Today In History for June 1st.

Highlights of this day in history:
Today in history:

1)1676 Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79).
2)794 Charles the Great (aka Charlemagne) opens the general synod in Frankfurt.
3)1215 Beijing, under control of Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing.
4)1533 Anne Boleyn crowned Queen of England.
5)1543 Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius publishes "De humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric of the human body in seven books)" a major step forward in understanding human anatomy [date is representative as exact date of publication unknown].
6)1562 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent sign treaty.
7)1670 English King Charles II & French King Louis XIV signed the secret anti-Dutch treaty.
8)1815 Napoleon Bonaparte swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
9)1836 Charles Darwin returns to Cape Town in South Africa.
10)1843 Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as an antislavery activist.
11)1869 Thomas Edison granted his first patent for the Electric Vote Recorder (U.S. Patent 90,646).
12)1879 Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed serving with British forces in the Anglo-Zulu War. He is buried in Farnborough, Hampshire.
13)1915 Thomas Edison invents a tile scribe to record telephone conversations.
14)1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition open in Portland, Oregon.
15)1918 Canadian ace Billy Bishop downs 6 aircraft over a three-day span, including German ace Paul Bilik, reclaiming his top-scoring title from James McCudden.
16)1922 Over 50,000 Fascists gather for a meeting in Bologna where Mussolini warns that he will lead a full-scale revolt against a government favoring 'anti-Fascist reaction'.
17)1925 Future NY Yankees Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig pinch hits for shortstop Pee-Wee Wanninge in a 5-3 loss to Washington; first of record 2,130 consecutive games.
18)1930 Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman cracks 191 in tour match v Hampshire at Southampton; Bradman smashes 26 fours in
240 minutes.
19)1930 French Championships Women's Tennis: Helen Wills Moody wins her 3rd straight French title; beats fellow American Helen Jacobs 6-2, 6-1.
20)1932 Franz von Papen becomes Reich Chancellor of Germany.
21)1937 Edith Wharton suffers a heart attack and collapses at the French country home of Ogden Codman.
22)1952 Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index.
23)1958 Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France.
24)1962 SS officer Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel after being found guilty of war crimes.
25)1964 Kenya becomes a republic with Jomo Kenyatta as its 1st President.
26)1966 George Harrison is impressed by sitarist Ravi Shankar's concert in London.
27)1971 "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" opens at Golden NYC for 31 performances.
28)1972 Dmitri Shostakovich's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin.
29)1972 West German police arrest Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader.
30)1973 Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die".
31)1975 LPGA Championship Women's Golf,
Pine Ridge GC: Kathy Whitworth wins her 3rd LPGA C'ship by 1 stroke from Sandra Haynie.
32)1975 California Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan records his record-equalling 4th MLB career no-hitter in beating the Baltimore Orioles, 1-0.
33)1978 Future England cricket captain David Gower makes his Test debut in 1st Test against Pakistan in Birmingham; England win by an innings and 57 runs.
34)1978 High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten.
35)1980 Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in California.
36)1980 First baseman Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Brooklyn / LA Dodgers home run in a 9-5 loss at home to the Atlanta Braves.
37)1982 Oakland A's left fielder Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases in 3-2 win over Boston Red Sox to become fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in an MLB season.
38)1985 "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12.
39)1985 Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP.
40)1986 Danielle Steel’s romance novel “Wanderlust” is published.
41)2002 In a battle of former heavyweight boxing champions in Atlantic City, Evander Holyfield beats Hasim Rahman by TKO; the fight stopped 1:40 into the 8th round because of a giant welt above Rahman's left eye.
42)2017 “Beren and Lúthien,” compiled and edited by Christopher Tolkien from his father J.R.R. Tolkien's archives is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
43)2017 US President Donald Trump announces the US is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement.
44)2018 Law professor Giuseppe Conte is sworn in as Italian Prime Minister as head of a populist coalition.


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