June 1 - Close-Ups

Close-Ups

Family Birthdays

Aunt Jean Schurr

This Day In History

1495

Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.

1533

Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.

1796

Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.

1813

James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"

1831

James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.

1890

The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.

1910

Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.

1962

The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.

1974

The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.

Famous Birthdays

1503

Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (d. 1567)

1633

Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)

1843

Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)

1878

John Masefield, English novelist and poet (d. 1967)
1889
 James Daugherty, American modernist painter, muralist, children's book author, and illustrator (d. 1974)

1907

Sir Frank Whittle, English engineer and inventor (d. 1996)

1926

Andy Griffith, American actor

Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)

1930

Edward Woodward, English actor (d. 2009)

1937

Morgan Freeman, American actor

1940

René Auberjonois, American actor

1946

Brian Cox, Scottish actor

1947

Jonathan Pryce, British actor

1953

Ronnie Dunn, American musician (Brooks & Dunn)

1956

Lisa Hartman Black, American actress

1969

Teri Polo, American actress