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Post by Richard Frost » Sat May 29 2021 11:18am

28th May 2021

1849 Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

International Day of UN Peacekeepers
The " International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers ", May 29, is "an international day to pay tribute to all the men and women who have served and continue to serve in United Nations peacekeeping operations for their high level of professionalism, dedication, and courage and to honor the memory of those who have lost their lives in the cause of peace."

Biscuit Day
Calling all smart cookies! Biscuit Day offers the perfect chance to go crackers about one of the world’s most popular snacks. But did you realize just how many types of biscuits there are?

American biscuits are small crusty bread rolls, often served at breakfast or as a side dish. However, in the UK, the word “biscuit” is used for flat sweet treats, which are known as “cookies” in the US. One of the most unusual traditional British varieties is the Garibaldi. Also known as the “squashed fly biscuit,” it contains currants in between two layers of dough.

Mount Everest Day
Mount Everest is renowned all over the globe for being the tallest mountain there is! Many people dream of one day seeing this gigantic elevation in person, and perhaps even climbing its formidable slopes and summiting its awe-inspiring peak.

Mount Everest Day is a chance to celebrate this amazing natural wonder and the intrepid adventurers who have braved the climb.

Paper Clip Day
The first patent for a bent wire paper clip was awarded in the Samuel B. Fay in 1867 in the United States. Originally, the paper clip was designed for attaching tickets to fabric, although the patent recognized that it could be used to attach papers together. However, that model of a paper clip did not resemble the one we know today all that much. The paper clip as we know it was most likely designed by Norwegian inventor Johan Vaaler.

Years later, during World War II, the paper clip was used as a symbol of the Norwegian resistance to Nazi German occupation. Meant to show solidarity with other Norwegians during those difficult times, paper clips were worn in coat lapels by many. The Nazis saw this show of solidarity as a threat, and they soon prohibited paper clips altogether, threatening people who dared wear them with severe punishment. In fact, an enormous paper clip over a meter wide and five meters tall was erected in Sandvika, Norway, to remind people about the role this tiny object played in the nation’s history.

You have to admit you never thought paper clips had such an interesting history, don’t you? Starting in 2015, Paper Clip Day is now celebrated every year on May 29th.

Put A Pillow On Your Fridge Day
Your pillow brings you comfort every night but you’ve probably been frustrated at how this resource is often wastefully ignored throughout each day. However, during Put A Pillow On Your Fridge Day you can make sure your pillow is working all day to bring you prosperity and good fortune.

Before the invention of refrigerators in the 1920s, people in Europe and the USA would put a cloth in their larder for good luck once a year. Food storage habits have changed since then, putting the future of this fine tradition in doubt. However, this event has survived the scare and is back stronger than ever. All you need to do is place a pillow on your fridge on the correct day. The observant among you may notice that the true equivalent of the old tradition would be to put a pillow inside your fridge. Perhaps try both to make sure you don’t miss out on any of that luck!

Learn About Composting Day
You know what’s irritating? The cost of potting soil, and the smell of rotting vegetables in your garbage can. In fact, it’s also irritating that there’s no good use for eggshells or old coffee grounds, or is there? All of these ingredients (and much more!) can be added to a compost bin to create a delightful and nutrient rich mulch that can go into our gardens! Not only will it reduce the amount of food waste in your house, it will also give you a way to enrich your garden through composting! Composting Day is dedicated to spreading information and awareness about this fun, green, and money-saving activity!

A selection of Birthdays

1630 Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1660-85), born St James's Palace, (d. 1685)
1773 Princess Sophia of Gloucester, great-granddaughter of King George II of Great Britain and niece of King George III, born in Mayfair, Middlesex (d. 1844)
1841 Sylvester Magee, last living American slave and oldest person who ever lived, born in North Carolina (d. 1971)
1883 William Beatton Moonie, Scottish composer (The Weird of Colbar; Echoes of Perthshire), born in Stobo, Pebbleshire (d. 1961)
1903 Bob Hope [Leslie Townes Hope], English-born American actor, comedian & entertainer, born London (d. 2003)
1904 Robert Knox, English bacteriologist (one of first to report MRSA) (d. 2000)
1905 Sebastian Shaw, British actor, director, playwright and poet (High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste), born in Holt, England (d. 1994)
1906 T. H. White, English novelist (England Have My Bones) and author of the King Arthur novels,, born in Bombay, British India (d. 1964)
1913 Douglas Black, Scottish physician and medical scientist (played a key role in the development of the National Health Service), born in Delting, Shetland (d. 2002)
1914 Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber who was the 1st to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary (exact date of birth unknown, but he celebrated on the 29th), born in either northeastern Nepal or Tibet (d. 1986)
1917 John F. Kennedy, 35th US President (1961-1963) and Senator (D-Mass), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1963)
1929 Peter Higgs, English theoretical physicist (Nobel, 2013), born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
1941 Doug Scott, English mountaineer (first ascent of south-west face of Mount Everest), born in Nottingham, England (d. 2020)
1941 Roy Crewdson, British rock guitarist (Freddie and The Dreamers - "I'm Telling You Now"), born in Manchester, England
1945 Martin Pipe, English racehorse trainer (15-time Champion Hunt Trainer), born in Taunton, Somerset
1945 Gary Brooker, English rock keyboardist and singer (Procol Harum), born in Hackney, London
1949 Francis Rossi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Status Quo), born in London, England
1949 Brian Kidd, English soccer forward, coach, manager (England 2 caps, Manchester City), born in Manchester, England
1952 Louise Cooper, British sci-fi author (Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturne), (d. 2009)
1959 Mel Gaynor, British rock drummer (Simple Minds - "Don't You (Forget About Me)"; "Alive And Kicking"), born in Balham, London, England
1959 Rupert Everett, British actor (Another Country, My Best Friend's Wedding), born in Burnham Deepdale, England
1960 Adrian Paul, English actor (Dance to Win, Highlander), born in London, England
1961 David Palmer, British drummer (ABC - The Lexicon Of Love), born in Chesterfield, England
1963 Blaze Bayley [Bayley Cooke], English singer (Wolfsbane; Iron Maiden), born in Birmingham, England
1967 Noel Gallagher, British pop singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Oasis - "Wonderwall"; "Don't Look Back In Anger"; High Flying Birds - "Holy Mountain"), born in Manchester, England
1975 Mel B {Melanie Brown], English pop singer "Scary Spice" (Spice Girls), and television personality (America's Got Talent; X-Factor), born in Leeds, England
1978 Adam Rickitt, English actor (Coronation Street), born in Crewe, England

On this day in history

363 Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city
757 St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1138 Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) submits himself to Pope Innocentius II
1167 Battle of Monte Porzio: Holy Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
1176 Battle at Legnano: Lombard League beats Frederick Barbarossa and the Holy Roman Empire
1328 French King Philip VI of Valois crowned at the Cathedral in Reims, France
1415 Pope John XXIII [Baldassare Cossa] formally deposed as Pope at the Conference of Constance, Germany, after he had fled the town in disguise
1453 Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls to the Turks under Mehmed II; ends the Byzantine Empire
1453 French banker Jacques Coeur's possessions confiscated
1576 Spanish army under Cristóbal de Mondragón conquers Zierik sea
1592 Battle of Sacheon: Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin repels a Japanese fleet - first use of Korean Turtle ship
1630 Founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony John Winthrop begins "History of New England"
1652 Battle of Goodwin Sands, off Folkestone, Kent: English 'General at Sea' Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under Lieutenant Admiral Maarten Tromp
1660 On his 30th birthday Charles II returns to London from exile in the Netherlands to claim the English throne after the Puritan Commonwealth comes to an end
1677 Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and local Native Americans
1692 Battle at La Hogue: English and Dutch fleet beat France
1692 Royal Hospital Chelsea Founder's Day first celebrated in London
1721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony
1727 Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia aged 11
1733 The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld in Quebec City
1753 Joseph Haydn's first opera "Krumme Teufel" (The Limping Devil) premieres in Vienna
1765 American Revolutionary and Founding Father Patrick Henry's historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1780 Battle of Waxhaw Creek: alleged massacre of 113 of Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals by Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton's troops after the continentals raised a white flag
1787 "Virginia Plan" by Thomas Jefferson proposed to the Constitutional Convention advocating for a national government with three branches - legislative, executive, and judicial
1790 Rhode Island becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying US Constitution
1848 Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte
1848 Wisconsin becomes 30th US state
1849 Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
1851 Abolitionist and Women's Rights Advocate Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio
1861 Nurse and Social Activist Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for the Union Army
1864 Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
1868 Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade
1874 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect
1884 Europe's first steam cable trams start in Highgate, London
1886 American chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola
1900 Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co.
1902 Dutch State Mine law forms
1903 May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization
1905 Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk, Lithuania
1910 Pope Pius X's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers
1912 15 young women are fired by Curtis Publishing in Philadelphia for dancing the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break
1913 Igor Stravinsky's ballet score "Le Sacre du Printemps" (The Rite of Spring) premieres at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, provoking a riot
1914 Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence River; 1,024 die
1916 US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
1919 Charles Strite files patent for the pop-up toaster
1919 Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, that when light passes a large body, gravity will bend the rays confirmed by Arthur Eddington's expedition to photograph a solar eclipse on the island of Principe, West Africa
1919 The Republic of Prekmurje founded - a short-lived, unrecognised state, which on June 6, 1919 was incorporated into the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed "Yugoslavia" in 1929)
1924 AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks
1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
1932 The Bonus Army of World War I veterans begins to assemble in Washington, D.C. to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945
1935 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage, arrived in NYC on June 3rd
1940 Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec)
1940 Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich commissar of The Hague, Netherlands
1940 In WWII, Germans capture Ostend & Ypres in Belgium and Lille in France
1942 Bing Crosby records "White Christmas", world's best-selling single (over 100 million copies sold)
1942 "Yankee Doodle Dandy", based on life of George M. Cohan, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring James Cagney and Joan Lesley, premieres in NYC (Academy Awards Best Actor 1943)
1943 Conference at of Algiers between Winston Churchill, George Marshall and General Dwight D. Eisenhower
1943 Meat and cheese rationed in US
1944 British troops occupy Aprilia, Italy
1945 US 1st Marine division conquers Shuri Castle, Okinawa
1946 KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands
1948 French Championships Men's Tennis: Frank Parker wins 1st of 2 straight French titles; beats Jaroslav Drobný 6-4, 7-5, 5-7, 8-6
1948 French Championships Women's Tennis: Belgium-born but representing France, Nelly Landry beats American Shirley Fry 6-2, 0-6, 6-0 for her lone major title
1948 1st British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "The Best Years of Our Lives" Best Film
1949 2nd British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "Hamlet" Best Film
1950 3rd British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "Bicycle Thieves" Best Film
1951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair
1952 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends
1953 Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition
1953 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire (to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II)
1954 Pope Pius XII issues holy declaration
1954 First of the annual Bilderberg conferences, fostering relations between Europe and North America held at Oosterbeek, Netherlands
1954 French Championships Men's Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Art Larsen 6-4, 7-5, 6-1 for first of 2 straight French singles titles
1954 French Championships Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly retains her title; beats Ginette Bucaille of France 6-4, 6-1
1954 British runner Diane Leather becomes first woman to run the mile in under 5 minutes; 4:59.6 at Alexander Sports Ground in Birmingham
1955 Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns
1957 Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators
1957 Laos government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns
1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French government
1959 Saunders-Roe SR.N1, the first practical hovercraft, performs its first engine run
1960 Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1
1962 4th Grammy Awards: Moon River, Peter Nero win
1965 French Championships Men's Tennis: Fred Stolle beats fellow Australian Tony Roche 3-6, 6-0, 6-2, 6-3 for his first Grand Slam singles title
1965 French Championships Women's Tennis: Australian Lesley Turner Bowrey wins her 2nd French singles crown; upsets doubles partner Margaret Smith 6-3, 6-4
1967 Australian Paul McManus water skis barefoot for 1:30:19
1968 UN resolves sanctions on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia
1968 European Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London: Bobby Charlton scores twice as Manchester United beats Benfica, 4-1; first English club to win the trophy
1969 Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice
1969 General strike in Cordoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest
1970 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Southern Pines CC: Sandra Palmer wins first of 2 majors by a massive 10 strokes from Judy Rankin and Mickey Wright
1972 The Official IRA announce a ceasefire
1973 Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records
1974 Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster
1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 Australian Sue Prell first female golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one; 13th and 14th holes at Chatswood Golf Club, Sydney
1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black Prime Minister
1980 53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate
1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 1st papal visit to Britain since 1531
1982 Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war
1983 Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m
1985 Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months
1985 29th European Cup: Juventus beats Liverpool 1-0 at Brussels
1986 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia
1987 "Twilight Zone: The Movie" director John Landis found innocent of involuntary manslaughter in death of actor Vic Morrow and 2 child actors during filming
1987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains
1988 Graeme Hick scores his 1,000th run of 1st-class cricket season
1988 Pakistan President Zia ul-Haq dismisses government and disbands parliament
1989 Student pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty, naming it the Goddess of Democracy
1990 An earthquake hits Peru, killing over 200
1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic
1991 35th European Cup: Red Star Belgrade beats Marseille (0-0, 5-3 on penalties) at Bari
1993 Neo-Nazis kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen, Germany
1994 Great iceball comet seen above North Sea
1994 Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election
1996 Space Shuttle STS 77 Endeavour 11), lands
1997 70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym
1997 Jesse Timmedequas found guilty of rape and murder of Megan Kanka, 7
1997 Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil
1999 Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule
1999 Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
1999 44th Eurovision Song Contest: Charlotte Nilsson for Sweden wins singing "Take Me to Your Heaven" in Jerusalem
2001 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers inaugurated.
2004 The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2004 The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia kill 22
2005 France resoundingly rejects the European Constitution
2005 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Laurel Valley GC: Mike Reid wins his first of 2 Champions Tour major titles with a birdie on the first playoff hole against Jerry Pate and Dana Quigley
2010 55th Eurovision Song Contest: Lena for Germany wins singing "Satellite" in Oslo
2010 Super Rugby Final, Orlando Stadium, Soweto: Bulls (Pretoria) successfully defend their title with a 25-17 win over the Stormers (Cape Town) in an all-South African final
2010 In an all South African Super 14 Rugby final, the Bulls (Pretoria) retain title, 25-17 over the Stormers (Cape Town) at the Orlando Stadium, Soweto; Morné Steyn kicks 6 penalties and a conversion for the Bulls
2011 Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism started by Joshua Wong and Ivan Lam
2011 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Valhalla GC: Tom Watson wins his 6th and final Champions Tour major title with a birdie on the first playoff hole against David Eger
2012 Thousands march in protest in Johannesburg against Brett Murray's controversial painting The Spear
2012 Facebook's problematic public listing could cost those involved $115 million from technical glitches
2012 A 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 24 people near Bologna, northern Italy
2012 Indonesian police make the biggest drug bust in ten years after seizing over a million ecstasy pills valued at $45 million
2014 President Obama approves US military training of 'moderate' Syrian rebels to fight the regime of Bashar al-Assad and al Qaeda-linked groups
2015 Heat wave in India centered in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states is reported to have killed 1800 people in a week
2015 "Jurassic World", directed by Colin Trevorrow and starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard premieres in Paris
2015 Muhammadu Buhari is sworn in as the President of Nigeria
2015 Sepp Blatter is elected to a fifth term as president of FIFA
2015 NHL Eastern Conference Finals: Tampa Bay Lightning beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 3
2016 IPL Cricket Final, M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore: Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 8 runs; David Warner 69 (38)
2016 Senior PGA Championship Men's Golf, GC at Harbor Shores: Rocco Mediate wins his lone career major title by 3 strokes from Colin Montgomerie of Scotland
2017 Tiger Woods is arrested and charged with driving under the influence in Jupiter, Florida
2017 Violent storm and high winds in Moscow, Russia leaves 13 dead
2018 Heatwave in Karachi, Pakistan, kills 65 as temperatures soar above 110 degrees Fahrenheit
2018 Starbucks closes more than 8,000 US stores early for racial bias training after two black men wrongly arrested in a store in April
2018 Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko fakes his own death with Ukrainian security services to foil an assassination plot
2018 Death toll on Puerto Rico 70 times higher than official figure, likely 4,600 died from Hurricane Maria according to Harvard University study
2019 US Special Counsel Robert Mueller says charging President Donald Trump with a crime never an option as no legal means to charge a sitting president; and that his report does not exonerate the president
2019 16 people charged for setting fire to and murdering a teenager who reported sexual harassment at an Islamic school in Feni, Bangladesh
2019 World's smallest surviving baby, a girl, discharged from Sharp March Birch Hospital in San Diego after being born at 23 weeks weighing 8.6 ounces (245 grams)
2019 British politician Boris Johnson ordered to appear in court over claims he lied to the public during Britain's Brexit campaign
2019 Israel's Knesset calls a snap election after Benjamin Netanyahu fails to form a government
2019 Transgender no longer classified as a mental health illness by the World Health Organization
2019 Tourist boat sinks after colliding with another boat on the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, killing 28 people
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Post by Richard Frost » Sun May 30 2021 10:50am

30th May 2021

30 May TRINITY SUNDAY Christian (Western Churches)
On Trinity Sunday, Christians reflect on the mystery of God, who is seen as One but is understood in and through God, the Father, God, the Son, and God, the Holy Spirit.

Water a Flower Day
National Water a Flower Day is celebrated on May 30 of every year. National Water a Flower Day is a yearly reminder to show our flowers how much we appreciate them for their beautiful colors, fragrant blossoms and medicinal, and lethal properties.

Loomis Day
Loomis Day, which falls on May 30 each year, celebrates Mahlon Loomis and his important discoveries relating to telegraphic communication. Loomis, who was an American dentist, was fascinated by the Earth’s atmosphere and how it could be used for long-distance wireless communication. While most of his experiments failed and/or have been discredited, one of his most prominent experiments led to the accidental discovery of primitive radio technology. This wireless technology was further developed and refined to provide the modern world with WiFi, TV, radio, telephone, etc. So, even if it was accidental, the world has Mahlon Loomis to thank for the wireless telegraphic technologies we all can enjoy today.

Mint Julep Day
The ingredients of this drink are simple: bourbon, mint leaf, sugar and water. However, no two bartenders seem to make the drink in the same way, which is all the more reason to sample a few before this special day is over. Celebrating Mint Julep Day is the perfect occasion to learn about and enjoy such a tasty beverage!

A selection of Birthdays

1757 Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister (Tory: 1801-04), born London (d. 1844)

1819 Sir William Montagu Scott McMurdo GCB (30 May 1819 – 2 March 1894) was a British army officer who rose to the rank of general. He saw active service in India, helped to run a military railway in the Crimean War and then managed various groups of volunteers working with the army. He was eventually knighted.(d. 1894)
1835 Alfred Austin, Poet laureate born in Headingley, Yorkshire, England (d. 1913)
1846 Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (famous for Fabergé eggs), born in Saint Petersburg, (d. 1920)
1847 Alice Stopford Green, Irish historian & proponent of Irish independence, b. Kells, Ireland (d. 1929)
1879 Colin Blythe, English cricketer (outstanding slow lefty pre-WWI), born in Deptford (d. 1917)
1882 Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (Olympic gold 1908), born in London (d. 1915)
1895 Maurice Tate, Cricket all-rounder (39 Tests,155 wickets,1 x 100,5 x 50), b.Brighton, (d. 1956)
1908 Mel Blanc, American voice actor, comedian best known for his Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1989)
1912 Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (Ben-Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver!), born in Marian Glas, Anglesey, Wales (d. 1980)
1912 Joseph Stein, American dramatist & playwright (Fiddler on the Roof), born in NYC, (d. 2010)
1913 Cedric Thorpe Davie, British composer of film scores and pedagogue (The Green Man; St. Andrews University), born in Lewisham, London (d. 1983)
1929 Michael Mellinger, German actor (Goldfinger, The Bourne Identity), born Kochel, Bavaria (d. 2004)
1934 Alexei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut (Voskhod 2, first person to walk in space), born in Listvyanka, Soviet Union (d. 2019)
1944 Lenny Davidson, rocker (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over), born in London, England
1949 Bob Willis, English cricket fast bowler and captain (90 Tests, 325 wickets; 64 ODIs), born in Sunderland, County Durham, England (d. 2019)
1953 Colm Meaney, actor (Star Trek Deep Space 9)
1955 Nicky "Topper" Headon, English drummer (Clash-Complete Control)
1958 Ted McGinley, actor (Love Boat, MWC, Dynasty), born in Newport Beach, California
1961 Harry Enfield, Horsham, Sussex, English comedian (Dermot-Men Behaving Badly, Saturday Live)
1963 Sally Dyvenor [Whittaker], English actress (Coronation Street), born in Middleton, Lancashire
1967 Martin Blunt, British rock singer (The Charlatans - "The Only One I Know"), born in West Midlands
1968 Tim Burgess, English rock vocalist (Charlatans - "Only One I Know"), born in Salford, Lancashire
1975 Andrew Farrell, English rugby league and union footballer
1980 Steven Gerrard, English footballer

On this day in history

1035 Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders
1087 German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Conrad
1100 Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht
1381 English peasant uprising begins in Essex
1416 Jerome of Prague burned at the stake for heresy by church Council of Constance
1431 Hundred Years' War: 19 year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal in Rouen, France
1434 The Battle of Lipany (also called the Battle of Česky Brod), ending Taborites influence
1445 Coronation as Margaret of Anjou as Queen Consort of England at Westminster Abbey
1498 Christopher Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1510 Portuguese forces under Afonso de Albuquerque abandon Goa after its former ruler Yusuf Adil Shah, the Muslim King of Bijapur reconquers the city
1522 French troops driven out of Genoa
1527 University of Marburg (Germany) founded
1539 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto's expedition of 10 ships and 700 men lands in Florida
1564 (-31st) The first battle of Öland (between the islands of Gotland and Öland): Lübeck & Denmark beat Sweden
1574 Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
1574 Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
1584 Earl Adolf of Nieuwenaar and Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland
1591 Spanish troops in Zutphen surrender to Dutch and English forces under Maurice of Nassau
1626 An explosion at the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory in Beijing destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people
1631 The Treaty of Fontainebleau signed between Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, and the Kingdom of France, establishing a secret alliance between them during the Thirty Years' War.
1635 The Peace of Prague signed between the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II and the Electorate of Saxony (representing Protestant states of the Holy Roman Empire). It effectively ended the civil war aspect of the Thirty Years' War
1642 All honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament
1646 Spain & Netherlands sign temporary cease fire
1783 Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes 1st daily newspaper in US
1793 Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
1806 Future US President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson accused Jackson's wife of bigamy
1808 Napoleon Bonaparte annexes Tuscany & gave it seats in French Senate
1814 Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition - the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent.
1821 James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
1822 George Wilson and Joe LaRoche betray a planned slave revolt organized by Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina, confirming an earlier warning from Peter Prioleau. 35 Black people are later hanged. (date is approximate)
1832 Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
1832 The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
1842 John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
1848 Second Battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 William G Young patents ice cream freezer
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo between US and Mexico comes into force, giving New Mexico, California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado to the US in return for $15 million
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals Missouri Compromise creating the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
1858 Hudson's Bay Company's rights to Vancouver Island revoked
1862 Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
1864 Battle of Bethesda Church [Totopotomoy Creek], cavalry battle fought in Hanover County, Virginia, inconclusive result (US Civil War)
1876 Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
1879 An F4 tornado strikes Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60.
1883 Stampede caused by a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was going to collapse kills 12
1895 English cricket icon W. G. Grace scores 169 for Gloucestershire against Middlesex at Lord's for his 1,000th first-class run of the season in just 22 days
1896 First car accident occurs; Henry Wells hits a cyclist in NYC
1902 Spanish King Alfonso XII, who was elected as a constitutional monarch, suspends the Cortes, Spain's parliament
1904 Japanese Army capture the City of Dairen after landing troops along the south coast of Manchuria
1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1909 Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua
1912 Indianapolis 500: Joe Dawson in the American-manufactured, 4-cylinder National, wins in race record 6:21:06; time is 21:02 faster than previous 1911 record
1913 Treaty of London signed by the Great Powers, the Ottoman Empire and the victorious Balkan League (Serbia, Greece, Kingdom of Bulgaria, and Montenegro) bringing an end to the First Balkan War
1914 The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1921 Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
1922 Latvia & Vatican sign accord
1922 Completed Lincoln Memorial dedicated by US Chief Justice William H. Taft in front of 50,000
1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
1925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators
1925 In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
1933 Patent on invisible glass installation
1937 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Pittsburgh Field Club: Defending champion Denny Shute defeats Jug McSpaden in 37 holes
1937 Memorial Day Massacre: Chicago Police Department shoot and kill 10 unarmed demonstrators during the "Little Steel Strike" in the United States
1937 42nd Men's French Championships: Henner Henkel beats Bunny Austin (6-1, 6-4, 6-3)
1937 42nd Women's French Championships: Hilde Sperling beats Simonne Mathieu (6-2, 6-4)
1941 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
1941 British Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II
1942 Reichsfuehrer Herman Himmler arrives in Prague
1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
1943 French General Charles de Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
1944 Transport number 75 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die
1948 A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1949 East German constitution approved
1949 NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
1951 Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1953 French Championships Men's Tennis: Ken Rosewall of Australia wins his 2nd Grand Slam title, beating American Vic Seixas 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2
1953 French Championships Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats fellow American Doris Hart 6-2, 6-4 for the 2nd leg of her Grand Slam
1954 Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
1954 Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2)
1955 Said el-Mufti forms Jordan government
1955 Tunisia begins domestic self governing
1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai v England at Edgbaston
1957 European Cup Final, Madrid: Alfredo Di Stéfano and Francisco Gento score as defending champions Real Madrid beats Fiorentina, 2-0
1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington
1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact (Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom)
1959 President Luis Somoza Debayle ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
1959 President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
1959 The Auckland Harbour Bridge is officially opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
1959 58th Men's French Championships: Nicola Pietrangeli beats Ian Vermaak (3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1)
1959 58th Women's French Championships: Christine Truman beats Zsuzsi Kormoczy (6-4, 7-5)
1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
1961 Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
1962 Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" premieres
1964 63rd Men's French Championships: Manuel Santana beats Nicola Pietrangeli (6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 7-5)
1964 French Championships Women's Tennis: Margaret Court of Australia wins her second French singles crown; beats Maria Bueno of Brazil 5-7, 6-1, 6-2
1965 France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)
1965 Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1966 US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon
1967 King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
1967 Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles in Gardena, California
1967 Republic of Biafra, a predominantly Igbo secessionist state in eastern Nigeria, is founded by Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu
1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"
1968 President De Gaulle disbands French parliament
1968 University church in Leipzig, German DR, blown up
1968 West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law
1969 Australian Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp, Belgium; record disputed (short course)
1969 Gibraltar adopts constitution
1969 People revolt in Willemstad, Curacao
1969 Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao
1971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
1971 Train crash at Duivendrecht, Netherlands, 5 die
1971 US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
1972 3 Japanese PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod Intl airport
1972 The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.
1973 17th European Cup: Ajax beats Juventus 1-0 at Belgrade
1975 European Space Agency (ESA) forms
1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
1976 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Pine Ridge GC: Betty Burfeindt wins her only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Judy Rankin
1978 31st Cannes Film Festival: "The Tree of Wooden Clogs" directed Ermanno Olmi wins Palme d'Or
1979 Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1979 23rd European Cup: Nottingham Forest beats Malmo FF 1-0 at Munich
1980 1st papal visit to France since 1814
1980 Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires
1980 Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
1981 Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers
1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
1983 Surrey all out for 14 vs Essex, their lowest score ever
1984 Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora's headquarters in Nicaragua
1984 28th European Cup: Liverpool beats Roma (1-1, 4-2 on penalties) at Rome
1986 France performs nuclear test
1987 Mike Tyson beats Pinklon Thomas by TKO in round 6 in Las Vegas to retain WBC / WBA heavyweight boxing titles
1987 North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
1987 Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1991 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic
1991 Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km)
1992 UN votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting
1996 69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture
1997 Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, set on fire by 12-year old grandson
1998 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
1998 Super Rugby Final, Eden Park, Auckland: In an all-NZ final, Andrew Mehrtens lands 2 penalties & 2 conversions as the Canterbury Crusaders beat the Blues, 20-13; Crusaders' first title
1999 Super Rugby Final, Carisbrook, Dunedin: Canterbury Crusaders retain title with a 24-19 win over Otago Highlanders; flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens kicks 3 penalties, a conversion & dropped goal for the winners
2000 35th Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw win
2003 "Finding Nemo", directed by Andrew Stanton and starring Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres is released in the US and Canada
2009 Super Rugby Final, Pretoria: Morné Steyn kicks 5 conversions & 2 penalties as the Bulls thump the Chiefs (Waikato, NZ), 61-17
2009 English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London (89,391): Chelsea beats Everton, 2-1; Frank Lampard scores 72' winner
2010 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Colorado GC: Tom Lehman wins first of 3 Champions Tour major titles with a par on the first hole of a playoff with Fred Couples and David Frost
2012 A number of nations including Germany, Turkey and Canada, expel Syrian diplomats following the Houla massacre
2012 Vishwanathan Anand wins his fifth World Chess Championship
2014 Former military chief al-Sisi wins 93 percent of the vote in Egypt's presidential election
2015 English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London (89,283): Arsenal beats Aston Villa, 4-0; Gunners' 12th title
2015 Namibia defeat Mozambique 2-0 to win the 2015 COSAFA Cup
2015 FC Barcelona defeat Athletic Bilbao 3-1 in the 2014–15 Copa del Rey final
2015 Alistair Cook becomes the leading run scorer of all time in test cricket for England
2016 Former Chad dictator Hissène Habré convicted of crimes against humanity by the Extraordinary African chambers, 1st ex-head of state convicted of the charge
2017 Car bomb outside ice cream shop in Baghdad kills 17, Islamic State claim responsibility
2017 Bomb outside government pension office in Baghdad kills 14, injures 34, Islamic State claim respnsibility
2017 Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John reveals her breast cancer has returned after 25 years
2017 South Korean President Moon Jae-in orders a probe into additional launchers for the U.S. THAAD anti-missile system
2017 Large suicide bomb in diplomatic quarter of Kabul, Afghanistan kills more than 150 and injures 400
2019 Austria appoints its first female chancellor Brigitte Bierle to head caretaker government after fall of the coalition government
2019 Narendra Modi sworn in for a second term as Indian Prime Minister in New Delhi with 8,000 guests at largest-ever gathering at the Presidential Palace
2019 R&B Singer R. Kelly charged with 11 new counts of sexual assault and abuse in Chicago
2019 Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signs new anti-abortion, making it the fifth southern US state to ban abortion when fetal heartbeat detected
2019 Two new studies find eating processed foods leads to an early death and ill health published in "British Medical Journal"
2020 Record number of COVID-10 cases reported worldwide 134,064, driven by hot spots in Brazil, Peru, Egypt, South Africa and Bangladesh
2020 SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying the Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station. First private company to launch astronauts into space.
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Post by Richard Frost » Mon May 31 2021 11:35am

31st May 2021

World No-Tobacco Day
World No Tobacco Day strives to create awareness about the health issues linked with tobacco use. It motivates people to quit tobacco use for a healthier and safer world.

Save Your Hearing Day
Save Your Hearing Day is our yearly reminder to turn down the dial and to listen to the birds chirping outside our windows, for a change. Its originator is unknown, but bless our eardrums, he did us a great service, because how would we otherwise have been able to tell teenagers to turn off that noise?

Web Designer Day
Enjoying this website? How about all those others you visit? Marvel at the broad expanse that is the internet and find yourself utterly baffled by just how all of this got here? Each and every page and site on the internet was built and designed by a web designer. Whether they were a professional hacking out every individual piece of code or a hobbyist using a pre-built site and themes, it took a human being performing actual work to bring you the wonders that spill across the information superhighway every day. Web Designer Day is set aside to honor these people from every walk of life that bring us the wonders of the internet.

Macaroon Day
Macaroons are easily one of our favourite cookies, and why wouldn’t they be? They come in a delightful combination of flavours and are always beautiful to behold if you like cookies that is. While they originate in Italy, there’s far more to these cookies than one nation can provide, which is why there are regional variations all over the world! Macaroon Day is a great opportunity to give them all a try, whether it’s the dark spiced coconut flavour from the Dominican Republic or the thick velvety chocolate of the Scottish Macaroon, you’re sure to find one you love!

A selection of Birthdays

1443 Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII and paternal grandmother of King Henry VIII of England, born in Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire, England (d. 1509)
1535 Alessandro Allori, Italian painter and carpet designer, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1607)
1699 Alexander Cruden "Alexander the Corrector", Scottish biblical scholar and eccentric, compiler of a concordance to King James Bible, born in Aberdeen, Scotland (d. 1770)
1744 Richard Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish inventor and educationalist, born in Bath, Somerset (d. 1817)
1819 Walt Whitman, American poet (Leaves of Grass) and volunteer nurse during the Civil War, born in West Hills, New York (d. 1892)
1860 Walter Sickert, Danish-English painter (The Miner), born in Munich (d. 1942)
1863 Francis Younghusband, British journalist and explorer (1904 British expedition to Tibet), born in Murree, British India (d. 1942)
1872 W. Heath Robinson, illustrator and cartoonist (Don Quixote), born in Islington, England (d. 1944)
1897 Margalo Gillmore, British actress (Skirts Ahoy, High Society), born in London, England (d. 1986)
1905 Florence Desmond, English actress and comedian, born in Islington, London (d. 1993)
1911 Edward Adamson, British artist, 'father of art therapy' and collector, born in Sale, England (d. 1996)
1916 Judy Campbell [Judith Mary Gamble], British actress (Convoy, Bonnie Prince Charlie), born in Grantham, England (d. 2004)
1921 Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X)
1922 Denholm Elliott, actor (Alfie, Raiders of the Lost Ark), born in London, England (d. 1992)
1928 Derek Ufton, English soccer defender (1 cap; Charlton Athletic), manager (Plymouth Argyle) and cricket wicketkeeper (Kent), born in Crayford, England (d. 2021)
1930 Clint Eastwood, American actor (Dirty Harry)/mayor (Carmel, California), born in San Francisco,
1935 Bruce Bolton, cricketer (two Tests NZ v England 1959)
1938 John Prescott, British Labour MP
1939 Terry Waite, English Anglican Church envoy/Lebanese hostage, born in Bollington, Cheshire
1943 Sharon Gless, American actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney & Lacey), born in Los Angeles, California
1946 Steve Bucknor, cricketer (West Indian Test umpire, FIFA referee)
1947 Junior [William] Campbell, Scottish singer and guitarist (Marmalade), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1948 John Bonham, English rock drummer (Led Zeppelin), born in Redditch, England (d. 1980)
1948 Lynda Bellingham, Canadian-born English actress (Sweeney, Scarlet Tunic), born in Montreal, Quebec, (d. 2014)
1950 John Edward Barker was an English cartoonist, best known for his work in International Times and The Observer in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the comic strip "The Largactilites" (later renamed "The Galactilites"). He was described as "the wittiest and most idiosyncratic cartoonist to emerge from the British underground press". His cartoons were usually signed simply "Edward".
1955 Ben de Lisi, British fashion designer
1957 Stephen Jones, English milliner (John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood), born Wirral Peninsula
1960 Peter Winterbottom, British rugby player
1961 Lea Thompson, actress (Back to the Future, Caroline In The City)
1963 Wendy Smith, English rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good), born in Middlesborough, England
1965 Brooke Shields, American model/actress (Blue Lagoon, Suddenly Susan), born in NYC, New York
1972 Karl John Geary is an Irish-born American actor and author. Geary was born in Dublin. In 1987, at the age of 15, he moved to the United States; he later obtained a green card in a visa lottery for undocumented Irish immigrants, and ultimately became a naturalized citizen . Geary appeared in Madonna 's Sex book.
1976 Colin Farrell, Irish actor (In Bruges, Minority Report), born in Dublin, Ireland

On this day in History

1279 BC Ramesses II, known as Ramesses the Great becomes Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt (19th Dynasty)
70 Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem
1223 Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River - Mongol armies of Genghis Khan lead by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and Cumans
1417 Jacoba of Bavaria becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen
1495 Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League
1531 "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted
1578 Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England, to Frobisher Bay, Canada. Eventually mines fools gold, famously used to pave the streets of London.
1621 Sir Francis Bacon imprisoned in the Tower of London for 1 night
1634 The colony of Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
1659 Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague
1665 Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah
1669 Citing poor eyesight, English civil servant Samuel Pepys records the last event in his famous diary
1696 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius
1727 France, Britain & Netherlands sign accord of Paris
1744 French troops conquer Kortrijk
1759 The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions
1790 US copyright law enacted
1790 Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca
1813 In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains
1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope
1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
1853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance
1861 General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
1861 Mint at New Orleans closes
1862 Battle of Seven Pines Virginia (Fair Oaks)
1864 Raid at Morgan's Kentucky
1868 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio
1868 Dr James Moore(UK)wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St Cloud, Paris
1870 E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement
1875 Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
1878 German battleship SMS Grosser Kurfürst sinks, 284 killed
1879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
1879 Madison Square Garden opens in New York, named after 4th President James Madison
1880 League of American Wheelmen (1st US bicycle association), forms in Newport, Rhode Island
1883 French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar
1884 Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
1889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn
1890 Ulm Minster, in Ulm, Germany, the tallest church in the world with a steeple 161.5m high, is finally completed (begun 1377)
1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins
1893 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
1899 -June 5] Conference of Bloemfontein fails
1900 British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg
1900 Piet de Law captures Lt Col BE Spragges, 13th Battalion Irish Imperial Yeomanry
1900 Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074)
1900 US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion
1901 At the opening of the Greek National Assembly, Prince George, High Commissioner of Crete, asks it to endorse the union of Crete with Greece; the proposal is later rejected
1902 Australia Cricket all out 36 v England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever
1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
1902 Labor trouble and riots lead Spanish King Alfonso XII to impose martial law
1905 Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger
1906 Assassination attempt on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria of Battenberg in Madrid during the procession after their marriage in Madrid by a Catalan anarchist kills 30
1908 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium)
1909 National Conference on the Negro holds its first meeting in United Charities Building, New York (earlier form of the NAACP)
1910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa
1910 Union of South Africa declares its independence from the United Kingdom
1911 RMS Titanic launched in Belfast
1911 Mexican President Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution
1912 US marines land on Cuba
1913 Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6)
1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London
1916 Battle of Jutland: Largest naval battle of World War I between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet which killed 8,645 in an inconclusive battle but strategic British victory. German fleet never puts to sea again in WWI.
1916 Battle of Jutland: British battle cruiser HMS Invincible explodes, only 6 crew members survive
1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic
1921 A large-scale race riot breaks out in Tulsa, Oklahoma, later described as the worst incident of racial violence in American history; around 150-300 African Americans killed
1923 China & USSR exchange diplomats
1923 The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) forms in Durban, South Africa, with Omar Hajee Amod Jhaveri as President
1924 China recognizes the USSR
1926 Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup
1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
1928 1st aerial crossing of Pacific takes off from Oakland
1928 Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season
1930 Don Bradman batting for Australia v Hampshire at Southampton is 47 not out at stumps, bringing his aggregate to 1,001 runs, first cricket touring overseas batsman to complete 1,000 runs by end of May
1930 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium
1930 Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth
1930 British Amateur Championship, Men's Golf, St. Andrews Links: Bobby Jones scores a 7 & 6 win over Englishman Roger Wethered for the first leg of his Grand Slam
1931 French Championships Men's Tennis: Jean Borotra wins his only home title; beats fellow Frenchman Christian Boussus 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4
1931 French Championship Women's Tennis: Cilly Aussem of Germany beats England's Betty Nuthall 8-6, 6-1 for the first of 2 major titles in 1931
1935 7.7 magnitude earthquake destroys Quetta in Balochistan, British India (now Pakistan) killing an estimated 40,000 people
1937 German warships bombard Almeria, Spain
1938 Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's
1940 Major General Bernard Montgomery leaves Dunkirk
1940 Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with French Marshal Philippe Pétain who announces he is willing to make a separate peace with Germany
1941 German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools
1941 A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, in neutral Ireland, claims 38 lives.
1942 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Seaview CC: Sam Snead beats Jim Turnesa, 2 & 1 for his first PGA T
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury
1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (722,666 tons)
1943 42 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month
1944 Allied breakthrough in Italy
1947 Communists seize power in Hungary
1947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53
1947 Italian government of Gasperi forms
1949 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Hermitage CC: Sam Snead beats fellow American Johnny Palmer, 3 & 2; first time reigning Masters champion wins PGA Championship in the same calendar year.
1950 Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial
1951 Netherlands & South Africa sign cultural accord
1953 Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government
1955 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities
1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to rail strike
1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1958 US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
1958 French Championships Men's Tennis: Mervyn Rose wins his first and only French title; beats Luis Ayala of Chile 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
1958 57th Women's French Championships: Zsuzsi Kormoczy beats Shirley Bloomer (6-4, 1-6, 6-2)
1961 Arthur Michael Ramsey appointed the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury
1961 US President John F. Kennedy visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris
1961 Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth
1961 European Cup Final, Wankdorf Stadium, Bern: Benfica beats Barcelona 3-2; first Portuguese team to reach final and win the tournament
1962 The West Indies Federation dissolves.
1964 Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim
1965 12th National Film Awards (India): "Charulata" wins the Golden Lotus
1967 Bayern Munchen of West Germany wins 7th European Cup Winner's Cup against Rangers of Scotland 1-0 in Nuremberg
1968 Movie star James Stewart retires from the US Air Force after 27 years of service
1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" in a Montreal hotel, during their second 'bed-in' for peace
1969 Stevie Wonder releases the single "My Cherie Amour" which goes on to become a soul classic
1970 7.75 Ancash earthquake off coast of Peru kills 66-70,000 and sets off world's deadliest avalanche
1972 16th European Cup: Ajax beats Internazionale 2-0 at Rotterdam
1973 Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th run of English cricket season
1974 Israel and Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 "Fight the Power" single released by The Isley Brothers (Billboard Song of the Year 1975)
1976 The Who set the record for the loudest concert of all time, 120 decibels at 50 metres, at The Valley in Charlton
1977 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar
1977 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
1980 Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich
1984 57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 Viv Richards hits 189* (170 balls) v England, ODI cricket record
1985 Guatemala adopts constitution
1985 Tornado outbreak in the United States and Canada sees 41 tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, leaving 90 dead.
1987 Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mt McKinley, Alaska
1989 1st presentation of rock 'n' roll Elvis awards
1990 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne
1990 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie
1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce
1991 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
1992 46th Tony Awards: "Dancing at Lughnasa", "Crazy For You" win
1992 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000
1993 President Dobrica Ćosić of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia flees
1997 The Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick
1997 Super Rugby Final, Eden Park, Auckland: Blues win second straight title with a 23-7 victory over ACT Brumbies; fullback Adrian Cashmore lands 3 penalties & 2 conversions for the winners
2004 "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", the 3rd film based on the books by J. K. Rowling is released in UK cinemas
2004 British children's cartoon "Peppa Pig" created by Astley Baker Davies premieres on Channel 5
2004 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Valhalla GC: Hale Irwin wins his 4th title in the event by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Jay Haas
2005 Mark Felt, former FBI high ranking official revealed as "Deep Throat" source during Watergate investigations in "Vanity Fair" article
2007 Rihanna releases her breakthrough album "Good Girl Gone Bad"
2008 Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds
2008 Super Rugby Final, Christchurch: Canterbury Crusaders claim their 7th title with a 20-12 win over NSW Waratahs; Dan Carter kicks 4 penalties & a dropped goal for the home team
2010 Gaza Flotilla raid: Israeli Shayetet 13 soldiers board ships trying to break blockade of Gaze, during violent confrontation aboard MV Mavi Marmara 9 activists killed and several activists and soldiers injured
2012 Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency
2015 Harriette Thompson aged 92 and 65 days becomes the oldest woman to complete a marathon (Suja Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon in San Diego)
2017 Kenya's Madaraka Express, a Chinese-built high speed railway from Mombasa to Nairobi is opened by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta
2017 Comedienne Kathy Griffin fired from CNN after photo of her holding bloody head resembling Donald Trump by Tyler Shields posted
2018 Zinédine Zidane announces his resignation as Real Madrid manager after 3 successive Champions League titles
2018 Matt LeBlanc announces he is leaving TV show "Top Gear"
2018 Danish government bans garments that cover the face, including the niqab and burqa
2018 Uganda's parliament imposes tax on social media to stop gossip
2018 Kim Kardashian West meets US President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss prison reform
2019 Disgruntled employee shoots and kills 12 people at US municipal building in Virginia Beach, Virginia
2019 US President Donald Trump threatens to impose extra 5% tax on Mexican goods if country does not increase its efforts to curb immigration
2019 Former "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson is announced as the new Batman
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Post by Richard Frost » Tue Jun 01 2021 11:41am

1 June 2021

Global Day of Parents
On September 17, 2012, the United Nations declared June 1 as the day to observe Global Day of Parents. The day aims to stimulate awareness on the importance of parenthood and its role in providing protection and the tools needed for positive development in children.

Say Something Nice Day
If you cannot say something nice, then say nothing at all. Those are the immortal words spoken by passive-aggressive parents and grandparents all over the globe, but what if we took those words in and actually listened?

Well, with days like Say Something Nice Day, perhaps it’s the perfect reason to actually throw caution to the wind and actually be nice to one another. If we look at things with our eyes wide open, we have to admit that the world can be an unpleasant place at times, and if there is something that we really need, it’s a little more niceness.

Go Barefoot Day
There are a lot of things in life that we take for granted, like the shoes we wear. You might not think it, but there are a lot of things you should think about when it comes to wearing shoes and making the most of them. This is something that can help you in day to day life, as well as coming with health and comfort benefits as well. Footwear is an integral part of our daily life, so much so that we take it for granted a lot of the time.

But, people across the world do not always have the luxury of wearing or owning shoes of their own, and many have to walk every day in bare feet. This is something that can cause a lot of issues, especially in underdeveloped countries. However, at the same time, there is something appealing about donning bare feet now and again, and this is something that is important to get right as much as possible.

This is one of the reasons that has led to the launch and development of Go Barefoot Day. This is an annual event that encourages everyone, children and adults, to shed their shoes and socks and go barefoot as much as possible, wherever possible. Of course, commuting to work or driving the car will require the use of footwear, but if you are in the garden, at the park, or on the beach it would be ideal to go barefoot.

World Milk Day
It’s a well-known fact that milk is rich with calcium, a mineral that promotes healthy teeth and bones. June 1st is the date that has been set aside to celebrate Milk Day. And, of course, this is a celebration that can take place anywhere in the world, given that milk is a global food!

TableTop Day
Tabletop games proliferated on the PC. The original Diablo, Warcraft and Command and Conquer set the standard on the computer. But there’s been a movement back to real-world gaming thanks to a cluster of Dungeon and Dragons-like games taking physical form. Physical games have depth and complexity, and they allow players to interact with each other in person, not over an internet connection.

TableTop Day is a chance to formally recognize the movement and the healthy sense of competition and sportspersonship that it brings. The idea is to bring people to the table and get them to play against each other.

A selection of Birthdays

1300 Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)
1563 Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury and English Prime Minister (1598-1612), The principal discoverer of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, Robert Cecil remains a controversial historic figure as it is still debated at what point he first learned of the plot and to what extent he acted as an agent provocateur. born Salisbury (d. 1612)
1801 Founder of Salt Lake City and President of the LDS Church Brigham Young, American religious leader (LDS), born in Whitingham, Vermont (d. 1877)
1843 Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
1873 Ada Jane Jones, English-American popular singer, among the earliest Female singers to be recorded, born in Lancashire, England (d. 1922)
1878 John Masefield, British writer and poet (Salt-Water Ballads), Poet Laureate (1930-67), born in Ledbury, Herefordshire (d. 1967)
1881 Charles Kay Ogden, English writer and linguist (d. 1957)
1882 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)
1887 Clive Brook, actor and director (List of Adrian Messenger), born in London, England (d. 1974)
1899 Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963)
1901 John Van Druten, English playwright (I Remember Mama, I am a Camera), born in London (d. 1957)
1903 Percy Whitlock, English composer and organist, born in Chatham (d. 1946)
1905 Robert Newton, British actor (Treasure Island, Henry V, Around the World in 80 Days), born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England (d. 1956)
1907 Sir Frank Whittle, English RAF engineer air officer and inventor of the turbojet engine, born in Coventry, England (d. 1996)
1908 Percy Edwards, English entertainer (known for his animal impressions), born in Suffolk, England (d.1996)
1913 Bill Deedes, British journalist (d. 2007)
1915 John Randolph [Emanuel Hirsch Cohen], American actor (King Kong, Lucan, Lucas Tanner, Angie), born in NYC, New York (d. 2004)
1924 Paula Hinton, English ballet dancer, born in Ilford, Essex (d. 1996)
1926 Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortenson], (Some Like It Hot), born Los Angeles, (d. 1962)
1926 Johnny Berry, English soccer right winger (4 caps; Manchester United, Birmingham City), born in Aldershot, (d. 1994)
1928 Bob Monkhouse, comedian (Bonkers), born in Kent, England
1930 Edward Woodward, British singer and actor (Breaker Morant, Wickerman), born in Croydon, Surrey (d. 2009)
1934 Charles "Pat" Boone, American singer, actor (April Love, Cross & Switchblade, No More Mr. Nice Guy) and TV personality (The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom), born in Jacksonville, Florida
1936 Gerald Scarfe, British illustrator (Pink Floyd's The Wall), born in London, England
1937 Morgan Freeman, American Academy Award-winning actor (Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory), born Memphis
1939 Cleavon Little, actor (Blazing Saddles, Toy Soldiers), born in Chickasha Oklahoma (d. 1992)
1940 Rene Auberjonois, American actor and voice artist (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, God of War), born in NYC, New York (d. 2019)
1942 Tom Mankiewicz, screenwriter (Diamonds are Forever), born in Los Angeles, California
1944 Robert Powell, English actor (Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets), born in Salford, England
1946 Brian Cox, Scottish actor (Troy; Jason Bourne films), born in Dundee, Scotland
1947 Jonathan Pryce, Welsh stage and film actor (Brazil, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Two Popes), born in Carmel, Flintshire, Wales
1947 Ronnie Wood, English rock guitarist (Faces, Jeff Beck Group, The Rolling Stones), born in Hillingdon
1955 Ralph Morse, British actor, singer and writer of historical dramas
1959 Martin Brundle, British auto racer (World Sportscar C'ship 1988; 24 Hours of Le Mans 1990) and F1 television commentator (ITV, BBC), born in King's Lynn, England
1960 Simon Gallup, British rock bassist (The Cure - "Friday I'm In Love"), born in Duxhurst, Surrey
1965 Nigel Short MBE, English chess grandmaster, columnist, coach, commentator (Vice-President FIDE; World #3 1988-89), born in Leigh, England
1970 Joshua Compston, English art impresario, born in London, England (d. 1996)
1972 Daniel Casey, English actor (Midsomer Murders), born in Stockton-on-Tees, England
1976 Marlon Devonish, MBE, English athlete (Olympic gold GB 4x100m relay 2004; World Indoor C'ship gold 200m 2003), born in Coventry, England
1980 Oliver James, British actor
1996 Tom Holland, English stage and film actor (Billy Elliot, Spider-man), born in Kingston upon Thames, England

On this day in History

4000 BC Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central Ukraine (hypothesis only)
193 Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
794 Charles the Great (aka Charlemagne) opens general synod in Frankfurt
1204 King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen
1215 Beijing, under control of Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing
1283 Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market
1283 Treaty of Rheinfelden: Duke Rudolph II of Austria waives his right to the Duchies of Austria & Styria
1459 Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua
1485 Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III
1495 1st paper record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is distiller
1526 Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief
1533 Anne Boleyn crowned Queen of England
1543 Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius publishes "De humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric of the human body in seven books)" a major step forward in understanding human anatomy [date is representative as exact date of publication unknown]
1562 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent sign treaty
1568 Duke of Alva oversees beheading of 18 nobles Brussels part of Council of Troubles/Council of Blood
1608 Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-government
1638 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Massachusetts
1641 France and Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant
1649 Russian Tsar Alexis throws English merchants out of Moscow
1657 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
1660 Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1670 English King Charles II & French King Louis XIV sign secret anti-Dutch treaty
1676 Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79)
1679 The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog
1746 French troops conquer Antwerp
1774 Boston Port Act: Following the passage of the act, the British government orders Port of Boston closed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party
1792 Kentucky admitted as 15th US state
1794 Glorious First of June; 1st naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win.
1796 Last of Britain's troops withdraws from USA
1796 Tennessee admitted as 16th US state
1809 Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a mile round trip from his home
1813 Captain John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte swears fidelity to the Constitution of France
1834 HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street
1835 6th national black convention (Philadelphia)
1836 Charles Darwin returns to Cape Town in South Africa
1843 Abolitionist and Women's Rights Advocate Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist
1845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
1855 US adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery
1857 Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) is published.
1861 1st skirmish in US Civil War at Fairfax Court House, Virginia
1861 British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War
1861 Skirmish at Arlington Mills, Virginia
1861 US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
1862 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Virginia (11,165 casualties)
1862 African Slave Trade Treaty Act: Bilateral treaty between the US and UK abolishing the slave trade in all US possessions
1864 Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)
1864 Confederate cruiser Georgia sold to a British merchant in Liverpool
1866 Renegade Irish Fenians from US invade Fort Erie, Ontario
1868 Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico
1869 Thomas Edison granted his first patent for the Electric Vote Recorder (U.S. Patent 90,646)
1877 US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
1879 Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed serving with British forces in the Anglo-Zulu War. He is buried in Farnborough, Hampshire.
1880 The first pay telephone service in the United States is installed in New Haven, Connecticut
1881 Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange
1881 Ridden by outstanding English jockey Fred Archer, Iroquois wins the Epsom Derby to become first American-owned and bred horse to take out a European classic race
1886 The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31
1888 California gets its 1st seismograph
1898 Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha
1899 English cricket icon W. G. Grace starts 22nd and final Test against Australia at Nottingham; Test debut of Wilfred Rhodes and Victor Trumper
1900 British army occupies Pretoria, South Africa
1907 -27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
1908 John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days
1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
1910 Sportclub Enschede soccer club forms in Enschede, Netherlands; merge with Enschedese Boys to form FC Twente in 1965
1911 1st Inter-Empire Sports Championships close in London
1912 Dutch soccer club Stormvogels forms in Ijmuiden; merges with VSV to form Telstar in 1963
1913 The Serbian government concludes a ten-year treaty with Greece against Bulgaria; Serbia wishes to pursue Macedonian aspirations with Greece's help
1918 Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis
1918 Canadian ace Billy Bishop downs 6 aircraft over a three-day span, including German ace Paul Bilik, reclaiming his top scoring title from James McCudden
1919 Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden
1920 Dutch soccer club RKSV forms in Volendam; merges with FC Volendam in 1977
1920 Adolfo de la Huerta becomes President of Mexico
1922 Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded
1922 Over 50,000 Fascists gather for a meeting in Bologna where Mussolini warns that he will lead a full-scale revolt against a government favoring 'anti-Fascist reaction'
1926 Ignacy Mocicki elected President of Poland
1927 Peace Bridge between US and Canada opens
1930 Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman cracks 191 in tour match v Hampshire at Southampton; Bradman smashes 26 fours in 240 minutes
1930 French Championships Men's Tennis: Frenchman Henri Cochet wins 3rd of 4 French titles; beats American Bill Tilden 3-6, 8-6, 6-3, 6-1
1930 French Championships Women's Tennis: Helen Wills Moody wins her 3rd straight French title; beats fellow American Helen Jacobs 6-2, 6-1
1932 Franz von Papen becomes Reich Chancellor of Germany
1933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
1935 Driving test & license plates introduced in England
1936 Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY
1936 French Championships Men's Tennis: Gottfried von Cramm of Germany wins his 2nd French title; beats Englishman Fred Perry 6-0, 2-6, 6-2, 2-6, 6-0
1936 French Championships Women's Tennis: German Hilde Sperling beats Simonne Mathieu of France 6-3, 6-4 for her second of 3 straight French titles
1937 Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
1937 Edith Wharton suffers a heart attack and collapses at the French country home of Ogden Codman. The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Among her other well known works are the The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome.
1939 First major boxing match on US television is the heavyweight bout from NY's Yankee Stadium between former world champion Max Baer and Lou Nova; Nova wins by TKO in 11th round
1939 British submarine "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
1940 Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
1940 Major General Bernard Montgomery returns to London
1940 Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
1941 British troops occupy Baghdad, Iraq
1941 Germany bans all Catholic publications
1941 Germany occupies Crete after Allied evacuation
1943 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die
1944 Allied generals Bernard Montgomery, George S. Patton, Omar Bradley, Miles Dempsey and Harry Crerar meet in Portsmouth, England just prior to D-Day
1944 Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots
1947 OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
1947 Development of photosensitive glass, which occurred ten years previously, is announced publicly
1948 Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire
1949 British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence
1951 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada)
1951 International Cheese treaty signed
1952 French Championships Men's Tennis: England based Czech Jaroslav Drobný wins his 2nd straight French title; beats Frank Sedgman of Australia 6-2, 6-0, 3-6, 6-4
1952 French Championships Women's Tennis: Doris Hart beats fellow American Shirley Fry 6-4, 6-4 for her 2nd French singles title
1954 Czech distance runner Emile Zatopek breaks his own 10,000m world record, clocking 28:54.2 in Brussels, Belgium
1955 Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia
1957 Don Bowden becomes first American to run a sub-4 minute mile (3:58.7) at the Pacific Association AAU Meet in Stockton, California
1957 French Championships Men's Tennis: Sven Davidson becomes first Swede to win a Grand Slam title; beats American Herbert Flam 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
1957 French Championships Women's Tennis: England's Shirley Bloomer wins her lone Grand Slam singles title; beats American Dorothy Knode 6-1, 6-3
1958 Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election
1958 Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France
1959 Two-time defending champion Monterrey, Mexico is ruled ineligible to compete in Little League Baseball World Series for using players outside predetermined geographical area
1959 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
1961 FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard
1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
1962 SS officer Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel after being found guilty of war crimes
1964 Kenya becomes a republic with Jomo Kenyatta as its 1st President
1965 A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3°K primordial background radiation
1965 Coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236
1965 Robert Manry begins his 78 day voyage to sail a 13.5-foot yacht "Tinkerbelle" across the Atlantic
1966 2,400 people attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1966 George Harrison is impressed by sitarist Ravi Shankar's concert in London
1966 Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
1968 Simon & Garfunkel's single "Mrs Robinson" from "The Graduate" hits #1 (first rock song to win Grammy for Record of the Year)
1970 "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1
1970 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
1972 Dmitri Shostakovich's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin
1972 Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
1972 West German police arrest Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader
1972 Iraq nationalizes Iraq Petroleum Company's (IPC) concession owned by British Petroleum, Royal Dutch-Shell, Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, Mobil and Standard Oil of New Jersey
1973 George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold
1973 Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"
1973 Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die"
1973 Eight OPEC countries raise price of petroleum by 11.9 percent
1974 Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Washington
1974 Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincolnshire killing 28 in UK
1974 Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine
1974 Arab oil ministers decide to end most restrictions on exports of oil to the United States but continue embargo against the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, and Rhodesia
1975 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Pine Ridge GC: Kathy Whitworth wins her 3rd LPGA C'ship by 1 stroke from Sandra Haynie
1975 Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts
1975 Ronnie Wood replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist
1976 Great Britain and Iceland end the "cod war"
1977 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
1977 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
1977 Dutch soccer club FC Volendam is established as a result of split up with RKSV; 6-time Eerste Divisie champions
1978 Future England cricket captain David Gower makes his Test debut in 1st Test against Pakistan in Birmingham; England win by an innings and 57 runs
1978 High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten
1978 The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed
1978 England cricket fast bowler Chris Old becomes only third man to capture 4 wickets in 5 balls in a Test, as Pakistan dismissed for 164 in 1st Test at Edgbaston; Old 5 for 70
1979 Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier
1979 Ted Coombs begins 5,193 mile roller skate from Los Angeles to New York City
1979 Wings release "Old Siam, Sir"
1979 Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1979 The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power.
1979 Los Angeles passes its first homosexual rights bill
1980 ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
1980 Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in California
1984 Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
1984 Russian super heavyweight weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev snatches world record 211 kg
1985 West Indian cricket batsman Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 in a tour match against Warwickshire at Taunton; 42 fours and 8 sixes of 258 balls
1986 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Pat Bradley birdies final hole to win by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Patty Sheehan
1986 40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport & Mystery of Edwin Drood win
1986 Danielle Steel’s romance novel “Wanderlust” is published
1988 Train crash kills two in Zeeland, Netherlands
1989 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator
1992 E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced
1993 Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
1993 Melchior Ndadaye elected President of Burundi
1995 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis
1996 Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square
1996 Actor Woody Harrelson is arrested in Lee County, Kentucky, after he symbolically planted four hemp seeds to challenge the state law which did not distinguish between industrial hemp and marijuana
1996 H. D. Deve Gowda becomes Prime Minister of India
1997 1st NY Women Film Festival opens
1997 51st Tony Awards: Titanic & Last Night of Ballyhoo win
1997 Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
1998 European Central Bank is founded to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy
1998 Australian Susie Maroney becomes first person to swim from Mexico to Cuba across shark and jellyfish-infested waters of the Yucatan Straits; swims 123-miles in 38 hours 33 minutes in a cage
1999 British singer Dido's debut album, "No Angel", is released in the United States
2001 Nepalese Royal Massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his parents, two siblings, and five other family members during dinner at the Narayanhiti Palace, in Katmandu
2001 Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv
2002 In a battle of former heavyweight boxing champions in Atlantic City, Evander Holyfield beats Hasim Rahman by TKO; fight stopped 1:40 into 8th round because of giant welt above Rahman's left eye
2003 The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam
2005 The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection
2005 The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas area occurs in Crosby, Texas. The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company.
2007 Pathologist and Right-To-Die Activist Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for the 1998 second-degree murder of Thomas Youk
2008 A fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroys several icons from movies, such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower in Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour.
2008 IPL Cricket Final, DY Patil Stadium, Mumbai: Rajasthan Royals win inaugural event; beat Chennai Super Kings by 3 wickets; Yusuf Pathan top scores with 56 (39)
2009 Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew were killed.
2009 General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Fourth largest in United States bankruptcy history.
2013 Bayern Munich defeat VfB Stuttgart 3-2 to win the DFB-Pokal and become the first German treble-winning team
2014 IPL Cricket Final, M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore: Kolkata Knight Riders beat Kings XI Punjab by 3 wickets; Manish Pandey, 94 (50)
2015 Cruise ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze River, less than 50 survive
2016 Switzerland’s Gotthard Base Tunnel is completed - world’s longest at 57km and most expensive tunnel costing €11bn
2017 “Beren and Lúthien,” compiled and edited by Christopher Tolkien from his father J.R.R. Tolkien's archives is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2017 US President Donald Trump announces the US is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement
2018 Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy forced out of office by a no-confidence vote in parliament, filed by Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez
2018 Law professor Giuseppe Conte is sworn in as Italian Prime Minister as head of a populist coalition
2018 Rouzan al-Najjar, a 22 year-old Palestinian medic is shot and killed by Israeli forces on the Gaza border, causing widespread condmnation
2019 Mexican-American boxer Andy Ruiz Jr produces a huge upset when he stops English champion Anthony Joshua in 7 at Madison Square Garden; wins IBF, WBO, IBO and WBA world heavyweight titles
2019 UEFA Champions League Final, Madrid: Liverpool beats Tottenham, 2-0 for Reds' 6th title
2019 Price of a movie ticket rises in Japan for the first time in 26 years from ¥1,800 to ¥1,900, while some cinemas keep the price the same
2020 US President Trump threatens to employ the military to quell protests across the country sparked by the death of George Floyd then walks with staff to St. John’s Church
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Post by Richard Frost » Wed Jun 02 2021 10:36am

2nd June 2021

Rocky Road Day
Rocky Road Day is a day dedicated to the eating of Rocky Road ice cream; a dessert made from marshmallows, nuts, and chocolate.

In addition to being an ice cream flavour, Rocky Road is actually a popular dessert that is even older than ice cream. In fact, it was this dessert that inspired the ice cream made with these same ingredients.

Running Day
The pavement under your feet, the crisp snap of early morning air, the pounding rhythm as you run the distance one long flowing stride at a time. Sweat trickling down your neck, the sun on your skin, your lungs burning with joyous exaltation as your heart beats a rapid but steady staccato in time with your running legs.

This is the joy of running, and every year millions of people all over the world find themselves out on the open road experiencing the joy, the thrill, and the pain, of recreational running.

Running Day celebrates these intrepid souls and their dedication to health and exercise,

Rotisserie Chicken Day
There’s something about the rich golden skin of a properly prepared rotisserie chicken that makes your mouth water, doesn’t it? While fried chicken and baked chicken are consumed every day, fewer people really get to enjoy the delicious treat that is the rotisserie style chicken, slowly spun over heat until it is evenly cooked all the way through to a pull apart consistency. Rotisserie chicken is available at stores all around the world, and Rotisserie chicken day celebrates them, their history, and their delicious flavours.

Leave The Office Earlier Day
Who doesn’t dream of leaving the office earlier, in time to enjoy the afternoon? Who gets frustrated, especially during the winter months, by the fact that it’s still dark when they go to work, and already dark when they leave? These are just the people that Leave The Office Earlier Day was created for!

A selection of Birthdays

1614 Benjamin Rogers, English composer (Hymnus Eucharisticus), born in Windsor, England (d. 1698)
1740 Marquis de Sade, French philosopher and writer (Justine). The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name., born in Paris, France (d/ 1814)
1774 William Lawson, English explorer of New South Wales, Australia, born in Finchley, England (d. 1850)
1806 Isaac Strauss, French violinist, conductor and composer, born in Strasbourg, France (d. 1888)
1840 Thomas Hardy, poet & novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd), born Higher Bockhampton, (d. 1928)
1857 Edward Elgar, English composer (Coronation Ode, Pomp and Circumstance), born in Lower Broadheath, Worcestershire (d. 1934)
1864 Ben Webster, British actor (Old Curiosity Shop), born in London, England (d. 1947)
1865 George Lohmann, England cricket medium pace bowler (18 Tests, 112 wickets @ 10.75), born in Kensington, England (d. 1901)
1900 David Wynne, Welsh composer (Owain ab Urien), born in Penderyn (d. 1983)
1904 Johnny Weissmuller, American actor (Tarzan), swimmer (5 Olympic gold 1924, 28), born in Freidorf, Romania (d. 1984)
1909 Robin Orr, Scottish composer, born in Brechin (d. 2006)
1921 Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman)
1922 Carmen Silvera, Canadian-born British actress ('Allo 'Allo!), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2002)
1926 Milo O'Shea, Irish character actor (Barbarella, Staircase and Mass Appeal, Romeo & Juliet), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 2013)
1935 Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
1938 Kevin Brownlow, English film historian and author
1939 Charles Miller, rock flutist/saxophonist (War)
1941 Charlie Watts, drummer (Rolling Stones), born in London, England
1946 Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women "The Yorkshire Ripper", born Bingley, England (d. 2020)
1949 Heather Couper, astronomer and presenter (The Sky at Night), born Wallesey, England (d. 2020)
1951 Gilbert Baker, American gay activist who designed rainbow flag, born in Chanute, Kansas (d. 2017)
1951 Dave Flett, Scottish rock guitarist (Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Thin Lizzy), born in Aberdeen
1957 Mark Lawrenson, English Football Pundit
1961 Liam Cunningham, Irish actor (Game of Thrones), born in Dublin, Ireland
1968 Jon Culshaw, British comedian and impressionist
1969 Cy Chadwick, English actor
1976 Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane), born in Oxford
1978 Dominic Cooper, English actor
1988 Sergio Agüero, Argentine soccer striker (96 caps; Manchester City; leading overseas goal scorer in EPL history), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina

On this day in History

455 King Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome - Rome looted for 14 days
575 Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
657 St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1615 First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France
1619 England and the Netherlands sign treaty about trading in the Indies
1625 Prince Frederick Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand (Prince of Orange)
1627 English King Charles I establishes Guyana Company
1633 Prince Frederick Henry conquers Fort Rhine at Cologne
1676 Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch and Spanish fleet
1697 August, Elector of Saxony becomes Catholic
1746 Russia and Austria sign agreements
1763 Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac diverting the garrison's attention with lacrosse game then chasing a ball into the fort
1774 Intolerable Acts: Amendment to original Quartering Act enacted, allows governors in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters not provided
1780 Anti-Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London
1797 Surveyor Charles Brodhead achieves the 1st ascent of Giant Mountain (4,626 feet) in Adirondack, New York, the 1st of any Adirondack High Peak
1834 5th national black convention meets (NYC)
1835 P. T. Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
1848 The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1855 The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine
1857 James Gibbs of Virginia, patents the chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
1858 Donati Comet 1st seen named after its discoverer
1862 Robert E. Lee takes command of Confederate armies of North Virginia during American Civil War
1862 Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington, D.C.
1863 Abolitionist Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
1875 Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission
1876 Hristo Botev, a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary, is killed in Stara Planina
1881 Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens
1882 Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris
1896 Italian engineer and inventor & Nobel Laureate Guglielmo Marconi applies for the first ever patent for a system of wireless telegraphy in UK
1899 Black Americans observed day of fasting in protest against lynchings
1904 Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis
1909 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time
1910 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1913 1st strike settlement mediated by US Department of Labor - railroad clerks
1913 Demonstrations for general voting right in Netherlands
1914 Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
1916 Battle of Verdun: German troops, under Lt Rackow, launch attack on Fort Vaux with flamethrowers, forcing French defenders inside. Fort changes hand 16 times during Battle of Verdun.
1917 Canadian ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines, shooting down three aircraft as they were about to take off & several more on the ground, he is awarded the Victoria Cross
1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
1920 Pulitzer prize awarded to Playwright Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
1924 President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act (also known as Snyder Act), declaring all Native Americans to be American citizens
1928 Kraft, building on the original 1918 design, rolls out Velveeta cheese
1932 German Chancellor Franz von Papen forms his "Cabinet of the Barons"
1932 Fisherman George W. Perry catches the world record largemouth bass, weighing in at 22 pounds, 4 ounces, at Lake Montgomery, Georgia
1933 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House
1934 French Championships Men's Tennis: Gottfried von Cramm of Germany wins 1st of 2 French titles; beats Australian Jack Crawford 6-4, 7-9, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
1934 French Championship Women's Tennis: England's defending champion Margaret Scriven beats American Helen Jacobs 7-5, 4-6, 6-1
1935 French Championships Men's Tennis: Englishman Fred Perry wins his only French title, beating Gottfried von Cramm of Germany 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
1935 40th Women's French Championships: Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling beats Simonne Mathieu (6-2, 6-1)
1936 General Anastasio Somoza García takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
1940 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
1943 German assault on Sebastopol, Crimea, begins
1944 Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery dine in Portsmouth, England
1944 Herzogenbusch concentration camp near Vught, Netherlands, is disbanded by Allied forces, one of two SS-run camps outside Germany
1946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
1947 Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns
1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones
1952 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US
1952 Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London
1954 John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland
1955 The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
1956 Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow
1957 US TV interviews Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev
1959 Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid", San Francisco
1960 Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
1962 French Championships Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 9-7, 6-2; 2nd leg of Laver's 1st Grand Slam
1962 French Championships Women's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Margaret Smith beats doubles partner Lesley Turner 6-3, 3-6, 7-5
1962 Ray Charles' cover "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" from his influential crossover album "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" hits #1 on Billboard
1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges River, India)
1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
1967 Race riots in Roxbury suburb of Boston
1968 Canadians must get government permission to export silver
1969 Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne slices US destroyer USS Frank E Evans in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)
1971 European Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London: Ajax beats Panathinaikos, 2-0; Dutch champions begin 3-year period of domination
1972 Two British soldiers die in an IRA land mine attack near Rosslea, County Fermanagh
1973 French Open Women's Tennis: Margaret Court of Australia beats American teenager Chris Evert 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 for her 5th and last French singles crown
1974 Mali adopts constitution
1974 Malta's constitution goes into effect
1975 First recorded snowfall in London in June
1975 Vice President Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA
1976 East Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation by Indonesia
1977 New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
1979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a Communist country (Poland)
1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198
1979 Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley signs first homosexual rights bill
1981 Barbara Walters famously asks Katharine Hepburn “If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?”
1983 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" released in Germany
1983 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati
1984 Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy
1984 Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines
1985 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Nancy Lopez wins by 8 shots from fellow American Alice Miller
1985 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues and Big River win
1985 Andreas Papandreou's PASOK-party wins election in Greece
1985 RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
1986 NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
1986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
1988 61st National Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal
1988 Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile
1989 "Dead Poets Society" film starring Robin Williams premieres
1989 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee
1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protecting students demonstrating for democracy
1991 45th Tony Awards: "Lost in Yonkers" & "Will Rogers Follies" win
1991 Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1"
1994 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian
1994 Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
1994 Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"
1996 50th Tony Awards: "Master Class" & "Rent" win
1996 US Open Women's Golf, Pine Needles GC: Annika Sörenstam retains title by 6 shots from Kris Tschetter
1997 Liberals beat Conservatives in France
1997 Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168
1998 The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan
1999 The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time
2002 56th Tony Awards: "Thoroughly Modern Millie", "The Goat", or Who is Sylvia?" win
2003 Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
2009 Switzerland officially enters the global recession
2014 The unity government is sworn into power in Palestine; it agrees to the following: recognition of Israel, compliance to diplomatic agreements, renunciation of violence
2014 Former Liberation Front guerilla fighter Salvador Sánchez Cerén, 69, is sworn in as president in El Salvador
2014 Telangana with Hyderabad as it's capital becomes India's 29th state after it is separated from Andhra Pradesh
2015 FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces his resignation, 5 days after his re-election, amid FIFA's involvement in a bribery scandal
2015 100 volunteers in Bhutan set a world record for tree planting - 49,672 in 1 hour
2017 "Wonder Woman" directed by Patty Jenkins released, earns over $100 million in North American in its opening weekend - domestic record for a female director
2018 Socialist Pedro Sánchez is sworn in as Spanish Prime Minister
2019 US Open Women's Golf, CC of Charleston: Lee Jeong-eun of South Korea wins her first major title; beats runners-up Lexi Thompson, Agel Yin and Ryu So-yeon by 2 strokes
2020 New outbreak of Ebola has killed five people in city of Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo
2020 Brazilian death toll passes 30,000 from COVID-19 at 31,199 with 555,383 number of cases confirmed, 2nd only to the US
2020 UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet says pandemic exposing "endemic inequalities" around the world, cites death of George Floyd and higher death toll for ethnic minorities
2020 UK death toll from COVID-19 passes 50,000 (50,032) according to its Office of National Statistics
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Post by Richard Frost » Thu Jun 03 2021 10:08am

3rd June 2021

World Bicycle Day
The bicycle is one of the most important inventions in the history of the planet. It provides millions of people with a means of transport powered by nothing other than their bodies. It’s practical, reliable, and helps one to stay fit. Many find that it’s a fun and hassle-free way to get around and take care of daily tasks.

World Bicycle Day is the United Nation’s attempt to recognize the vital importance of the bicycle across the globe. The bike has helped many families across the world to get access to cheap and reliable transportation. It’s no wonder so many partake in the celebration and want to get the word out to others about this exciting and eventful day.

Cycling is an environmentally sound, safe, and healthy way to travel from point A to B. It’s something that we need to do more of if we want to protect the world against the ravages of unsustainable CO2 production. It can save lives, help improve the environment, and support poverty reduction, and for these reasons, it deserves far more attention than it currently receives.

It all started when U.S.-based Professor Leszek Sibilski initiated a grassroots campaign with his sociology class to promote a U.N. resolution that would designate a day for the advocacy and celebration of the humble bicycle all over the world. In 2015, Sibilski dedicated himself to an academic project, exploring bicycles and their role in development. His project catapulted into a massive movement backed by ‘Sustainable Mobility for All,’ and eventually resulted in a dedicated international day set by the United Nations for the promotion of bicycling. On April 12, 2018, the resolution declaring June 3rd as World Bicycle Day was unanimously adopted by all 193 member states of the UN General Assembly. The resolution was greatly supported by Turkmenistan and co-sponsored by around 56 countries.

A logo was also designed by Isaac Feld, with an accompanying animation created by Professor John E. Swanson, showing bicyclists riding on various types of bicycles around the world. The message here is that a simple contraption serves all of humanity and bridges the gap between people from different walks of life. The two designers also created the current blue and white logo for the cause.

Day of Thanksgiving for the institution of Holy Communion Christian (Anglican) AKA Corpus Christi
This day recalls the act of Jesus in instituting the celebration of Holy Communion.

CORPUS CHRISTI (The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ) Christian (Roman Catholic)
Popular festival to celebrate the institution of the Mass/Eucharist.

Chocolate Macaroon Day
Macaroons are some of the most delicious cookies you’ll ever enjoy, with a rich creamy chocolate filling and a light coating they’re the perfect combination of textures. Chocolate Macaroon Day celebrates this delicious treat and encourages you to indulge in them!

Insect Repellent Awareness Day
Most of us have been bitten by a mosquito or similar insect at one point in our life. Usually just an annoyance, insect bites can also prove very serious. Insect Repellent Awareness Day aims to promote the use of insect repellents to not only prevent bites but the spread of diseases, such as Malaria, carried by insects. Insect repellents can be used in various forms, including sprays, creams and tablets, and can help reduce insect bites significantly.

Launched in 2014, Insect Repellent Awareness Day was founded by scientists at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to help people understand the importance of using repellents both in this country and, most importantly, when travelling abroad. Schools can tie in a celebration of the day with projects about bugs and perhaps link in with first aid knowledge around what to do if you are bitten and how to use repellents.

Repeat Day
Every year on Repeat Day followers of this unusual event seek out activities and experiences they love so much that they want to do them over and over again.

No-one is sure quite how this festival of going back for more started but popular activities include starting off with a viewing of “Groundhog Day”, having the same favourite meal for both lunch and dinner and revisiting important places from your past, such as the spot where you got engaged, graduated or celebrated a personal triumph.

Some take things further by repeating everything they say everything they say until others join in with the fun or ask what they are doing. Then the day can be rounded the day off by settling down again to watch Bill Murray win the heart of Andie Macdowell in Groundhog Day. If it’s worth doing once; it’s worth doing again.

Chimborazo Day
Sometimes what qualifies as the biggest or tallest thing is dependent upon one’s perspective in life. Such is the case with the mountain known as Chimborazo. While its elevation is less than that of Everest, it has the unique trait of being the highest point on Earth when measured from the Earth’s core. Chimborazo Day honors and celebrates this (kind of) highest of all mountains and its important cultural role in the Chimborazo province of Equador. So what’s so special? Come with us and find out.


History of Chimborazo Day
Chimborazo was long thought to be (not entirely incorrectly) the tallest mountain in the world and, like Everest, became a destination spot for those intrepid adventurers who would make the attempt to climb to its highest peak and proclaim themselves heroes for a day for having done so. It bears an important role in geographic history as being one of the two key points that was used to determine the actual shape of the Earth.

Working with the French Geodesic Mission, a Lapland team used data gathered from almost, but not quite, the top of this great volcano and determined that the earth was not, in fact, a sphere. From that point forward it was known without question that the Earth was more of an oval/flattened shape known as an oblate spheroid.

For 80 years men and women tried to climb to the peak of the mountain, each time being turned back by its daunting height, craggy slopes, and the perils of altitude sickness. Alexander von Humbolt climbed the mountain in 1802, and reached a point 5,875m high making him, at the time, the European who had climbed to the highest altitude. It wasn’t until 1886 that Edward Whymper successfully scaled the mountain to its very peak and stood atop it, proud and triumphant as the man who conquered Chimborazo.

A selection of Birthdays

1659 David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
1726 James Hutton, Scottish geologist 'father of modern geology' born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1797)
1746 James Hook, English composer, born in Norwich (d. 1827)
1761 Henry Shrapnel, Army officer & inventor (created the shrapnel shell), born in Wiltshire, (d. 1842)
1771 Charles Bernard Desormes, Dijon, French Physicist and Chemist who determined the ratio of the specific heats of gases as well as the exact composition of carbon monoxide and carbon disulphide
1780 William Hone, English author and bookseller (Every-Day Book)
1782 Charles Waterton, English naturalist & pioneering conservationist, born Wakefield, (d. 1865)
1804 Richard Cobden, English founder of the Anti-Corn-Law League
1853 Flinders Petrie, Egyptologist (Merneptah Stele, measured the pyramids), born in London, (d. 1942)
1865 George V, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India (1910-36), born Marlborough House, London, (d. 1936)
1895 Zoltan Korda, Hungarian-British film director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers), born in Pusztatúrpásztó, Austria-Hungary (d. 1961)
1901 Maurice Evans, Actor (Planet of the Apes, Bewitched), born Dorchester, Dorset, (d. 1989)
1902 Edward Wayne, English physician (Queen of Scotland, Wayne score), born in Leeds, (d. 1990)
1904 Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon who pioneered blood plasma research and developed the blood bank concept, born in Washington, D. C. (d. 1950)
1906 Walter Robins, Cricketer (dynamic England leg-spin all-rounder), born Stafford, (d. 1968)
1911 Ellen Corby[Hansen], American actress (The Waltons, Vertigo, Caged),b. Racine, Wisconsin(d. 1999)
1912 William Douglas-Home, playwright (Now .. Barabbas)
1918 Patrick Cargill, Actor (Help!, No Wreath for the General, Hammerhead), born London, (d. 1996)
1925 Thomas Winning, Roman Catholic archbishop (Glasgow)
1926 Allen Ginsberg, American beat poet (Howl, The Fall of America) and 1960s counterculture icon, born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1997)
1936 Larry McMurtry, American Pulitzer Prize winning novelist (Lonesome Dove), and Academy Award-winning scriptwriter (Brokeback Mountain), born in Wichita Falls, Texas (d. 2021)
1939 Ian Hunter, English rock singer (Mott the Hoople - "All The Young Dudes"; "Roll Away The Stone"), born in Oswestry, England
1942 Anita Harris, British actress (Follow that Camel), and singer ("Just Loving You"), born in Somerset
1945 Brian Barnes, English golfer (Ryder Cup 1969-79), born in Addington, Surrey (d. 2019)
1946 Penelope Wilton [Penelope Alice], Scarborough, North Yorkshire, English actress (Cry Freedom, Norman Conquests)
1947 Mickey Finn, British rock percussionist (T. Rex), born in Thornton Heath, Surrey, England (d. 2003)
1956 George Burley, Scottish football player and manager
1964 James Purefoy, British actor
1974 Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics), born in Cwmaman, Wales
1986 Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player (20 Grand Slam singles titles - 13 x French Open), born in Manacor, Balearic Islands, Spain

On this day in History

350 Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
1083 Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral
1098 After 5-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch
1140 French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy
1326 Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark
1357 Peace of Ath signed (in modern Belgium), settles Brabant succession
1539 Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain
1540 Hernando de Soto crosses the Appalachian Mountains, 1st European to do so
1620 Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
1621 Dutch West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (The Americas, Caribbean and West Africa)
1658 Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France
1665 Duke of York (future James II) defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft
1748 Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service
1752 Moscow houses and churches destroyed by fire
1770 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California
1781 Jack Jouett rides to warn Thomas Jefferson of British attack
1784 US army officially established by Congress of the Confederation
1789 Explorer Alexander Mackenzie sets out on his first expedition to the Pacific from Fort Chipewyan (finds the Arctic Ocean instead)
1818 Maratha Wars between British and Maratha Confederacy in India ends
1833 4th national black convention meets (Philadelphia)
1856 Cullen Whipple patents a machine for making screws
1860 Comanche, Iowa, completely destroyed by one of a series of tornadoes
1861 1st American Civil War land battle: Union forces defeat the Confederacy at Philippi in modern-day West Virginia
1864 General Robert E. Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor
1871 Jesse James & his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000
1876 Lacrosse introduced in Britain and Canada
1886 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo, Uganda
1889 The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast
1906 Belgian King Leopold II claims Congo as his private possession
1907 Centro Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila
1913 Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws
1915 Austro-German forces recapture Przemysl, a crucial city in southeastern Poland, and the entire Russian front begins to collapse
1919 Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) - first insurance company organized by African Americans formed
1921 A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado
1924 Gila Wilderness Area established by US Forest Service
1925 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes the first with an enclosed cabin
1929 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light)
1929 Chile and Peru sign the Treaty of Lima, finally resolving their border dispute from the War of the Pacific (1879–83). Chile keeps Arica and Peru regains Tacna.
1932 Paul von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament
1933 Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain"
1935 French liner SS Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of four days, three hours and 14 minutes on her maiden voyage
1935 One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario
1938 German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery
1940 Last British and French troops evacuated from Dunkirk
1941 Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol
1941 German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports
1943 A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots
1944 Generals Giraud & de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution
1944 Nazis pull out of Rome
1946 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)
1946 International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals
1947 British Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan
1948 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
1948 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
1949 1st African American to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)
1950 French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal
1952 Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president
1956 3rd class travel on British Railways ends
1959 1st US Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado Springs, Colorado
1959 US President Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker a message off the Moon
1959 Singapore adopts constitution
1961 US President John F. Kennedy & Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna
1962 Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130
1962 Former Soldier and Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal, Netherlands
1963 A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101
1964 Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis and pharyngitis
1965 Gemini 4 launched; 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt & White); mission included 1st US spacewalk
1966 European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)
1966 Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
1968 Canada announces it will replace silver with nickel in coins
1968 Poor Peoples March on Washington, D.C.
1968 American radical feminist Valerie Solanas attempts to assassinate Pop Artist Andy Warhol by shooting him three times. She is later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and pleads guilty to "reckless assault with intent to harm", serving a 3 year sentence.
1970 1st artificial gene synthesized
1972 1st female US rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25
1973 At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner ("Concorde-ski"), crashes, 15 killed
1974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, and forms a new government
1976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
1977 Belgium government of Tindemans forms
1977 US & Cuba talk about diplomatic relations
1979 33rd Tony Awards: "Elephant Man" and "Sweeny Todd" win
1979 Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows, spilling 3 million barrels of oil, one of the worst spills in history
1980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
1980 Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
1981 Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt
1982 55th National Spelling Bee: Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis
1982 Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov seriously wounded by Palestinians
1984 38th Tony Awards: Real Thing & La Cage Aux Folles win
1985 Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques
1986 Battles in Beirut; 53 killed
1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing
1989 Leaking pipe in Asha, USSR, causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die
1990 44th Tony Awards: "Grapes of Wrath" and "City of Angels" win
1991 Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history
1991 Kuwait asks Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members to produce 800,000 bbl/d (130,000 m3/d) of oil on its behalf
1992 World's largest environmental summit opens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1992 Landmark Australian High Court Mabo Decision: recognizes Torres Strait Islanders ownership of Murray Island, rendering terra nullius a legal fiction
1993 66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze
1994 5.9 earthquake/floods SE Java (150+ killed)
1998 Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, 101 deaths
2001 Iraq announces that it will halt crude oil exports in response to the UN's resolution that extends the oil-for-food program by only 1 month, instead of the normal 6-month period
2003 Danielle Steel’s novel “Sunset in St. Tropez” is published
2005 'The Knight of Sainte-Hermine' by Alexandre Dumas is published in France by Editions Phébus, completed by Claude Schopp, 135 years after the author's death.
2006 The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence
2007 USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engages with pirates after they board Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia
2012 Suicide car bombing kills 15 and inures 42 people in Bauchi, Nigeria
2012 Plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, kills all 152 passengers and 40 people on the ground
2013 20 people, including 10 children, are killed by a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan
2013 US extends sanctions against Iran through its automotive industry and currency
2013 119 people are killed in a poultry farm fire in Jilin Province, China
2014 President Obama announces his plan for a $1 billion fund to increase deployment of US troops to Europe
2015 200 people are killed by an explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana
2015 Dr. Jesse Selber performs world's 1st partial-skull & scalp transplant at Houston Methodist Hospital
2016 A week of heavy rains in Germany and France leave 10 dead and closing Paris museums along the Seine, including the Louve
2017 Terrorist attack in Borough Market, London by three men who drive van into pedestrians then stab and kill 7 and wound 48. Attackers shot dead by British police.
2017 The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum opens in Springfield, Massachusetts
2017 Largest-ever exhibition of works by Abstract Painter Piet Mondrian opens at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Netherlands to mark centenary of De Stijl movement
2018 Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupts killing at least 110, with 332 missing and forcing the evacuation of over 3,100
2018 Boat capsizes off eastern Tunisia drowning at least 48 migrants
2018 Dead whale found with 17 pounds (80 pieces) of plastic in its stomach Songkhla province, Thailand
2019 Sudanese military attacks protesters in Khartoum killing 100 people, some dumped in the river Nile, prompting international condemnation
2019 US federal government departments and Congress begin anti-trust investigations into large tech companies including Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon
2019 Canadian government inquiry find deaths of over 1,000 indigenous women and girls over decades who have been murdered or are missing a "national genocide"
2019 US President Donald Trump begins a three-day visit to the UK by calling London Mayor Sadiq Khan "a stone cold loser" after Khan called Trump's language that of a 20th century fascist
2019 Apple announces it is shutting down iTunes and replacing it with three different apps
2020 Three former police officers charged in connection with death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Derek Chauvin's charge upgraded to second degree murder
2020 Former Defense Secretary James Mattis says in The Atlantic: "Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us."
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Post by Richard Frost » Fri Jun 04 2021 11:17am

4th June 2021

International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
The United Nations' (UN) International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression is observed on June 4 each year. The purpose of the day is to acknowledge the pain suffered by children throughout the world who are the victims of physical, mental and emotional abuse. This day affirms the UN's commitment to protect the rights of children.

Hug Your Cat Day
Hug Your Cat Day is one of those pleasingly straightforward holidays. The intention is not for the day to be complicated or over thought. Quite simply, it is a day in which cat owners everywhere are encouraged to hug their cats. It’s an opportunity to give back to all the cats in the world and shower them with love and attention. The more dedicated amongst them will not need this encouragement, of course, but it is always good to be reminded of our feline friends. While a cat owner may love his or her cat immensely, it’s easy to forget to show a furry friend how much love there is to go around when managing a busy schedule and family. It’s best to start by petting the cat softly and having it warm up before going in for a hug. Be gentle and approachable, so the cat is more likely to welcome the embrace.

Doughnut Day
Of course, we don’t need a reason to celebrate Doughnut Day. For some people, we are betting that they wish every day was in honour of this special treat. However, this day has special significance, and this goes all the way back to the events of the First World War. There wasn’t a lot for our soldiers to cheer about when they risked life and limb on a daily basis, but Doughnut Day came to pass, in part, due to the efforts of a doctor in the military in the first World War who sought to brighten the day of the wounded soldiers he worked on. On his first day to the Military Base, he purchased 8 dozen doughnuts and gave one to each soldier he worked on.

After giving one to Lieutenant General Samuel Geary, who received it with great mirth and appreciation for the doctors work, Samuel decided to start a fundraiser, letting the young doctor, Morgan Pett, to continue to provide doughnuts to his patients.

This fundraiser began working together with the Salvation Army who, after a fact-finding mission, determined that many needs of the soldiers could be met by creating social centres that would provide all sorts of amenities, including the doughnuts.

The Salvation Army sent 250 volunteers to France to help put these huts together, which soon became a mainstay of military life. One record of a day in the huts recorded up to 300 doughnuts and 700 cups of coffee being served as part of their service. Due to the majority of the workers being female, the Salvation Army workers started to be known as “Doughnut Dollies.”

Back at home, in honour of the work that had been created for the brave soldiers on the front line, people used ‘Doughnut Day’ to raise awareness about the war, and to raise funds for the Salvation Army. This tradition to raise money for the organization still happens today

Corgi Day
Corgis are popular for all sorts of reasons. They are quiet, reserved dogs – ideal for urban areas. They love to play, are very approachable, and always know how to cheer you up if you’re in a bad mood. They won’t stop pestering you until they see a nice big smile break across your face.

Corgi Day is a celebration of how these beautiful creatures enhance our lives and make them more enjoyable. It is a chance for owners all over the world to give something back to their furry, four-legged friends. After all, who doesn’t want to show their pet corgi that they care?

Cheese Day
Cheese Day has been going on for quite some time now and it has a rich background of fun and, well, cheese. The day was first established in 1914, with the origins being traced to Monroe, Wisconsin in the United States.

For more than 100 years, this day has been celebrated biennially (every other year) and there are a ton of different festivities that go on during this event in Monroe, WI. These have been known to include a two-hour parade, traditional Swiss-Germanic music (waltzes and polkas), club stands, crafts, carnival rides, restaurants, and local food to enjoy. The event actually lasts for more than just Cheese Day, but all weekend long where more than 100,000 people visit each time it is held

Cognac Day
To begin with, it would be appropriate to talk a little bit about what Cognac actually is. Cognac, in a way, is what happens when wine grows up and develops character, although that may come with a bit of a bias. Truly, cognac is simply an exclusive version of what most people know as brandy.

Cognac begins with a white wine that must be produced in one of six designated growing regions. It is definitely worth noting that if it wasn’t produced from a white wine grown in those specific regions of the French countryside, it is technically not considered a true cognac.

The French people from this region think it is important to note that, while all cognac is brandy, not all brandy is cognac. And this is simply because it does not come from the specific region in France.

Ironically, the white wine from which cognac starts, is considered by most wine connoisseurs to be entirely undrinkable. But when it is made into cognac, it is absolutely delightful.

There is a further distinction about cognac which states that to be official, cognac must be produced from 90% Ugni Blanc, which is a particular form of white wine grape.

The making of cognac all starts with the grapes being pressed and left to ferment for three weeks in the wild yeasts that grow naturally in those regions, without the addition of sugar or sulphur. This wine is then distilled in alembic stills and placed into Limousin oak casks to age for at least two years where it goes from being nearly 70% to 40% alcohol.

Some people don’t realize that in its day in the late 1800s, cognac was as popular as vodka is today. It was particularly popular because the wine from this region was less likely to spoil than wines from other places. But now it has gone a bit by the wayside and has been left to the more discerning palate.

Cognac comes in multiple grades and exploring them can be a great way to spend Cognac Day. This day pays homage to one of the world’s most premium drinks!

Fish & Chips Day
National Fish & Chip Day is an annual awareness day in the UK on the Friday, 4 June 2021 that celebrates this great traditional British dish, those who fish our seas and are involved in its production.

Since 1996 it has brought thousands of people out to celebrate one of our favourite national dishes: fish and chips.

Promoted by NEODA (the National Edible Oil Distributors Association) it encourages everyone from the bar, pub, restaurant and takeaway trade – anyone selling the glorious food – to fishermen and farmers who provide the sustainable and natural ingredients needed to create this family favourite, to get involved.

To this end NEODA sells t-shirts, produces flyers and logos, and runs social media activity to promote the day.

A Brief History of Fish and Chips
Fish and chips is a typically traditional meal consisting of fish fried in batter, and fried chips. It is officially Britain’s original fast food.

Sources have it that fried fish is an introduction by Jewish immigrants from Spain and Portugal in the 17th century while the humble potato is an introduction to UK by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1586 after his trials and travails in the West.

There is some debate as to when and where ye olde fish and chip shoppe began though. Some say it was in Mossley, Oldham, in 1863 with its owner, John Lees, claiming it “This is the first fish and chip shop in the world”; others say it was Joseph Malin in London in 1860 on Cleveland Street.

Whatever its origin fish and chip shops subsequently developed into small, family run businesses. Their number gathered pace during the industrial revolution and with the creation of North Sea commercial fishing and the development of railways fish from as far away as Iceland, Greenland and the North Atlantic could be brought to the burgeoning market towns.

Cheap and filling, it henceforth became a regular Friday meal thanks to Roman Catholics who are traditionally not allowed to eat meat on Fridays

Fish and chips played an important national role as well when the Territorial Army prepared for battle. Fish and chips were provided in special catering tents erected at training camps in the 1930s and, incredibly, was not rationed during the Second world war.

A selection of Birthdays

1394 Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, born in Peterborough Castle, Cambridgeshire (d. 1430)
1704 Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor & manufacturer, invented crucible, or cast, steel, which was more uniform in composition & freer from impurities than any steel previously produced. His method was the most significant development in steel production up to that time. b. Lincolnshire, (d. 1776)
1738 George III, King of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover (1760-1820), born in London
1744 Patrick Ferguson, Scottish army officer and rifle inventor (Ferguson flintlock rifle), born in Pitfours, Scotland (d. 1780)
1879 Mabel Lucie Attwell, English children's author and illustrator, born in Mile End, London (d. 1964)
1907 Patience Strong [Winifred Emma May], English poet and journalist, born in Catford, London (d. 1990)
1910 Christopher Cockerell, English inventor (Hovercraft), born in Cambridge, (d. 1999)
1911 Austin Andrew Wright, British sculptor, born in Chester, England (d. 1997)
1927 Geoffrey Palmer, British actor (A Fish Called Wanda, The Madness of King George, Butterflies, Smacks & Thistle), born in London, (d. 2020)
1936 Alan Branscombe, British jazz and session pianist, vibraphonist, and saxophonist (Tubby Hayes; Beatles - "Got To Get You Into My Life"), born in Wallasey, Cheshire, England (d. 1986)
1944 Roger Ball, Scottish saxophonist (Average White Band), born in Broughty Ferry, Scotland
1945 Daniel Topolski, British writer and rowing coach, born in London (d. 2015)
1945 Gordon Waller, Scottish singer (Peter & Gordon - "World Without Love"), born in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (d. 2009)
1948 Bob Champion, English horse trainer and jockey, born in Sussex, England
1950 Brian Rose, English cricketer (England batsman in 9 Tests 1977-81), born in Dartford, Kent
1951 David Yip, British-Chinese actor (The Chinese Detective), born in Liverpool, England
1953 Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish songwriter and guitarist (Thunderclap Newman; Wings), born in Dumbarton, Scotland (d. 1979)
1953 Paul Samson [Sansom] British heavy metal and blues guitarist (Samson), born in Norwich, England (d. 2002)
1955 Paul Stewart, British writer (The Edge Chronicles, Far Flung Adventures), born in London
1956 Martin Adams, English darts player (BDO World Champion 2007, 10-11), born in Sutton, Surrey
1958 Tony Pigott, English cricketer (England pace bowler in a Test v NZ 1984), born in Fulham, London, England
1960 Bradley Walsh, British comedian and actor (Law & Order: UK), born in Watford, Hertfordshire
1964 Chris Kavanagh, rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik - "Love Missile F-111"), born Woolwich,London
1965 Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer (5-time 500cc world champion), born Gold Coast
1970 David Pybus, extreme heavy metal bassist (Cradle Of Death), born Heckmondwike, W. Yorks
1971 James Callis, British actor
1974 Andrew Gwynne, British politician
1975 Russell Brand, English comedian and television personality, born in Grays, Essex
1975 Angelina Jolie, American actress (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Wanted, Salt, Maleficent), born in Los Angeles,
1976 Alexei Navalny, Russian political activist (leader of Progress Party), born in Butyn, Soviet Union
1993 Christian Alexander Mowatt, grandson of English princess Alexandra

On this day in history

781 BC Oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse
1039 Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor
1070 Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France
1133 Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor
1357 The "Peace of Ath", signed by Count Louis II of Flanders and Duke Wenceslaus of Luxembourg ends the attempt of the succession of Brabant
1391 Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surrounds and sets fire to the Jewish quarter of Seville in Spain, the surviving Jews are sold into slavery
1487 Lord Lovell and John de la Pole's army land at Furness, Lancashire
1615 Siege of Osaka: Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan
1629 Dutch East India ship Batavia wrecks on Morning Reef off the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, with 200 survivors (only 70 survive after three months due to mutiny and murders)
1632 Prince Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange conquers Venlo
1647 English Parliamentary army under Cornet George Joyce takes King Charles I as a prisoner during Second Civil War
1664 Viceroy Willem Frederik conquers Dijlerschans
1666 Battle at Dunkirk: English vs Dutch fleet
1741 Prussia goes to the Covenant of Nymphenburg
1745 Battle at Hohenfriedberg Silezie: Frederick the Great (Prussia) defeats Austrians and Saxons
1756 Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania
1760 Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, taken from the Acadians
1769 A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history
1783 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public hot-air balloon flight (unmanned), covering 2km and lasting 10 minutes with an estimated altitude of 1,600-2,000m
1784 Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist
1792 Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
1802 Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel
1805 Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute
1812 Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
1824 First free press (without government approval) founded in Australia - the Hobart Town Gazette by ex-convict Andrew Bent
1825 Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC
1831 National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium
1832 3rd national black convention meets (Philadelphia)
1850 Empire Engine Company No. 1 organized, in San Francisco, California
1850 Self-deodorizing fertilizer patented in England
1859 Second Italian War of Independence: Battle of Magenta, results in a French-Sardinian victory under Napoleon III over the Austrians under Marshal Ferencz Gyulai
1862 Confederates evacuate Fort Pillow, Tennessee
1868 Van Bosse/Fock government begins
1873 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrive in Suriname
1875 Pacific Stock Exchange opens
1876 An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
1878 Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes
1887 Pasteur Institute founded by French biologist Louis Pasteur in Paris
1892 Oil City and Titusville, Pennsylvania, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die
1896 Henry Ford takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit
1912 Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses
1913 English suffragette Emily Davison dies after throwing herself in front of King George V's horse Anmer during running of the Derby at Epsom
1916 General Aleksei Brusilov begins a massive Russian offensive on the Eastern Front (WWI)
1917 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards & Elliott (Julia Ward Howe)
1917 American men begin registering for the draft
1917 Most Excellent Order of British Empire inaugurated by King George V to recognise the efforts of his people in WWI
1918 French troops, with the aid of US troops, stop the Germans at Chateau-Thierry as they attempt to cross the Marne
1919 US Congress passes the Women's Suffrage Bill, the 19th Amendment
1919 US marines invade Costa Rica
1920 Peace of Trianon between Allies & Hungary
1926 Ignacy Mościcki becomes President of Poland (holds office till 1939)
1928 President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents
1932 Edouard Herriot becomes Premier of France
1932 Chilean coup led by Colonel Marmaduke Grove against President Juan Esteban Montero
1934 Dr Frederick Banting, (Physician) co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted
1937 Léon Blum becomes premier of People's front government of France
1940 British complete the "Miracle of Dunkirk" by evacuating 338,226 allied troops from France via a flotilla of over 800 vessels including Royal Navy destroyers, merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and even lifeboats
1940 Winston Churchill's speech "We shall fight on the seas and oceans"
1941 Republic of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z
1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
1943 Argentina taken over by General Rawson & Colonel Juan Perón
1944 U505 becomes the first German submarine captured and boarded on high seas
1944 5th Army enters and liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies
1944 French General Charles de Gaulle arrives in London
1944 General Eisenhower cancels planned D-Day invasion on June 5th after receiving unfavorable weather reports
1945 6th US Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa
1945 US, Soviet Union, Britain and France agree to divide up occupied Germany
1946 Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed
1950 CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election
1954 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
1954 France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union
1956 'Secret speech' by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev criticising Joseph Stalin is made public
1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
1957 May & Cowdrey make 411 stand v WI Ramadhin bowls 98 overs
1958 French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1961 US President John F. Kennedy & Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet at Vienna Summit in Austria
1962 Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US
1964 Maldives adopts constitution
1966 -10] Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras
1967 Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew
1969 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft
1970 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant
1970 Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from UK
1971 J Luns appointed secretary-general of NATO
1972 Angela Davis, African American activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
1973 A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain
1974 Saudi Arabia announces that it will increase its participation in Aramco to 60 percent
1975 Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in North Carolina
1977 Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2
1977 An estimated 20,000 Scottish football fans invade the Wembley Stadium pitch after Scotland beats England, 2-1; goalposts and advertising hoardings destroyed
1978 32nd Tony Awards: "Da" and "Ain't Misbehavin'" win
1978 Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections
1979 South-African pres Vorster resigns due to scandal
1979 Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons
1979 Joe Clark is sworn in as the youngest Prime Minister in Canadian history
1981 54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus
1982 Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
1984 DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal
1985 STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court
1989 43rd Tony Awards: Heidi Chronicles & Jerome Robbin's Broadway win
1989 Beijing policeman shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping
1989 Eastern Europe's 1st partial free elections in 40 years held in Poland, Solidarity Party wins.
1989 Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in USSR, kills 100s
1989 Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary
1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre: Chinese troops clear the square of student protesters, unofficial figures place death toll near 1,000
1990 Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy
1990 Pathologist and Right-To-Die Activist Dr Jack Kevorkian assists an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die
1991 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania
1991 Pope John Paul II compares abortion with Nazi murders
1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is signed in New York
1994 Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96)
1995 49th Tony Awards: Love! Valour! Compassion! & Sunset Boulevard win
1997 UN Security renews its "oilforfood" initiative whereby Iraq may sell $2 billion worth of oil to buy food, medicine and other necessities to alleviate civilian suffering under the sanctions imposed when it invaded Kuwait in 1990
1998 Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing
2000 54th Tony Awards: "Copenhagen" and "Contact" win
2001 Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace
2012 US drone kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi
2012 Car bomb kills 26 and injures 190 people in central Baghdad, Iraq
2012 Japan's stock market plummets to record lows with the S&P/TOPIX 150 reaching its lowest level since 1983
2012 Wedding party bus crashes killing 23 and injuring 60 people in Islamabad, Pakistan
2014 10 Nigerian generals and five other senior military officers are court-martialed for providing arms and information to jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram
2018 Former US President Bill Clinton & author James Patterson publish a thriller novel "The President is Missing" together
2018 Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Mulki resigns amid huge protests against tax and price increases. King Abdullah appoints Omar Razzaz to replace him.
2018 US President Donald Trump tweets "I have the absolute right to PARDON myself"
2019 Former US school security guard Scot Peterson arrested and charged with neglect of a child and culpable negligence for not confronting gunman during Parkland school massacre in a landmark case
2019 Over 100,000 people mark the 30th anniversary of Beijing's Tiananmen Square Massacre in Hong Kong and around the world
2019 Movement in Japan to end compulsory wearing of high heels in work trends with hashtag #KuToo
2019 Deforestation of the Amazon forest in Brazil the fastest for a decade as 740 square kilometers cleared in 30 days according to Brazilian space research institute
2019 Biggest protests in Prague since the fall of communism by tens of thousands against Prime Minister Andrej Babis' use of EU subsidies
2019 Professional gambler James Holzhauer's 32-game winning steak ends on "Jeopardy" just short of Ken Jenning's record $2.52m earnings
2020 Thousands ignore a recent ban and mark the anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre in Hong Kong
2020 UN report criticizing human rights violations in the Philippines, including deaths of 8,000 during its war on drugs, a day after county's House of Representatives passed new anti-terrorism law
2020 Memorial for George Floyd led by Rev. Al Sharpton, killed in police custody, in Minneapolis, as 10th night of protests at his death held around the country
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Post by Richard Frost » Sat Jun 05 2021 10:28am

5th June 2021


World Environment Day
This is our moment. We cannot turn back time. But we can grow trees, green our cities, rewild our gardens, change our diets and clean up rivers and coasts. We are the generation that can make peace with nature.

Let’s get active, not anxious. Let’s be bold, not timid.

International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
A United Nations observance held on June 5 every year. Its main objective is to raise public awareness about the importance of sustainable development and fishing.
In a world of persistent hunger and constantly growing population, fish has become one of the commodities for the achievement of food security, as well as an important source of income. In many countries, fishing is not only a vital source of food, but also a guarantee of job security and, accordingly, of the economic well-being of the population.

Unfortunately, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing undermines the efforts by the international community to ensure the sustainability of the fishing industry. It is responsible for the loss of 11–26 million tonnes of fish each year, which is equivalent to $10–23 billion.

In 2015, the United Nations adopted the so-called Sustainable Development Goals. The 14th of the 17 goals, titled Life Below Water, is to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. The fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing is one of the tools for accomplishing this goal.

In 2009, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) adopted the Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. It came into effect on June 5, 2016. In December 2017, this date was declared as the International Day for the Fight Against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.

Sausage Roll Day
Sausage Rolls are to Britain what cold chicken is to the America’s, the perfect picnic treat. Sports day? You’ll be having a big plate of these brought out for generalized noshing. On the run and need a quick bite? Bet your lady packed you a sausage roll in your lunch box. Walking down the street and got a hunger? Bet you’ll be tanking up on a sausage roll (or fish and chips…), these things are everywhere and a standard part of British fare

In fact, in some ways, it could be argued that sausage rolls are as much a part of British culinary culture as fish and chips or a Sunday roast. There is no doubting their popularity, and this can be seen in the fact that they are available in every supermarket and bakery across the land. Whether you want mini sausage rolls for a picnic, or you’re grabbing a large one for a mid-afternoon snack, it is important to understand the impact these tasty treats have had on Britain, and further afield as well.

Coworking Day
Coworking has increased competition, creates spaces for meeting demands, and allow operators to grow more in their business. Coworking has essentially taken over the idea of workspace, and it has helped businesses make innovations over the past decade.

Coworking day is an excuse to bring people together to celebrate what coworkers have accomplished in their workspaces and their communities.

Trails Day
There’s a past-time that brings adventure no matter where you do it, and that past-time is hiking. Each year millions of people take to the great outdoors, hiking paths new and old in search of themselves and the love of nature.

Trails Day celebrates these intrepid souls and all the unexplored areas of the world where nature still reigns supreme. Hiking is good for the soul, and for your health, getting into the great outdoors has been proven to aid in non-clinical depression and an overall sense of well-being.

HIV Long-Term Survivors Day
When HIV first became apparent as an epidemic 30 years ago, the life expectancy for those who became infected was not good, often coming in under 19 years. In recent years that rate has improved to 53 years (for those infected at age 20), meaning that HIV sufferers have a lifespan nearly as long as that of an uninfected person. HIV Long-Term Survivors Day celebrates those who have been living with HIV for decades, and are still surviving today.

Moonshine Day
The history of moonshine really begins with the history of the word, it’s an evocative term that brings to mind everything from faerie dappled hills to secreted copper stills among the hillsides of the Appalachian’s, but where did it actually come from? As it turns out the most likely origin is actually from Wiltshire in England, which at one time held smuggling as one of its most important industries.

Moonrakers were smuggling Brandy, and in one case stored it at the bottom of a village pond. Late one night they were attempting to retrieve it when two customs officers came by to ask their business. Thinking fast, they responded that they were trying to retrieve a round cheese (The moon being made of it, after all) and the customs officers thought them simple. Thus the term ‘Moonrakers’ came to pass.

The term for Moonshine was thought to be derived from that story. But what is Moonshine? Moonshine is a white whiskey made by distilling corn, and it was thought that it became a popular income source in the Appalachian Mountains due to the difficulty involved in moving corn. The base ingredients in moonshine is a malt of corn, barley, and rye, and creates a delicious and powerful blend

A selection of Birthdays

1341 Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III born Kings Langley, Herts, (d. 1402)
1646 Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician and the 1st woman to receive an academic degree from a university, born in Venice, (d. 1684)
1718 Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker, baptized in Otley, Yorkshire, (d. 1779)
1771 Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (1837-51), born in Buckingham House, London (d. 1851)
1819 John Couch Adams, English astronomer (co-discoverer of Neptune), born in Laneast, Launceston, Cornwall (d. 1892)
1863 Arthur Somervell, English composer, born in Windermere, Westmorland (d. 1937)
1868 James Connolly, Irish socialist (founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Party), born in Cowgate, Edinburgh, (d. 1916)
1883 John Maynard Keynes, English economist whose ideas changed the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, born in Cambridge, (d. 1946)
1884 Ivy Compton-Burnett, Novelist (Manservant and Maidservant), born in Pinner, Middlesex, (d. 1969)
1901 Anastasia Nikolaevna, Daughter of the last Russian Tsar, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1918)
1905 John Abbott, British actor (The Jungle Book, Gigi, Smogasboard), born in London, England (d. 1996)
1906 Margaret Rawlings, British actress (Roman Holiday), born in Osaka, Japan (d. 1996)
1911 Charles Fletcher, British pioneering physician and TV presenter (wrote the 1st report into the dangers of smoking), born in Cambridge, (d. 1995)
1912 Eric Hollies, English cricket spin bowler (13 Tests, 44 wickets; dismissed Donald Bradman for 0 in his final Test innings), born in Old Hill, Staffordshire, (d. 1981)
1914 Beatrice de Cardi, British archaeologist ( Baluchistan region), born in London (d. 2016)
1914 Rose Hill, British stage and screen actress ('Allo 'Allo!; Nicholas Nickleby; Shot in the Dark), and lyric soprano (The Beggar's Opera), born in London, (d. 2003)
1915 Lancelot Ware, English barrister and co-founder of Mensa, the international society for intellectually gifted people, born in Mitcham, Surrey, (d. 2000)
1916 Jack Sutherland, Scottish journalist, born in Aberdeen, Scotland (d. 1996)
1920 Cornelius Ryan, Irish war reporter and historian (Bridge too Far), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1974)
1924 Kenneth Burslam Gardner, British librarian and orientalist (d. 1995)
1928 Robert Lansing, American actor (12 O'Clock High, Equalizer, A Man for All Seasons, Chariots of Fire), born in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire (d. 1994)
1928 Tony Richardson, English theater and film director (Tom Jones), born in Shipley, England (d. 1991)
1930 Robert Buchanan, British archaeologist and founder of Bath University (d. 2020)
1938 Marion Chapman, smallest known premature baby to survive (280 g), born in South Shields, England
1939 Margaret Drabble, British author (Needle's Eye), born in Sheffield, England
1940 Moira Anderson, Scottish singer ("Loch Lomond"), born in Kirkintilloch, Scotland
1943 Ann Craft, British researcher and writer and disabilities advocate (NAPSAC)
1943 Bill Hopkins, English composer, born in Prestbury, England (d. 1981)
1944 Chris Finnegan, British boxer (Olympic gold middleweight 1968), born in Iver, Bucks, (d. 2009)
1944 Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer (Les Misérables), born in Drimnagh, Ireland
1946 Gillian Hills, English actress (Blow-up, Clockwork Orange), born in Cairo, Egypt
1947 David Hare, Playwright and director (Plenty, The Hours, The Reader), born in St. Leonards-on-Sea
1947 Tom Evans, British rock guitarist, bass player, and singer-songwriter (Badfinger -"Without You": "Maybe Tomorrow"), born in Liverpool, (d. 1983)
1948 Frank Esler-Smith, English Australian rocker (Air Supply), born in London, England (d. 1991)
1949 Ken Follett, Welsh spy author (Eye of the Needle, Lie Down with Lions), born in Cardiff, Wales
1954 Michael "Nicko" McBrain, English heavy metal drummer (Iron Maiden - "Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter"), born in London,
1954 Phil Neale, English cricketer and coach, born in Scunthorpe
1956 Richard Butler, Rock singer (Psychedelic Furs - "Pretty In Pink"), born in Kingston-upon-Thames
1962 Astrid, Belgian princess and daughter of Albert II
1964 Magz [Maggie Dunne], English musician (Fuzzbox), born in Solihull, England
1971 Mark Wahlberg, American singer (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch) and actor (Boogie Nights, The Departed), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1971 Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress (Nora), born in Corrinshego, Northern Ireland
1976 Ross Noble, British comedian (Have I Got News for You), born in Newcastle upon Tyne,
1981 Jade Goody, English television personality (Big Brother), born in London (d. 2009)
1981 Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian rock guitarist (Simple Plan - "Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)"), born in Montreal, Quebec
1987 Charlie Clements, English actor (Eastenders), born in Sidcup, Kent
1998 Dave [David Omoregie], English rapper, singer-songwriter, actor (Psychodrama), born London

On this day in History

70 Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem
754 Friezen robbers murder Bishop Boniface (later Saint) and over 50 companions near Dokkum
1257 Kraków, Poland, receives city rights.
1284 Charles of Salerno is captured by Roger of Lauria during a naval battle in the Gulf of Naples, part of the Sicilian Vespers uprising
1288 Battle of Worringen: Jan I, Duke of Brabant defeats army of Archbishop Siegfried II of Cologne, one of the largest and fiercest battles of the Middle Ages
1305 Archbishop Bertrand the Got of Bordeaux elected Pope Clement V
1507 England and Netherlands sign trade agreement
1625 Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda
1632 Prince Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange conquers Roermond
1661 Physicist & Mathematician Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
1752 Prince William of Orange becomes Knight of Garter
1794 US Congress passes the Neutrality Act, banning Americans from serving in foreign armed forces
1798 The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated
1799 Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland set sail in the Pizarro from A Coruña and begin their 5 year Latin American expedition
1805 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)
1806 Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
1827 Turks capture the Acropolis and take Athens during the Greek War of Independence
1829 HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba
1832 Anti-monarchist forces launch an uprising in Paris, starting the unsuccessful June Rebellion
1833 Physicist & Mathematician Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Inventor Charles Babbage
1846 Telegraph line opens between Philadelphia and Baltimore
1848 Statue of PrinceWilliam the Silent,Prince of Orange by Lodewyk Royer unveiled in Hague's Het Plein
1849 Danish National Day, Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
1851 Anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Abolitionist and Author Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in serial form in "The National Era"
1857 Walter Woodbury and James Page open photo studio in Batavia (Jakarta)
1863 Battle of Franklin's Crossing, Virginia (Deep Run)
1863 CSS Alabama captures "Talisman" in the Mid Atlantic
1864 Battle of Piedmont, Virginia (Augusta City)
1870 Great Fire of Pera in a district of Constantinople, the wealthiest part of the city, kills hundreds
1873 Sultan Bargash bin Said under British pressure closes the infamous slave market of Zanzibar in modern day Tanzania
1882 Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die
1884 William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected"
1888 Unusual Rio de la Plata Earthquake measures magnitude 5.5
1900 Pretoria, capital of the Boer Republic of South Africa, falls to the British led by General Buller
1902 Emperor Wilhelm II responds to growing demands from Polish and other Slavic peoples living within German territory by calling for more 'Germanization' of the Slavs
1906 Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet
1912 US marines invade Caimanera, Cuba
1913 Dutch Disability laws go into effect
1915 Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage
1916 The Sherif Hussein proclaims a revolt of the Arabs in the province of Hejaz, an action that undermines the Turkish Empire
1917 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I
1922 The Banker's committee of the Reparations Commission refuses an international loan to Germany
1929 Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain
1931 Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium
1933 US drops the Gold Standard when Congress enacts a joint resolution nullifying creditors right to demand payment in gold
1934 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)
1937 Henry Ford initiates a 32 hour work week
1940 A synthetic rubber tire exhibited in Akron, Ohio by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
1940 American Negro Theater organizes
1940 Battle of France begins in WW II
1940 General Von Bock starts a German offensive in the Somme
1940 General Charles de Gaulle becomes French junior minister of Defense
1940 Governor of Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees
1940 Netherlands rations petroleum
1941 World War II: At least 4,000 people who hid in a tunnel die after a Japanese air attack on the Chinese city of Chongqing
1942 British offensive in North Africa under General Ritchie
1942 An explosion at the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant kills 48 people
1942 USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania
1943 German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor
1943 Philippine President José P. Laurel survives assassination attempt after being shot 4 times with a 45 caliber pistol while playing golf at Wack Wack Golf Course in Mandaluyong
1944 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure
1944 As part of Operation Tonga, the 1st British gliders touch down on French soil to prepare for the D-Day invasion
1944 Allied forces march into Rome
1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel goes on leave just before WWII D-Day landings by the Allies
1944 After receiving favorable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6
1945 USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany
1946 Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 in Chicago, Illinois
1946 Eric de Noorman, a Dutch comic strip by Hans G. Kresse, is launched
1947 US Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the "Marshall Plan" to rebuild Western Europe
1949 Enid Blyton's wooden toy character Noddy first appears in the "Sunday Graphic"
1950 US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation
1953 Denmark adopts a new constitution
1953 US Senate rejects China People's Republic membership to UN
1954 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ecclesiae fastos
1956 US Federal court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Constitutional
1959 Bob Dylan graduates from Hibbing High School in Minnesota
1959 The first independent government of the State of Singapore is sworn in with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister
1963 British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler scandal
1963 Dutch Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina
1963 State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested
1965 Lopez Arellano becomes president of Honduras
1967 Six-Day War begins between Israel and the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria
1967 American mass murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair (later reversed, dies in prison)
1967 Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10 cent & 25 cent coins to pure nickel as soon as possible
1968 Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan shoots Robert F. Kennedy three times, who dies the next day. and wounds 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California
1969 Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns
1969 Race riot in Hartford, Connecticut
1969 International communist conference begins in Moscow
1970 Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
1970 The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, is lifted after a march by women breaches the British Army cordon
1972 "If You Had Wings" opens at Walt Disney World
1972 UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm
1972 Yugoslav president Josip Tito visits USSR
1975 48th US National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor
1975 United Kingdom electorate votes 67% to 33% in a referendum to remain part of the European
1975 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)
1975 The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (CALRA), which establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers, becomes law
1976 Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die)
1976 After a suspected republican bombing kills 2 Protestant civilians in a pub, the Ulster Volunteer Force kill 5 civilians in a gun and bomb attack at the Chlorane Bar, North Ireland
1977 31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box & Annie win
1977 Coup in Seychelles (National Day)
1977 National Council of Women of Kenya led by Environmentalist Wangari Maathai march to Kamukunji Park, Nairobi, and plant seven trees - beginning of the Green Belt Movement
1979 Seychelles adopts constitution
1980 Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 AIDS Epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles
1981 World's first today in history program with editable data "TODAY", invented by Michael Butler runs for the first time on a mainframe computer
1982 Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle
1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi orders an attack on Sikh's holiest site, Golden Temple, Amritsar
1988 Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone
1988 Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9 in NY
1988 Russian Orthodox Church celebrates its 1,000th anniversary
1990 South African troops plunder Nelson Mandela's home
1991 Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.
1991 Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched
1993 Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives
1993 Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani
1998 A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks)
2000 Armed conflict between Rwanda and Uganda erupts in Kinsangani, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2001 U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party
2001 Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
2001 OPEC ministers agree to leave the cartel's oil production quotas unchanged for at least a month, until a scheduled emergency meeting July 3
2003 A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region
2005 59th Tony Awards: Monty Python's Spamalot & Doubt win
2006 Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
2007 MESSENGER spacecraft performs a second flyby of Venus
2009 Chile officially enters recession; it is the first South American country to enter the global recession
2009 At least 32 people are killed in Peru during clashes between the police and indigenous protesters
2013 44 people are killed by a lightning storm in Bihar, India
2013 Nawaz Sharif is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan
2013 The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK
2015 6.0 magnitude earthquake (strongest to affect Malaysia since 1978) strikes Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia, killing 18 people on Mount Kinabalu
2016 Swiss vote to reject referendum to give each citizen a guaranteed income of $2,500 Swiss francs per month
2017 Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt sever ties with Qatar, citing its support of terrorist groups, Yemen, the Maldives and Libya follow suit
2017 Puerto Rico declares its Zika virus epidemic over
2017 Bus crashes with a truck in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India, 22 die in resulting fire
2017 Montenegro becomes the 29th member of NATO
2018 US President Donald Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their families violates international law according to the UN
2019 Ohio doctor William Husel charged with 25 counts of murder for prescribing potentially fatal doses of opioids in Franklin County
2019 Denmark general election won by Mette Frederiksen's Social Democrats, defeating sitting Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen's Liberal party
2019 Average person ingests 50,000 pieces of microplastic a year and breathes in similar amount according to first-ever such study published in journal "Environmental Science and Technology"
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Post by Richard Frost » Sun Jun 06 2021 12:05pm

6th June 2021

Russian Language Day
UN Russian Language Day is observed annually on June 6. The event was established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2010. UN Russian Language Day coincides with the birthday of Alexander Pushkin, a Russian poet who is considered the father of modern Russian language.

Cancer Survivors Day
There’s an epidemic in the world today, one that seeps into every level of the social strata. Education is no protection and nor is wealth. While there are ways to reduce the possibility that a person will be one of the almost 2 million people per year that are affected by it, the causes of this plague are only poorly understood. Every year 450 men and women out of every 100,000 are diagnosed with one of the dozens of kinds of cancer, and 171 men and women die from it.

Many survivors go on to fulfil their dreams and find joy and happiness once again. Cancer Survivor Day is for those who have faced off against this most dread of ailments and risen again to live full, happy lives. It’s a time for people with similar stories and experiences to come together and celebrate their strength and perseverance. It’s no easy feat and a milestone to be recognized and appreciated. It’s the idea that there’s not only hope for a brighter future but to demonstrate that life after a cancer diagnosis can be a reality.

World Green Roof Day

Have you heard of World Green Roof Day? If not, you’re missing out! A green roof is also known as a living roof. It’s a roof space that facilitates shrubs, trees, vegetation and pretty spaces designed to be colourful and aid the environment.

Towns and cities all over the world are going green to clean up their carbon footprint and adapt to climate change. Not only do green roofs benefit everyone, they benefit small wildlife, and that’s something that we should all be celebrating! This celebration of green roofs is a global thing, and whether you are in business or not, you can still celebrate going green.

Whether it’s a bike shed or a bus stop, the roof of your new extension or your home office, you can still enjoy a beautiful green roof and celebrating it is going to be more than encouraged. Every World Green Roof Day, people the world over are encouraged to look out of their window and check for roofs that are perfect candidates for going green!

Gardening Exercise Day
Many people enjoy a spot of gardening, but did you know that it’s also a great way to improve your overall fitness? Whether it’s stretching, strength training or building your stamina, gardening counts as exercise and can benefit not only your physical but also mental wellbeing while simultaneously improving the natural world around you! With these two activities so handily combined, it’s no wonder that gardening exercise has its own special day of celebration…

Caves and Karst Day
The National Caves Association organizes Caves and Karst Day to celebrate both of those things and raise awareness regarding what an important role they play in the wider environment and our lives too. There’s much to see and discover beneath the ground and so many people don’t fully understand that. Caves and Karst Day aims to rectify that and promote the exploration of accessible caves.

Caves and Karst Day is all about learning more about the diverse and resource-rich caves and karst that can be found. They include large springs and many different minerals. There are even species of animal that are only found below the surface of the Earth.

Taking the time to experience all of these things first-hand is what the National Caves Association believes more people should do, and Caves and Karst Day encourage that. It raises awareness and makes it clear to people that these caves are there to be safely explored.

Many people might not know the educational and awe-inspiring experiences that are so close to them, but Caves and Karst Day is changing that now. It’s yet another way to spend time in nature and learn what it has to offer.

Applesauce Cake Day
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

Jim Davis
Yes yes, we know that apples aren’t a vegetable, but what they are is delicious! You’re supposed to get a balanced diet, aren’t you? So some fruitcake to go with your vegetable cake seems like a great way to a balanced diet, doesn’t it? Applesauce Cake Day celebrates this delicious and moist cake and all of the wonderful flavours it combines.

A selection of Birthdays

1599 Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (Las Meninas), baptized in Sevilla, Spain (d. 1660)
1799 Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer & poet (Eugene Onegin), born Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1837)
1840 John Stainer, English composer (The Crucifixion), born in Southwark, London (d. 1901)
1860 William Inge, Author, theologist and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, born in Crayke, Yorkshire (d. 1954)
1862 Henry John Newbolt, Poet & author (Studies Green & Gray), born Bilston, Staffs (d. 1938)
1867 David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1931)
1868 Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition, born Plymouth, (d. 1912)
1869 Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer & conductor, born Tribschen, Lucerne, (d. 1930)
1879 Patrick Abercrombie, Architect & town planner, born Ashton upon Mersey, Cheshire, (d. 1957)
1880 William Thomas Cosgrave, President of the Irish Free State, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1965)
1884 Jock Hutchison, Scottish golfer (PGA C'ship 1920, British Open 1921), born St. Andrews, (d. 1977)
1894 Violet Trefusis, Writer & socialite famous affair with writer Vita Sackville-West, b. London(d.1972)
1896 R. C. Sherriff, English playwright (Journey's End), born Hampton Wick, Middlesex, (d. 1975)
1896 Henry Allingham, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran, born in Clapton, (d. 2009)
1898 Ninette de Valois [Edris Stannus], British ballerina (Royal Ballet), born Blessington, Ireland (d.2001)
1900 Arthur Askey, British actor (Bees in Paradise, Ghost Train), born Liverpool (d. 1982)
1900 Lester Matthews, English actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood), born Nottingham, (d. 1965)
1902 Harold Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton, Aeronautical engineer, born in Kings Norton, (d. 1997)
1918 Tom Scott, Scottish poet (Sea Dirge: A Mither's Keenin), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1995)
1918 Kenneth Connor, Comedian and actor, best known for "Carry On" films, born Islington, (d. 1993)
1919 Lord Carrington [Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington], British conservative politician, former British Foreign Secretary(1979-82) & NATO Secretary General (1984-8), born in Chelsea, (d. 2018)
1922 Ian Hamilton, Scottish composer, born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2000)
1923 Allan Wicks,Cathedral organist & choral conductor(Canterbury,1961-88),b. Harden,England (d.2010)
1930 Frank Tyson, England Test cricket fast bowler/broadcaster (17 Tests, 76 wickets @ 18.56), born in Farnworth, Lancashire, (d. 2015)
1932 Billie Whitelaw, British actress (Omen, Adding Machine), born in Coventry, Warwickshire (d. 2014)
1932 Ivan Chermayeff, British-born American graphic designer, born in London, (d. 2017)
1940 Willie-John McBride, British rugby player, born in Toomebridge, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
1941 Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist, born in Scotland (d. 2012)
1944 David Penhaligon, British politician (President of the Liberal Party) (d. 1986)
1947 Marion Coakes, Equestrian show jumper (Olympic silver 1968), born New Milton, Hants
1947 Robert Englund, American actor (Freddy vs. Jason, A Nightmare on Elm Street), born in Glendale, California
1947 David Blunkett, English blind politician, Home Secretary (2001-4), born in Sheffield, England
1948 Richard Sinclair, British progressive rock bassist, singer, guitarist, and songwriter (Caravan -"In the Land of Grey and Pink"), born in Canterbury,
1954 Harvey Fierstein, playwright (Torch Song Trilogy, ID4), born in Brooklyn, New York
1956 Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player (11-time Grand Slam winner), born in Stockholm, Sweden
1957 Mike Gatting, English cricket batsman (79 Tests, captain 1986-88), born in Kingsbury, England
1957 Junior [Norman Giscombe], British R&B singer ("Mama Used to Say"), born in London,
1959 Amanda Pays, English actress (Max Headroom, Off Limits), born in London,
1959 Josie Lawrence, Comedian and actress (Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Eastenders, Humans), born Staffordshire
1961 Dee C. Lee [Diane Catherine Sealy], British rock musician (Wham!, Style Council), born in London,
1963 Jason Isaacs, English actor (Harry Potter films), born in Liverpool,
1964 Paul "Guru" Josh, British musician (Infinity), born in London, (d. 2015)
1965 David White, Pop-rock guitarist (Brother Beyond - "Can You Keep a Secret?"), born Highbury, London
1974 Sonya Walger, British actress
1976 Geoff Rowley, English skateboarder (co-owner Flip Skateboards; Thrasher Magazine "Skater of the Year" 2000), born in Liverpool,
1977 David Connolly, Irish footballer
1977 Bryn Williams, Welsh chef
1978 Carl Barât, English musician (The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things)
1983 Gemma Bissix, British actress
1985 Drew Galloway, Scottish professional wrestler
1987 Kyle Falconer, Scottish musician
1987 Daniel Logan, New Zealand actor (Boba Fett-Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones), born in Auckland, New Zealand

On This day in History

1002 German King Henry II the Saint crowned
1242 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris
1328 Franciscan theologian William of Ockham [Occam] excommunicated by Pope John XXII
1391 Inhabitants of Seville, Spain, massacre 5,000 Jews
1513 Battle of Novara, the War of the League of Cambrai: the Swiss Confederacy defeat the French
1520 France and England sign treaty of Scotland
1523 Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union
1536 Mexico begins its inquisition
1639 Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
1654 Queen Christina of Sweden resigns and converts to Catholicism
1665 Battle at Monte Carlo: English and Portuguese armies beat Spain
1673 France and Brandenburg sign peace treaty
1683 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum
1716 French transport the 1st African slaves to Louisiana
1744 France and Prussia sign peace treaty
1752 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed
1772 Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles in Chicago
1787 Franklin College founded, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Now part of Franklin & Marshall College.
1795 Fire destroys 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured
1801 Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal
1809 Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established with a new constitution empowering Riksdag after 20 years of absolute monarchy
1813 US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ontario)
1816 10" of snowfall in New England, part of a "year without a summer" which followed the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia
1822 Alexis St. Martin shot in the stomach and treated by physician William Beaumont on Mackinac Island. Leads Beaumont to conduct digestion experiments through hole in St. Martin's stomach.
1831 2nd US national black convention (Philadelphia)
1832 The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end
1844 Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) formed by George Williams in London
1859 Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
1861 Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers
1862 Battle of Memphis fought on the Mississippi River, Union forces defeat Confederate fleet leading to the city's surrender
1862 Skirmish at Harrisonburg, Virginia, sees the Confederates win a minor victory in the Battle of Good's Farm
1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, Louisiana and Williamsport, Maryland
1864 Battle of Lake Chicot, Arkansas (Dutch Bayou)
1875 Netherlands joins the gold standard
1882 Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay, India) drowns 100,000 (disputed event)
1882 Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC
1882 Ethiopia: Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
1889 Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
1890 United States Polo Association forms, NYC
1892 Chicago South Side Elevated Railroad opens (1st 3.6 miles)
1896 Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo leave NY harbor to row across Atlantic; their 55 day record for rowing was not broken for 114 years
1900 Boxers cut off all railroad links between Peking and Tientsin, main port city of Peking
1900 US Congress pass an act authorizing a civil code and government for the territory of Alaska after gold discoveries bring lawlessness and disorder to the area
1903 President Emile Loubet of France and Minister of Foreign Affairs Theophile Declasse visit London, furthering the cause of Entente Cordiale between Britain and France
1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey
1905 French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request
1906 Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz)
1911 Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1912 The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins, the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century
1913 Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times
1914 1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
1916 Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage
1916 The death of Yuan Shikai, ruler of much of China since 1912, causes the central government to virtually collapse in the face of warlords, including Sun Yat-sen
1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WW I
1919 Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910
1919 Finland declares war on bolsheviks
1919 The Republic of Prekmurje ends
1920 Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel opens White Russian offensive against red Army
1921 Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
1923 Gangster Albert Anastasia is convicted of illegal possession of a firearm and sentenced to two years in prison
1925 Walter Chrysler founds automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation
1926 Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms
1931 Belgian government of Henri Jaspar falls
1936 Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New Jersey
1938 Father of Psychology Sigmund Freud arrives in London
1939 The ship MS St. Louis, carrying 907 Jewish refugees from Europe, begins sailing back to the continent after it was refused entry into America. Approximately a quarter of those on board would perish in the Holocaust.
1941 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1942 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1942 Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
1944 Operation Overlord: As part of the D-Day landings, the 82nd Airborne Division arrives at the French town of Sainte-Mère-Église
1944 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 156,000-strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II
1944 German submarines U-955, U-970, U-629 and U-373 sink in Bay of Biscay
1944 Alaska Airlines commences operations
1946 Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1947 Treaty drawn up for establishment of International Patent Institute
1949 Orapin Chaiyakan becomes the first Thai woman to be elected to the Parliament of Thailand
1950 German DR & Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border
1950 Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
1956 David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns.
1958 French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
1960 Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
1960 South African police kill 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill
1963 Gasunie, Dutch gas and transportation company established
1964 Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated
1966 Civil rights activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
1966 Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
1966 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
1967 Israeli troops occupy Gaza during second day of the Six-Day War
1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night
1971 Air West flight 706 collides with a US Marine Corps F-4B Phantom jet over Los Angeles killing all 49 aboard the DC-6 and the pilot of the F-4B
1971 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
1972 Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie, Rhodesia)
1972 Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
1972 US bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed
1974 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte
1974 A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy
1975 British voters decide to remain in Common Market
1975 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
1976 "The Omen" premieres in the UK
1977 "Washington Post" reports US has developed neutron bomb
1977 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
1979 Royal Air Force receives 1st F-16
1981 Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
1981 A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river, killing 268 officially with another 300 or more missing
1982 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out the PLO
1982 36th Tony Awards: Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby & Nine win
1982 Bernard Glassman installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY
1983 Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland
1983 Li Xiannian becomes President of the People's Republic of China and Deng Xiaoping the supreme commander
1983 Nicaragua expels 3 US diplomats
1984 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
1984 Video game Tetris is first released in the Soviet Union by Alexey Pajitnov
1985 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
1985 Body of Nazi concentration camp doctor Dr Josef Mengele located and exhumed
1985 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba
1985 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1988 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant
1988 George H. W. Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II to Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
1990 2nd International Rock Awards
1993 47th Tony Awards: "Angels in America" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" win
1993 Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as President of Mongolia
1993 Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected President of Guatemala
1994 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez, Colombia (about 1000 killed)
1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed
1994 Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham
1995 Moses Kiptanui of Kenya runs world 5,000m record 12:55.30 in Rome, Italy
1999 Sydney Swans Australian Rules Football full forward Tony Lockett breaks Gordon Coventry's career goals record with his 1,300th major early in SCG match against Collingwood
1999 Largest jailbreak in Brazilian history at the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed.
1999 53rd Tony Awards: "Fosse" and "Side Man" win
2002 A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. Resulting explosion estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
2004 Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
2004 58th Tony Awards: Avenue Q & I Am My Own Wife win
2012 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs - last transit of 21st century
2012 The Solar Impulse completes the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun
2013 Kevin Barry's City of Bohane wins the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
2015 Convicted killers Richard Matt and David Sweat break out of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York
2017 Syrian Democratic Forces backed by the US launch offensive to take Raqqa from Islamic State
2017 Indian Arundhati Roy publishes her 2nd novel "The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness"20 years after first
2017 Floods in Salto, Paysandú and Artigas in Uruguay displace over 3,000 people
2018 Iraqi parliament orders manual recount of legislative elections in May after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi claims evidence of irregularities
2018 French man announced to have won France's €1 million My Lottery for the second time in 2 years, with odds of 1 in 16 trillion
2018 At least 46 Ethiopian migrants drown after their boat capsizes of the coast of Yemen
2018 Special pedestrian lane introduced just for "phubbers" slow-walking smartphone users Xi'an, China
2019 German serial killer nurse Niels Hoegel jailed for a second life sentence for the murder of 85 more people (previously convicted for six). Germany's worst post-war serial killer.
2019 On 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, New York City’s police commissioner James O’Neill apologizes for his department's actions during the 1969 raid on the Stonewall Inn
2019 Amir Ohana becomes the first openly gay minister in Israel as acting justice minister
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Post by kevinchess1 » Sun Jun 06 2021 7:07pm

Also the anni of D Day, largest ever seaborne invasion which began the liberation of France and later the rest of Europe.
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