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