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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of June 06:

 1436 Regiomontanus (Johannes Mller) prepares astronomical tables
1599 Diego Vel zquez Spain, painter (Rokeby Venus) (baptized)
1606 Pierre Corneille France, dramatist (Le Cid, Horace)
1755 Nathan Hale hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country
1756 John Trumbull US painter (Declaration of Independence)
1799 Aleksandr Sergeyevich Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit
1799 Alexandr Pushkin Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin) (5/26 OS)
1850 Karl F Braun codeveloped wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)
1868 Robert Falcon Scott leader of ill-fated south polar expedition
1872 Alexandra last Russian tsarina (1894-1918)
1875 Thomas Mann Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929)
1875 Walter Percy Chrysler found Chrysler Corp (1925)
1886 Paul Dudley White heart specialist
1890 Dorothy Heyward NYC, playwright (Porgy)
1896 Robert Sheriff playwright (Journey's End)
1898 Walter Abel actor St Paul Mn, actor (Suspicion, Dream Girl)
19-- Bryan Utman Hartford Ct, actor (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
19-- David Duke SF Calif, actor (Beacon Hill, 79 Park Ave, Winds of War)
19-- Nicko McBrain rocker (Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast)
19-- Richard Paul LA Calif, actor (Carter Country, Hail to the Chief)
19-- Steve Val rock guitarist (Passion & Warfare)
19-- Tom Araya rock vocalist/bassist (Slayer-Die by the Sword)
1901 Sukarno Java, PM of Indonesia (1945-67)
1903 Aram Khachaturian Tiflis Georgia, Russia, musician/composer (Gayane)
1905 John Gart Russia, orch leader (Paul Winchell Show)
1907 Bill Dickey NY Yankee hall-of-fame catcher (1928-43), manager (1946)
1915 Vincent Persichetti Phila Pennsylvania, composer (Sibyl)
1917 Kirk Kerkorian CEO (MGM, UA)
1918 Richard Crane Newcastle Ind, actor (Surfside 6)
1926 Klaus Tennstedt Merseburg Germany, conductor (Fidelio)
1928 George Deukmejian Menands NY, (Gov-Cal)
1932 Billie Whitelaw Coventry England, actress (Omen, Adding Machine)
1932 David R Scott San Antonio Tx, Col USAF/astronaut (Gem 8, Apol 9, 15)
1933 Heinrich Rohrer Swiss physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986)
1934 Philippe Entremont France, pianist/conductor (Vienna Chamber Orch)
1935 Bobby Mitchell NFL running back, wide receiver (Browns, Redskins)
1935 Dalai Lama Tibet, spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists
1936 Levi Stubbs rocker (4 Tops-Same Old Song)
1939 Gary "US" Bonds [Anderson] singer/songwriter (New Orleans)
1939 Marian Wright-Edelman health care president (Childrens Defense Fund)
1942 Sandra Morgan US 4 X 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1946 Chelsea Brown Chicago Ill, comedienne (Laugh-in, Matt Lincoln)
1947 Marion Coakes England, equestrian show jumper (Olympic-silver-1968)
1949 Richard Lewis comedian/actor (Anything But Love) (or June 29)
1949 Robert Englund actor (Freddy Kreuger-Nightmare on Elm St, V)
1951 Dwight Twilley country singer (Twilley Don't Mind)
1954 Harvey Fierstein playwright (Torch Song Trilogy)
1955 Dana Carvey Missoula Montana, comedian (Church Lady-SNL)
1955 Sandra Bernhard comedian/actress bugs Letterman (King of Comedy)
1956 Bj”rn B”rg Sodertlage Sweden, tennis champ (Wimbeldon 1976-79)
1956 Marilyn Jones Pitts Pa, actress (Carey-King's Crossing)
1959 Amanda Pays actress (Max Headroom, Off Limits)
1960 Gary Graham actor (Money on the Side)
1961 Sydney Walsh actress (Mo-Hooperman)
1961 Terri Nunn Calif, singer (Berlin-You Take my Breathe Away)
1964 Dee C Lee [Diane Sealey], rocker (Style Council-You're Best Thing)
1964 Sherry J Traylor Mexico Missouri, Miss Missouri-America (1991)
1965 David Whyte rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1967 Max Casella actor (Vinnie-Doogie Howser)
1969 Douglas Lee Mitchell Miles Mi, heavy metal artist (Southgang)
1975 Damon Pampolina rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
1975 Staci Keanan [Anastasia Love Sagorsky], actress (Nicole-My 2 Dads)
1976 Lukas Hass actor (Lady in White)

Deaths which occurred on June 06:

1862 Gen Turner Ashby is killed near Harrisonburg, VA
1956 Margaret Wycherly actress (Claudia), dies at 75
1961 Dr Carl Gustav Jung Swiss psychatrist, dies at 85
1962 Guinn Williams actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies at 63
1965 Lester Matthews (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu), dies at 64
1966 Claudette Orbison wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash
1967 Edward G Givens Jr astronaut, dies in an auto accident at 37
1968 Robert F Kennedy (Sen-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan
1975 Larry Blyden actor (Joe & Mabel, What's My Line), dies at 49
1976 J Paul Getty oil magnate dies at 83 in London
1988 Ella Raines actress, dies of throat cancer at 67
1991 Larry Kert actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies from AIDS
1991 Stan Getz jazz saxophonist (Girl from Impanima), dies at 64
1991 Sylvia Porter economist/author, dies at 77

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1964    KLUSMANN         CHARLES F.        SAN DIEGO             CA     08/31/64 ESCAPED    ALIVE AND WELL 98
 1967    SON              HA VAN            VIETNAM                      COMMANDO   RELEASED 02/03/89  ALIVE AND WELL 98
 1968    BURGARD          PAUL E.           PORTLAND              OR     06/68 REMAINS RECOVERED  
 1968    HARPER           RALPH LEWIS       INDIANAPOLIS          IN       
 1968    LA PLANT         KURT ELTON        LENEXA                KS       
 1968    PALACIOS         LUIS FERNANDO     LOS ANGELES           CA       
 1968    SANCHEZ          JOSE R.           NEW YORK              NY       
 1972    FOWLER           JAMES A.          BISMARK               ND     PROB DIED IN ACFT  
 1972    SEUELL           JOHN W.           WHEELING              MO     PROB DIED IN ACFT

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On this day...

1523 Gustavus I becomes king of Sweden (Swedish National Day)
1639 Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
1813 US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont)
1816 10" snowfall in New England, the "year without a summer" (Krakatoa)
1831 2nd national black convention (Phila)
1844 Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) founded in London
1862 Battle of Memphis-the city is surrendered
1882 Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000
1882 Electric iron patented by Henry W. Seely, NYC
1885 The opera "Lakm‚" is produced (Paris)
1889 Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
1890 United States Polo Association formed, NYC
1896 George Samuelson leaves NY harbor to row across the Atlantic
1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, NJ
1911 Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1913 Rabbit Maranville, was thrown out trying to steal home 3 times
1914 1st air flight out of the sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WW I
1919 Man O' War wins 1st victory as a 2-year-old at Belmont
1924 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #1031 Arctica
1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca was 8 months old)
1931 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1210 Morosovia
1931 Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to the Indians
1932 US Federal gas tax enacted
1933 1st drive-in theatre opens (Camden NJ)
1933 US Employment Service created
1934 Securities & Exchange Commission established
1934 Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
1936 Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ
1937 Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game
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 Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich
1944 D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor
1946 Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1946 The 11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to schedule 1st season
1953 J Churms discovers asteroid #2025
1955 Bill Haley & Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
1960 Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
1962 Beatles meet their producer George Martin for the 1st time
           Beatles record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums
1965 Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive homers beating White Sox 12-0
1966 Activist James Meredith shot in Mississippi
1966 Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed
1966 James Meredith wounded by white sniper
1966 NFL & AFL announce their merger
1967 6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin
1971 Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die
1971 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
1972 David Bowie releases "Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust"
1972 Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia)
1972 Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
1975 British voters decide to remain in Common Market
1975 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
1976 Celtics beat Suns for NBA championship, 4 games to 2
1977 Doobie Brothers sponser a Golf Classic & Concert for United Way
1977 Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss)
1977 Supreme Court tossed out automatic death penalty laws
1978 A Mrkos discovers asteroids #2199 Klet & #3339
1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
1979 200th running of horse's Derby in England
1979 Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 HRs in the majors
1980 Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbeldon title
1982 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO
1982 Israel invades southern Lebanon, site of Palestinian guerrilla
1984 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
1985 Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed
1985 Chris Evert wins a grand slam title for 13th straight year (French)
1985 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1986 Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of the NC State track
           team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself
1987 NY Yankees play their 13,000th game
1988 George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II
           Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
1989 Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4
1991 Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store
1992 2nd WLAF World Bowl
2012 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs




Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Malaysia : King's Birthday
New Zealand : Queen's Birthday - - - - - ( Monday )
South Korea : Memorial Day
Sweden : Constitution Day/Flag Day/National Day (1523, 1809)
Massachusetts : Teachers' Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Ireland : Bank Day - - - - - ( Monday )
Bahamas : Labour Day - - - - - ( Friday )
Western Australia : Foundation Day (1838) - - - - - ( Monday )

Religious Observances

RC : Mem of St Norbert, abp of Magdeburg, confessor (opt)

Religious History

1622 Gregory XV published the bull 'Inscrutabili Divinae,' which reminded the Church of its mission to the newly discovered native populations in the recently discovered Americas.
1799 Birth of Alexis F. Lvov, Russian church musician who composed the tune to the hymn, 'God, the Almighty One! Wisely Ordaining.'
1882 Blind Scottish Presbyterian clergyman George Matheson penned the words to the hymn, 'O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go.'
1907 Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, a graduate school for biblical and rabbinical studies, was chartered in Philadelphia.
1977 Joseph Lason was installed as Bishop of Biloxi, Mississippi, becoming the first African- American Roman Catholic bishop consecrated since the 19th century.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

Thought for the day :

" A husband is the medicine that cures all the ills of girlhood. "
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