Portal:United States/Anniversaries/June/June 1
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- 1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
- 1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state.
- 1812 – President James Madison asks Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
- Navajo people to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- 1926 – Marilyn Monroe (pictured), actress, singer, model, pop culture icon, eminent sex symbol, and reported mistress of President John F. Kennedy, is born.
- 1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
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Events
- Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- malfeasance.
- 1792 – Kentucky admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
- 1796 – Tennessee admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
- Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
- 1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally–wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, cries out "Don't give up the ship!"
- William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
- Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pinesor (Battle of Fair Oaks) – Engagement ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
- Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- 1869 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine.
- standard gauge, beginning May 31.
- 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
- Civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- 1925 – Lou Gehrig plays the first game in his streak of 2,130 consecutive games; it was the longest such streak until broken by Cal Ripken Jr. in 1995.
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- 1958 – Charles de Gaulle brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
- Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
- 1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- Houston, Texas area occurred in Crosby, Texas. The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company.
- 2007 – Jack Kevorkian was released from prison after serving eight years of his 10–25 year prison term for second–degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.