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On this day in history...
John Wayne was born May 26th, 1907. Happy 100th birthday to an American icon and the greatest actor of all time. :thumbsup:
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451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Armenians are defeated militarily but are guaranteed freedom to openly practise Christianity.
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In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy in Milan...
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Are we going to talk about John Wayne or are we just gonna continue to utter coincidental and inconconsequential trivia marked by actions upon date on the calendar?
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I dunno. Which makes less sense? I personally don't know to much about the Duke... I know his nickname was his dogs name and he smoked alot... But those damn Avarayrians. They where really something.
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He certainly had the machismo thing going for him. Greatest actor of all time? Not so much. |
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http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=4462&rendTypeId=4The Winter Palace, with the Alexander Column in the foreground, Palace Square, St. Petersburg. Today in 1703: Founding of St. Petersburg Founded this day in 1703 by Peter the Great, St. Petersburg has played a vital role in Russian history and is especially known as the scene of the 1917 revolutions and as a fiercely defended city during World War II. I appreciate this little factoid for the reason that the sister city of St. Petersburg in Russia happens to be the place I grew up in, which is of course St. Petersburg, Florida. A very loosely-held together connection, but a tie nonetheless. http://www.imagehaven.net/img/4433059The_Pier.jpg The Pier in St. Petersburg, Florida What do you find most interesting about today? |
On this day, May 27, in 1933, Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning animated short "The Three Little Pigs" was first released...
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On this date in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge opened to the public in San Francisco, California. At its completion, it was the world's longest suspension bridge, a record previously held by the George Washington Bridge in New York City, and would keep that record until 1964, when the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in Brooklyn was built. Currently, the record for the world's longest suspension bridge is held by the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge in southern Japan near the city of Kobe. |
On May 28, 1957, the National League gave permission for the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to move to Los Angeles and San Francisco...
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1959 - Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles into space on Jupiter missle. |
I was wondering why there were so many John Wayne movies on TV this weekend.
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On May 29, 1848, Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union...
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Today's Celebratory Birthday goes to --> John F. Kennedy (1917-1963): the youngest man elected to the presidency
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On May 30, 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France...
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On May 31, 1961, South Africa became an independent republic...
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June 1
Union Square is two blocks from my place: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/images/parade.gif The annual parade of "New York's Finest" was filmed on June 1, 1899, in Union Square. At the turn of the century, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) was still recovering from scandals and allegations of corruption that tarnished its reputation in the 1890s. Four years earlier, the New York State Senate created a committee to investigate the department. The Lexow Committee issued a scathing report detailing serious criminal activity within the organization. Police Parade, New York, New York, Thomas A. Edison, Inc., June 1, 1899. Life of a City: New York, 1898-1906 |
June 1st, 1926
<img src="http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9155/marilyn33wx2.jpg"> http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9...rilyn33wx2.jpg On this day, the late Marilyn Monroe was born. :) |
The Pier! I love The Pier! I was down there about a month ago, such a beautiful place. Before then I hadn't been to The Pier in about 7 years. Jet, downtown St. Pete has changed A LOT.
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On June 1, 1533, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was crowned Queen Consort of England...
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June 2
Spotlight: Grover Cleveland became the first president to be married in the White House when he and Frances Folsom wed on this date in 1886. Cleveland was 49 and Folsom 21 at the time. Folsom was the daughter of Cleveland's former law partner; when his friend died, Cleveland remained close with the Folsom family and corresponded with Frances when she reached adulthood. The Clevelands' first child (of 5) was named Ruth and was said to be the inspiration for the name of the Baby Ruth candy bar.
Quote: "Some day I will be better remembered." — Grover Cleveland, after being snubbed by a group of law associates before he entered politics Today in History:
An aside, Esoteric: Has downtown St. Pete really changed that much. I myself haven't been there in a span of 8 years now. I'd love to see how it looks now, hopefully changing for the better. :) |
On June 2, 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the Oklahoma City bombing...
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IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO TODAY...........SGT PEPPER'S WAS RELEASED IN THE USA..... AND IT STILL THRIVES, KICKS ASS AND IS AS BEAUTIFUL AN ALBUM AS EVER!!!!!!!
(and I was born 2 days later and I am still thriving, kicking ass and doing beautiful work helping others .......) |
That last post scared me out of my wits!
But it is a surperb album, if not the greatest(arguably), ever made. Check the list. |
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June 3
Spotlight: The bad news is that, in spite of all the money and effort poured into the fight against cancer, a miracle cure for the disease has not yet been found. The good news is that many medications have been found to cure certain kinds of cancer and to extend the lives of those fighting the disease, giving them hope for a cure to be found in their lifetime. Today is the 20th National Cancer Survivors Day, conceived by a cancer survivor and his wife to show that many people live with cancer and many others beat the disease.
Today's Birthday: Rafael Nadal (21): young Spanish tennis champ |
Bell's Photophone
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/im...03portrait.jpg Alexander Graham Bell (detail), Timoléon Lobrichon, artist, photoprint of 1882 painting. Prints and Photographs Division On June 3, 1880, Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first wireless telephone message on his newly invented photophone from the top of the Franklin School in Washington, D.C. |
On June 3, 1098, Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey...
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June 4th - Congress Approves Nineteenth Amendment
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/images/catt.gif Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, After the 36th State Ratified, 1920. Prints and Photograph Division On June 4, 1919, Congress, by joint resolution, approved the woman's suffrage amendment and sent it to the states for ratification. The House of Representatives had voted 304-89 and the Senate 56-25 in favor of the amendment. Disagreement on whether the best strategy was to pursue enfranchisement through a federal amendment or by individual state campaigns had divided the women's suffrage movement in 1869. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony worked for a federal amendment under the banner of the National Woman Suffrage Association, while Lucy Stone led the American Woman Suffrage Association's state-by-state battle for the vote. In 1890, the two groups united to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). NAWSA combined both techniques to secure voting rights for all American women. A series of well-orchestrated state campaigns took place under the dynamic direction of Carrie Chapman Catt, while the new National Woman's Party, led by Alice Paul, used more militant tactics to obtain a federal amendment. In his 1916 book Woman's Suffrage By Constitutional Amendment, Congressman Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia argued that enfranchising women by constitutional amendment would violate the Constitution: For three-fourths of the States to attempt to compel the other one-fourth of the States of the Union, by constitutional amendment, to adopt a principle of suffrage believed to be inimical to their institutions, because they may believe it to be of advantage to themselves and righteous as a general doctrine, would be to accomplish their end by subverting a principle which has been recognized from the adoption of the Constitution of the United States to this day, viz., that the right of suffrage — more properly the privilege of suffrage — is a State privilege, emanating from the State, granted by the State, and that can be curtailed alone by the State. Henry St. George Tucker, Woman's Suffrage By Constitutional Amendment, 4. Votes for Women, 1848-1921 Henry Wade Rogers, a Yale University law professor, offered a different perspective in "Federal Action and State Rights," an essay within the 1917 collection Woman Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amendment, compiled by Carrie Chapman Catt. He argued that previous constitutional amendments set a precedent for the demands of suffragists: …the Fifteenth Amendment provides that "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude…" If woman suffrage is a sound principle in a republican form of government, and such I believe it to be, there is in my opinion no reason why the States should not be permitted to vote upon an Amendment to the Constitution declaring that no citizen shall be deprived of the right to vote on account of sex. Henry Wade Rogers, "Federal Action and State Rights" in Woman Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amendment, 67. Votes for Women, 1848-1921 Rogers's position prevailed. Women's active participation in the war effort during World War I and their broadening role in society highlighted the injustice of their political powerlessness. On August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/images/0604morrow.jpg Kentucky Governor Edwin P. Morrow Signing the Anthony Amendment, January 6, 1920. By Popular Demand:"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 Search in the American Memory collection Votes for Women, 1848-1921 on constitutional amendment to retrieve additional documents outlining arguments for and against the suffrage amendment. Also, read NAWSA's final report on the voting rights campaign. With ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, its work concluded and the association was reorganized as the League of Women Voters. Images related to the suffrage movement are available in Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920. View the timeline entitled One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage. Other collections that document the suffrage movement include Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911 and Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman’s Party. Today in History features on the suffrage era include: the 1854 Ohio Woman's Rights Convention, the 1869 decision granting women voting rights in the Wyoming Territory, Carrie Burnham's 1884 pro-suffrage argument before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. |
I was born 40 years ago today......most important day of my life (cause it started this wonderous adventure
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On June 4, 1954, French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc signed treaties in Paris according "complete independence" to Vietnam...
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On this day in history, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination of Czechoslovak paratroopers in Operation Anthropoid.
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One this day in history, Michael Hamofsky drafts an idea onto paper detailing a possible seperation of the American colonies from England. He misplaces it at the bar he wrote it at later that night. One month later it resurfaces in the hands of Thomas Jefferson, and is signed by the continental congress.
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On June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel after claiming victory in California's Democratic Primary...
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On June 6, 1925, Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corporation...
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The 6th of June 1944, was D-Day for the Battle of Normandy, commencing the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II.
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Allied invasion of northwest Europe, which began on June 6, 1944, and ended on August 19, 1944, when the Allies crossed the River Seine. Over sixty years later, the Normandy invasion still remains the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving almost three million troops crossing the English Channel from England to Normandy. |
On June 7, 1967, the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic opened in San Francisco...
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On June 8, 1861, Tennessee seceded from the Union...
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John Wayne... greatest American actor?
Wow. He was competent but nowhere near greatest American actor. |
June 8
We celebrate the oceans today on World Ocean Day.
-- World Ocean Day began on 8 June, 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. However, it is not an officially recognized secular holiday by the United Nations as of yet. http://www.imagehaven.net/img/509452...es-Posters.jpg World Ocean Day is an opportunity every year to honor the oceans and products they provide, such as seafood, as well as marine lives themselves for aquariums and pets. The oceans also provide sea-lanes for international trade. Global pollution and over-consumption of fish have resulted in drastically dwindling population of the majority of species. |
On June 9, 68, the Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide...
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On June 10, 1793, the Jardin des Plantes zoo opened in Paris. It was the first public zoo...
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On June 11th, 1979, John Wayne (an American icon and the greatest actor of all time) died of cancer. RIP, Duke.
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On June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence calling for freedom from Britain...
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On June 12, 1939, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown...
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June 13
This Day in History:
Today's Birthdays: William Butler Yeats, considered one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century, was born on this date in 1865. Yeats once wrote, "Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses." Poet, playwright, publisher, collector of anthologies and writer of fairy tales, Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He was a founder of the Abbey Theatre and integral in the Irish literary renaissance. Quote: "I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swing his lantern higher." — William Butler Yeats Environmental sculptor Christo, born this day in 1935 in Bulgaria, along with his dear wife Jean Claude, born same date in Casablanca, Morocco, are noted for their controversial outdoor sculptures and displays, which have included the wrapping of Berlin's Reichstag in metallic silver fabric in 1995. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=84677&rendTypeId=4 The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979–2005 by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 2005. |
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
MIRANDA DAY When reading this description of this day in history, you have the right to remain silent... On this day in 1966, the Miranda Decision was handed down by the United States Supreme Court. The 5-4 decision regarded the rights of individuals to remain silent because “...anything you say, can and will be used against you in a court of law.” It held that the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States “required warnings before valid statements could be taken by police.” If you are held for questioning, you will hear police read you your rights or read you the Miranda, the more common reference to the Miranda Decision. The card imprinted with the Miranda Decision, and carried by the police, put some money in the pockets of then, 23-year-old Ernesto Miranda. The subject of Miranda vs. Arizona, he signed the cards, selling his autograph. Some ten years later, a man, suspected of stabbing Miranda to death during a card game, was released after being read his Miranda rights. A warrant was later issued for his arrest; but he was never seen again. Without notifying suspects of their Miranda Rights, law enforcement in the U.S. has little basis for prosecution. What a criminal defendant says if not informed, before being questioned, that he/she has the right to remain silent and speak with an attorney or other legal counsel present, will not be admitted in court. Book ’em, Danno ... and read ’em their rights. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasure.../uc005076x.jpg Miranda v. Arizona (1966) was one of Chief Justice Earl Warren's (1891-1974) best-known opinions. Warren's handwritten notes contain his initial considerations about the decision that required police to warn an arrested suspect that the government could use any information provided as evidence and that the suspect had a right to remain silent and the right to counsel. Warren sent his notes to Justice William E. Brennan, Jr., for comment. Brennan's response advocated more flexibility and a far greater role for Congress and the States. Warren incorporated many important elements suggested by Brennan before he circulated the opinion to the other justices. |
On June 14, 1940, in German-occupied Poland, the Nazis opened their concentration camp at Auschwitz; the same day, German troops entered Paris...
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On June 15, 1967, California Governor Ronald Reagan signed a bill liberalizing his state's abortion law...
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On the same day and year that Ronnie RayGun signed the above mentioned bill, BadNick graduated from high school. |
On June 16, 1897, the U. S. government signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii...
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On June 17, 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor aboard the French ship Isere...
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June 17
This Day in History...
Thirty-five years ago today, five burglars were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters located in Washington, DC's Watergate complex. Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein thought there was more to the story and, with the help of an informant known as "Deep Throat," they unraveled the Watergate scandal, which led to the downfall of Richard Nixon's presidency. Quote: "This is not about a third rate burglary of the Watergate. This is about undermining the security of America and it is about misleading the American people." — Howard Dean Historic Events:
Today's Birthdays: http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=61864&rendTypeId=4 Composer Igor Stravinsky, whose work had a revolutionary impact on the musical world just before and after World War I and whose compositions remain a touchstone of modernism, was born in Russia this day in 1882. The Rite of Spring, famous composed work
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On June 18, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium...
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On June 19, 1862, slavery was outlawed in U. S. territories...
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On June 20, 1893, a jury in New Bedford, MA, found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother...
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June 21
This Day in History...
Japanese defenses destroyed on Okinawa Japanese resistance on Okinawa was finally crushed this day in 1945, less than three months after U.S. troops had landed there—their last stepping-stone before the assault on Japan's main islands in World War II. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=9879&rendTypeId=4 Shurei Gate, destroyed during World War II and rebuilt in 1958, Naha, Okinawa, Japan. Historic Events:
Today's Birthdays: http://gt.webvis.net/opus3.gif Happy birthday to Berkeley Breathed, the creator of "Bloom County." Breathed began drawing the popular comic strip in 1980 and, seven years later, he won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Breathed retired the strip in 1989 and began a new one called "Outland." Later, he began a comic strip devoted to one of his most popular characters, Opus. Breathed, 50, also writes and illustrates a series of children's books, including A Wish for Wings That Work: An Opus Christmas Story (1991) and Goodnight Opus (1993). Quote: "I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist." — Berkeley Breathed Other Notables:
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On June 22, 1969, singer-actress Judy Garland died in London at age 47...
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June 23
This day in History...
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/im...da-Posters.jpg Banff National Park is Canada's first national park. It was made a natural reserve in 1885. On this date in 1887, Canada's parliament enacted the Rocky Mountains Park Act , based on the US Congress' Yellowstone National Park Act of 1872, establishing Banff as a national park. Located in Alberta, its 2,560 sq. miles (6641 sq. kilometers) contain mountains, forests, glaciers and ice fields. Lake Louise — named for Princess Louise — is one of the main tourist attractions of the park. Quote: "Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art." — Robert Smithson Historic Events:
Today's Birthday... http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=71271&rendTypeId=4 Born this day in 1948 was Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1991, whose appointment to replace Thurgood Marshall (the court's first African American justice) gave the court a conservative cast. Other Notables:
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On June 24, 1940, France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II...
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A day late, I apologize....
June 23, 1993 In the middle of the night, Lorena Bobbitt severs her husband John's penis and drives off, casually discarding the organ in a farm field. Surgeons successfully reattach the penis, allowing John to enter the porn industry. The media devotes 1.3 million column-inches of type to the story as both Lorena and John gain celebrity status; consequently, their last name becomes a verb. |
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June 24th
Not bad for 1916
http://www.440.com/twtd/0624.gif On this day in 1916, the most lucrative movie contract to the time (and for a long time to come) was signed by actress Mary Pickford. She inked the first seven-figure Hollywood deal. Pickford would get $250,000 per film with a guaranteed minimum of $10,000 a week against half of the profits, including bonuses and the right of approval of all creative aspects of her films. It cost $1,040,000 and two years of movie making for Adolph Zukor at Paramount Pictures. Mary Pickford was the subject of many Hollywood firsts other than this million-dollar deal. She was Hollywood’s first bankable name, commanding a star-status salary of $275 a week as early as 1911, and $500 a week in 1913 when producer B.P. Schulberg named her America’s sweetheart. Her signature curls were the first film fashion fad. (After the million-dollar deal, she had more curls added by makeup artist George Westmore, who used hair from Big Suzy’s French Whorehouse’s ladies of the evening.) Pickford starred in the first screen play (The New York Hat) written by now-famous playwright Anita Loos. And, along with Norma and Constance Talmadge and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary was the first to leave footprints in the cement fronting Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. She was also one of the first women in Hollywood to gain control over her own movies, forming her own production company, United Artists, with Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin. Mary Pickford sold her stock in United Artists in 1956. America’s sweetheart won her first Oscar for Coquette [1928-29]. In 1975 she received a special Academy Award recognizing her legacy to the world of film. Not a bad deal for the former vaudeville and stage actress, who once appeared on Broadway with Cecil B. DeMille in The Warrens of Virginia for a measly $25 a week. |
June 25
This Day in History...
On this day in 1950, North Korea unleashed an attack southward across the 38th parallel, after which the UN Security Council (minus the Soviet delegate) passed a resolution calling on UN members to assist South Korea. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=71392&rendTypeId=4 United Nations forces fighting to recapture Seoul, South Korea, from communist invaders. Historic Events:
Today's Birthday: Born this day in 1852, Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, whose distinctive style was typified by freedom of form and voluptuous colour and texture, spent much of his career building Barcelona's church of the Holy Family. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=83861&rendTypeId=4 Antoni Gaudí's Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family (Sagrada Família), Barcelona, Spain. Other Notables:
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Custer's Last Stand
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Sitting Bull (detail), David Frances Barry, photographer, copyright 1885. Prints and Photographs Online Catalog http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/images/0625custer.jpg George Armstrong Custer, Officer of the Federal Army, Brady National Photographic Art Gallery, between 1860 and 1865. Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865 On June 25, 1876, George Armstrong Custer and the 265 men under his command lost their lives in the Battle of Little Big Horn, often referred to as Custer's Last Stand. Educated at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Custer proved his brilliance and daring as a cavalry officer of the Union Army in the Civil War. Major General George McClellan appointed the twenty-three-year-old Custer as brigadier general in charge of a Michigan cavalry brigade. By 1864, Custer was leading the Third Cavalry Division in General Philip Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign. Throughout the fall, the Union Army moved across the valley—burning homes, mills, and fields of crops. |
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On June 26, 1959, President Eisenhower joined Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway...
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June 26th
On the Boardwalk
http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/de...0/4a18706r.jpg Rolling Chairs on the Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey, between 1905 and 1920. Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 On June 26, 1870, the first section of the Atlantic City Boardwalk opened along the New Jersey beach. Dr. Jonathan Pitney and civil engineer Richard Osborne began developing the area on Absecon Island in the early 1850s. Long before this time, members of the Lenni-Lenape tribe were the first seasonal visitors to enjoy the summer splendor of the island. Beautiful beaches, fresh sea air, luxurious hotels, fine restaurants, alluring shops, and a connecting railroad line from Camden, New Jersey, drew visitors from all over the world. Atlantic City soon became a popular summer resort and winter health spa. Alexander Boardman, a railroad conductor, and Jacob Keim, a hotelier, conceived of the idea of constructing a boardwalk as a means of keeping sand out of the railroad cars and hotels. The city used its tax revenues to build an eight-foot-wide temporary wooden walkway from the beach into town that could be dismantled during the winter. http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/de...0/4a27248r.jpg In the Good Old Summertime, Atlantic City, New Jersey, copyright 1905. Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 The rolling chair, introduced in 1884, was the only vehicle allowed on the boardwalk. The boardwalk was soon extended by an enormous amusement pier, the Steel Pier, visible in the background of the photograph above. Any consideration of the boardwalk demands at least a nod to salt water taffy, a favorite beachside treat. Taffy, a candy made of corn syrup and white sugar is boiled; the confection is pulled and folded, then rolled into a long strip from which shorter (about two-inch-long) strips are cut, wrapped in stick resistant paper, and sold. Along the Atlantic City Boardwalk folks have purchased the product since at least the early 1880s. In 1925, the Supreme Court ruled that the term "salt water taffy" could not be trademarked, a decision which saved candy manufacturers from paying millions of dollars to John R. Edmiston of Wildwood, New Jersey, who claimed to be the originator of the candy and had applied for registration of the term with the U.S. Patent Office. http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/de...0/4a27443r.jpg Bathing Beauties, Atlantic City, New Jersey, between 1890 and 1910. Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 Early bathers wore bathing dresses of wool flannel with stockings, canvas shoes, and large straw hats. The more daring bloomer suits and stockings worn by these bathing beauties did not catch on until 1907. Censors roamed the beaches monitoring bathers' self-exposure and looking for offenders who showed more flesh than the local code allowed. http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a2400...0/6a24631r.jpg Inter-city Beauties, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Atlantic Foto Service, copyright 1926. Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991 Originally titled "Atlantic City's Inter-City Beauty Contest," and traditionally held in Atlantic City since 1921, the Miss America pageant moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2006. This photograph captures the 1926 contestants vying for the Golden Mermaid trophy. |
On June 27, 1893, the New York stock market crashed...
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On June 28, 1778, the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth took place in New Jersey; it was from this battle that the legend of "Molly Pitcher" arose, although her actual existence is a matter of historical debate...
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on June 28 1491, King Henry viii was born. He is most famously known for his six wives
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On June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke (and heir) of Austria, was assassinated, sparking what would become known as World War I.
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June 29
This Day in History...
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=952&rendTypeId=4 During a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII on this day in 1613, the Globe Theatre was destroyed within an hour after its thatch was accidentally set aflame by a cannon marking the king's entrance onstage. Historic Events:
Today's Birthday: http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=65632&rendTypeId=4 Born this day in 1945 was Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, a member of a prominent Sri Lankan political family who became prime minister and then president in 1994—the first woman to serve as the country's president. Other Notables:
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On June 30, 1870, Ada H. Kepley of Effingham, IL, became America's first female law school graduate...
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On July 1, 1867, Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain...
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On July 2, 1926. the U. S. Army Air Corps was created...
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Jul 3 1989
Television actor Jim Backus, known to millions as Thurston Howell III from Gilligan's island, dies in Los Angeles of Parkinson's disease. |
On July 4, 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act, which went into effect the following year...
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On July 4, 1865, Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland under the pen name Lewis Carroll.
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A supernova suddenly appears in the constellation Taurus. It is so bright that for the first 23 days it is visible during the day. Then it gradually fades away, finally disappearing after a year or so. Today the remnants of this star are the Crab Nebula. |
On July 5, 1946, the bikini bathing suit, designed by Louis Reard, made its debut during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris...
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On July 6, 1535, Sir Thomas More was executed in England for treason...
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On July 7, 1807, Napoleon I of France and Czar Alexander I of Russia signed a treaty at Tilset ending war between their empires...
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On July 8, 1889, The Wall Street Journal was first published...
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July 9
boxer Mike Tyson was banned from ring and fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear (1997)
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On July 10, 1962, the Telstar communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL...
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On July 11, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, NJ...
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On July 12, 100 BC, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born...
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On July 12, 1967, a six-day riot erupted in Newark, NJ leaving 23 people dead causing $10 million in property damage, and scarred the city in ways it has yet to recover from.
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On July 13, 1977, a blackout lasting 25 hours hit the New York City area...
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On July 14, 1966, eight student nurses were murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago dormitory...
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