Daily Archives: June 1, 2012

‘The Inner Light’ episode airs on ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ 20 years ago this hour (1992)


Video: 'The Inner Light' (clip)

(Monday, June 1, 1992, 10 p.m. EDT) — Picard is struck by an energy beam from an alien probe, which renders him unconscious and places him in the life of a citizen on the planet Kataan, with his memory of the Enterprise intact on tonight’s episode of the science fiction TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Lee assumes command of the Army of Northern Virginia 150 years ago today (1862)


Video: Lee assumes command (at 18:04)

(Sunday, June 1, 1862, part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War) — Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia today after General J. E. Johnston was wounded and Major General G. W. Smith suffered what may have been a nervous breakdown at the Battle of Seven Pines.