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Saturday June 1st is the 153rd day of the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days left until the end of the year.
Saint of the day: Saint Justin Martyr
June Proverb
In June, for better or worse, there is always a storm
It happened today
1869 – Thomas Edison receives the patent for his electric elective machine
1942 – Second World War: the Warsaw newspaper Liberty Brigade publishes the first news regarding the existence of concentration camps
1958 – Charles de Gaulle is brought back from retirement to lead France by decree for a period of six months
1967 – The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released in England
1994 – Armando Calderón becomes president of El Salvador
1997 – Hugo Banzer wins the Bolivian presidential elections
2003 – China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising water levels more than 100 meters
2009 – An Air France Airbus A330-200, which left Rio de Janeiro and headed for Paris, with 228 people on board, including 10 Italians, disappeared from Brazilian radar at approximately 8 am. The following week the first remains of the aircraft were found: no survivors
Birthdays
Morgan Freeman – born in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 1, 1937, he is a very well-known actor and producer. He has acted in several films including The Dark Knight Rises with Christian Bale and Tom Hardy, Red with Bruce Willis and Mary Louise Parker, Invictus with Matt Damon and Tony Kgoroge, The Code with Antonio Banderas and Radha Mitchell (June 1, 1937)
Heidi Klum – German supermodel, stylist and television presenter, naturalized American (1 June 1973)
Orietta Berti – born Orietta Galimberti, she is an Italian singer (1 June 1945)
Laura Lattuada – Italian actress and television presenter (1 June 1960)
