On This Day:
Sunday June 1, 2014 This is the 152nd day of the year, with 213 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Give Peace a Chance "Give Peace a Chance," the anti-war song written by John Lennon, was recorded in room 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal on June 1, 1969, during the second famous "Bed-in For Peace." John Lennon and Yoko Ono were protesting the Vietnam War and promoting peace. Friends who dropped in and joined the recording included Tommy Smothers, Petula Clark, Dr. Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Dick Gregory, and members of the Canadian Radha Krishna Temple. John Lennon and Tommy Smothers played acoustic guitar for the recording.
Holidays Samoa: Independence Day (1962).
Tunisia: Constitution Day / Victory Day (1959).
China: International Children's Day.
Kenya: Madaraka Day.
Events 1485 - King Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.
1796 - Tennessee became the 16th state.
1813 - The Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said, "Don't give up the ship."
1869 - Thomas Edison of Boston, Massachusetts, received a patent for his electric voting machine.
1938 - Protective baseball helmets were worn by batters for the very first time.
1938 - The first issue of "Action Comics" was published.
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.
1958 - Charles de Gaulle became premier of France.
1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1990 - President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed an agreement to end production of chemical weapons and begin destruction of the reserves.
2001 - The king, queen, and seven other members of Nepal's royal family were slain by Crown Prince Dipendra, who then shot himself, dying three days later.
2003 - The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
2005 - Dutch voters rejected the European Union constitution.
Births 1801 - Brigham Young, religious leader and colonizer of Utah.
1921 - Nelson Riddle, American Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader, arranger.
1926 - Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker Mortenson), American actress and sex symbol.
1926 - Andy Griffith, American actor.
1934 - Pat Boone (Charles Eugene Boone), American singer, actor.
1974 - Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer-songwriter.
Deaths 1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States of America.
1968 - Helen Keller, American author and lecturer.
1979 - Eric Partridge, British lexicographer.
1981 - Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst.
1996 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, sixth President of India.
2001 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist who created the "Dennis the Menace" comic strip.
2006 - Rocío Jurado (born María del Rocío Trinidad Mohedano Jurado), Spanish singer and actress.
2008 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer.
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