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June 1st is an important day in history
Posted by robertstevenson on May 31, 2008
June 1st in history
987 - Hugh Capet is elected king of France.
1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1533 - Anne Boleyn crowned Queen of England.
1660 - Mary Dyer hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay
Colony.
1779 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold court-martialed for malfeasance.
1792 - Kentucky admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
1796 - Tennessee admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
1831 - James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
1868 - Treaty of Bosque Redondo signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands
in Arizona and New Mexico.
1869 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine.
1920 - Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
1925 - Lou Gehrig plays the first game in his streak of 2,130 consecutive games; it was the
longest such streak until broken by Cal Ripken Jr. in 1995.
1967 - The Groundbreaking Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album by The Beatles is
released
1974 - Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims published in the journal Emergency
Medicine.
1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
For more historic events occurying on June 1, check out Wikipedia.
June 2, 2008 at 11:53 am
Wow, pretty eventful day…
Did you know that “Heimlich maneuver” cannot be used by first aid and CPR trainers without paying royalties now? I think it’s called “chest thrusts” now… it’s been a couple of years since I took first aid, but I was amazed when I heard that.