TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Friday June 1, the 152th day of 2018. There are 213 days left in the year.

1215 Zhongdu ( now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu. 1298 Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida. 1495 A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky. 1533 Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England. 1535 Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.

1648 The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the English Civil War. 1679 Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse.

1773 Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. He drowned on his eighth attempt. 1794 The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars. 1815 Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite. 1862 American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines ( or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.

1922 The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded. 1958 Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.

1974 The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine. 1980 Cable News Network ( CNN) begins broadcasting.

1993 Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo. 1999 American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock. 2001 Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother. 2004 Oklahoma state prosecutors sentence Oklahoma City bombing co- conspirator Terry Nichols.

2009 Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. 228 passengers are killed.