Today in History, 6/1

1533: Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1563: Robert Cecil is born. He was Queen Elizabeth I's spymaster and could get things done.1660: Mary Dyer is hanged for violating a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1779: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance.1792: Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state
1796: Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state.
1801: Brigham Young is born in Whitingham, VT.1812: President James Madison asks Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1834: James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, cries out, "Don't give up the ship!"
1843: Henry Faulds is born. He was an early pioneer in the science of fingerprinting.1869: Thomas Edison receives a patent for the electric voting machine.
1890: The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.1907: Frank Whittle is born. He invented the jet engine.1918: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Crown Prince Wilhelm at the Battle for Belleau Wood.
1925: Lou Gehrig plays the first game in his streak of 2,130 consecutive games.1926: Andy Griffith is born.

1926: Marilyn Monroe is born.

1930: Edward Woodward is born. He is most famous for playing The Equalizer, but he also played the Ghost of Christmas Present in the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol.1934: Pat Boone is born.

1937: Morgan Freeman is born.

1939: Cleavon Little is born.

1940: Rene Auberjonois is born. He's been a character actor in all kids of things, including playing the gruff-but-lovable shape-shifting constable on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

1944: The BBC airs a coded message intented to let the French resistance know that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
1947: Jonathan Pryce is born. He played Sam Lowry in Brazil.

1967: The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

1973: Heidi Klum is born.1974: The Heimlich maneuver is first published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1980: CNN begins broadcasting.

Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up.