This Day in History - May 18, 1920, Karol Jozef Wojtyla is born in the Polish town of Wadowice. To find out more about this day, check out this video clip.

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On this day in 2005, John Paul II, history's most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century, dies at his home in the Vatican. Six days later, two million people packed Vatican City for his funeral, said to be the biggest funeral in history. John Paul II was born Karol Jozef Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland, 35 miles southwest of Krakow, in 1920.

This Day in History - May 15, 1937, Madeleine Albright was born. Madeleine Albright, during the Clinton administration was the first female United States Secretary of State. Born a Jew in Czechoslovakia, Albright converted to Christianity to escape the German Nazis. To find out more about Albright, check out this video clip.

December 8th proved to be a memorable day in the history of music. It was on this fateful day that John Lennon was shot and killed by a crazed fan, by the name of Mark David Chapman, and the Grateful Dead announced the bands dispersal. These events occurred in 1980 and 1995 respectively. It was also on the 8th of December that the Chicago Bears beat the Washington Redskins in the most lopsided game in NFL history, with a score of 73-0. In addition, on this date in 1987, President Reagan signed an agreement with Russian Premier Mikhail Gorbachev preventing each country from obtaining intermediate range nuclear weapons. Learn more on this date in this video.

In This Day In History video clip: May, 3, 1469 - Niccolo Machiavelli Born - On this day in 1469, the Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli is born. A lifelong patriot and diehard proponent of a unified Italy, Machiavelli became one of the fathers of modern political theory.

This Day in History - May 17, 1954, Brown vs. Board of Education trial came to an end with courts deciding racial segregation of public schools was unequal. This was the first time blacks and whites could sit together in one classroom. To find out more about this day, check out this video clip.

In the following clip from the show This Day In History, we get to take a look at some of the things that have happened around us on June 1st. From Action Comics' first story of Superman, to The Beatles new album, we have it all here. Check it out and learn some remarkable things that go on in the world, every single day.