On This Day... (From Your Local Guardian)

On This Day...

5:18am Sunday 1st June 2008

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1st June

1533 - Anne Boleyn crowned Queen of England.

1910 - Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.

1935 - The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom.

1974 - Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims published in the journal Emergency Medicine.

1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.

1990 - George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.

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