King George the V and Queen Mary were crowned at Westminster Abbey.
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Boer General P. H. Kritzinger authorized Boer troops to shoot any blacks who were riding a horse without the permission of an employer. The illegal order was based on the concept that such Cape Colony blacks must be spies.
The London School of economics was incorporated.
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The United Kingdom celebrated victory in World War Two with a massive parade in London.
BBC Television, which had been off the air since September 1, 1939, resumed broadcasting. The resumption was for only an hour on June 7, but it signaled its first return. The programming featured speakers welcoming the audience back, a performance by ballerina Margo Fonteyn, a talk segment, and a rebroadcast of Disney's Mickey's Gala, the latter being the last thing broadcast in 1939.
There were over 18,000 television sets in the US when service was suspended.
The players of the Pittsburgh Pirates, which had threatened to walk out if they were not allowed to join the American Baseball Guild, didn't.
First flight of the Short Sturgeon.
The UK and Iceland came to an agreement ending the Cod Wars.
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The House of Commons voted to nationalize the British coal industry. The House of Lords would follow and Royal Assent would be received on July l2.
A C-45 crashed into the 58th floor of the Bank of Manhattan building killing all five passengers but nobody else, given that it occurred at 8:00 p.m.
Things were not going well in Iran.
Cherilyn Sarkisian, better known by her stage name Cher, was born in El Centro, California. Bobby Murcer, the baseball announcer and player, was born in Oklahoma City.
Murcer passed away in 2008, but Cher is still with us.
Interesting set of advertisements.
Do the math on the Head Cow Man.
Forces loyal to Marshal Józef Piłsudski rose up in a coup against Poland's democratically elected government in no small part due to his belief that he uniquely could and should control the country's destiny and his supporters opposition to democracy. The coup would result in a new constitution which was in place at the outbreak of World War Two and at least theoretically in place throughout the war.
The Italian built Norge airship reached the North Pole with Roald Amundsen, pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Lincoln Ellsworth, Italian engineer Umberto Nobile, Norwegian Navy commander Oscar Wisting and 11 other crew members. It was the first flight over the North Pole.
The British Trades Union Congress called of its general strike. A coal miners strike continued.
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Ford Motors introduced the 40 hour workweek into American industry. They reduced what had been a 48 hour workweek to that level, with no reduction in pay.
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The Al-Baqi' cemetery in Medina was razed under orders of Saudi King Abdulaziz ibn Saud in what some Muslims recall as The Day of Sorrow (Persian: روز غم Ruz-e Gham, Urdu: یوم غم Yaum-e Gham). The act was done primarily to enforce Wahhabi doctrine forbidding building structures over graves, viewing that as idolatry.
Bernard Law Montgomery died at age 88.
Of Scots Irish descent, he was born in Kennington, England to a Church of Ireland cleric and grew up principally in Australia when his father was appointed Bishop of Tasmania. He was commissioned an Army officer in 1908. He became a British Field Marshall during World War Two and is justifiably famous. He was deputy commander of NATO until 1958, when he retired at age 70.
Isabel Peron was deposed.
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The U.S. Army made the first successful out of atmosphere rocket launch by the U.S.
The rocket, a Bumper-WAC was a two staged rocked based on the German V-2.
Transjordan and the UK signed the Treaty of London giving Transjordan its independence with the UK retaining military bases in the country.
Cardinal Clemens von Galen, the great Catholic German cleric, died at age 68 from appendicitis. He had only been made a cardinal the prior month. He had been a fearless opponent of the Nazis. To some degree, it's hard not to put him in the category of men who died shortly after World War Two after having struggled so mightily during it.
Von Galen is sort of a model of our own time. He was very German but loyal to higher things. He came from German nobility but served the Church, and he wasn't afraid to confront the barbarity of the Nazi regime.
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Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced his retirement at age 60 due to what he knew was advancing dementia, although, in those years before this was as understood as well as it currently is, he cited physical and mental exhaustion. He would die in 1995, although his dementia never took fully hold.
The more power to him. Right now, in the United States, we have a demented President in a family with a history of dementia, who is sending people off to war based on his feelings. History will not forgive us for putting up with this.
John Thune, in the Senate, is too old for his job.
John Barrasso, in the Senate, is 73, way too old for his job.
And the people who will die in the current war can take no comfort in that, as Congress is composed, on the Republican side of abject cowards.
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And, just a few days after it happened in Kentucky, a meat shower happened over London.
Weird.
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President Truman signed the American Employment Act of 1946.
Prime Minister Attlee announced a plan to transfer power to Indians in Indian no later than June, 1948.
The Allied occupation authorities ended kōshō, licensed prostitution, in Japan.
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The Bank of England was nationalized.
The U.S. Army introduced the early computer ENIAC, which calculated rocket trajectories.
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The first commercial flight of the Concorde supersonic airliner took place with one departing Heathrow in British Airways colors and another departing Orly Airport in Paris in Air France colors. The British jet flew to Bahrain and the French one to Brazil.
The plane remained in service until 2003.
On the same day communist forces in Angola established the People's Air Force of Angola.
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