Almanac for June 1st

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 1st: https://ko-fi.com/Post/June-1st-R6R31G1FZR

Marilyn Monroe was born 100 years ago today, on June 1, 1926.

Bummer June 1st

June 1, 1600: Quaker preacher Mary Dyer is executed by hanging in Boston for the crime of repeatedly preaching Quaker doctrine in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where it’s illegal to be any religion other than Puritan. Offered a last-minute reprieve, Dyer refuses it, choosing to be martyred for her cause.

June 1, 1981: A mob of Sinhalese people in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, burns the Jaffna Public Library. The mob formed in protest of the killing of three Sinhalese police officers the night before, at a rally held by a Tamil pro-democracy political party. The burning of the library, which destroyed an estimated 97,000 books and manuscripts, came as part of clashes between the Sinhalese, who make up about three quarters of the population of Sri Lanka, and the Tamil minority.

June 1, 2001: According to an official Nepalese investigatory team, Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills nine members of his own family. Among the victims were his father King Birendra, his mother Queen Aishwarya, and Dipendra’s younger brother and sister. And additional four relatives are wounded. Dipendra shoots himself following the massacre; while he is in a coma, he is declared king. 

He dies on June 4th. Riots break out at his funeral, since many Nepalese people believe Dipendra’s body doesn’t deserve any of the ceremonial honors traditionally bestowed on a deceased king. 

June 1, 2009: Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after the flight crew fails to recover the aircraft from a stall. All 228 people on board are killed. Among the dead are composer Silvio Sergio Bonaccorsi Barbato and Classical harpist Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu.