June 1, 1652, the Battle of Batag began between the army of the Army of the Zaporozhye and Crimean Khanate under the leadership of Bogdan Khmelnitsky against the troops of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under the command of Martyn Kalinouski.
1725 - under the reign of Catherine I, the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky was established.
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1831 - During the Arctic exploration in the area of Northern Canada, the English explorer John Ross discovered the location of the Earth's North Pole, the place where the magnetic needle occupies a vertical position. After 10 years, his nephew James Ross reached the southern magnetic pole of the Earth, located in Antarctica.
1858 - the first Canadian coins were made.
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1890 - The US Census Bureau for the first time began to use the electric tabulation machine of Herman Hollerith, designed for statistical processing of punch cards.
1924 - the first 6-cylinder car of the new brand Chrysler came off the assembly line.
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1938 - the first issue of the comic book "Action Comics" appeared in the US, in which the famous Superman appeared. The authors of the comics were Jerry Siegel and the artist Joe Schuster. The first copies of "Action Comics" were worth 10 cents, and in 1995 they auctioned for $ 75,000.
1950 - the record company "Decca Records" released the world's first plate at 331/3 rpm.
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1967 - the group "The Beatles" released its eighth disc - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. " According to the magazine "Rolling Stone" he is the best album of all time and people (2003), and his cover is the best among the covers of music albums.
1980 - the first round-the-clock information channel Cable News Network (CNN), which, according to its owner Ted Turner, will be on air until the end of the world.
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1990 - on the screens of the US came Paul Verhoeven's film "Remember All" with the participation of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone. He received an Oscar for visual effects, had good reviews of critics and viewers, collecting at the box office four times the amount that the budget for its production.
2009 - During the flight Rio de Janeiro-Paris crashed and the Airbus Airbus A330 Air France crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. Killed all 216 passengers and 12 crew members.