1926"A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, but dimonds are a girl's best friend..."Actress and silver screen sex symbol Marilyn Monroe is born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles. Among her films, "Gentlemen Prefer Blonds," "The Seven Year Itch," "Bus Stop," "Someone Like It Hot" and "The Misfits."1980"This is CNN."Cable News Network, founded by Ted Turner, hits the airwaves, introducing the world to 24x7 TV news coverage.

1801Brigham Young, the Mormon leader whose religious followers settled what's now Utah is born in Whitingham, Vermont.

And 1968Helen Keller, the blind and deaf author and lecturer, whose story is told in the Miracle Worker dies in eastern Connecticut. She was 87.

Today in History, June 1st. Comile Bohannon, the Associated Press.