THURSDAY IN HISTORY

Today is Thursday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2017. There are 213 days left in the year.

Highlights in History:

It was 50 years ago today — June 1, 1967 — that the Beatles album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released, as was David Bowie’s debut album, eponymously titled “David Bowie.”

On this date:

In 1792, Kentucky became the 15th state.

In 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.

In 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, gave the order, “Don’t give up the ship” during a losing battle with the British frigate HMS Shannon in the War of 1812.

In 1943, a civilian flight from Portugal to England was shot down by Germany during World War II, killing all 17 people aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.

In 1957, Don Bowden, a student at the University of California at Berkeley, became the first American to break the four-minute mile during a meet in Stockton, California, in a time of 3:58.7.

In 1977, the Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason.

In 2009, Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330 carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of everyone on board.

Ten years ago: The FDA warned consumers to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it might contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.

Five years ago: The U.N.’s top human rights body voted overwhelmingly to condemn Syria over the slaughter of more than 100 civilians; Syria’s most important ally and protector, Russia, voted against the measure.

One year ago: After killing his estranged wife in a Minneapolis suburb, a former UCLA student drove from Minnesota to Los Angeles, where he shot and killed his former professor before taking his own life.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Richard Erdman is 92. Singer Pat Boone is 83. Actor Morgan Freeman is 80. Actor Rene Auberjonois is 77. Basketball player-turned-coach Tony Bennett is 48. Model-actress Heidi Klum is 44. Singer Alanis Morissette is 43. Actress-writer Amy Schumer is 36.

Thought for Today: “The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.” — Grace King, American author (1852-1932).