Today in History

Today in History May 31st

1279 BCE Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great, becomes the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt.

1868 1st Memorial Day Parade held in Ironton, Ohio

1879 Madison Square Garden opens in New York, named after 4th President James Madison

1900 US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion

1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal

Movie recommendation: Breaker Morant (1980)

1921 The Tulsa race massacre (known alternatively as the Tulsa race riot, the Black Wall Street Massacre, the Tulsa pogrom)
took place when mobs of white residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents
and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Note: 300 African Americans Dead, 1,256 houses were burned; 215 others homes were looted but not torched.

Note; In one of the most heinous domestic terrorist attacks in America history, low-flying airplanes were seen raining bullets
and incendiaries devices on the Greenwood District

Note: In the aftermath of the slaughter, all charges were dropped on the black teenager Dick Rowland, after it was concluded the white female elevator operator who screamed in his presence, had her foot stepped on by Dick Roland who lost his balance.

Note: In the aftermath, 5,000 African Americans were interned, but since the local economy depended on the menial work the provided, they were slowly released back into the community but were required to wear a white tag on their outer garments to indicate their place of employment

1943 "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio

1955 US Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"

 

The First Memorial Day

 

Find Out What happened 31st May This Day in History
2005 U.S.A. Watergate Mole Goes Public
2005 : The former member of the FBI "W. Mark Felt" stepped forward as "Deep Throat," the secret Washington Post source who worked with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein that helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

1859 UK Big Ben
1859 : Big Ben rings out over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, England for the first time.

1889 U.S.A. Dam Break Johnstown, Pennsylvania
1889 : A dam breaks at a lake above Johnstown, Pennsylvania causing a tidal wave over twenty feet in height to sweep over Johnstown, PA eight miles below. Sweeping everything before the avalanche of water including houses, factories, and bridges. The death toll is estimated to be in the thousands as there was very little warning for residents.

1916 World War I The Battle of Jutland
1916 : A German naval fleet consisting of 24 battleships, five battle cruisers, 11 light cruisers and 63 destroyers were just off the Jutland Peninsula, were attacked by a British fleet of 28 battleships, nine battle cruisers, 34 light cruisers and 80 destroyers in one of the greatest sea battles in History known as The Battle of Jutland or the Battle of the Skagerrak, a total of 100,000 men aboard 250 ships were involved in the battle.

 

1921 U.S.A. Tulsa Race Riots
1921 : Following an accusation of improper conduct between a Dick Rowland, a black shoeshiner and Sarah Page, a white elevator operator, hundreds of white people gather and start to form what looks like a lynch mob which ends with the traditionally black district of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma being burnt to the ground with many black citizens choose or were forced to relocate after the riot which ended on June 1st Tulsa Race Riot Timeline after the National Guard troops from Oklahoma City declare martial law.

1917 Japan Builds Up War Machine
1917 : Japan spends nearly $130 million dollars on expanding their naval might during World War I at the same time that America and European nations expanded their naval forces. Due to Japan's inability to import large guns from England at this time, the country faced difficulties in building their own.

1935 India Earthquake
1935 : At 3 AM an earthquake hits Northwestern India leaving an estimated 20,000 people dead in Quetta. Among the dead were 44 members of the Royal Air Force. The Punjab government was quick to send relief in the form of relief supplies, workers, and health professionals. While railways suffered minimal damage, many heavily populated areas were greatly destroyed.

1938 China Japanese Bombing
1938 : 30 Japanese bombers have bombed the Chinese cities of Canton and Hankow and also shot down 18 Chinese planes in dogfights over the cities.

1941 Crete World War II
1941 : The German Army using over 22,000 Paratroopers conquer Crete.

961 South Africa Independent Republic
1961 : The country of South Africa became an independent republic.

1962 Israel Adolf Eichmann
1962 : Adolf Eichmann the Nazi SS officer who organized Adolf Hitler's wish to exterminate Europe's Jewish population was executed for his crimes against humanity.

1964 South Vietnam US Aid
1964 : It is reported that the United States provided about 97% of total economic, technical, and medical foreign aid to South Vietnam . The aid is said to be meant for the people in the rural population and is given to show support for their war effort. Foreign nations sent encouraging messages to the United States for their effort, but the amount of aid given by other nations was expected to decline.

1970 Peru Earthquake
1970 : An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale 30 km off the coast of Casma, Peru in the Pacific Ocean causes the destabilized the northern wall of Mount Huascarán causing an avalanche that buries the towns of Yungay and Ranrahirca. Due to the speed the avalanche traveled at more than 100 miles per hour little warning was given and an estimated 50,000 people in the two cities lost their lives making it the worst natural disaster ever recorded in the history of Peru.

1973 U.S.A. Gold Mining
1973 : An increase in the price of gold prompts mining companies to make new exploration efforts in old mines in states such as California and Nevada.

1973 U.S.A. Bombing Cambodia
1973 : President Richard Nixon's South-East Asia policy for continued bombing of Cambodia is ended when the US Senate vote to cut off funds for the bombing of Cambodia, this follows a similar vote in early May by the House of Representatives.

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Japanese Crepe Frock
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Price Basket
2008 to 2020

Since 2008 to 2020 each year we have created our own Inflation basket which includes a mix of 30 + items including food, goods and services, one of the many things it shows is inflation as measured by basic food and just 1 gallon of gas is vastly different compared with any government produced figures


1977 U.S.A. Alaska Oil Pipeline
1977 : The almost 800 miles long Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline is completed connecting oil fields in northern Alaska to the sea port of Valdez in the Gulf of Alaska in southern Alaska.

1988 Soviet Union (INF) Treaty
1988 : The Final Summit between President Reagan and President Gorbachev in Moscow on removing Intermediate Range Nuclear Missiles known as the (INF) Treaty ends with agreement on both sides.

1998 UK Spice Girls
1998 : Ginger Spice / Geri Halliwell announces she it to quit the popular Spice Girls over differences between other members of the group.

2000 Fiji Coup
2000 : A coup led by George Speight, an indigenous Fijian who is demanding the removal of ethnic Indians from senior government positions. Members of the coup are holding a number of hostages including the country's prime minister.

2008 Concerns Over Corn Crop in U.S. Corn Belt
2008 : Following an unusually late planting season in the rain-soaked Midwest Concerns over this years crop in the Corn Belt bring further fears that on top of the much increased cost of Gas causing inflationary pressures in the food chain, a poor crop this year could further impact food prices and inflationary pressures in the US.

2012 Canada Interpol Hunt Canadian Killer
2012 : Interpol has added Luke Rocco Magnotta, suspected killer, to their most wanted list. Magnotta is suspected of murdering Jun Lin, a Chinese student who was possibly in a relationship with him, and sending body parts of the victim to political party offices in Ottawa. Magnotta had fled Canada was found by police in Berlin and was taken into custody on June 4th.

2013 Syrian President Warns Israel
2013 : Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, accused of using chemical weapons against rebel forces, has warned the country of Israel against any future air strikes. Assad stated that works on a contract to supply air defense missiles was underway and in response Israel stated that if the defense missiles were used it would attack. Israel had been conducting air strikes in the country in an effort to stop weapons being sent to Hezbollah in Lebanon.


1952 France Communists
1952 : Police throughout the country raided many Communist organization's headquarters and seized documents and weapons. It was likely that party members had previous knowledge of the raids according to reports indicating that much paper burning and barricading took place before the 7:35 am raid.

1957 U.S.A. Arthur Miller
1957 : The House for Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) convicts the playwright Arthur Miller of contempt of Congress for refusing to reveal the names of alleged Communist writers with whom he had attended five or six meetings in New York. Among his many well known plays was Death of a Salesman, he is also remembered for being married to Marilyn Monroe ( 1956 - 1961 ) and what many do not know is he wrote the Screenplay for "The Misfits" which starred Marilyn Monroe (1961) and was her last film before her death in 1962.

 

MAY 31st: 1976 - "Who's loudest?"

The Who gave themselves a place in the Guinness book of Records as the loudest performance of a rock band at 120 decibels, when they played at Charlton Athletic Football ground.

 

MAY 31st: 1977 - "God help the Sex Pistols"
The BBC announced a ban on the new Sex Pistols single 'God Save The Queen' saying it's, "in gross bad taste".
The IBA issued a warning to all radio stations saying the playing the single would be in breach of Section 4:1:A of the Broadcasting act.

The single reached No.2 on the UK chart.

 

MAY 31st: 1980 - "Suicide is Painless(?)"
The Theme From M*A*S*H* (Suicide Is Painless), by M.A.S.H. ash was at No.1 on the UK singles chart, 10 years after it was first recorded after being championed by BBC Radio 1 DJ Noel Edmonds.
Mike Altman the son of the original film's director, Robert Altman, was 14 years old when he composed the song's lyrics.

 

Today in history June 1st

1533: Anne Boleyn The second wife of King Henry VIII of England crowned the Queen of England

1774 Boston Port Bill, British government orders Port of Boston closed

1861 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Virginia

1880 1st pay telephone installed

1890 U.S. census at 62,622,250

1958 Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France

1961 FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard

1967 The Beatles / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released

Tracks Include:

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
With a Little Help from My Friends
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Getting Better
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
When I'm Sixty-Four
Lovely Rita
A Day in the Life

1980 Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting

1988 "Morton Downey, Jr. Show," debuts in TV syndication

1991 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years

2009 Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic ocean, killing all 228 on board

Note: The Airbus had a lot of issues with the pitot tubes (which is used to gage air speed) on their A330s.
There had been 30 events in 2 years and the plane should not have been flying at all until the new pitot tubes were replaced

 

I surprised Peterson is alive, I thought someone wound get some notoriety in prison for killing him by now.

2004
June 01
Opening statements begin in Scott Peterson murder trial

• Christmas Eve 2002, the pregnant Laci had disappeared from Modesto, California. The case captivated millions across America and saturated national media coverage for nearly two years.
  
  When initially questioned about his wife’s whereabouts, Peterson claimed that Laci had disappeared sometime after leaving the house to walk their dog and after he left on a fishing trip to nearby San Francisco Bay. About one month later, Amber Frey, a 28-year-old massage therapist from Fresno, California, came forward to tell police that she’d had an affair with Scott Peterson, shattering his image as a devoted husband to his pretty and pregnant wife. As police continued to search for Laci and clues that might explain her disappearance, Scott Peterson sold her sports-utility vehicle, leading to suspicions that he might be trying to get rid of evidence.
  
  The bodies of Laci and her baby were found washed up on shore near the marina where Scott Peterson kept his boat on April 13 and 14, 2003. Within a week, Scott Peterson was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, with the special circumstance of double homicide, which opened the door for prosecutors to seek the death penalty. He was arrested in San Diego carrying large amounts of cash and his brother’s passport, and with a new hair color and cut, seemingly on the verge of running from police.
  
  Soon after pleading not guilty to the charges, Peterson retained the legal services of well-known celebrity attorney Mark Geragos. His trial began on June 1, 2004. Over the course of the next 19 weeks, prosecutors introduced 174 witnesses and hundreds of pieces of evidence designed to paint Scott Peterson as a cold and heartless man who continued to lie and cheat on his wife even as he appeared on television feigning despair over her disappearance. They pointed out how he referred to himself as a “widower” even before his wife’s body had been found. The prosecution’s case was hampered, however, by the fact that they had no eyewitness to the crime and had not found a weapon. Meanwhile, Geragos worked to convince the jury of an alternate scenario in which someone else had murdered Laci while she was walking the dog, then framed Scott after learning of his alibi from the news. Peterson did not take the stand.
  
  Finally, on November 12, 2004, after seven days of deliberation that involved the replacement of two jurors, Scott Peterson was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife and the second-degree murder of his unborn son. He was unemotional during the reading of the verdict, which was greeted with cheers and celebration by Laci’s friends in the audience and the hundreds of supporters waiting outside the courthouse.
  
  On March 16, 2005, Scott Peterson was formally sentenced to death by lethal injection. His death penalty was overturned in 2020, but he remains imprisoned for life.
  
  

 

JUNE 1st: 1938 - "Is it a bird, is it a plane?"


Superman created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster made his first appearance in D.C. Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1 which sold for 10 cents.

 

JUNE 1st: 1944 - "Get Ready"
The British Broadcasting Corp. aired the coded message from the first line of a poem by Paul Verlaine to underground resistance fighters in France to inform the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
When the first lines of his poem Chanson d'automne were broadcast, Operation Overlord was to begin in two weeks.
A further broadcast of certain lines of this poem meant it was 48 hours away and was, therefore, a signal to start blowing up bridges and railway lines.

 

JUNE 1st: 1985 - "The Battle of the Beanfield"
. . . . .
500 Hippy travelers clash with police on their way to the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge in Wiltshire for an illegal festival.
The police set up a roadblock seven miles from Stonehenge.
The day is known as "The Battle of the Beanfield" and was the first major test of an English Heritage ban on midsummer festivals at Stonehenge.
Battle of the Beanfield - Wikipedia

 

JUNE 1st: 2010- "Whoo hoo"

Entertainment Weekly announced that Homer Simpson was to be named the best television and film character of the past twenty years.
The cartoon character was best known for his love of eating and oafish antics.
The Simpsons character beat out Harry Potter

And Buffy the Vampire Slayer,

who came in as second and third on the magazine's list.

 

JUNE 1st: 1959 - "Hit or Miss?"

The first edition of Juke Box Jury aired on the BBC. The shows host, David Jacobs, lead a revolving panel of guests in critiquing the week's top record releases. Although the songs were never played in their entirety, the four judges gave a verdict on whether each would be a "hit" or a "miss".
Juke Box Jury - Wikipedia

 

JUNE 1st: 1969 - "Give Peace a Chance"
. . . .
The Plastic Ono Band recorded 'Give Peace A Chance' during a 'bed-in' at the Hotel La Reine in Montreal, Canada.
Producer Phil Spector, poet Allan Ginsberg and writer Timothy Leary all sang on the song.
Give Peace a Chance - Wikipedia

 

June 1st: 1926 - "Happy Birthday Marilyn"

Born: June 1st, 1926 Los Angeles, California
Died: August 4th, 1962 Los Angeles, California
Known For : Marilyn Monroe, born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, was a famous starlet known for playing a blonde bombshell. She began her career as a pin-up model during the 1940s and 1950s. By the early 1950s she had become one of the most popular and marketable actresses in Hollywood, appearing in such films as Monkey Business, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch, and Some Like It Hot. In the mid-1950s she began her own production company. Monroe had a troubled personal life and her marriages to baseball player Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller were of great interest to the public. She died tragically of a drug overdose in 1962 at the age of 36.

 

June 1st: 1981 - "KERRANG" !!!

The first issue of the Heavy Metal magazine Kerrang! was published as a special pull-out by UK weekly music paper Sounds.
AC/DC had the front cover plus features on Motorhead, Girlschool , Saxon.and MORE!!!!!

 

June 1st: 1980 - "And, - In Breaking News"

The first 24-hour news television station – CNN is launched in Atlanta, Georgia.
CNN - Wikipedia