Today in History

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JUNE 2nd: 1953 - "God Save the Queen"

Following the death of her father Queen Elizabeth II is formally crowned as The Queen in England with hundreds of millions listening on radio and for the first time watched the proceedings on live television.
After the coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey , millions of rain-drenched spectators cheered the 27-year-old queen born in 1926 and her husband, the 30-year-old duke of Edinburgh, as they passed along a five-mile procession route in a gilded horse-drawn carriage.
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Coronation of Elizabeth II - Wikipedia

 

JUNE 2nd: 1989 - "Rolling Stone - Child Bride"

Rolling Stone Bill Wyman secretly married 'Teenager' Mandy Smith.
Wyman's 28-year-old son was best man. All other four Stones attended.

The marriage lasted 17 months.

 

JUNE 2nd: 1985 - "English Football teams banned"

On June 2, 1985, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) bans All English football (soccer) clubs from competing in Europe.
The ban followed the death of 39 Italian and Belgian football fans at Brussels' Heysel Stadium in a riot caused by English football hooligans at that year's European Cup final.
Liverpool fans who were blamed for the tragedy at Brussels' Heysel stadium four days ago on May 31st in which 39 people died.

 

JUNE 2nd: 1924 - "Native gain Natural Rights ... up to a point"


On June 2, 1924, Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S.
The Act, conferred citizenship on all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the country is passed in Congress.
The right to vote, however, was governed by state law; until 1957, some states barred Native Americans from voting.

 

JUNE 2nd: 1935 - "The Babe bows out"

Babe Ruth, retires ending his Major League playing career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs.
After his retirement as a player, he was denied the opportunity to manage a major league club, most likely due to poor behavior during parts of his playing career. In his final years, Ruth made many public appearances, especially in support of American efforts in World War II.

 

JUNE 2nd: 2003 - "Kylie - Spinning around"

A painting of Kylie Minogue wearing gold hot pants caused tempers to fray among drivers in Brighton.
Artist Simon Etheridge, put up the almost life-size picture in his own Art Asylum gallery, as part of a Festival and since then motorists had caused regular traffic hold-ups as they stopped to take a second look.

 

JUNE 2nd: 1949 - "Where'd Uranium go?"

An atomic bottle holding one ounce of uranium-235 that was missing was found.
Seven-eighths of the uranium-235 that was in the bottle was accounted for, ..... while one-eighth was still missing.
The laboratory in Chicago which originally lost the bottle reported it lost in February.
Mystery of lost’ Uranium Is Explained(?)
WASHINGTON —(U.R)—The Atomic Energy Commission said today that a small amount of uranium-235 j is missing, but is not believed ‘'to have been stolen or lost.” Carl Shugg, the commission’s deputy general manager, revealed that the February inventory of fissionable materials at the' Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago showed a discrepancy of 32 grams, or i. 05 ounces of U-235. Since then, however, he said, the government has recovered 25 grams by analyzing waste material from the laboratory at the commission's installation at Oak Ridge, Tenn. “The remaining seven grams- less than one-fourth ounce—is not believed to have been stolen or lost,”: he said. “Analysis of the waste is still continuing.” Shugg’s statement was prompted by a copyrighted dispatch in the New York Daily News which said I hat three-quarters of a pound of uranium-235 "vanished” from the Argonne laboratory on Feb. 14.
"The loss or more probable theft,” the News said, "is considered the greatest threat to national security ever to be discovered in peacetime." The News described U-235 as the “explosive heart of the atom bomb and the deadliest and most closely guarded secret of the United Stales.'’ Shugg said the discrepancy was reported promptly to the FBI. Waste products of the Argonne laboratory were sent to he commission’s installation at Oak Ridge, Tenn., for analysis.
The FBI said it has completed its investigation of the missing uranium. Rut a spokesman refused to divulge the results of the inquiry.
Madera Tribune 19 May 1949 — California Digital Newspaper Collection (ucr.edu)

 

Today in History June 3rd

1943 The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of violent clashes between U.S. servicemen, off-duty police officers
and civilians brawled with young Latinos, Blacks, and other minorities in Los Angeles.

Note: The riots took their name from the baggy suits worn by many minority youths during that era

Note: Servicemen saw the oversized suits as a flagrant and unpatriotic waste of resources, and in contradiction to the U.S. War Production Board which regulated the production of civilian clothing containing silk, wool and other essential fabrics.

 

June 3rd, con't

1098 After 5-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch

1539 Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain

1889 The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast

Weather History, The weather channel:

1921 A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado

1959 - Thunderstorms in northwestern Kansas produced up to eighteen inches of hail near Salden.
Crops were completely destroyed

1941 Germans stamp "J" on Jewish passports

1968 Radical feminist Valerie Solanas attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times

Note: diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, she pleads guilty to "reckless assault with intent to harm"

1985 "Larry King Live" debuts on CNN, airing each weeknight through December, 2010

1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire
on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing

 

JUNE 3rd: 1970 - "Coca-Lola"

Ray Davies was forced to make a 6,000 mile round trip from New York to London to record one word in a song.
Davies had to change the word 'Coca- Cola' to 'Cherry Cola' on the bands forthcoming single 'Lola' due to an advertising ban at BBC Radio.

 

JUNE 3rd: 2002 - "Jubilee Party"


The Party at the Palace was a British pop/rock music concert held in London in 2002.
The event was in commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II held over the Golden Jubilee Weekend 1–4 June 2002.
*The event itself was held at Buckingham Palace Garden on 3rd June 2002.
Paul McCartney, Sting, Elton John, Brian Wilson, Cliff Richard, Ozzy Osbourne, The Corrs, Will Young, Atomic Kitten and S Club 7 all appeared at The Queen's Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace, London.
It was the pop/rock equivalent of the Prom at the Palace, that showcased classical music.
Party at the Palace - Wikipedia

 

JUNE 3rd: 1972 - "Battle of the Bridge"

A Protestant march against the creation of "no-go" areas in Londonderry ends in a bloody battle between marchers and soldiers on the Craigavon Bridge.
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BBC ON THIS DAY | 3 | 1972: Protestant march ends in battle*

 

Today in history June 4th

1939 – The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in cuba and later in Florida.

Note: Forced to return to Europe, many of it's passengers later died in Nazi concentration camps.

Note: Critics of Franklin Delano Roosevelt often use the St. Louis as an example of FDR’s indifference toward the Holocaust,
except there were no death camps until two years later in 1941.

1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Note: if the Japanese carrier task force under Vice Admiral Nagumo had turned NW rather than SE towards the Americans, it would have given the Japanese an additional 45 minutes to launch the second wave of the attack, and the outcome could have been completely different.

1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Note: Terry Nichols is currently serving his sentence at the super-max federal correctional complex in Florence, Colorado, along with other such notables as the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, and El Chapo Guzman, just to name a few.