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May 29th
1903 ~ Birthday of Bob Hope, British-born Comedian & Actor.
1906 ~ Birthday of T.H. White, English author. 1913 ~ Igor Stravinsky's ballet score “The Rite of Spring” premiered in Paris. 1917 ~ Birthday of John Kennedy, U.S. President. 1919 ~ Arthur Eddington's observation of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse confirmed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. 1953 ~ Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest. 1972 ~ Three Japanese Red Army gunmen opened fire on crowds at Lod (now Ben Gurion) International Airport, Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more. 1998 ~ Death of Barry Goldwater, U.S. senator & presidential candidate. 1999 ~ The Discovery Space Shuttle completed the first docking with the International Space Station. 2005 ~ French voters rejected the European Union's proposed constitution. |
May 30th
1431 ~ Death of Joan of Arc, Condemned Heretic (burned at the stake in Rouen, France).
1778 ~ Death of Voltaire, French philosopher & Author. 1912 ~ Death of Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer, the elder of the Wright Brothers. 1926 ~ Birthday of Christine Jorgensen, transsexual activist. 1942 ~ 1,047 British bombers launched a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany. 1964 ~ Death of Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist. 1982 ~ Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr played the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak ended on September 20, 1998. 1989 ~ The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue was unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators. 1997 ~ Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka - a case that inspired ''Megan's Law", which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in. 2001 ~ Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas was convicted of corruption. Interestingly, that month, prosecutors dropped their case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn – a former finance minister in Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's cabinet, and the same DSK who has now been charged in NYC with sexual assault - for forgery and misappropriation of funds. |
May 31st
1678 ~ The first Godiva Procession, in commemoration of the legendary ride.
1819 ~ Birthday of Walt Whitman, American Poet. 1889 ~ A dam broke near Johnstown, Pa, drowning more than 2,000. 1916 ~ British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland off Denmark. 1923 ~ Birthday of Prince Rainier III of Monaco. 1927 ~ The Ford Model T assembly line shut down after a production run of 15,007,003. 1938 ~ Birthday of Peter Yarrow, American folk singer ("Peter, Paul and Mary"). 1957 ~ Playwright Arthur Miller was convicted of contempt of Congress. 1993 ~ Death of Spuds Mackenzie, the original party animal. 1996 ~ Death of Timothy Leary, LSD advocate. |
June 1st
1494 ~ :angel: Friar John Cor :angel: recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1804 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer. 1918 ~ The Battle for Belleau Wood began, during which came forth the famous phrase "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" Heroes indeed! 1926 ~ Birthday of Marilyn Monroe, Actress. 1938 ~ Action Comics issued the first Superman comic. 1958 ~ Charles de Gaulle became premier of France. 1968 ~ Death of Helen Keller, American humanitarian. 1967 ~ The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. 1990 ~ President Bush and General Secretary Gorbachev signed a treaty to end chemical weapon production. 2009 ~ General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. |
June 2nd
1740 ~ Birthday of Marquis de Sade, Famous French Pervert.
1835 ~ Start of P.T. Barnum’s circus’ first tour of the U.S. 1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hardy, Poet & Novelist. 1897 ~ Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, was quoted as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration." 1946 ~ Italians voted to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. 1953 ~ Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. 1966 ~ First U.S. Lunar soft landing, by Surveyor 1. 1990 ~ Death of Rex Harrison, English actor. 1994 ~ Death of David Stove, Australian philosopher of Science. 2003 ~ ESA’s Mars Express was launched. |
June 3rd
1875 ~ Death of Georges Bizet, French composer.
1888 ~ The poem Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Thayer, was published in the SF Examiner. 1899 ~ Death of Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer. 1924 ~ Death of Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist. 1926 ~ Birthday of Allen Ginsberg, American poet. 1937 ~ The Duke of Windsor married American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom he had abdicated the British throne. 1965 ~ Edward White became the first American astronaut to walk in space. 1969 ~ The science fiction television series Star Trek aired its final new episode after being canceled by NBC. 1982 ~ The Israeli ambassador to Britain was shot on a London street. 1989 ~ Death of Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader. |
June 4th
1798 ~ Death of Giacomo Casanova, Italian Lover.
1928 ~ Birthday of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, German-American Sex Therapist. 1940 ~ The Allies completed the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, France. 1944 ~ Birthday of Michelle Phillips, American Singer (The Mamas & the Papas). 1975 ~ Birthday of Angelina Jolie, American Actress. 1984 ~ The album ''Born in the U.S.A.'' by Bruce Springsteen was released. 1919 ~ Birthday of Jenaveve Jolie, Mexican-American Porn Actress . 1986 ~ Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to espionage for selling top secret U.S. military intelligence to Israel. 1989 ~ The Tiananmen Square Massacre. 1998 ~ Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. |
June 5th
1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Scottish Economist.
1883 ~ Birthday of John Keynes, English Economist. 1944 ~ The first of the three Axis capitals, Rome, was liberated. 1947 ~ At a speech at Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall called for economic aid to Europe. 1961 ~ Death of Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist. 1963 ~ UK Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigned over a sex scandal. 1967 ~ Israel began the “Six Day War” with a pre-emptive attack on Egypt. 1968 ~ Sen. Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles, CA. 1975 ~ Death of Paul Keres, Estonian chess player. 1977 ~ The first practical personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale. |
June 6th
1844 ~ The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.
1868 ~ Birthday of Robert Falcon Scott, English Explorer. 1901 ~ Birthday of Sukarno, first President of Indonesia. 1944 ~ D-Day began with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. 1956 ~ Birthday of Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player. 1983 ~ Birthday of Gianna Michaels, Porn Actress. 1984 ~ Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar. 1985 ~ Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as that of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted medical experiments on inmates at Auschwitz. 2002 ~ A Near Earth Object (NEO), estimated at 10 metres diameter, exploded over the Mediterranean Sea. The explosion is estimated to have been roughly equal to that used at Nagasaki. 2002 ~ The Wye Oak, Maryland's honorary state tree, was destroyed in a thunderstorm. |
June 7th
1099 ~ Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem.
1848 ~ Birthday of Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist Painter. 1897 ~ Birthday of George Szell, Hungarian Conductor. 1917 ~ Birthday of Dean Martin, Singer & Actor. 1929 ~ Vatican City became a sovereign state. 1942 ~ The U.S. beat the Japanese in the Battle of Midway. 1954 ~ Death of Alan Turing, Mathematician, Computer Scientist. 1981 ~ The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor. 2000 ~ U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft. 2008 ~ Death of Jim McKay, Sports Announcer. |
June 8th
632 ~ Death of Muhammad, founder of Islam.
1810 ~ Birthday of Robert Schumann, Composer. 1874 ~ Death of Cochise, Apache leader. 1887 ~ Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator. 1916 ~ Birthday of Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS, most noted for being one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962. 1910 ~ Death of George Mallory, English mountain climber. 1949 ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was published. 1968 ~ James Earl Ray was arrested in London in connection with the murder of Martin Luther King. 1982 ~ An Argentine air attack sank the Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram supply ships in the Falklands. 1998 ~ Charlton Heston assumed the presidency of the National Rifle Association. |
June 9th
1870 ~ Death of Charles Dickens, English author.
1891 ~ Birthday of Cole Porter, Composer. 1934 ~ Donald Duck debuted in The Wise Little Hen. 1954 ~ Beginning of the end of the McCarthy Era. 1959 ~ The USS George Washington launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles ("Boomers"). 1963 ~ Birthday of Johnny Depp, Actor (Edward Scissorhands, Pirates of the Caribbean++). 1970 ~ Assassination attempt on King Hussein of Jordan. 1973 ~ Secretariat won the Triple Crown. 1983 ~ Birthday of Alektra Blue, Porn Actress. 2004 ~ The FCC agreed to a $1.75 million settlement with Clear Channel to resolve indecency complaints against Howard Stern and other radio personalities. |
June 10th
1829 ~ First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.
1846 ~ The California Republic declared independence from Mexico. 1921 ~ Birthday of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. 1922 ~ Birthday of Judy Garland, Singer & Actress. 1967 ~ End of the Six-Day War. 1971 ~ Death of Michael Rennie, English actor (Klaatu in the classic science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still"). 1977 ~ The Apple II personal computer started shipping. 1998 ~ Death of Hammond Innes, English author. 1999 ~ Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its air war. 2004 ~ Death of Ray Charles, Singer & Musician. |
June 11th
1892 ~ The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, opened in Melbourne.
1937 ~ Death of R. J. Mitchell, British aircraft designer, developer of the Spitfire. 1939 ~ Birthday of Jackie Stewart, Race car driver. 1942 ~ The U.S. and the USSR signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in WWII. 1963 ~ Alabama Governor George Wallace stood at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to prevent two black students from attending that school. 1963 ~ Death of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc by self-imolation in Saigon to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam. 1979 ~ Death of John Wayne, Actor. 1987 ~ Margaret Thatcher became the first British PM in 160 years to win a third consecutive term in office. 2001 ~ Death of Timothy McVeigh, terrorist (executed). 2004 ~ Cassini-Huygens made its closest flyby of Phoebe. |
June 12th
1924 ~ Birthday of George Bush senior, 41st President of the U.S.
1942 ~ Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday. 1963 ~ Death of Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist. 1967 ~ In Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court declared all state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. 1975 ~ Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was convicted on electoral corruption charges. 1979 ~ Bryan Allen flew the man powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel. 1987 ~ Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. 1991 ~ Boris Yeltsin was elected the first President of the Russian Federation. 1994 ~ Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. 2003 ~ Death of Gregory Peck, Actor. |
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