Today in History

1869
Thomas Edison receives his 1st patent for electric vote recorder,also known as electronic voting machine
1898
The Ritz Hotel in Paris, France opens, 1st hotel with electricity on every floor and separate bathrooms
1927
International Peace Bridge which connects Buffalo, NY with Fort Erie,Ontario Canada opens.It took 2 yrs to build from 1925-1227 On a personal note, I live close to the bridge 10 min by car
1968
Simon&Garfunkel's single' Mrs Robinson' from album 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' from movie' 'The Graduate' hits #1 on music charts stays there for 15 weeks. It becomes the 1st rock song to win Grammy for Record of the Year
2008
A 3 alarm fire fire at the backlot of Universal Studios in Hollywood destroys movie icons e.g courthouse square& clock tower from movie' 'Back To The Future', King Kong exhibit on studio tour
 

On This Day In History, June 2nd

1979 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit a communist country
Millions of spectators lined the streets of Warsaw as the Pope began his nine-day tour of his native Poland.

1967 Benno Ohnesorg is killed
A police officer shot the unarmed German student at a demonstration against the state visit of the controversial Shah of Iran. It later ruled that the shooting was not an act of self-defense. The event was pivotal for the foundation of the terrorist organization “Movement 2 June”.

1953 Queen Elizabeth II is crowned
The coronation in London's Westminster Abbey was the first televised major international event in history. Elizabeth's accession to the throne followed the death of her father, King George VI, 16 months previously.

1946, Italy became a parliamentary republic
The transition from a monarchy to today's Italian Republic was effected by the favorable outcome of a referendum, in which 89 percent of Italians, also including women for the first time, took part.

1847: Felix Mendelssohn's Wedding March is used at a wedding for the first time
Dorothy Carew and Tom Daniel were the first to use the iconic piece for their wedding ceremony. The event that made the work world famous was the wedding of Victoria, Princess Royal and Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1858.
 
Births On This Day, June 2nd 🎂

1965 Steve Waugh
Australian cricketer

1965 Mark Waugh
Australian cricketer, journalist

1956 Mani Ratnam
Indian director, producer, and screenwriter

1857 Edward Elgar
English composer

1740 Marquis de Sade
French author and politician


Deaths On This Day, June 2nd

2013 Mandawuy Yunupingu
Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist

2008 Bo Diddley
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1987 Andrés Segovia
Spanish guitarist

1941 Lou Gehrig
American baseball player

1882 Giuseppe Garibaldi
Italian military, politician
 

2nd June

1420 King Henry V of England married Catherine of Valois, daughter of Charles VI, King of France.

1868 The first meeting of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), in Manchester. In total, 34 delegates attended, representing 118,000 union members.

1953 The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place in Westminster Abbey, London. It was the first British coronation to be televised and was a cold, wet day.

1966 The United States landed its first spacecraft on the Moon. The Surveyor 1 spacecraft landed in the Ocean of Storms and began transmitting a series of photographs of the Moon's surface just over an hour later.

1994 MI5 officers killed in helicopter crash. An RAF Chinook helicopter carrying more than 20 of Britain's top intelligence experts crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, killing everyone on board.

2012 The start of 4 days of celebrations to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.

2022 Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd June saw an extended Bank Holiday and weekend break to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee.
 
On This Day In History, June 3rd

2013 The trial against whistleblower Bradley Manning begins
The American soldier, a trans woman now called Chelsea Manning, was responsible for leaking classified videos documenting U.S. war atrocities during the Iraq War. She was sentenced to 35 years confinement.

1998 101 people die in the Eschede train disaster
Traveling at 200 km/h (120 mph), a high-speed ICE train derailed and crashed into a bridge. The accident was caused by a fatigue crack in one of the train's wheels. It was the deadliest high-speed train disaster in history.

1982 The Israeli ambassador to the U.K. is shot
Shlomo Argov survived the assassination attempt by a Palestinian terrorist group, but he was permanently paralyzed. The event triggered the 1982 Lebanon War.

1973 The world's first supersonic airliner crashes
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144, sometimes referred to as Concordski, disintegrated in mid-air during the 1973 Paris Air Show. 14 people died.

1492 Martin Behaim presents the world's first globe
The German geographer called his terrestrial globe Erdapfel, or Earth Apple. It is kept in a darkened room at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, Germany.
 
Births On This Day, June 3rd 🎂

1986 Rafael Nadal
Spanish tennis player

1931 Raúl Castro
Cuban politician, 17th Prime Minister of Cuba

1926 Allen Ginsberg
American poet

1808 Jefferson Davis
American colonel, politician, and President of the Confederate States of America

1770 Manuel Belgrano
Argentinian economist, lawyer, and politician

Deaths On This Day, June 3rd 🪦

2016 Muhammad Ali
American boxer

2001 Anthony Quinn
Mexican/American actor, producer

1989 Ruhollah Khomeini
Iranian religious leader, politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran

1924 Franz Kafka
Czech/German writer

1875 Georges Bizet
French composer
 
3rd June

1162 Thomas à Becket was consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.

1739 The first Methodist Chapel in Britain, also known as John Wesley's New Room in Bristol, opened its doors.

1937 The Duke of Windsor, (the abdicated King Edward VIII), married American divorcee Mrs Wallis Simpson, privately in a château near Tours, France.

1962 130 die in Paris air crash. A chartered Air France Boeing 707 headed for Atlanta, Georgia, crashed on take-off at Orly Airport in Paris, killing 130 people on board.

1991 Three IRA gunmen were shot dead by the army in Northern Ireland. Soldiers opened fire on their car as it drove through the village of Coagh in County Tyrone.

2012 The Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant took place on the Tideway of the River Thames, as part of the celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Despite the cold, wet weather, 670 boats took part, including military, commercial and pleasure craft. According to Guinness World Records, it was the largest ever parade of boats, surpassing the previous record of 327 vessels set in Bremerhaven, Germany, in 2011.

2017 Eight people were killed and forty eight were injured in terrorist attacks when a van was deliberately driven into pedestrians on London Bridge. The three terrorists then carried out a stabbing spree in nearby pubs and restaurants before being shot dead by the police.
 
1851
1st baseball uniforms are worn as NY Knickerbockers wear straw hats, white shirts,long blue trousers
1925
Goodyear's 1st advertising airship'Pilgrim' flies over Akron, Ohio,1st to fly with helium& to have an enclosed cabin
1965
NASA astronaut, Ed White takes 1st U.S. space walk for 23 min during Gemini 4 mission
1967
Aretha Franklin's cover of Otis Redding song' Respect' hits # 1 on Billboard Top 100,stays there for 2 weeks. It stayed 8 weeks as #1 on the R&B charts
1985
radio/ TV host Larry King debuts on CNN "Larry King Live' weeknights M-F until Dec 20210
2017
rock climber, Alex Honnold who had been training for over a yr makes the 1st ever free solo climb of 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park He started at 5:30 am took him 3 hrs,56 min using no ropes or safety gear. He fastened a bag of chalk around his waist to keep his hands dry. His climb was depicted in the Oscar winning documentary in 2018 'Free Solo'
 
On This Day In History, June 4th

1989 Thousands die in the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Using assault rifles and tanks, Chinese troops massacred unarmed civilians who had taken part in pro-democracy protests.

1989 Poland holds the first free elections after World War II
The landslide victory of the Polish trade union, “Solidarity”, marked the beginning of the Autumn of Nations, a wave of revolutions resulting in the fall of communism.

1984 Bruce Springsteen releases Born in the U.S.A.
The album was Springsteen's most successful. It featured hits like “Born in the U.S.A.”, “Dancing in the Dark”, and “I'm on Fire”.

1917 The first Pulitzer Prize is awarded
Every year, the prestigious award honors outstanding journalistic achievements. It was established with money bequeathed to Columbia University by publisher Joseph Pulitzer.

1783, The Montgolfier brothers demonstrated the first hot air balloon
The flight of the Montgolfière lasted only about 10 minutes, but it secured the French inventors a place in the history books.
 
Births On This Day, June 4th 🎂

1985 Evan Lysacek
American figure skater

1975 Angelina Jolie
American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter

1975 Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and singer

1915 Modibo Keïta
Malian politician, 1st President of Mali

1738 George III of the United Kingdom

Deaths On This Day, June 4th 🪦

2010 John Wooden
American basketball player and coach

1971 György Lukács
Hungarian historian, philosopher

1941 Wilhelm II, German Emperor

1922 W. H. R. Rivers
English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, psychiatrist

1798 Giacomo Casanova
Italian explorer, author
 
On This Day In History, June 5th

1981 The first cases of AIDS are reported
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described five cases of a rare form of pneumonia, a deadly immune deficiency disease which later became known as AIDS. In 2000, more than 40 million people worldwide were affected by it.

1968 Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated
The attacker, a 24-year old Palestinian, was disgruntled by Kennedy's support for Israel. The brother of former U.S. President, John F. Kennedy, died on the following day.

1967 The Six-Day War begins in the Middle East
Israeli forces launched a surprise attack against Egypt, prompting other Arab allies to enter the conflict. Egypt had previously blocked the Straits of Tiran to Israeli traffic and amassed its troops at the border between the two countries.

1956 Elvis Presley first performs “Hound Dog” live on TV
Presley's suggestive hip movements during this performance earned him his nickname, “Elvis the Pelvis.” “Hound Dog” became his best-selling song with about 10 million sold copies.

1883 The first Orient Express leaves Paris
The legendary train journey from Paris to Istanbul featured in many works of popular culture, including Bram Stoker's “Dracula” and Agatha Christie's “Murder on the Orient Express.“
 

Births On This Day, June 5th 🎂

1976 Ross Noble
English comedian, actor

1898 Federico García Lorca
Spanish poet, playwright, and director

1883 John Maynard Keynes
English economist

1878 Pancho Villa
Mexican general

1660 Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

Deaths On This Day, June 5th 🪦

2012 Ray Bradbury
American author

2004 Ronald Reagan
American actor, politician, 40th President of the United States

1975 Paul Keres
Estonian chess player

1916 Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
English field marshal

1900 Stephen Crane
American journalist, author, and poet
 
5th June

755 English missionary Boniface, 'the Apostle of Germany', was murdered in Germany by unbelievers, along with 53 of his companions.

1900 Boer War: British troops captured and occupied Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal.

1963 Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigned from government, admitting he lied to Parliament about his relationship with a call girl. Profumo, 48, made a personal statement to the House of Commons on 22 March in which he admitted being misleading about his relationship with 21-year-old call girl Christine Keeler.

1972 The Duke of Windsor was laid to rest at the royal burial ground near Windsor Castle. The burial followed a funeral service at St George's Chapel attended by political leaders, statesmen and diplomats.

2014 Property experts estimated there could be up to 1,000 JCBs buried underground in London, because it is cheaper to bury them than to lift them to street level following basement extensions. The total value of the JCBs buried underground is thought to be around £5 million.
 
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2014 Property experts estimated there could be up to 1,000 JCBs buried underground in London, because it is cheaper to bury them than to lift them to street level following basement extensions. The total value of the JCBs buried underground is thought to be around £5 million.
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What is a JCB?
 
On This Day In History, June 6th

1984 The video game Tetris is published
Russian computer engineer, Alexey Pajitnov, created the puzzle game. With over 100 million copies sold, it is one of the most successful video games in history.

1982 Israeli forces invade Lebanon
The 1982 Lebanon War was triggered by the attack on Israeli ambassador, Shlomo Argov, in London on June 3. Thousands of civilians died during the war, which lasted three years.

1946 The National Basketball Association (NBA) is founded
The NBA, which comprises teams in the United States and Canada, is considered the world's premier men's professional basketball league.

1944 On D-Day, 160,000 Allied soldiers land in Normandy, France
The World War II invasion of Normandy established a new major front against the Germans in the west and helped Soviet forces facing the bulk of German troops in the east. Germany capitulated on May 7, 1945.

1930 Frozen food is sold in retail stores for the first time
18 stores in Springfield, Massachusetts took part in a trial to test consumer acceptance. Clarence Birdseye, the founder of the Birds Eye Frozen Food Company, is considered to be the father of the modern frozen food industry.
 
Births On This Day, June 6th 🎂

1963 Jason Isaacs
English actor, producer

1901 Sukarno
Indonesian politician, 1st President of Indonesia

1868 Robert Falcon Scott
English navy officer, explorer

1850 Karl Ferdinand Braun
German/American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1799 Alexander Pushkin
Russian author, poet

Deaths On This Day, June 6th 🪦

2013 Esther Williams
American actress, swimmer

1968 Robert F. Kennedy
American politician, 64th United States Attorney General

1961 Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist

1891 John A. Macdonald
Canadian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada

1832 Jeremy Bentham
English jurist, philosopher
 
1844
George Williams forms YMCA{Young Men's Christian Assocation} in London
1896
Frank Samuelsen&George Harbo leave NYC harbor rowing across the Atlantic Ocean arriving in Scilly Islands, tip of Cornwall, England. It took them 55 days, their record for 2 man rowing has never been broken
1933
Richard Hollingshead opens the world's 1st drive in movie theatre which he designed in Camden, New Jersey. It had a 40 X50 foot screen, admission was 25 cents per car &per person
1962
The Beatles meet George Martin for the 1st time who would become their music producer. They record 'Besame Mucho' with original drummer, Pete Best
1991
NBC announced comedian, Jay Leno will succeed Johnny Carson as the host of' The Tonight Show' on May 25,1992. Leno hosted the show until Feb 2014
2024
80th anniv of D-Day landings were attended by Allied leaders,and WWII veterans in Normandy, France
 
On This Day In History, June 7th

1989 A Surinam Airways jet crashes on landing in Paramaribo
The pilots were blamed for the disaster. They had attempted to land using the wrong navigation signal. Of the 187 people on board, 11 survived.

1981 Israel destroys Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactors
The attack, triggered by fears of a potential Iraqi atom bomb, prompted international criticism and is considered a political disaster as it caused the quarreling Arab states to unite against their common enemy, Israel

1975 The first Cricket World Cup begins
England hosted the first edition of the event, which today has become one of the world's most important sporting events. The West Indies entered the history books as the first Cricket World Champions.

1968 The world's first Legoland resort opens
The Legoland in Billund, Denmark was the first of six theme parks based around the Lego interlocking plastic bricks. Billund is the home of The Lego Group.

1929, Vatican City became an independent state
The Lateran Treaty, which was signed on February 11 of the same year, was ratified by Italy's fascist government on this day. It guarantees the political and territorial sovereignty of Vatican City.
 
Births On This Day, June 7th 🎂

1958 Prince
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor

1952 Orhan Pamuk
Turkish/American author, screenwriter, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate

1952 Liam Neeson
Irish/American actor

1940 Tom Jones
Welsh/American singer, actor

1848 Paul Gauguin
French painter

Deaths On This Day, June 7th 🪦

2015 Christopher Lee
English actor

1980 Henry Miller
American author, painter

1967 Dorothy Parker
American poet, writer

1954 Alan Turing
English mathematician

1329 Robert the Bruce
Scottish king
 
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