, 6/1/02)
1495 Jun 1, The first
written record of Scotch Whiskey appeared in the Exchequer Rolls
of Scotland. Friar John Cor was the distiller.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1533 Jun 1, Anne Boleyn, the
second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned as Queen Consort of England.
(AP, 6/1/08)
1563 Jun 1, Robert Cecil, Earl of
Salisbury, Chief Minister of England, was born.
(HN, 6/1/99)
1568 Jun 1, Duke of Alba beheaded
18 nobles in Brussels. (MC, 6/1/02)
1638 Jun 1, The first earthquake
was recorded in the U.S. at Plymouth, Mass.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1657 Jun 1, 1st Quakers arrived in
New Amsterdam (NY). (MC, 6/1/02)
1679 Jun 1, Battle at Bothwell
Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beat the Scottish. (MC, 6/1/02)
1711 Jun 1, The Queen Anne Act,
known as The British Post Office Act of 1710, took effect in North
America on June 1, 1711. It created a formula that was used to improve
the colonial postal system and remained in effect in North America
until 1789. Colonists came to view the postal rates set forth in the
act as an excessive and unwelcome form of taxation. The rates were
revised by a later act, which took effect on October 10, 1765.
(http://tinyurl.com/adqtq)
1757 Jun 1, Ignaz J. Pleyel,
Austrian composer, piano builder (Piano method), was born. (MC, 6/1/02)
1774 Jun 1, The Boston Port
Bill, the first bill of the Intolerable Acts (called by the Colonists)
became effective. It closed Boston harbor until restitution for the
destroyed tea was made (passed Mar. 25, 1774).
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(HN, 6/1/98)
1783 Jun 1, Last British troops
sailed from New York. (MC, 6/1/02)
1789 Jun 1, Congress passed its
first act which mandated the procedure for administering oaths of
public office.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(HN, 6/1/98)
1792 Jun 1, Kentucky became the
15th state of the Union.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1794 Jun 1, English fleet under
Richard Earl Howe defeated the French. (MC, 6/1/02)
1796 Jun 1, Tennessee became the
16th state of the Union.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1796 Jun 1, In accordance with
the Jay Treaty, all British troops were withdrawn from U.S. soil.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1801 Jun 1, Mormon leader Brigham
Young (d.1877), the second president of the Mormon Church, was born in
Whitingham, Vt.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1808 Jun 1, The first US
land-grant university was founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1812 Jun 1, 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!"
(HN, 6/1/00)
1813 Jun 1, The U.S. Navy gained
its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the U.S. frigate
"Chesapeake", Captain James Lawrence (b.1871) was heard to say, "Don't
give up the ship!", during a losing battle with a British frigate
"Shannon"; his ship was captured by the British frigate.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(AP, 6/1/98)
1814 Jun 1, Philip Kearney, Union
Civil War general, was born. He was killed at the Battle of Chantilly,
Virginia.
(HN, 6/1/99)
1815 Jun 1, James Gillray
(b.1757), British caricaturist and printmaker, died. He is famous for
his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792
and 1810.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gillray)(Econ,
12/19/09, p.99)
1818 Jun 1, Mathematician James
Camak demarcated the border between Georgia and Tennessee. Due to a
faulty sextant and bad astronomical charts he drew the line a mile
south of the intended boundary, the 35th parallel.
(Econ, 3/15/08,
p.42)(www.profsurv.com/archive.php?article=1215&issue=86)
1831 Jun 1, John B. Hood
Confederate Civil War general, was born.
(HN, 6/1/98)
1843 Jun 1, Sojourner Truth left
NY to beg in her career as antislavery activist.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1843 Jun 1, It snowed in Buffalo
and Rochester N.Y., and also in Cleveland Ohio.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1845 Jun 1, A homing pigeon
completed a 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1855 Jun 1, William Walker
(1824-1860), US adventurer, stormed into Granada, Nicaragua. On July
12, 1857, he declared himself president. Walker reestablished slavery
and planned an 18-mile canal from Lake Nicaragua to the Pacific. (SSFC,
4/10/05, p.F4)(www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/walker.html)
1861 Jun 1, The US and the
Confederacy simultaneously stopped mail interchange.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1861 Jun 1, The first skirmish in
the Civil War was at Fairfax Court House, Arlington Mills, Va.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(HN, 6/1/98)
1861 Jun 1, British territorial
waters & ports were put off-limits during Civil War.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1862 Jun 1, Slavery was abolished
in all U.S. possessions.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1862 Jun 1, Confederate Pres.
Jefferson Davis appointed General Robert E. Lee as commander of the
Army of Northern Virginia, following the injury a day earlier of
General Joe Johnston at Seven Pines (Fair Oaks).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fair_Oaks)
1864 Jun 1, Battle of Cold Harbor,
Virginia, began as Lee tried to turn Grant's flank.
(HN, 6/1/98)
1864 Jun 1-Nov, Shenandoah Valley
campaign began. (MC, 6/1/02)
1864 Jun 1, Hong Xiuquan (b.1814),
leader of the Taiping Heavenly Army, died from poisoning. At the time
of his death his led over 100,000 troops and controlled an area bigger
than France. In 1996 Jonathan Spence authored “God’s Chinese Son,” a
biography of Xiuquan, who believed himself to be God’s second son.
(WSJ, 8/18/07,
p.P9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Xiuquan)
1868 Jun 1, The Texas
constitutional convention met in Austin.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1868 Jun 1, James Buchanan (b. Apr
23, 1791), the 15th president of the United States, died near
Lancaster, Pa. He was the only US president to have never married. In
1961 Philip Shreiver Klein authored "President James Buchanan: A
Biography."
(AP, 6/1/97)(ON, 12/00, p.12)
1869 Jun 1, The Electric Voting
Machine was patented by Thomas A. Edison.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1871 Jun 1, Korea’s Yongdu
Fortress fired at a US fleet as it sailed up the Ganghwa Straits, which
leads to the Han river. Some 650 Marines launched the first US invasion
of Korea following a failed attempt by diplomats to open the Hermit
Kingdom to trade. In the end, the Americans won the battle militarily,
but lost diplomatically.
(www.shinmiyangyo.org/nsynopsis.html)(AH, 10/07,
p.57)
1877 Jun 1, The Society of
American Artists was formed.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1877 Jun 1, U.S. troops were
authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(HN, 6/1/98)
1878 Jun 1, John Masefield
(d.1967), England's 15th poet laureate, was born. "To most of us the
future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen
great changes must have great hopes."
(AP, 1/1/00)(HN, 6/1/01)(MC, 6/1/02)
1880 Jun 1, The first pay
telephone was installed in the Yale Bank Building in New Haven, Conn.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1880 Jun 1, The U.S. census stood
at 50,155,783.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1888 Jun 1, California got its
first seismographs as three of the devices were installed at the Lick
Observatory at Mount Hamilton, Ca.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1890 Jun 1, The US census stood
at 62,622,250. The US government used the Jean Baptiste Pacard card
punch to tabulate the results of the census. Herman Hollerith designed
a system that used a machine with a sorter. Hollerith formed a firm
that eventually became IBM.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(SFC, 8/5/97, p.A20)(WSJ, 10/15/01,
p.R23)(WSJ, 11/12/04, p.W10)
1893 Jun 1, "Falstaff," the last
opera by Giuseppe Verdi, was produced in Berlin.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(SFEM, 9/10/00, p.20)
1898 Jun 1, Molly Picon, comic
actress and singer, was born.
(HN, 6/1/01)
1901 Jun 1, John van Druten,
English playwright (I am a Camera), was born.
(HN, 6/1/01)
1907 Jun 1, Frank A. Whittle,
England inventor (jet engine), was born. (MC, 6/1/02)
1907 Jun 1, -27 degrees F (-33
degrees C) in Sarmiento, Argentina, a South American record.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1909 Jun 1, Pres. William Howard
Taft touched a key in Washington, DC, sending a signal to Seattle,
opening the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Expo at the Seattle World’s Fair, as
well as a signal to NYC initialing the New York to Seattle Automobile
Race.
(AH, 6/03, p.18)
1909 Jun 1, Guido Deiro, European
vaudeville star, introduced the "fizarmonica systema piano" at the
Alaskan Exposition in Seattle, Washington. He was contracted by the
Ranco Antonio Accordion Company of Italy and is credited with naming
the instrument " piano accordion." His brother Pietro Deiro was the
first to play the accordion in San Francisco.
(www.guidodeiro.com)c
1915 Jun 1, Germany conducted the
first zeppelin air raid over England. [see May 10, 31]
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(HN, 6/1/98)
1915 Jun 1, A forced exodus [of
Armenians] from Baibourt [Turkey] took place. All the villages, as well
as three-fourths of the town, had already been evacuated. A 3rd convoy
included from 4,000 to 5,000 people. Within six or seven days from the
start, all males down to below fifteen years of age had been murdered.
(http://www.ku.edu/~kansite/ww_one/docs/bryce.htm)
1916 Jun 1, The National Defense
Act increased the strength of the U.S. National Guard by 450,000 men.
The legislation set up uniform standards for training, unit size and
required all enlistees to take a dual oath to obey the state’s governor
and the US president.
(HN, 6/1/98)(SFC, 5/17/06, p.A11)
1921 Jun 1, A race riot erupted in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing 85 people (21 whites & 60 blacks killed).
[see May 31, 1921]
(HN, 6/1/98)(MC, 6/1/02)
1926 Jun 1, Ignacy Mocicki was
elected president of Poland.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1926 Jun 1, Actress Marilyn Monroe
(d.Aug 5, 1962), (born as Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean
Baker), was born in Los Angeles. "I don't mind living in a man's world
as long as I can be a woman in it."
(AP, 6/1/97)(AP, 8/5/99)(HN, 6/1/01)
1927 Jun 1, The Delta King
steamboat made its maiden voyage from SF to Sacramento, Ca. Its twin,
the Delta Queen, followed the next day. The 81-mile trip took nearly
all night. Stan Garvey later authored "The King and Queen of the
River." The last Sacramento River voyages were made in 1940. In 1969
Tom Horton (1940-2006), a columnist for the Sacramento Union, led a
band of civic pirates to bring the languishing boat back from Stockton
to Sacramento, where it was transformed to a waterfront hotel, theater
and restaurant.
(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.A18)
1932 Jun 1, Christopher Lasch,
American social critic and writer, was born.
(HN, 6/1/01)
1935 Jun 1, Driving test and
license plates were introduced in England.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1936 Jun 1, The Queen Mary
arrived in N.Y. on its maiden voyage.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1938 Jun 1, Superman made his
first appearance in D.C. Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1. The
comic book sold for 10 cents. By 1995 surviving copies sold for over
$75,000. Jerry Siegel created Superman in 1934 after he dreamed about
the Biblical story of Moses, whose parents abandoned him as a baby in
order to save his life. This became the plot of the first Superman
story. In 2001 Bradford W. Wright authored "Comic Book Nation," a
history of comic books. In 2009 a copy of the first Superman comic book
sold for 317,200 dollars at an auction.
(SFC, 6/2/96, p.T-11)(DTnet, 6/1/97)(WSJ, 5/23/01,
p.A24)(AFP, 3/14/09)
1939 Jun 1, The Douglas DC-4 made
its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York.
(HN, 6/1/98)
1939 Jun 1, Submarine Thetis:
sank in Liverpool Bay, England; 99 perished.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1940 Jun 1, Rene Auberjonois,
actor (Clayton-Benson, Star Trek Deep Space 9), was born. (MC, 6/1/02)
1941 Jun 1, British troops
occupied Baghdad, Iraq.
(www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/dec02/middleEast.asp)
1941 Jun 1, Germany banned all
Catholic publications.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1941 Jun 1, The German Army
completed the capture of Crete as the Allied evacuation ended.
(HN, 6/1/99)
1942 Jun 1, America began sending
Lend-Lease materials to the Soviet Union.
(HN, 6/1/98)
1942 Jun 1, The US Supreme Court,
in Skinner v. Oklahoma ex rel. Williamson, struck down Oklahoma’s
Habitual Criminal Sterilization Act.
(WSJ, 9/25/08,
p.A18)(http://supreme.justia.com/us/316/535/case.html)
1943 Jun 1, A civilian flight
from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II,
killing all those aboard, including actor Leslie Howard (b.1893).
Howard was killed over the Bay of Biscay, when the British Overseas
plane he was on was shot down by Luftwaffe fighters. His last on-screen
role was that of Spitfire designer R. J. Mitchell in the 1942 film "The
First of the Few" (released in the U.S. as a trimmed version entitled
Spitfire in 1948). Leslie Howard, perhaps best remembered to modern
filmgoers as Ashley Wilkes in "Gone With The Wind" (1939), was a
World War I veteran who was advised to take up acting as therapy after
he was mustered out for shell shock. He found success throughout the
1930s, but with the outbreak of World War II, devoted himself to the
war effort--directing films, writing and broadcasting on the radio.
(AP, 6/1/98)(HNQ, 3/23/01)
1944 Jun 1, The British
Broadcasting Corp. broadcasted a line of poetry by the 19th century
French poet Paul Verlaine. It was a coded message intended to warn the
French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent, "The long sobs
of the violins of autumn."
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1944 Jun 1, Gen'ls. Montgomery,
Patton, Bradley, Dempsey and Crerar met in Portsmouth.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1947 Jun 1, The OPA, which issued
WW II rationing coupons, disbanded.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1947 Jun 1, The development of
photosensitive glass was announced in Corning, N.Y.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1948 Jun 1, "We The People", TV
Talk Show, radio from '36; debuted on CBS.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1948 Jun 1, Israel & the
Arabs agreed to a cease fire.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1949 Jun 1, KSL TV channel 5 in
Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1949 Jun 1, The first magazine on
microfilm is offered to subscribers by Newsweek.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1951 Jun 1, The first
self-contained titanium plant opened in Henderson Nevada.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1955 Jun 1, "Front Row Center", TV
Anthology; debut on CBS.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1955 Jun 1, "The Sky's The Limit",
TV Game Show; last aired on NBC. Low ratings were the limit there.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1956 Jun 1, Doris Day signed a
five-year recording contract with Columbia Re
accords worth $1 million.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1958 Jun 1, "Youth Wants To Know",
TV Public Affairs; last aired on NBC. Apparently, they didn't want to
know.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1958 Jun 1, Charles de Gaulle
became premier of France, marking the beginning of the end of the
Fourth Republic. France, on the verge of civil war over Algeria, called
De Gaulle out of retirement.
(TMC, 1994, p.1958)(AP, 6/1/08)
1959 Jun 1, "Juke Box Jury" began
its long run on BBC-TV.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1959 Jun 1, R.C., "The Battle Of
New Orleans" by Johnny Horton peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart and
stayed there for six weeks.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1959 Jun 1, R.C., "Frankie Man's
Johnny" by Johnny Cash peaked at #57 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1959 Jun 1, American Smelting
& Refining, Corn Products Refining, National Steel and National
Distillers & Chemical Corp. were removed from the DJIA. Anaconda
Copper, Swift & Co., Aluminum Co. of America and Owens-Illinois
Glass were added as a components of the Dow Jones.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R-45,46)(WSJ, 4/8/04, p.C4)
1960 Jun 1, The ABC Television
Network reached 100 affiliates.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1961 Jun 1, R.C., "Surrender" by
Elvis Presley peaked at #1 on the U.K. pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1961 Jun 1, FM multiplex stereo
broadcasting was 1st heard. (MC, 6/1/02)
1962 Jun 1, "The Dinah Shore Show"
(TV Variety) aired for the last time on NBC after 10 years.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1962 Jun 1, USAF Maj. Robert M
White took the X-15 to 40,420 m.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1963 Jun 1, R.C., "El Watusi" by
Ray Barreto peaked at #17 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1963 Jun 1, R.C., "I Love You
Because" by Al Martino peaked at #3 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1963 Jun 1, R.C., "It's My Party"
by Lesley Gore peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1963 Jun 1, R.C., "Two Faces Have
I" by Lou Christie peaked at #6 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1963 Jun 1, Governor George
Wallace vowed to defy an injunction ordering integration of the
University of Alabama.
(HN, 6/1/98)
1964 Jun 1, The Beatles released
the single "Sweet Georgia Brown"/"Take Out Some Insurance On Me Baby."
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1964 Jun 1, The Rolling Stones
arrived in the U.S. for the first time, landing at Kennedy Airport in
New York. Their first date was at a high school stadium in MA.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1964 Jun 1, Dolly Parton spent her
first day in Nashville in search of a record deal.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1965 Jun 1, A. Penzias and R.
Wilson detected a 3 degree (Kelvin) microwave primordial background
radiation.
(V.D.-H.K.p.335)(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1965 Jun 1-2, The 2nd of 2
cyclones in less than a month killed 35,000 along the Ganges River in
East Pakistan.
(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1965 Jun 1, Near Fukuoka, Japan,
a coal mine explosion killed 236.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1966 Jun 1, George Harrison is
impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1966 Jun 1, 2,400 persons attend
White House Conference on Civil Rights. 1990 Dow Jones Avg. hits a
record high of 2,900.97.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1967 Jun 1, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band," was released in the U.K. and the following day in
the U.S. and was certified "gold" the same day of release. It topped
the charts all over the world, holding the number one slot in Britain
for 27 weeks and for 19 in America. It received four Grammys including
Best Album.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1967 Jun 1, In Israel pressure
from the army and a threat by some parties to quit the governing
coalition forced PM Levi Eshkol to bring in Moshe Dayan as defense
minister.
(www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9029562)(Econ,
5/26/07, p.43)
1968 Jun 1, The British television
series "The Prisoner," starring Patrick McGoohan, had its American
premiere on CBS.
(AP, 6/1/08)
1968 Jun 1, Author-lecturer Helen
Keller (87), who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf
most of her life, died in Westport, Conn. In 1980 Joseph Lash published
"Helen and Teacher," the story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan.
(AP, 6/1/97)(SFEC, 8/16/98, BR p.3)
1970 Jun 1, The Canadian dollar
was allowed to float.
(http://tinyurl.com/5n8ufg)
1971 Jun 1, The two-room shack in
Tupelo, Mississippi, where Elvis Presley was born, was opened to the
public as a tourist attraction.
(www.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/jun/18/39)
1971 Jun 1, Reinhold Niebuhr
(b.1892), US theologist, died. His Serenity Prayer became widely used
by Alcoholics Anonymous: "God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which
should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the
other." His books included “Moral Man and Immoral Society” (1932) and
“Nature & Destiny of Man” (1942). (SSFC, 5/4/03, p.F2)(WSJ,
12/29/07, p.W8)
1972 Jun 1, Iraq nationalized the
Iraq Petroleum Company controlled by British, American, Dutch and
French oil companies.
(SFC, 9/24/02,
p.A10)(www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/5873nation.htm)
1973 Jun 1, Paul McCartney &
Wings released "Live & Let Die"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Let_Die_(song))
1973 Jun 1, Harvey Jr. Firestone
(b.1898), American chairman of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., died in
Akron, Ohio.
.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_S._Firestone,_Jr.)
1973 Jun 1, Mary A. Kornman
(b.1915), leading child actress in “Our Gang” (1922-1926) died.
{Film Star, kids, USA}
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kornman)
1974 Jun 1, The song "Midnight At
The Oasis" by Maria Muldaur peaked at #6 on the pop singles chart.
(http://goodyoldies.com/billboard/1974.htm)
1974 Jun 1, The song "Oh Very
Young" by Cat Stevens peaked at #10 on the pop singles chart.
(http://goodyoldies.com/billboard/1974.htm)
1975 Jun 1, The Rolling Stones
opened their North American Tour in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with Ron
Wood (b.1947) replacing Mick Taylor (b.1949) as the lead guitarist.
Other cities they played in included, Kansas City, Milwaukee, St. Paul,
Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto, New York, Philadelphia, Memphis, Dallas,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, and
Jacksonville.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_in_music)
1977 Jun 1, The Soviet Union
formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with
treason. In 1978 he was convicted and imprisoned. In 1986 he was
released to the West.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1978 Jun 1, The East Wing of the
national Gallery of Art designed by I.M. Pei (b.1917) was dedicated to
the people of the US.
(V.D.-H.K.p.362)(www.nga.gov/collection/20th_intro.shtm)
1978 Jun 1, The TV Crime Drama
"Baretta," starring Robert Blake, aired for the last time on ABC. It
was first telecast on Jan 17, 1975.
(www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/9348/baretta.htm)
1979 Jun 1, Paul McCartney and
Wings released "Old Siam, Sir” on its Back to the Egg album.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Siam,_Sir)
1979 Jun 1, Janice Holt Giles
(b.1905), American historical novelist, died. Her 13 novels included
"Hannah Fowler" and "The Believers."
(WSJ, 7/29/99,
p.A24)(www.cumberlandbooks.com/janiceholtgiles.php)
1979 Jun 1, Werner Forssman
(b.1904), German urologist, (Nobel 1956), died. He was the first to
catheterize a human heart. In 1929, at the age of 25, while doing his
surgical training at Eberswalde, a small town near Berlin, he
introduced a ureteral catheter into his own right atrium. Using a
mirror he advanced the catheter under fluoroscopic control and then
climbed the stairs to the x ray department where a chest film was taken.
(http://tinyurl.com/3d9ys3)(http://tinyurl.com/2v4chn)
1979 Jun 1, The Government of
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia took office under the internal settlement negotiated
between the government of Rhodesia and moderate African nationalists.
Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa (b.1925) served as the first prime minister
under Pres. Josiah Zion Gumede.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Zimbabwe-Rhodesia)
1980 Jun 1, Ted Turner's Cable
News Network (CNN), providing round-the-clock TV newscasts, made its
debut as television's first all-news service, vowing to stay on the air
until the world ends. James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader,
identified the station: "This is CNN." In 2001 Reese Schonfeld, the man
who cofounded CNN, authored "Me and Ted Against the World.” "Moneyline"
TV Financial News debut on CNN.
(AP, 6/1/97)(WSJ, 2/23/00,
p.W10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN)
1980 Jun 1, Barbra Streisand
appeared at an ACLU Benefit in Calif.
(www.bjsmusic.com/bjsfaq/)
1981 Jun 1, The China Daily
newspaper was launched as China’s first English-language daily.
(Econ, 3/6/10,
p.62)(www.chinadaily.com.cn/cd/introduction.html)
1982 Jun 1, The Rolling Stones
released their "Still Life" album.
(www.amazon.com/Still-Life-Rolling-Stones/dp/B0000084AS)
1984 Jun 1, "Tattletales" second
run, TV Game Show; last aired on CBS.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_in_television)
1984 Jun 1, President Ronald
Reagan visited Ireland.
(www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/84jun.htm)
1985 Jun 1, The song "Axel F" by
Harold Faltermeyer peaked at #3 on the pop singles chart.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_F)
1985 Jun 1, In his Saturday radio
address, President Reagan, saying special interests in Washington were
trying to "pick apart" his tax overhaul plan, asked for Americans'
support.
(http://tinyurl.com/38akmh)
1985 Jun 1, The first phone call
was made on Vodafone United Kingdom's analogue network. This event was
staged, due to a network failure; the first calls were actually being
made the next day. Sir Christopher Gent founded Vodaphone, a British
mobile phone operator. The company name was coined from a combination
of voice and data.
(Econ, 6/3/06,
p.57)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodaphone#History)
1986 Jun 1, "The Mystery of Edwin
Drood" and "I'm Not Rappaport" won the Tony Awards for best musical and
best play on Broadway.
(www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0153482.html)(http://tinyurl.com/ynyxkb)
1987 Jun 1, The 20th anniversary
of the release of "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was
marked by the release of the CD in the U.K.
(www.jpgr.co.uk/pcs7027.html)
1987 Jun 1, Vice President George
Bush addressed the Third International Conference on AIDS in
Washington, and, like President Reagan before him, drew scattered boos
by calling for more widespread testing for possible carriers of the
AIDS virus.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1987 Jun 1, In Lebanon PM Rachid
Karami was killed by a remote controlled bomb that blew up his
helicopter off the Lebanese coast. In 1996 former Christian faction
leader Samir Geagea was charged for the murder. In 2005 lawmakers
approved motions to pardon Geagea.
(SFC, 7/19/05,
p.A9)(www.tripoli-lebanon.com/rachid-karami.html)
1988 Jun 1, President Reagan and
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev concluded their Moscow summit by
exchanging documents of ratification of the intermediate-range nuclear
arms treaty they'd signed the previous December.
(AP, 6/1/98)
1989 Jun 1, Former Sunday school
teacher John E. List, sought for 18 years in the slayings of his
mother, wife and three children in Westfield, N.J., was arrested in
Richmond, Va. List was later sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 6/1/99)
1990 Jun 1, President Bush and
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed more than a dozen
bilateral accords in the second day of their Washington summit.
Meanwhile, Barbara Bush and Raisa Gorbachev traveled to Wellesley
College in Massachusetts to deliver commencement addresses.
(AP, 6/1/00)
1990 Jun 1, E! Entertainment
Television was launched.
(http://tinyurl.com/jwhwu)
1990 Jun 1, The Dow Jones Avg. hit
a record high of 2,900.97.
(www.finfacts.com/Private/curency/djones.htm)
1991 Jun 1, "Silent Lucidity" by
Queensryche peaked at #5 on the pop singles chart.
(www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1991/06-01.htm)
1991 Jun 1, The United States and
the Soviet Union resolved differences over the Conventional Forces in
Europe treaty, clearing the way for a superpower summit.
(AP, 6/1/01)
1991 Jun 1, NASA scrubbed the
launch of the space shuttle "Columbia" after a navigational unit failed.
(AP, 6/1/01)
1992 Jun 1, The US Treasury
Department, responding to UN sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia, froze an
estimated $200 million in assets of the Serb-led Yugoslav government.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1992 The Pittsburgh Penguins
completed a four-game sweep of the Chicago Blackhawks to win hockey's
Stanley Cup for the second straight year.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1992 Jun 1, The E-Bulb Lamp, a
20-year light bulb, was introduced by Pierre Villere.
(www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/Futures/LF-Electrodeless/index.asp)
1992 Jun 1, In Kljuc, Bosnia,
local Serbs rounded up Muslims and shot them. About 200 bodies were
buried at the cave at Laniste and uncovered in 1996.
(SFC, 10/15/96, p.A10)
1993 Jun 1, Connie Chung joined
Dan Rather as co-anchor of the "CBS Evening News". She was dropped from
the show two years later in May, 1995.
(http://tinyurl.com/9xhm5)
1993 Jun 1, The US Supreme Court
ruled that a criminal conviction must be overturned if the jury
received a constitutionally flawed definition of "beyond reasonable
doubt."
(AP, 6/1/98)
1993 Jun 1, A mortar attack on a
holiday soccer game in a suburb of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, killed
at least 15 people and wounded more than 80.
(AP, 6/1/98)
1994 Jun 1, Fox Channel, Cable
Network, debuted.
(http://tviv.org/wiki/FX)
1994 Jun 1, President Clinton
embarked on a European trip that included commemorating the 50th
anniversary of D-Day; his first stop was Italy.
(www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1469.html)
1994 Jun 1, Frances Heflin
(b.1922), Soap Actress, All My Children's Mona Tyler; Van Heflin's
sister, died at age 71.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Heflin)
1995 Jun 1, President Clinton
visited Billings, Montana, where he met with farmers and presided over
a televised town hall meeting.
(AP, 6/1/00)
1995 Jun 1, The US Postal Service
issued a 32 cent stamp honoring the late Marilyn Monroe.
(www.leninimports.com/marilyn_monroe.html)
1995 Jun 1, James Wolfensohn,
Australian-born financier, took over as head of the World Bank. In 2004
Sebastian Mallaby authored “The World’s Banker,” a view of how the
world Bank fared under Wolfensohn.
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.C16)
1996 Jun 1, An estimated 200,000
participants, most of them schoolchildren, gathered at the Lincoln
Memorial to protest government cuts for social and educational programs.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1996 Jun 1, A nine-dish array of
radio telescopes was dedicated in Shasta Ct., Ca. at Berkeley's Hat
Creek Observatory. It has already detected large organic molecules,
including a hint of the amino acid glycene, in gas clouds near the
center of the Earth's Milky Way galaxy.
(SFC, 6/1/96, p.A9)
1996 Jun 1, In Singapore the
government passed a Maintenance of Parents Law.
(WSJ, 9/17/96, p.A1)
1997 Jun 1, The "General Hospital"
soap opera spin-off "Port Charles" debuted as a movie on ABC, then
joined the ABC daytime lineup the following day.
(www.answers.com/topic/port-charles)
1997 Jun 1, At the Tony Awards in
New York "Titanic," "Chicago" and "A Doll's House" won 15 of the 21
awards. "Titanic" won five Tony Awards, including best musical.
(SFC, 6/2/97, p.D1)(AP, 6/1/98)
1997 Jun 1, The Chicago Tribune
published a column by Mary Schmich which urged the graduating class of
1997, among other things, to "wear sunscreen." The tongue-in-cheek
essay ended up being wrongly attributed to author Kurt Vonnegut on the
Internet.
(AP, 6/1/07)
1997 Jun 1, Betty Shabazz (61),
the widow of Malcolm X, was severely burned in a fire set by her
grandson (12) in her Yonkers, N.Y., apartment. She died of the burn
wounds on Jun 23.
(SFC, 6/24/97, p.A3)(SFC, 6/26/97, p.A15)(AP, 6/1/98)
1997 Jun 1, In Bolivia, the former
right-wing gen’l. and president, Hugo Banzer won the popular vote in
elections with 25% [22%] but failed to get a majority. Former Pres.
Jaime Paz Zamora was 2nd with 17.5%. Congress will choose from among
the 2 top contenders on Aug 4.
(SFC, 6/2/97, p.A6)(WSJ, 6/19/98, p.A15)
1997 Jun 1, China banned leaded
gasoline in 8 of 18 districts and counties.
(SFC, 1/1/98, p.A17)
1997 Jun 1, In France the
Socialists won control of the government and party leader Lionel Jospin
was expected to become prime minister. New conditions for creating the
new European Union and new common currency were expected. Value added
taxes on common purchases were expected to be slashed; plans to
privatize France Telecom were expected to be abolished and the legal
workweek was expected to be reduced to 35 hours without paycuts to
provide more jobs.
(SFC, 6/2/97, p.A1,9)
1998 Jun 1, The MacArthur
Foundation disbursed 29 genius grants with cash prizes ranging from
$375,000 to $220,000. Included in the winners were poet Ishmael Reed;
computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee (pioneer developer of the WWW),
historian Mike Davis ("City of Quartz," a history of Los Angeles),
Ayesha Jalal (historian of the cultures of India and Pakistan), and
Peter Miller (Berlin scholar of early modern European intellectual
history.)
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A2)
1998 Jun 1, President Clinton
abruptly abandoned his executive privilege claim in the Monica Lewinsky
investigation, reducing the prospect of a quick Supreme Court review of
a dispute over the testimony of presidential aides.
(AP, 6/1/99)
1998 Jun 1, In Mass. Rev. Eugene
F. Rivers had his picture on the cover of Time Mag. for his youth
ministry work in Dorchester. His Operation 2006 planned to put an adult
volunteer into the life of every at-risk child in Dorchester, who
needed help, by the year 2006.
(WSJ, 6/5/98, p.W13)
1998 Jun 1, In Michigan a new $22
million Kellogg's Cereal City USA opened in Battle Creek. It was owned
by the non-profit Heritage Center Foundation.
(SFEC, 8/2/98, p.T7)
1998 Jun 1, In Philadelphia the
largest transit union went on strike and shut down a system that served
435,000 people a day. This followed 3 months of negotiations with the
transportation authority (SEPTA).
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A5)
1998 Jun 1, American Home Products
agreed to acquire Monsanto Co. in a deal valued at $35.08 billion.
(WSJ, 6/2/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 1, It was reported that
investment flow out of Latin America was becoming a stampede.
(WSJ, 6/2/98, p.A16)
1998 Jun 1, In Burma the military
sentenced Aung Thein and Ko Hla Myint to 14 years in prison for handing
out copies of a letter from the Shan State Army addressed to Lt. Gen'l.
Khin Nyunt, the head of military intelligence, back in March.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 1, From El Salvador it
was reported that just 2% of the forest remained in the country that
was once covered by forest.
(SFC, 6/1/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 1, In France pilots of
Air France began a pay-dispute strike.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 1, In India Prime
Minister Vajpayee announced that large budget increases of 14% for the
armed forces, 68% for nuclear research and 62% for missile programs was
approved. Social programs were increased 35%.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 1, In Indonesia the new
government announced a broad inquiry into corruption under ex-Pres.
Suharto.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 1, Thousands of refugees
from Kosovo, Serbia, poured into Albania to escape deadly fighting that
began last week around Decani. 39 people were reported dead.
(WSJ, 6/2/98, p.A3)(AP, 6/1/99)
1998 Jun 1, In Russia the stock
market tumbled 10% in panic selling. Prime Minister Kiriyenko reduced
the auction cost for the sale of state's Rosneft Oil Co. to $1.6 bil.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 1, In South Korea Pres.
Kim Dae Jung urged the US and western nations to end sanctions against
North Korea.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 1, Zambia dropped charges
against former Pres. Kaunda and released him after Kaunda pledged to
retire.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)
1999 Jun 1, President Clinton
ordered a government investigation into whether—and how—the
entertainment business markets violence to children. In a report
released in September 2000, federal regulators said the movie, video
game and music industries aggressively marketed to underage youths
violent products that carried adult ratings.
(AP, 6/1/04)
1999 Jun 1, In Little Rock, Ark.,
9 people died when an American Airlines jet carrying 145 people crashed
into a light tower on landing in stormy weather. The toll climbed to 11
after 2 initial survivors died. In 2001 pilot error was cited.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.A1)(SFC, 6/17/99, p.A3)(SFC,
10/24/01, p.C14)
1999 Jun 1, A peace plan for
Kosovo was carried to Pres. Milosevic by Finnish Pres. Martti
Ahtisaari. The plan was negotiated Strobe Talbott (53), US deputy Sec.
of State, Martti Ahtisaari (61), President of Finland, and Viktor
Chernomyrdin, special Russian envoy.
(SFC, 6/2/99, p.A10)(SFC, 6/4/99, p.A10)
1999 Jun 1, In Angola UNITA rebels
claimed that they killed 49 government soldiers in 4 clashes over the
past week.
(SFC, 6/2/99, p.A13)
1999 Jun 1, Cuba filed a $181.1
billion compensation claim against the US for deaths and injuries in
what it called a 40 year "dirty war" against Pres. Castro's government.
(SFC, 6/2/99, p.A12)
1999 Jun 1, In Lebanon an Israeli
supported militia withdrew from a strategic position in South Lebanon.
(SFC, 6/2/99, p.A11)
1999 Jun 1, Pakistani authorities
said 10 school children were killed by an Indian artillery shell that
his a school near the Line of Control dividing India and Pakistan in
Kashmir. India claimed to have killed 470 Muslim fighters and Pakistani
soldiers. In Kargil Pakistani forces shelled for the 26th consecutive
day.
(SFC, 6/2/99, p.C2)
2000 Jun 1, In Atlanta 3 federal
appellate judges ruled that immigration officials acted reasonably in
denying Elian Gonzalez an asylum hearing.
(SFC, 6/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Jun 1, With about half an
hour to spare, Texas Governor George W. Bush blocked the scheduled
execution of convicted killer Ricky McGinn so that possibly exculpatory
DNA evidence could be reviewed. The DNA tests failed to establish
McGinn's innocence, and he was put to death by injection the following
September.
(AP, 6/1/01)
2000 Jun 1, Rick Wagoner, the
president of General Motors, was named CEO of GM.
(WSJ, 3/30/09, p.A5)
2000 Jun 1, The organophosphate
pesticide called chlorpyrifos, sold under names including Dursban, was
reported to pose a risk to children. The EPA announced a ban on its use
for most applications on June 8.
(WSJ, 6/1/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/9/00, p.A1)
2000 Jun 1, At Los Alamos hard
drives with classified nuclear secrets were discovered missing. They
were found June 16 behind a photocopier.
(WSJ, 6/13/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/17/00, p.A1)
2000 Jun 1, In Germany the Expo
2000 opened in Hanover and ran to Oct 31.
(WSJ, 6/29/00, p.A24)
2000 Jun 1, Stores across Japan
emptied beer vending machines to comply with a voluntary ban on beer
vending to help reduce alcoholism.
(SFC, 6/2/00, p.B11)
2000 Jun 1, In Kosovo Albanians
killed a woman and wounded 3 men when they opened fire on a group of
Serbs in the US zone.
(WSJ, 6/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Jun 1, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe announced that the state would begin seizing 804 mostly
white-owned farms and resettle them with landless blacks.
(SFC, 6/3/00, p.A10)
2001 Jun 1, The Bush
administration removed curbs on the sale of $800 million in goods to
Iraq. A UN oil-for-food exchange was extended for 1 month rather than
the normal 6 months. Iraq responded by saying it wouldn't resume oil
exports.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A9)(WSJ, 6/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 1, Logging trucks were
set on fire to protest logging on the slopes of Mount Hood, Oregon. 4
activists including Michael Scarpitti were charged. In 2004 Scarpitti
was arrested in Vancouver, BC, while trying to shoplift some bolt
cutters. In 2005 Canada ordered that Scarpitti, aka Tre Arrow, be
extradited to the US to face firebombing charges. In 2007 Suzanne
Savoie was sentenced to 4 years and 3 months for her role in this and
one another arson fire. In 2008 Scarpitti was extradited to the US to
face ecoterrorism charges.
(SFC, 2/16/04, p.A7)(SFC, 7/8/05, p.A3)(SFC, 6/1/07,
p.A3)(SSFC, 3/2/08, p.A2)
2001 Jun 1, Hank Ketcham (b.1920),
the creator of the "Dennis the Menace" cartoon, died in Pebble Beach at
age 81.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.108)
2001 Jun 1, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid fired the security minister, attorney general, national police
chief and 2 other Cabinet ministers in an attempt to thwart efforts to
remove him from office.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 1, In Israel a
Palestinian suicide bomber killed 21 young people at a Tel Aviv disco.
At least 80 people were injured in the Hamas attack.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D3)
2001 Jun 1, In Nepal Crown Prince
Dipendra (29) killed at least 8 members of the royal family before
shooting himself. King Birendra, Queen Aiswarya, Princess Shruti,
Prince Nirajan, 3 of the King's sisters and a brother-in-law were all
shot to death. Dipendra was put on life support and Prince Gyanendra
(54), the king's younger brother, was appointed as assistant to the
crown. There was an apparent dispute over his upcoming marriage.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A14)
2001 Jun 1, In South Africa Nkosi
Johnson (12), a victim of AIDS, died. In 2000 he had spoken to int'l.
delegates and implored South Africa to provide HIV-positive pregnant
women with anti-retroviral drugs to block transmission of the virus to
children at birth.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A18)(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A8)
2002 Jun 1, President Bush told
West Point graduates the United States would strike pre-emptively
against suspected terrorists if necessary to deter attacks on
Americans, saying "the war on terror will not be won on the defensive."
(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.A1)(AP, 6/1/03)
2002 Jun 1, Argentina announced a
plan to phase out the banking freeze that included 3-10 year bonds for
savings account holders.
(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.A12)
2002 Jun 1, In Haiti many co-ops
shut down and the owners vanished with the depositors' savings. Many
lost their life savings and property to a cooperative banking scheme
that left untold thousands across Haiti in despair.
(AP, 7/27/02)
2002 Jun 1, Israeli forces
detained hundreds of Palestinians in 4 West Bank cities. Tareq
el-Kharaz (24), who defied a curfew to pray in a mosque, was killed in
Nablus.
(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.A11)
2002 Jun 1, The UN ordered its
employees in India and Pakistan to evacuate their families over a
growing concern of war.
(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.A12)
2003 Jun 1, President Bush arrived
in France from St. Petersburg and had a smile and firm handshake for
this year's Group of Eight nations summit host, French Pres. Jacques
Chirac.
(AP, 6/1/03)(SFC, 6/2/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 1, Thousands of
protesters blocked highways and bridges, set fire to barricades and
drew volleys of tear gas and rubber pellets from anti-riot police near
the Group of Eight summit in the French town of Evian. Leaders pledged
billions of dollars to fight AIDS and hunger on the opening day of
their summit.
(AP, 6/1/03)
2003 Jun 1, Genentech reported
that its drug Avastin lengthened survival time for colon cancer
patients. In 2004 the FDA approved it as a colorectal cancer treatment.
In 2007 researches said it could improve the treatment of kidney tumors.
(SFC, 6/2/03, p.A1)(SSFC, 6/3/07, p.G1)
2003 Jun 1, UC Berkeley
researchers revealed a new laboratory method for manufacturing the
anti-malarial drug, artemisinin.
(SFC, 6/2/03, p.A11)
2003 Jun 1, China began filling
the reservoir behind its gargantuan Three Gorges Dam, a major step
toward completion of the world's largest hydroelectric project.
(AP, 6/1/03)
2003 Jun 1, India officials
reported that a heat wave in southern Indian has killed at least 1000
people in the past 3 weeks.
(AP, 6/2/03)
2003 Jun 1, The Israeli military
eased travel restrictions and allowed thousands of Palestinian workers
to enter the country in an effort to lower tensions and build goodwill.
(AP, 6/1/03)
2003 Jun 1, Myanmar's military
junta closed universities and shut down offices of pro-democracy leader
Ang San Suu Kyi's party, after she and some of her key aides were
detained.
(AP, 6/1/03)
2003 Jun 1, In Pakistan the
Islamist-ruled Northwest Frontier province passed legislation to adopt
Shariah as the supreme law. A day earlier 5-times-a-day prayer was made
compulsory.
(SFC, 6/3/03, p.A8)
2003 Jun 1, In southern Pakistan a
motorboat taking people on a sightseeing trip sank in a lake, killing
at least 26 people.
(AP, 6/1/03)
2003 Jun 1, Togo's Pres.
Gnassingbe Eyadema, Africa's longest reigning ruler, faced elections.
Togo's per capita income fell from $600 in the 1980s to less than $300
in 2003.
(AP, 6/1/03)
2004 Jun 1, The US Dept. of
Homeland Security awarded a contract, valued as much as a $10 billion,
to a group of companies led by a unit of Accenture Ltd., a
Bermuda-based business consultancy.
(WSJ, 6/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 1, A US federal judge
declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying
the measure infringed on women's right to choose.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2004 Jun 1, In New Jersey a new
ruling took effect that barred reduced nightclub cover charges and
cocktail tabs for women due to a discrimination suit filed 6 years
earlier.
(SFC, 6/18/04, p.W2)
2004 Jun 1, Anheuser-Busch offered
HK$5.58 per share for China’s Harbin Brewery Group Ltd. 2 days later
SABMiller withdrew its HK$4.30 offer.
(WSJ, 6/4/04, p.A3)
2004 Jun 1, William Manchester
(82), historian and biographer, died in Middletown, Conn. His work
included “The Arms of Krupp” (1958) and “The Death of a President”
(1967), an account of the Kennedy assassination.
(SFC, 6/2/04, B7)
2004 Jun 1, In eastern Afghanistan
a bomb planted under the chair of a city police chief exploded, killing
him and wounding two government officials.
(AP, 6/1/04)
2004 Jun 1, In eastern Bolivia
army soldiers fought peasants blocking a highway in a clash that killed
one soldier and one civilian.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 1, In Brazil police
entered the Benfica prison after a three-day rebellion and found the
bodies of 38 inmates, some of them mutilated. At least 14 of 900 had
escaped.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 1, In northeast Brazilian
state of Alagoas 2 days of heavy rains killed 20 people and left some
2,100 homeless.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 1, Congolese soldiers
battled troops loyal to Brig. Gen. Laurent Nkunda, a renegade
commander in eastern Congo, breaking a shaky cease-fire.
(AP, 6/1/04)
2004 Jun 1, Ecuador's Finance
Minister Mauricio Pozo resigned, leaving struggling President Lucio
Gutierrez to find a replacement to lead an economic policy approved by
international lenders but unpopular at home.
(AP, 6/1/04)
2004 Jun 1, Ecuador hosted the
Miss Universe pageant. Jennifer Hawkins, a 20-year-old, blue-eyed
Australian, was named Miss Universe 2004.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 1, Michel Dansel, French
intellectual, held a mock funeral ceremony for the verb. His new
233-page book, “Le Train de Nulle Part” (The Train to Nowhere), was
written without verbs.
(WSJ, 7/16/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 1, In Haiti US commanders
began turning over authority to a UN force under Gen. Augusto Pereira
of Brazil.
(SFC, 6/2/04, A1)
2004 Jun 1, Ghazi Mashal Ajil
al-Yawer, a tribal chief, was named interim president of Iraq.
(AP, 6/1/04)
2004 Jun 1, In Iraq bombs exploded
in central Baghdad and near a U.S. military base in the northern city
of Beiji. At least 14 people were killed.
(AP, 6/1/04)(SFC, 6/2/04, A13)
2004 Jun 1, Leonid Parfyonov, a
leading Russian television news anchor, was dismissed and the his show,
"Namedni (Recently)," shut down after the program tried to broadcast an
interview with the widow of a slain Chechen separatist leader.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 1, In Turkey Kurdish
rebels, Kongra-Gel, announced a resumption of battle saying the
government had not met their terms.
(Econ, 9/4/04, p.51)
2005 Jun 1, In his first day on
the job, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said he hoped the bank
could help transform Africa from a continent of despair to one of hope.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, In California a
landslide destroyed 17 multimillion-dollar houses and damaged nearly 11
others in Laguna Beach.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 1, A 5-day UN World
Environment Day conference opened in SF.
(SFC, 6/1/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 1, Missouri opened its
1st season of legal hand-fishing following fierce lobbying efforts by
Noodlers Anonymous, a local support group for catching catfish by hand.
(Econ, 5/28/05, p.37)
2005 Jun 1, George Mikan (80),
Minneapolis Lakers basketball star, died. He was so big and dominant in
college that he sparked the goaltending rule.
(WSJ, 6/3/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 1, In Afghanistan a bomb
from a suicide attacker tore through a mosque during a funeral in
Kandahar for a Muslim cleric opposed to the Taliban, killing at least
20 people. The local governor said an al-Qaida-linked militant was
responsible.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, Burkina Faso President
Blaise Compaore opened the 7th summit of Sahel and Sahara countries,
spurring the 21-member body to take a decisive role in shaping
globalization.
(AFP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 1, China began levying a
5.5% tax on residential property sold after this date. It would only be
applied to property sold fewer than 2 years after its purchase.
(WSJ, 5/26/05, p.A10)
2005 Jun 1, China called a
resolution by Brazil, Germany, India and Japan to expand the U.N.
Security Council, and hopefully give them permanent seats, "dangerous"
and hinted it would use its veto power if necessary to block final
approval.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, In southern China
heavy rain triggered floods and mudslides, leaving about 200 people
dead or missing.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, In Haiti gunmen killed
Paul-Henri Mourral (53), a French diplomat, in Port-au-Prince and stole
his car.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 1, A suicide bomber
attacked the main checkpoint to Baghdad International Airport, wounding
at least 15 Iraqis.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, Jerusalem city
engineer Uri Shetrit said 88 homes in an Arab neighborhood are marked
for demolition to make way for an archaeological park documenting the
disputed city's ancient Jewish origins.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, About 200 people, some
throwing stones, broke into Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Court and evicted
activists who had occupied the building for more than a month in a
protest on behalf of five losing parliamentary candidates.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, Dutch voters worried
about social benefits and immigration overwhelmingly rejected the
European Union constitution in what could be a knockout blow for a
charter meant to create a power rivaling the United States. Slow
economic growth in the Netherlands was seen as a key reason for the
massive rejection of the EU constitution
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, In Poland
investigators published a report offering new details of allegations
that a priest was an informer for Poland's communist government while
he was close to Pope John Paul II's entourage in the 1980s. The report
says against Rev. Konrad Stanislaw Hejmo met secretly with communist
agents from 1975 to 1988 in upscale restaurants and hotel rooms, giving
them details about the church in return for money and gifts of liquor.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, Zimbabwe’s state
Herald newspaper reported that police have arrested more than 22,000
people as a fierce blitz on illegal stores and shantytowns gathered
pace, sending homeless people fleeing for the countryside.
(Reuters, 6/1/05)
2006 Jun 1, The US military said
more Guantanamo Bay detainees have joined a hunger strike, raising the
total to 89, and six of them were being force-fed.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 1, A contrite U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers took responsibility for the flooding of New Orleans
by Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2006 Jun 1, California Gov.
Schwarzenegger reluctantly reached an agreement with the federal
government to deploy 1,000 members of the California National Guard
along the US-Mexico border.
(SFC, 6/2/06, p.B1)
2006 Jun 1, The Univ. of
California ceded control of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New
Mexico to a consortium, the Los Alamos National Security, which
included, UC, Bechtel, Washington Group Int’l., and BWX Technologies.
(Econ, 6/17/06,
p.85)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_National_Laboratory)
2006 Jun 1, Texas Gov. Rick Perry
announced a plan to use night-vision Webcams along the border and let
Internet users serve as volunteer sentinels.
(http://tinyurl.com/k7z7a)(WSJ, 6/9/06, p.A1)
2006 Jun 1, The NYSE under John
Thain agreed to acquire Paris-based Euronext NV, Europe’s 2nd largest
stock exchange, for $10 billion.
(SFC, 6/2/06, p.A3)
2006 Jun 1, Katharine Close, a
13-year-old New Jersey girl making her fifth straight appearance at the
Scripps National Spelling Bee, rattled off "ursprache" to claim the
title of America's best speller. For the first time in its 81-year
history, the final rounds of the spelling bee were broadcast live on
prime-time network TV.
(AP, 6/2/06)(Econ, 6/10/06, p.31)
2006 Jun 1, In Indiana 7
Covarrubias family members, the youngest just 5 years old, were shot to
death in their Indianapolis home. The next day police arrested suspect
James Stewart (30) without incident after a traffic stop. A second
suspect, Desmond Turner (28), turned himself in on June 3. Robbery was
the suspected motive.
(AP, 6/2-3/06)(SSFC, 6/4/06, p.A11)
2006 Jun 1, In western Afghanistan
a suicide car bomb blew up near a convoy of Afghan and US-led coalition
troops, killing the attacker but hurting no one else.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, In Vienna the US and 5
world powers agreed to offer Iran proposals that would bring it
significant benefits if it halts its drive to master nuclear power.
(SFC, 6/2/06, p.A3)(WSJ, 6/2/06, p.A1)
2006 Jun 1, Bolivian doctors
staged a 1-day strike to protest the presence of 600 Cuban physicians
providing free care as Pres. Morales cultivates links to Castro.
(WSJ, 6/2/06, p.A1)
2006 Jun 1, East Timor President
Xanana Gusmao made an emotional plea for peace after weeks of violence,
as the rebel leader pressed him to oust the unpopular prime minister.
(AFP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, Jorma Ollila stepped
down as chief of Finland’s Nokia Corp. He was succeeded by Olli-Pekka
Kallasvuo. The new Nokia Nseries included the N73 camera-phone; the N91
phone, which doubled as an iPod-style music player; the N92, a mobile
TV; and the N93, a mobile video camera.
(Econ, 5/27/06, p.64)
2006 Jun 1, The German parliament
overwhelmingly approved the government's plan to deploy German troops
to the Democratic Republic of Congo during its July election, despite
public skepticism about the mission.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, A German court jailed
Sabine Hilschenz (40) for 15 years for killing eight of her newborn
babies in the worst case of infanticide in the country's criminal
history. She had buried them in flower pots and a fish tank at her
parents’ home.
(AFP, 6/1/06)(SFC, 4/8/08, p.A3)
2006 Jun 1, In eastern India a
land mine thought to have been planted by communist rebels blew up a
police jeep, killing 12 officers from a paramilitary police force.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, The Iraqi government
decided to launch its own investigation into reports that US Marines
killed unarmed civilians last year. The top US general in Iraq ordered
American commanders to conduct ethical training on battlefield conduct.
In Iraq a bomb struck a group of construction workers seeking jobs in
central Baghdad, killing at least two and wounding 18. A mortar barrage
struck a number of houses in Baghdad's southern Dora district. A first
barrage of seven mortar rounds killed nine and wounded 40, while
another five rounds killed four and wounded 29. Gunmen opened fire on
Col. Ziyad Tariq, deputy-commander of the oil protection force in the
northern city of Kirkuk, killing him and a bodyguard and wounding
another bodyguard as they left a restaurant. Police set up roadblocks
around the oil-rich southern city of Basra as a monthlong state of
emergency declared by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki went into effect.
(AP, 6/1/06)(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 1, In Indian Kashmir a
3-day siege left 8 Muslim rebels and a paramilitary soldier dead as
troops hunted down armed rebels in ongoing operations.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, Thousands of Shiite
Muslims enraged by a TV comedy that mocked the leader of Hezbollah took
to the streets of southern Beirut, burning car tires and blocking roads.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, In a published
interview Monaco's Prince Albert II acknowledged he is the father of a
second illegitimate child, a 14-year-old girl living in California.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, In southern Nigeria a
major oil spill forced Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell to cut production by
50,000 barrels per day.
(AFP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, In Pakistan officials
said sewage contamination in Faisalabad's water system has caused an
outbreak of gastroenteritis, sickening more than 19,000 people and
killing nine. In southwestern Pakistan police raided a militant hideout
and arrested Habib Ullah, a leader of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Sunni militant group, at a home in Quetta. He was the alleged
mastermind of sectarian attacks that killed more than 100 Shiite
Muslims in July, 2003, and March, 2004.
(AP, 6/1/06)(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 1, Several thousand
police officers fired into the air and smashed windows of the
Palestinian parliament building, raising fears of new unrest in Gaza
after the Hamas-led government said it still cannot pay most of its
workers.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, Chung Dong-young, the
leader of South Korea's ruling party, resigned one day after the
conservative opposition won 12 of 16 key regional posts in local
elections.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, Spain's Supreme Court
acquitted the only person convicted of involvement in the September 11
attacks in a trial last year of suspected Al Qaeda members. Imad Eddin
Barakat Yarkas, known as Abu Dahdah, had been convicted of conspiracy
to commit terrorist murder and sentenced to 27 years in jail. He will,
however, continue to serve a 12 year sentence for leading a terrorist
group.
(Reuters, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, In Spain Rocio Jurado
(61), hailed as the country’s greatest singer, died of cancer. Her
recordings included 5 platinum and 30 gold records.
(SFC, 6/2/06, p.B9)
2006 Jun 1, The US pledged
"tangible military cooperation" with embattled Sri Lanka, but warned
the government here against a return to war with Tamil Tiger rebels.
(AFP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, Swedish lawmakers
approved a law that makes it possible for the Scandinavian country to
imprison former Liberian President Charles Taylor if a UN-backed
tribunal convicts him of war crimes.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, In western Turkey a
methane gas explosion ripped through a coal mine, killing 17 miners in
the village of Odakoy in western Balikesir province.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2007 Jun 1, The US government
warned consumers to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it may
contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, In California a
federal court judge barred the state from seizing abandoned assets
until officials find a better way to notify people that their property
is about to be taken.
(SFC, 6/2/07, p.B1)
2007 Jun 1, In Michigan Jack
Kevorkian, the retired pathologist dubbed "Dr. Death" for claims that
he participated in at least 130 assisted suicides, left prison after
eight years still believing people have the right to die.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, In Afghanistan a NATO
soldier was killed in a bomb blast while two Afghan women and a
policeman died in attacks elsewhere linked to a deepening Taliban
insurgency.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, Rakhat Aliyev, the
Kazakh ambassador to Austria until he was dismissed on May 26, was
arrested for alleged involvement in the suspected kidnapping of two
senior managers of a bank he controls. He appealed to Austrian
authorities not to extradite him to his homeland to face kidnapping
charges.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, In a key legal step
toward assigning blame for Brazil's deadliest plane crash, two US
pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers were indicted on
charges equivalent to involuntary manslaughter for the Sep 29, 2006,
mid-air collision that killed 154 people.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, In Brazil federal
authorities said an Indian tribe that has had very limited contact with
the outside world, has been located in a remote Amazon region. The
Metyktire, a subgroup of the Kayapo tribe, consisted of some 87 members.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, Marly de Oliveira
(69), the Brazilian poet who wrote the award-winning volume "O Mar de
Permeio" (The Sea Between Us), died in Rio de Janeiro.
(AP, 6/3/07)
2007 Jun 1, The UN refugee agency
said hundreds of women and children fled by foot and on donkeys from
Darfur to the neighboring Central African Republic after their town was
attacked by planes and helicopters. The refugees said their town of
Dafak, in southern Darfur, was attacked repeatedly by janjaweed militia
from May 12 to May 18 and that their homes had been bombarded by
airstrikes.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, On Children’s Day in
China thousands of people rallied in Xiamen to protest plans for a
Taiwanese-owned chemical factory to make paraxylene, used in polyester.
Thousands marched again the next day
(Econ, 6/23/07, p.48)
2007 Jun 1, Vietnam became Cuba's
latest partner in oil exploration and drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
under one of several agreements signed during a visit by Vietnamese
Communist Party chief Nong Duc Manh.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, A French naval frigate
conducting a surveillance mission off Malta discovered the bodies of 18
people floating in the Mediterranean. Crew members on "La Motte
Picquet" noticed no boat nearby as the bodies, possibly of illegal
immigrants hoping to reach Europe, were pulled out of the water.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, Police in northern
India issued shoot-on-sight orders as eight more people were killed in
ethnic clashes that have left 28 dead so far.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir suspected Islamic militants attacked a paramilitary camp, a
police post and an army vehicle in an upsurge in violence, killing
three government soldiers and wounding another 22.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, In Iraq an
al-Qaida-linked suicide bomber blew himself up in a house sheltering
members of the rival 1920 Revolution Brigades, killing two of the other
militants and wounding four in Baqouba. American troops killed 3
children near Fallujah when a US tank opened fire on suspected
insurgents believed to be planting roadside bombs. A US soldier on a
foot patrol was killed after approaching two suspicious men outside a
mosque, one of whom blew himself up.
(AP, 6/1/07)(AP, 6/3/07)(SSFC, 6/3/07, p.A23)
2007 Jun 1, Israeli troops shot
and killed two 13-year-old Palestinians near the Gaza-Israel border
fence, saying they were crawling toward the barrier in a "suspicious
manner." The boys had told their families they were going to the beach.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, Dozens of Lebanese
army tanks and armored carriers moved toward a Palestinian refugee camp
in northern Lebanon in pursuit of Islamic militants holed up inside. 19
people died in some of the heaviest fighting since violence broke out
on May 20.
(AP, 6/1/07)(WSJ, 6/2/07, p.A1)
2007 Jun 1, The government of
Mauritania appealed to international donors to help it reverse a food
shortage affecting more than 1 million people.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, Mexican soldiers fired
on a family traveling to a funeral when they failed to stop after being
ordered to do so at the checkpoint near the village of La Joya. 19
Mexican soldiers were sent to a military prison June 4 for the shooting
that killed two women and three children.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 1, Nigeria’s national
dailies reported that nearly 2,000 students sitting university entrance
exams in have been caught using mobile phones to cheat. Gunmen
disguised as riot police abducted four foreign workers from the
residential compound of oil services giant Schlumberger in Nigeria's
oil city Port Harcourt. The four hostages were citizens of Britain,
France, the Netherlands and Pakistan. Gunmen kidnapped three senior
expatriate management staff and four family members from the
residential compound of chemical company Indorama.
(AFP, 6/1/07)(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, The Norwegian
environmental group Bellona warned that a nuclear waste dump in the
Russia Arctic may be in danger of exploding because of corrosion caused
by salt water in enormous storage tanks.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, Alan Johnston, a
British reporter kidnapped in the Gaza Strip nearly three months, ago
appeared in a videotape posted on an Islamic militant Web site, saying
his captors had treated him well, denouncing Israel, and criticizing
British and US Mideast policy. The Swords of Truth, an Islamic group,
threatened to behead female TV broadcasters if they don't wear strict
Islamic dress, frightening reporters and signaling a further shift
toward extremism in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 6/1/07)(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, The Swords of Truth,
an Islamic group, threatened to behead female TV broadcasters if they
don't wear strict Islamic dress, frightening reporters and signaling a
further shift toward extremism in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, At least one US
warship bombarded a remote, mountainous village in Somalia where
Islamic militants had set up a base. One target was said to be Fazul
Abdullah Muhammad (35), a citizen of the Comoro Islands. The next day
Puntland VP Hassan Dahir Mohamoud told The Associated Press that his
government's troops killed eight foreign Islamic militants and five of
them came from Britain, Eritrea, Sweden, the US and Yemen.
(AP, 6/2/07)(AP, 6/3/07)(Econ, 7/14/07, p.52)
2007 Jun 1, In South Africa
hundreds of thousands of public servants embarked on an indefinite
strike.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, CNBC Africa was
launched from new headquarters in South Africa. Dubai investors put in
some $22.5 million for the 24-hour African business channel
broadcasting to 14 African countries.
(Econ, 6/9/07, p.75)
2007 Jun 1, The African Union
objected to a proposal for a 23,000-strong AU-U.N. force to help end
the bloodshed in Sudan's troubled Darfur region because it would give
the United Nations command and control.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, In southeast Turkey
soldiers killed two Kurdish militants overnight in Tunceli, where
troops massed along the border threatened an incursion into Iraq.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2008 Jun 1, NY Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton won Puerto Rico's Democratic presidential primary 68-32%. Only
16% of the voters went to the polls.
(www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/39241.html)(Econ, 6/7/08, p.36)
2008 Jun 1, In California a fire
ripped through the back lot of Universal Studios destroying film-set
facades, videos and movie reels.
(WSJ, 6/2/08, p.A1)
2008 Jun 1, Alton Kelley (67),
co-creator of psychedelic rock posters, died in Petaluma, Ca. He and
Stanley Mouse had formed Mouse Studios in SF and produced hundreds of
classic psychedelic rock posters. In 1965 he and 3 other people formed
Family Dog and staged the world’s first psychedelic dance concert at
the Longshoreman’s Hall in SF.
(SFC, 6/3/08, p.B5)
2008 Jun 1, In Afghanistan a
remote-controlled bomb detonated as a bus carrying Afghan soldiers
passed by in Kabul, killing one civilian and wounding five people. In
southern Zabul province overnight, suspected Taliban militants gunned
down a district governor and his body guard. Some 150 militants
attacked a police checkpoint, triggering a daylong battle in Murghab
district, near the border with Turkmenistan. At least 10 militants were
killed. Ashraf Nasery, the governor of Badghis province, said 49
militants were killed and 35 wounded.
(AP, 6/1/08)(AFP, 6/1/08)(AP, 6/2/08)
2008 Jun 1, Australia, a staunch
US ally and one of the first countries to commit troops to the Iraq war
five years ago, ended combat operations there.
(AP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, In southwest
Bangladesh police clashed with thousands of garment workers during
fresh protests over low wages and soaring food prices.
(AP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, Bolivians in two
opposition-controlled states voted overwhelmingly for autonomy measures
that aim to shield the country's remote Amazon basin from President Evo
Morales' leftist reforms.
(AP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, China became the
latest country to declare war on plastic bags in a drive to save energy
and protect the environment.
(Reuters, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, In Colombia a mudslide
following rains buried several dozen homes in a poor district of
Medellin and at least 23 people were killed.
(AP, 6/2/08)
2008 Jun 1, Yves Saint Laurent
(b.1936, one of the most influential and enduring designers of the 20th
century, died in Paris.
(AP, 6/2/08)(Econ, 6/7/08, p.99)
2008 Jun 1, German researchers
reported that the development of a blood-based genetic test for
predicting lung cancer among smokers with 80% accuracy.
(WSJ, 6/2/08, p.B4)
2008 Jun 1, In Baghdad a car bomb
exploded near the Iranian embassy in Baghdad during morning rush hour,
killing at least two civilians and wounding five. A senior police
official was wounded when a bomb that was stuck to his car exploded in
a busy Baghdad intersection. A traffic officer was killed and four
other people were wounded in the attack. Ten al-Qaida linked insurgents
were captured in US-led operations in Mosul and north of Baghdad.
(AP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, Israel freed Nasim
Nisr (39), a convicted Hezbollah spy, and the militant group turned
over the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in the 2006 war in Lebanon.
(AP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, In Kuwait Muslim
hard-liners walked out of the inaugural meeting of parliament to
protest 2 female Cabinet ministers who were not wearing head scarves.
(SFC, 6/2/08, p.A3)
2008 Jun 1, In Liberia at least
eight people suffocated at an overcrowded stadium during a soccer match
between Liberia and Gambia.
(www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/02/2263028.htm)
2008 Jun 1, Macedonia's
parliamentary election was marred by violence in Albanian areas and
suspected fraud, with one person shot dead and nine wounded, and voting
halted in one town after a gun battle. PM Nikola Gruevski scored an
overwhelming election victory but monitors criticized violence that
marred the poll and could delay the country's progress towards EU
membership. The government said it will repeat voting in 22 poling
stations that were shut down due to shootings or alleged ballot fraud.
(Reuters, 6/1/08)(Reuters, 6/2/08)(WSJ, 6/2/08,
p.A10)
2008 Jun 1, In western Mexico
Marcelo Ibarra, the mayor of Villa Madero, was forced from his car and
shot dead. Officials believed the killing was an attempted robbery,
although they haven't ruled out other motives.
(AP, 6/3/08)
2008 Jun 1, Gay rights activists
held small, scattered protests in Moscow, flouting repeated refusals
from city authorities for permission to hold parades or demonstrations.
(AP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, In Slovakia a new
media law was set to go into effect giving anyone mentioned in an
article sweeping rights to an equally prominent rebuttal. Newspapers
responded by publishing blank front pages. Leading newspapers had done
this twice before during the Meciar years to protest restrictions on
press freedom.
(Econ, 4/26/08, p.71)(Econ, 11/21/09, p.55)
2008 Jun 1, Voters in Switzerland
rejected a plan to give local communities the power to decide which
immigrants should be granted Swiss citizenship. Currently, after living
at least 12 years on Swiss soil, foreigners who wish to acquire Swiss
citizenship face a naturalization procedure that includes a knowledge
of the country's traditions, history and culture.
(AFP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, In Zimbabwe police in
Harare jailed Arthur Mutambara, head of an MDC faction, for allegedly
making false statements that endangered state security.
(AP, 6/2/08)(Econ, 6/7/08, p.59)
2009 Jun 1, A federal judge
ordered the United States to publicly reveal unclassified versions of
its allegations and evidence justifying the continued imprisonment of
more than 100 detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, Effective today border
crossings to US entry points from Canada required passports or other
approved identification to be shown. Americans entering from the US by
land or sea from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean were
required to present identity documents embedded with RFID tags, though
conventional passports remained valid until expiration. The RFID tags
could be scanned by anybody with easily obtained equipment from 30 feet.
(Econ, 5/30/09, p.37)(SFC, 7/16/09, p.D5)
2009 Jun 1, Muhammad Ahmad
Abdallah Salih (31), a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay, died of an
apparent suicide. His was the fifth apparent suicide at the offshore US
prison, which Pres. Obama hopes to close by January. The Joint Task
Force that runs the US prison in Cuba said guards conducting a routine
check on June 2 found Salih unresponsive and not breathing.
(AP, 6/3/09)(AP, 8/2/09)
2009 Jun 1, In Arkansas Pvt.
William Long (23) of Conway was shot and killed outside an Army-Navy
Career Center in a west Little Rock shopping center. Pvt. Quinton
Ezeagwula (18) of Jacksonville, Ark., was wounded. The next day Muslim
convert Abdulhakim Muhammad (23) of Little Rock was charged for the
shootings.
(AP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 1, San Francisco Mayor
Newsom unveiled a $6.6 billion budget for 2009-2010. He also urged
Santa Clara voters to reject a $937 million stadium project for the SF
49ers.
(SFC, 6/2/09, p.A1)
2009 Jun 1, Hawaii’s Gov. Linda
Lingle, describing a "fiscal emergency," ordered three days of unpaid
furloughs each month for 14,500 state employees to help erase a $729
million budget shortfall.
(AP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 1, General Motors filed
for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as part of the Obama
administration's plan to shrink the automaker to a sustainable size and
give a majority ownership stake to the federal government. GM assets
were valued at $82.2 billion with liabilities at $172 billion. The US
government planned to receive 60.8% of GM stock, Canada’s government
11.7%, the UAW’s trust 17.5% and bondholders 10%. GM said it will
permanently close nine more plants and idle three others to trim
production and labor costs under bankruptcy protection. GM was expected
to lose 14 factories, 29,000 workers and 2,400 dealers.
(AP, 6/1/09)(Econ, 6/6/09, p.9,60, 62)
2009 Jun 1, The US military
announced the death of US service member the previous day from
non-combat-related injuries in southern Afghanistan by posting the news
on Twitter hours before announcing it in a more formal press statement.
Officials said the US military in Afghanistan is launching a Facebook
page, a YouTube site and feeds on Twitter as part of a new
communications effort to reach readers who get their information on the
Internet rather than in newspapers. Mullah Mansur was killed in a
strike by helicopters in Helmand province. 4 US soldiers were
killed by 2 roadside bombs in Wardak province.
(AP, 6/1/09)(AP, 6/2/09)(SFC, 6/2/09, p.A3)
2009 Jun 1, Belgian PM Herman Van
Rompuy vowed to double civilian aid to Afghanistan and welcomed plans
to increase non-military assistance during a visit to Kabul.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, Chilean plumber,
Fernando Vera, died of swine flu, making him South America's first
swine-flu death.
(AP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 1, In China US Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner reassured the Chinese government that its
huge holdings of dollar assets are safe and reaffirmed his faith in a
strong US currency.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, China's special envoy
to Darfur met with Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir and pledged three
million dollars in humanitarian aid for the volatile region. Liu Guijin
"greeted the president for the beginning of talks in Doha between the
JEM and the government."
(AFP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 1, In El Salvador
Mauricio Funes, a journalist from a party of former Marxist guerrillas,
became the country's first leftist president, immediately restoring
ties with Cuba while promising to remain friendly with the United
States.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, Iran state media
reported that five people are dead in an arson attack on a bank in
Zahedan, a restive southeastern city where 25 died in a mosque bombing
last week.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, Iraq's self-ruled
Kurdish region officially started pumping crude oil to the
international market. A bomb in a Baghdad market killed four people. A
suicide bomber exploded his car at a police checkpoint in Jalula,
killing a 7-year-old child and wounding eight other people. A grenade
thrown at a US patrol in the northern city of Mosul missed the
Americans but killed one Iraqi and wounded 15 others.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, Israel's PM Netanyahu
dismissed the US demand for a settlement freeze as unreasonable, moving
closer to a collision with the Obama administration, while mobs of
Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian laborers and burned West Bank
fields. Israeli settlers waged court battles to evict dozens of
Palestinians from homes in an East Jerusalem neighborhood, a move
threatening to widen Israel's rift with US President Barack Obama over
settlements.
(AP, 6/1/09)(Reuters, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, Mexican soldiers and
federal agents detained 29 police officers in northern Nuevo Leon state
for alleged ties to drug traffickers. Retired Gen. Javier Aguayo took
over as police chief of Chihuahua, where drug-fueled violence has
claimed hundreds of lives. Mexican soldiers in Reynosa captured Sergio
Garcia Trevino, a drug cartel suspect accused of helping procure the
largest illegal weapons cache found in the country.
(AP, 6/1/09)(AP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 1, In Nigeria MEND, main
militant group in southern Nigeria said, it will release Mathew
Maguire, a British hostage it has been holding for the past nine
months. They noted that today was Maguire birthday. The next day MEND
said "Mr Mathew Maguire has declined the gift of a release from
captivity with an argument that he is now an advocate for change in the
region and a honorary member of the Movement for the Emancipation of
the Niger Delta ." Nigeria's navy killed seven militants in a gunbattle
in the Niger Delta.
(AFP, 6/1/09)(AFP, 6/2/09)(AFP, 6/3/09)
2009 Jun 1, Pakistan's army said
it lifted curfews in several parts of the Swat Valley as it hunted
Taliban militants in the region, while insurgents killed two soldiers
in a tribal region that could be the next front in the northwest
military offensive. Armed Taliban ambushed a convoy of some 30 vehicles
carrying students home for the summer. Many of the buses managed to get
away. 71 students and nine staff from an army-run college were rescued
the next morning as militants moved them from North Waziristan to South
Waziristan. A handful of students remained unaccounted for.
(AP, 6/1/09)(AFP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 1, In Somalia a roadside
bomb in Mogadishu killed at least 4 police officers in several
civilians.
(SFC, 6/2/09, p.A2)
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