Today is June 1. On this date in:
1533
Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned as Queen Consort of England.
1792
Kentucky became the 15th state.
1813
The mortally wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, gave the order, “Don’t give up the ship” during a losing battle with the British frigate HMS Shannon in the War of 1812.
1926
Actress Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles.
1939
The British submarine HMS Thetis sank during a trial dive off North Wales with the loss of 99 lives.
1939
Mexico officially abolished the siesta.
1943
A civilian flight from Portugal to England was shot down by Germany during World War II, killing all 17 people aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.
1958
Charles de Gaulle became premier of France, marking the beginning of the end of the Fourth Republic.
1967
The Beatles album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released.
More:The Beatles, when they played Crosley Field
1968
Author-lecturer Helen Keller, who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf almost her entire life, died in Westport, Connecticut, at age 87.
1977
The Soviet Union charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. (He was imprisoned, then released in 1986; he's now known as Natan Sharansky.)
1980
Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut.
1997
Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, was severely burned in a fire set by her 12-year-old grandson in her Yonkers, New York, apartment (she died three weeks later).
2008
Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent died in Paris at age 71.
2009
Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330 carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of everyone on board.
2017
President Donald Trump declared he was pulling the U.S. from the landmark Paris climate agreement.
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