Today is Monday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2015. There are 213 days left in the year.
1535 ― Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
1776 ― First vote on the Declaration of Independence
1862 ― Congress outlaws polygamy (first time); bad news for Utah
1949 ― Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France
1959 ― World Refugee Year begins
1966 ― Medicare goes into effect
1967 ― Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,” goes No. 1 for 15 weeks
1968 ― U.S., Britain, USSR and 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
1982 ― Over 2,000 Unification Church couples marry at N.Y. MSG
1990 ― German Democratic Republic accepts the Deutsche mark as its currency
1997 ― China regains sovereignty of Hong Kong