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1831: The British explorer James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole
It is the location where the Earth’s magnetic field points directly downwards. It lies in the vicinity of the Geographic North Pole.
1879: The death of Napoléon, Prince Imperial (also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte), the last dynastic Bonaparte. After his father was dethroned in 1870, he relocated with his family to England and served with British forces in the Anglo-Zulu War. He was killed in a skirmish with a group of Zulus and is buried in Farnborough, Hampshire. His death destroyed the hope for the restoration of the House of Bonaparte to the throne of France.
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1926: The first edition of The Daily Times is published in Lagos, British Nigeria. Its editor and board chairman will become activists for nationalism. Within a decade, the Daily Times will dominate the country’s advertising, and by the 1970s will be one of Africa’s most successful locally-owned businesses.
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1945: The first group of Berlin women start clearing the rubble of World War II
In Germany, the Trümmerfrauen is a well-known symbol of a new beginning after the total desolation in the aftermath of the war, and for the Wirtschaftswunder, the rapid reconstruction of Germany’s economy through hard labour.
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1974: The Heimlich Maneuver is published.
Henry Heimlich is credited with developing the technique using abdominal thrusts to stop choking.
1980: CNN (Cable News Network), the world’s first 24-hour television news network, makes its debut.
Ted Turner’s Cable News Network (CNN), headquartered in Atlanta, began 24-hour live news broadcasts on this day in 1980 and gained worldwide attention in 1991 for its around-the-clock coverage of the Persian Gulf War.
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1990: George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to end production of chemical weapons.
At a superpowers summit meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a historic agreement to end the production of chemical weapons and begin the destruction of both nations’ sizable reserves of them. According to the agreement, on-site inspectors from both countries would observe the destruction process.
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1995: Michael Ajasin, the director of NADECO, is arrested in Owo along with several other Yoruba politicians at a meeting of Afenifere . Ajasin is released the next day, and the others are all released on 3 June (Reuters. 3 June 1995).
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2009: Air France flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic. All 228 people on board died in the crash. It took two years to find and recover the wreckage from the ocean floor.
2020: The city of Rabat, Morocco puts giant facemasks on the front of its tram-trains as a way to remind the riders of the requirement to wear facemasks in public against the Covid-19 pandemic. The humorous gesture gets international attention.
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BIRTHS ON THIS DAY: June 01
Kuki Gallmann, 81 years
Kuki Gallmann is an Italian-born Kenyan environmentalist, born on 1 June 1943 in Treviso, Italy. A nationalised Kenyan, she dedicated her life to conservation, first on her family farm and then with other initiatives throughout the country. Her tragedy-filled autobiography I Dreamed of Africa was an international best-seller.
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Morgan Freeman, 87 years
Morgan Freeman is an American actor, producer, and narrator was born on June 1, 1937. Throughout a career spanning five decades and multiple film genres, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as a nomination for a Tony Award.
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