On This Date In 1613 The Globe Theater in London, England,
where most of Shakespeare's plays debuted, went up in flames during a
performance of Henry the Eighth. A
theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, igniting the
wooden beams and thatching. According to one of the few surviving documents of
the event, no one was hurt except a man whose burning breeches were put out
with a bottle of ale. It was rebuilt in the following year.
On This Date In 1767 The Revenue Act of
1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain was passed. The first of the Townshend
Acts, a series of laws passed beginning in 1767 relating to the British
colonies in North America, it represented a
new approach for generating tax revenue in the American colonies after the repeal
of the Stamp Act in 1766. Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were
applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the
colonies. The result was the resurrection of colonial hostilities created by
the Stamp Act. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/townshend.htm
On This Date In 1776 The Constitution of
the Commonwealth
of Virginia was framed
and adopted by the convention which issued the preceding Declaration of Rights.
The 1776 Constitution declared the dissolution of the rule of Great Britain over Virginia
and accused England's
King George III of establishing a “detestable and insupportable tyranny”. It
also established separation of governmental powers. http://www.nhinet.org/ccs/docs/va-1776.htm
On This Date In 1776 Edward Rutledge, one
of South Carolina's representatives to the
Continental Congress in Philadelphia, expressed
his reluctance to declare independence from Britain
in a letter to the like-minded John Jay of New York.
On This Date In 1852 Henry Clay, Sr.
(April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852), nineteenth-century American statesman and
orator who represented Kentucky in both the
House of Representatives and Senate, died of tuberculosis in Washington, D.C.,
at the age of 75. Clay was the first person to lie in state in the United
States Capitol. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun29.html
On This Date In 1861 During the first year
of the American Civil War, Confederate Army officer and spy Richard Thomas
Zarvona and a crew of accomplices seized the passenger steamer St. Nicholas.
See further developments here: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/chron/civilwarnotes/zarvona.html
On This Date In 1862 The Battle of
Savage's Station took place in Henrico
County, Virginia, as
fourth of the Seven Days Battles (Peninsula Campaign) of the American Civil
War. The main body of the Union Army of the Potomac began a general withdrawal
toward the James River. Confederate Brig. Gen.
John B. Magruder pursued along the railroad and the Williamsburg Road and struck Maj. Gen.
Edwin Vose Sumner's II Corps (the Union rearguard) with three brigades near
Savage's Station, while Maj. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson's divisions
were stalled north of the Chickahominy
River. Union forces
continued to withdraw across White Oak Swamp, abandoning supplies and more than
2,500 wounded soldiers in a field hospital, the battle resulting in a
stalemate.
On This Date In 1863 Through June 30,
1863, the Battle of Goodrich's Landing was fought between Union
and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The Confederates attacked
several Union black regiments who were protecting several captured plantations.
Though the Confederates were able to destroy a number of plantations, the
attacks did little real damage to the Union war effort in the region.
On This Date In 1864 The First Battle of
Ream's Station was fought during the Wilson-Kautz Raid of the American Civil
War. Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. William Mahone and Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee defeated Union cavalry raiding Confederate railroads south of Petersburg, Virginia.
On This Date In 1864 The St-Hilaire train
disaster occurred near the present-day town of Mont-Saint-Hilaire,
Quebec. The
train, which had been carrying many German and Polish immigrants, failed to
acknowledge a stop signal and fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River. Though uncertain, the widely
accepted death toll is 99 persons. The disaster remains the worst railway
accident in Canadian history.
On This Date In 1915 During World War I,
Foreign Minister Istvan von Burian of Austria-Hungary
sent a note to the United States
protesting the U.S. sale and
shipment of munitions in enormous quantities to Britain
and its allies for use against the Central Powers - Austria,
Hungary and Germany
- on the battlefields of World War I.
On This Date In 1944 Through July 4, 1944,
and during World War I, the Minsk Offensive was launched, part of the second
phase of the Belorussian Strategic Offensive of the Red Army in the summer of
1944, commonly known as Operation Bagration. Within its broader strategic
framework, the Minsk Offensive was a complete success: The capital of the
Belorussian SSR, Minsk,
was liberated after several years of German occupation; The forces of the
German Army Group Centre were almost completely shattered within a matter of
days. In particular, nearly the entire Fourth Army, plus many of the elements
of Ninth Army that had escaped from the Bobruysk Offensive, was destroyed.
On This Date In 1958 The 1958 FIFA World
Cup Final took place in Råsunda Stadium, Solna,
Sweden. Brazil won the World Cup by defeating Sweden
5-2, and won the trophy for the first time. Brazil came into the tournament as
a favorite, and did not disappoint, thrilling the world with their spectacular
play, which is often referred to as the “beautiful game.” The 1958 final holds
the record for most goals scored in a World Cup Final, and it shares the record
for the greatest winning margin (with the 1970 and 1998 tournaments).
On This Date In 1964 During the Vietnam
War, twenty-four New Zealand Army engineers arrived in Saigon as a token of
that country's support for the American effort in South Vietnam. The contingent was
part of the Free World Military Forces, an effort by President Lyndon B.
Johnson to enlist other nations to support the American cause in South Vietnam
by sending military aid and troops. The level of support was not the primary
issue; Johnson wanted to portray international solidarity and consensus for U.S. policies in Southeast
Asia and he believed that participation by a number of countries
would achieve that end. The effort was also known as the “many flags” program.
On This Date In 1966 During the Vietnam
War, U.S. aircraft bombed
the major North Vietnamese population centers of Hanoi
and Haiphong
for the first time, destroying oil depots located near the two cities. The U.S. military hoped that by bombing Hanoi, the capital of North
Vietnam, and Haiphong,
North Vietnam's
largest port, communist forces would be deprived of essential military supplies
and thus the ability to wage war.
On This Date In 1967 Jayne Mansfield (born
Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was killed instantly when
the car she was riding in struck the rear of a trailer truck on Interstate-90
east of New Orleans, Louisiana. An American actress in film,
theatre, and television, a nightclub entertainer, a singer, and one of the
early Playboy Playmates, she was a major Hollywood sex symbol of the 1950s and
early 1960s, one of Hollywood's original blonde bombshells. Mansfield
was 20th Century Fox's alternative Marilyn Monroe and came to be known as the “Working
Man's Monroe”.
On This Date In 1968 “A Saucerful of
Secrets,” the second studio album by English rock group Pink Floyd, was
released. It was recorded at EMI's Abbey Road Studios on various dates from
August 1967 to April 1968. It is both the last Pink Floyd album on which Syd
Barrett would appear and the only studio album in which all five band members
contributed.
On This Date In 1970 During the Vietnam
War, U.S. ground combat
troops end two months of operations in Cambodia
and return to South Vietnam.
Military officials reported 354 Americans had been killed and 1,689 were
wounded in the operation. The South Vietnamese reported 866 killed and 3,724
wounded. About 34,000 South Vietnamese troops remained in Cambodia.
On This Date In 1972 In Furman v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled by a vote of 5-4 that capital punishment, as it was currently
employed on the state and federal level, was unconstitutional. The majority
held that, in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, the death
penalty qualified as “cruel and unusual punishment,” primarily because states
employed execution in ‘arbitrary and capricious ways,” especially in regard to
race. It was the first time the nation's highest court ruled against capital
punishment. However, because the Supreme Court suggested new legislation that
could make death sentences constitutional again, such as the development of
standardized guidelines for juries that decide sentences, it was not an
outright victory for opponents of the death penalty.
On This Date In 1974 With Argentine
President Juan Peron on his deathbed, Isabela Martinez de Peron, his wife and
vice president, was sworn in as the leader of the South American country.
President Isabela Peron, a former dancer and Peron's third wife, was the Western Hemisphere's first female head of government. Two
days later, Juan died from heart disease, and Isabela was left alone as leader
of a nation suffering from serious economic and political strife.
On This Date In 1986 The 1986 FIFA World
Cup Final was the final and deciding game of the 1986 FIFA World Cup, held at
the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City,
Mexico. It was
contested by Argentina and West Germany,
and had an attendance of 114,600. Argentina won the match 3–2 in
normal time.
On This Date In 1989 In yet another
reaction to the Chinese government's brutal massacre of protesters in Tiananmen
Square in Beijing earlier in the month, the
House of Representatives unanimously passed a package of sanctions against the
People's Republic of China.
American indignation, however, was relatively short-lived and most of the
sanctions died out after a brief period.
On This Date In 1992 “Somewhere Far
Beyond,” the fourth studio album by German power metal band Blind Guardian, was
released. The album saw the band creating its own original sound, while still
employing most of their speed/power metal techniques. The album was acclaimed
by power metal fans all across Europe and especially Japan,
allowing them to tour for the first time outside Germany. The tour in the Far East led to the band's first live album, Tokyo Tales.
On This Date In 1995 The Sampoong
Department Store collapse was a structural failure that occurred in the
Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South
Korea. The collapse is the largest peacetime
disaster in South Korean history – 501 people died and 937 were injured.
On This Date In 1995 The American space
shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir to form the largest
man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
On This Date In 1999 “Slipknot,” the debut
studio album by American metal band Slipknot, was released through Roadrunner
Records, following a demo containing a few of the songs which had been released
in 1998. Slipknot peaked at number 51
on the Billboard 200, and has gone on to become certified double platinum in
the United States,
making it the band's best selling album.
On This Date In 2001 “A.I. Artificial
Intelligence,” also known as A.I., an
American science fiction drama film directed, produced and co-written by Steven
Spielberg, was released. Based on Brian Aldiss' short story “Super-Toys Last
All Summer Long”, the film stars Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor,
Sam Robards, Jake Thomas and William Hurt. A.I.
went on to gross $78.62 million in US totals as well as $157.31 million in
foreign countries, coming to a worldwide total of $235.93 million.
On This Date In 2002 The Second Battle of
Yeonpyeong took place, a confrontation at sea between North Korean and South
Korean patrol boats along a disputed maritime boundary near Yeonpyeong Island
in the Yellow Sea. This followed a similar
confrontation in 1999. Two North Korean patrol boats crossed the contested
border and engaged two South Korean patrol boats. The North Koreans withdrew
before South Korean reinforcements arrived.
On This Date In 2003 Katharine Houghton
Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003), American actress of film, stage, and
television, died of natural causes at the age of 96, at her home in Old
Saybrook, Connecticut.
Known for her headstrong independence and spirited personality, Hepburn's
career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned
more than 60 years. Her work came in a range of genres, from screwball comedy
to literary drama, and she received four Academy Awards for Best Actress - a
record for any performer.
On This Date In 2006 The U.S. Supreme
Court rejected Guantanamo
Bay detainee tribunals.
Striking down the military commissions President George Bush established to try
suspected members of al-Qaeda, the court emphatically rejected a signature Bush
anti-terrorism measure and the broad assertion of executive power upon which
the president had based it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/29/AR2006062900928.html
On This Date In 2007 “Ratatouille,” an
American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and
distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, was released. It is the eighth film
produced by Pixar, and was directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan
Pinkava in 2005. The film has grossed $206,445,654 in the United States and Canada and a total of $623,722,818 worldwide,
making it the fifth highest grossing Disney·Pixar film now, just behind Toy Story 3, Finding Nemo, Up and The Incredibles.
On This Date In 2009 Bernard Madoff was
sentenced to 150 years in prison in the largest, longest and most widespread
Ponzi scheme in history. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/business/30madoff.html?_r=2&hp
On This Date In 2010 Day Two of Elena
Kagan's Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings took place. http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/node/13768
On This Date In 2010 Union Leader and SEIU
Official Tom Balanoff testified at the Rod Blagojevich Corruption Trial that
Barack Obama called him to suggest Valerie Jarrett for the vacated U.S. Senate
seat, and recalled conversations involving Obama friend Alexi Giannoulias. http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/blagojevich-on-trial/2010/06/job-options-limited-by-expletive-rezko-stuff.html
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Happy Birthday E. Parry Thomas (1921), Cara
Williams (1925), Soon-Tek Oh (1943), Gary Busey (1944), David Chiang (1947), Fred
Grandy (1948), John Doerr (1951), Colin Hay (1953), John Delaney (1956), Maria
Conchita Alonso (1957), Sharon Lawrence (1961), Amanda Donohoe (1962), Theoren
Fleury (1968), Zuleikha Robinson (1977), Nicole Scherzinger (1978), Katherine
Jenkins (1980), and Christopher Egan (1984)
RIP Nicolae Balcescu (1819 – 1852), George
Ellery Hale (1868 – 1938). Nelson Eddy (1901 – 1967), Bernard Herrmann (1911 –
1975), Ruth Warrick (1916 – 2005), Slim Pickens (1919 – 1983), Oriana Fallaci
(1929 – 2006), and Samantha Smith (1972 – 1985).
Quotes
The piano is the social instrument par
excellence...drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most
massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education
and the grown-up in the name of entertainment. Jacques Barzun
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we
have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order,
confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a
stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for
today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best
day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any
human being can fight; and never stop fighting. E.E. Cummings
The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most. I
can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than
those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. Ulysses
S. Grant
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit
of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut
from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Courtesy You Tube et al
30,000 light years from Earth, pulsar IGR J1104-6103 appears
to be wailing across the sky at between 5.4 and 6.5 million miles per hour. But
theorists are at a loss to explain how this bright X-ray source could have
gotten such a swift cosmic kick. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart
An international team of astronomers using data from NASA's
Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting
significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond our solar
system. The scientists conclude the atmospheric variations occurred in response
to a powerful eruption on the planet's host star, an event observed by NASA's
Swift satellite. The exoplanet is HD 189733b, a gas giant similar to Jupiter, but
about 14 percent larger and more massive. ...
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Lyrics are: Race, life is race And I am gonna win...
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't
all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat
you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or
nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But, it ain't how hard you hit; it's about
how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and
keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're
worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take
the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of
him, or her, or anybody.
Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!
Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa;
or, Each one of us in our own feature!
Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!
Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa;
or, Each one of us in our own feature!
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