Today in History for 1st June 2014

Historical Events

1868 - Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.

1917 - Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I

1934 - AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar

1976 - Great Britain and Iceland end the "cod war"

1977 - SC Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen

1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power.

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Famous Birthdays

1892 - Samuel L M Barlow, composer

1922 - Abdul Rashid, Pakistan, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)

1946 - Brian Cox, actor (Killer Party, Manhunter)

1960 - Simon Gallup, English bassist (The Cure)

1970 - Alexi Lalas, American soccer player

1984 - Oliver Tielemans, Dutch racing driver

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Famous Deaths

1970 - G Ungaretti, writer, dies at 82

1983 - Charles Tham, of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, count of Flanders/Prince, dies

1986 - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1958)

1996 - Don Grolnick, jazz musician, dies at 48

1996 - Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon, dies at 85

2001 - Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949)

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