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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Friday, 1 June 2012 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)I'm not motivated in any particular direction, and this is what happened on June 1st in history: (I eliminated the really uninteresting ones)
4000 BC - Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central Ukraine (hypothesis only)
1215 - Beijing, then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing.
1495 - 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller
1533 - Anne Boleyn crowned queen of England
1638 - 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
1774 - Boston Port Bill: British government orders Port of Boston closed
1789 - 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
1792 - Kentucky admitted as 15th US state
1796 - Last of Britain's troops withdraws from US
1796 - Tennessee admitted as 16th US state
1808 - 1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio
1813 - Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"
1843 - It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio
1855 - US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery (W's ancestor?)
1862 - Slavery abolished in all US possessions
1868 - Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
1868 - Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1869 - Voting machine patented (Thomas A Edison)
1935 - Driving test & license plates introduced in England
1938 - Superman Appears For The First Time
1967 - Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in US & goes gold
1968 - Helen Keller dies
1971 - "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" opens at Golden NYC for 31 perfs
1975 - "Chicago" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 947 performances
1985 - Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP
1990 - Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
1991 - Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
1992 - Snowfall in Colorado
2009 - General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
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