Today is Tuesday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2010. There are 213 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1533, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned as Queen Consort of England.

In 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the US frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said, "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with a British frigate, the HMS Shannon, during the War of 1812.

In 1979, the British colony of Rhodesia, which had unilaterally declared its independence in 1965, became known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Zimbabwe gained internationally recognised independence after elections the following year.

Thought for Today

"He who talks much cannot always talk well." — Carlo Goldoni, Italian dramatist (1707-1793).