-- card: 63103 from stack: in.0 -- bmap block id: 0 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 4410 -- name: -- part contents for background part 14 ----- text ----- June 1 -- part contents for background part 13 ----- text ----- In 1792, Kentucky became the 15th state. In 1796, Tennesse became the 16th state. In 1801, Mormon leader Brigham Young was born in Whitingham, Vt. In 1813, the U.S. Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, was heard to say, "Don't give up the ship," during a losing battle with a British frigate. In 1868, James Buchanan, the 15th president, died near Lancaster, Pa. In 1888, California got its first seismographs as three of the devices were installed at the Lick Observatory. -- part contents for background part 16 ----- text ----- Actor Andy Griffith (1926) Singer Pat Boone (1934) Actor Cleavon Little (1939) Opera singer Frederica von Stade (1945) Rock guitarist Ron Wood (1947) -- part contents for background part 17 ----- text ----- "Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly." ------------ Simeon Strunsky