Today in History....June 1

On this day in …

* 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, Captain James Lawrence, said, "Don't give up the ship"
during a losing battle with a British frigate

* 1943, a civilian flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all aboard, including actor Leslie Howard

* 1967, the Beatles released their album, "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

* 1977, the Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. (Shcharansky was imprisoned, then released in 1986; he's now known as Natan
Sharansky)

* 1980, CNN made its broadcast debut

* 1997, Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, was fatally burned in a fire set by her 12-year-old grandson in her New York apartment.
ALSO: The Broadway show "Titanic" won five Tony Awards, including best musical. AND: The Chicago Tribune published a column by Mary Schmich which urged the graduating class of 1997, among other things, to "wear sunscreen" (the tongue-in-cheek essay ended up being wrongly attributed to author Kurt Vonnegut on the Internet).

* 2002, President Bush told West Point graduates the U.S. would strike pre-emptively against suspected terrorists if necessary to deter attacks on Americans, saying "the war on terror will not be won on the defensive."

* 2006, six world powers, including the U.S., agreed on a package of incentives to persuade Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program.
ALSO: A contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility for the flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina