As we speak is Sunday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2025. There are 213 days left within the yr.
As we speak in historical past:
On June 1, 2008, a hearth at Common Studios Hollywood destroyed 3 acres of the studio’s property, together with a vault that held as many as 175,000 irreplaceable grasp audio recordings from a whole lot of musicians together with Billie Vacation, Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, Elton John and Nirvana.
Additionally on this date:
In 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the usChesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, gave the order, “Don’t give up the ship,” throughout a shedding battle with the British frigate HMS Shannon through the Struggle of 1812.
In 1916, the Senate voted 47-22 to substantiate Louis Brandeis as an affiliate justice of the U.S. Supreme Courtroom, the primary Jewish American to serve on the nation’s highest bench.
In 1943, a civilian flight from Portugal to England was shot down by German bombers throughout World Struggle II, killing all 17 folks aboard, together with actor Leslie Howard.
In 1957, Don Bowden, a scholar on the College of California at Berkeley, grew to become the primary American to interrupt the four-minute mile throughout a meet in Stockton, California, with a time of three:58.7.
In 1962, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was executed after being discovered responsible of warfare crimes and crimes towards humanity for his actions throughout World Struggle II.
In 1990, U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed an settlement to cease producing and cut back present stockpiles of chemical weapons held by the 2 Chilly Struggle superpowers.
In 2001, Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shot and killed 9 members of the Nepalese royal household, together with his mother and father, King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, earlier than mortally wounding himself.
In 2009, Normal Motors filed for Chapter 11 reorganization, changing into the biggest U.S. industrial firm to enter chapter safety.
In 2020, police violently broke up a protest by hundreds of individuals in Lafayette Park throughout from the White Home, utilizing chemical brokers, golf equipment and punches to ship protesters fleeing; the protesters had gathered following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis per week earlier. Later that day, President Donald Trump, after declaring himself “the president of law and order” and threatening to deploy the U.S. army in a speech, walked throughout the empty park to be photographed holding a Bible in entrance of St. John’s Church, which had been broken an evening earlier.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
Singer Pat Boone is 91.
Actor Morgan Freeman is 88.
Actor Brian Cox is 79.
Actor Jonathan Pryce is 78.
Rock musician Ronnie Wooden (The Rolling Stones) is 78.
Nation singer-songwriter Ronnie Dunn is 72.
Actor Lisa Hartman Black is 69.
Actor Teri Polo is 56.
Mannequin-TV character Heidi Klum is 52.
Singer Alanis Morissette is 51.
Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile is 44.
Actor-comedian Amy Schumer is 44.
Tennis Corridor of Famer Justine Henin is 43.
Comic Nikki Glaser is 41.
Actor Zazie Beetz is 34.
Actor Tom Holland is 29.
Actor Willow Shields is 25.
