1970 – Zimbabwe came into existence. It was formerly known as Rhodesia.<\/p>\n
1972 – In Iraq, The Ba’athist government nationalized the western-owned Iraq Petroleum Company and turned operations over to the Iraq National Oil Company.<\/p>\n
1977 – The Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. He was imprisoned until 1986.<\/p>\n
1978 – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0reported the finding of wiretaps in the American embassy in Moscow.<\/p>\n
1979 – In the U.S., the government-controlled ceiling on oil prices ends. The control was phased out over 28 months.<\/p>\n
1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as the first all-news station.<\/p>\n
1989 – Disney World’s “Typhoon Lagoon” opened.<\/p>\n
1995 – At Disneyland Paris, the attraction “Space Mountain: From The Earth to the Moon” opened.<\/p>\n
1998 – In the\u00a0U.S., the FDA approved a urine-only test for the AIDS virus.<\/p>\n
1998 – A $124 million suit was brought against Goodyear Tire & Rubber that alleged discrimination towards black workers.<\/p>\n
1999 – Merrill Lynch chairman David Komansky announced that the firm would soon allow its customers to buy and sell stocks over the Internet.<\/p>\n
2008 – The\u00a0Phoenix Mars Lander<\/i>\u00a0became the first NASA spacecraft to scoop Martian soil.<\/p>\n
2009 – The first event, a George Strait concert, was held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington,\u00a0TX.<\/p>\n
2009 – General Motors filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The filing made GM the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection.<\/p>\n
2011\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0rare tornado outbreak\u00a0occurs in\u00a0New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes\u00a0Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.<\/p>\n
2011 \u2013\u00a0Space Shuttle\u00a0Endeavour<\/i>\u00a0makes its final landing after 25 flights.\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n 2015\u00a0\u2013 A ship carrying 458 people\u00a0capsizes\u00a0on\u00a0Yangtze River in China’s Hubei\u00a0province, killing 400 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History Of 1 June 1970 – Zimbabwe came into existence. It was formerly known as Rhodesia. 1972 – In Iraq, The Ba’athist government nationalized the western-owned Iraq Petroleum Company and turned operations over to the Iraq National Oil Company. 1977 – The Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-4969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-1i9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4972,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/4972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}