Today is Sunday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2003 with 213 to follow. On this day, June 1, in history:
1533 - Anna Boleyn crowned queen of England 1568 - Duke of Alba beheads 18 nobles in Brussels 1774 - Boston Port Bill: British government orders Port of Boston closed 1779 - Benedict Arnold is court-martialed 1783 - Last British troops sail from New York 1812 - Madison gave the call to Congress to declare war on Great Britain. 1855 - US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery 1861 - 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va 1861 - US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange 1862 - General Robert E. Lee appointed commander of the Army of Northern Virginia after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines 1862 - Slavery abolished in all US possessions 1869 - Voting machine patented (Thomas A Edison) 1880 - The first pay telephone service began on June 1, 1880, in New Haven, Connecticut. 1888 - California gets its 1st seismograph 1890 - Counting machines used in census the machines where produced by the Tabulating Machine Company which through a series of mergers and reorganizations, the company eventually became IBM. 1915 - 1st Zeppelin air raid over England 1938 - Protective baseball helmets were worn by batters for the very first time. The helmets were pressed into use in a game between the Springfield Greys and the House of David in New York City. 1943 - A civilian flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all aboard, including actor Leslie Howard. 1944 - The government of Mexico decided to abolish the siesta. Now there's a decision that really caught on... 1947 - Photosensitive glass developed 1958 - Charles de Gaulle became premier of France, reassumes French Leadership 1961 - FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard 1976 - Great-Britain & Iceland terminate codfish war 1977 - The Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. (Shcharansky was imprisoned, then released in 1986.) 1980 - 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network 1990 - At a superpowers summit meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S. President George Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a historic agreement to cease production of chemical weapons and to begin destruction of both nations' sizable reserves. 1991 - The United States and the Soviet Union resolved differences over the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty, clearing the way for a superpower summit. 1991 - NASA scrubbed the launch of the space shuttle Columbia after a navigational unit failed. 1996 - An estimated 200,000 participants, most of them schoolchildren, gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to protest government cuts for social and educational programs. 2000 - With about half an hour to spare, Texas Gov. 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.) GOA -------- 2002 - Former advisor to Governor, Albano Couto, released a book "The Heritage of Govapuri" written by Fr Cosme Costa, sfx, at the Pilar Seminary. ======================================================= Let's compile a chronicle of Goan History. If you have an authentic date and event in Goan History, please e-mail the details to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================= ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
