Monday, June 2, 1997
Today's events
Canada is scheduled to hold its general elections.
Britain's Princess Diana's ballgowns and evening
dresses are scheduled to go on public view at Christie's in
London before they are auctioned off in New York on June 25
to raise funds for cancer and AIDS charities.
Austrian President Thomas Klestil is scheduled to visit
Spain.
Romanian President Emil Constantinescu and Ukrainian
President Leonid Kuchma are expected to meet in Romania's
main Black Sea port to sign a key post-communist treaty,
settling border and minority issues dating back to World War
II.
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On the horizon
On Tuesday, June 3, it will be the eighth anniversary of
China's crackdown on dissidents in Tiananmen Square.
On Wednesday, June 4, the World Economic Forum issues its
world competitiveness report in Zurich.
On Thursday, June 5, multiparty legislative elections are
scheduled to be held in Algeria, the first since authorities
annulled 1992's general election.
On Friday, June 6, the 44th Sydney Film Festival takes place
in Australia.
On Sunday, June 8, Nordic and Baltic defense ministers are
scheduled to meet in Saaremaa, Estonia.
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On this day
In 1420, Henry V of England married Catherine of Valois,
daughter of Charles VI, king of France.
In 1734, in the War of the Polish Succession, Russia and
Austria finally took Danzig after a siege which had begun the
previous October.
In 1774, the Quartering Act was revived in Britain,
forcing people in America to provide housing for British
troops in America.
In 1780, riots began in London led by Lord George Gordon in
protest against Parliament's plans to extend the Catholic
Relief Act (1778) canceling restrictions on Roman Catholics.
In 1793, after three days of revolt in France, 31 Girondists
were arrested and ousted from the Convention.
In 1896, broadcasting by electromagnetic waves was first
patented on this day by Guglielmo Marconi.
In 1899, Spain ceded the Carolinas, Pelews, Marianne and
Ladrones to Germany.
In 1932, Major Frank Holmes, a New Zealand engineer, struck
oil for the first time in Bahrain.
In 1953, the coronation of Elizabeth II took place at
Westminster Abbey in London. This coronation was the first to
be televised.
In 1979, Pope John Paul II arrived in Poland in the first
visit by a Pope to a communist country.
In 1988, in Canberra, the High Court unanimously rejected
Britain's bid to ban further publication in Australia of the
"Spycatcher" memoirs of former secret agent Peter Wright.
In 1992, Denmark's voters rejected the EC Maastricht Treaty
by the slimmest of margins, stunning the European Community
and their own overwhelmingly pro-Treaty leaders.
In 1993, Challenger Melchior Ndadaye toppled military
president Pierre Buyoya in Burundi's first free elections to
give the majority Hutu tribe its first national leader.
In 1994, 29 people, including top Northern Ireland undercover
police fighting the IRA, were killed when their helicopter
crashed on a remote Scottish headland.
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Newslink
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big award? Check out the Tony
Awards Online to find out all the latest information.
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Holidays and more
Today is Foundation Day in Australia.
It is Coronation Day of the Fourth Hereditary King in Bhutan.
Today is Corpus Christi in Colombia and Venezuela.
It is the Queen's Birthday in the Cook Islands and New
Zealand.
Today is a Summer Holiday in Ireland.
It's Madaraka Day in Kenya.
Today is Independence Day in Western Samoa.
Actress Diana Canova is 44.
Actor Gary Grimes is 42.
Actor Charles Haid is 54.
Composer Marvin Hamlisch is 53.
Actor Stacy Keach is 56.
Actress Sally Kellerman is 61.
Actor Jerry Mathers is 49.
Actor Milo O'Shea is 71.
Musician Charlie Watts is 56.
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Sources: Associated Press,
Chase's Calendar of Events 1997, J.P. Morgan
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