WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2016

Today is Wednesday, June 1, the154th day of 2016. There are 212 days left in the year.

1774 — British govt orders Port of Boston closed

1789 — First U.S. congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)

1792 — Kentucky admitted as 15th U.S. state

1796 — Tennessee admitted as 16th U.S. state

1808 — First U.S. land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio

1813 — Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto “Don’t give up the ship”

1855 — U.S. adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery

1861 — First skirmish in the Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va

1861 — U.S. & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange