Just a few news items from each day in June click on the link for each day to find more news for that day
1st June1935 Compulsory Driving Test is introduced for all drivers in England.
1938 Superman appears for the first time in D.C. comics.
1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released by The Beatles.
1980 The first 24-hour news television station, CNN, launched in Atlanta, Georgia.
1923 Great Britain World War I Loans To France
1923 : Both Great Britain and the United States are demanding back the loans made to France borrowed during the First World War but the french answer is both Britain and America are much richer nations and as the war was a world war they should not have to pay the money back, negotiations are continuing at diplomatic levels.
1933 USA Roger Williams
1933 : The aviator, Roger Williams, announces his plans to fly a round-trip flight across the Atlantic ocean. His flight plans start from New York and include stops in Rome, Greece, and Ireland. He plans to end in Chicago. It was set to start his flight on July 24th in a Bellanca plane.
1938 Superman Appears For The First Time
1938 : Superman created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster made his first appearance in D.C. Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1 which sold for 10 cents.
1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1967 : One of the most iconic LP's from the 1960s Music is released by The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sold over 8 million copies worldwide.
1968 USA Helen Keller
1968 : The famous blind and deaf author Helen Keller who become a world-famous speaker, Political Activist and author, Helen Keller, dies.
1935 England Compulsory Driving Test
1935 : Compulsory Driving Test is introduced for all drivers in England who started driving on or after April 1st 1934, A voluntary test was introduced by the Road Traffic Act in 1934 and the first person in Britain to take the test and pass his driving test is Mr R.E.L.BEERE. The test took place on the 16th March 1935. The son of Mr R.E.L.BEERE. still has the certificate 00001 signed in behalf of the (then) Minister of Transport. All drivers buying a temporary driving license must now put ‘L’ plates on the car and take a driving test to get their full license.
1942 Poland Extermination Camps
1942 : A Warsaw underground newspaper, the Liberty Brigade, is the first public newspaper to tell the world about the Nazi extermination camps in Poland where tens of thousands of Jews were murdered in Chelmno.
1944 France World War II
1944 : The British Broadcasting Corp. aired the coded message from the first line of a poem by Paul Verlaine to underground resistance fighters in France to inform the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
1946 Great Britain First TV Licence Introduced
1946 : The British Broadcasting Corporation/BBC introduces the first TV Licence costing £2 for the British Public. This was in addition to a Radio Licence which cost about 10 shillings (50p). Current TV licence fee is £147.00.
1947 U.S.A. Tornado Arkansas
1947 : A tornado kills an estimated 30 people and leaves over 500 people homeless in Arkansas. Many rural communities were hit by the tornado and destroyed. The storm's path was an estimated 20 miles long, and could have been up to 10 miles wide.
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