GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS MONDAY, June 1, the 152nd day of 2015 with 212 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 5:10 and sunset is @ 8:13. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are stars are Neptune & Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn & Venus.

ON THIS DAY IN: 1485 – King Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.

1796 – Tennessee became the 16th state.

1813 – The Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said, “Don’t give up the ship.”

1869 – Thomas Edison of Boston, Massachusetts, received a patent for his electric voting machine.

1938 – Protective baseball helmets were worn by batters for the very first time.

1938 – The first issue of “Action Comics” was published.

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.

1958 – Charles de Gaulle became premier of France.

1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.

1990 – President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed an agreement to end production of chemical weapons and begin destruction of the reserves.

2001 – The king, queen, and seven other members of Nepal’s royal family were slain by Crown Prince Dipendra, who then shot himself, dying three days later.

2003 – The People’s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.

2005 – Dutch voters rejected the European Union constitution.