JUNE

June 1

–  birthdays:  1801 – Brigham Young  /  1926 – Andy Griffith  /  1926 – Marilyn Monroe  /  1934 – Pat Boone (pop singer/actor)  /  1937 – Morgan Freeman  /  1939 – Cleavon Little (actor – “Blazing Saddles”)  /  1948 – Powers Boothe (actor – “Deadwood”)  /  1973 – Heidi Klum (supermodel)  /  1974 – Alanis Morrisette (singer – biggest hit =  “Ironic”)  /  1981 – Amy Schumer (comedian – “Inside Amy Schumer”)  /  1996 – Tom Holland (actor – Spiderman)

–  1774 –  port of Boston closed by the Coercive Acts

–  1796 –  Tennessee becomes the 16^th state

–  1843 –  Sojourner Truth begins her career as an abolitionist

–  1862 –  Robert E. Lee becomes commander of the Army of Northern Virginia

–  1864 –  Battle of Cold Harbor

–  1869 –  Edison granted his first patent for an electric vote recorder

–  1921 –  race riots in Tulsa, Oklahoma results in 85 deaths and destruction of the black part of the city

–  1962 –  Adolf Eichmann executed in Israel for Holocaust crimes

–  1990 –  Pres. Bush and Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty ending the production of chemical weapons and the gradual destruction of stockpiles

Quote:   Only a fool expects the authorities to tell him what the news is.  –  Russell Baker

June 2

– birthdays:  1731 –  Martha Washington  /  1904 –  Johnny Weismuller (actor – Tarzan)  /  1936 –  Sally Kellerman (actress – “MASH”)  /  1955 – Dana Carvey (comedian – Garth in “Wayne’s World”)  /  1972 – Wayne Brady (comedian)  /  1980 –  Amy Wombach  (soccer star) 

–  1774 –  Intolerable Acts passed

–  1835 –  P.T. Barnum’s circus begins its first tour

–  1924 –  Pres. Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act

–  1925 –  Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak

–  1935 –  Babe Ruth announces his retirement at age 40

–  2004 –  Ken Jennings begins his 74 game winning streak on “Jeopardy”

Quote:   Go to where the silence is and say something.  –  Amy Goodman

June 3

– birthdays:  1808 –  Jefferson Davis  /  1904 – Charles Drew (African-American pioneer in blood plasma research)  /  1906 –  Josephine Baker (African-American dancer)  /  1925 –  Tony Curtis  /  1926 –  Allen Ginsberg (beat poet – “Howl”) 

–  1539 –  Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain

–  1888 –  “Casey at Bat” published

–  1949 –  Wesley Anthony Brown becomes first African-American to graduate from the Naval Academy

–  1964 –  Rolling Stones begin first American tour

–  1967 –  Aretha Franklin’s “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” reaches #1

Quote:   Good order is the foundation of all good things.  –  Edmund Burke

June 4

– birthdays:  1738 –  King George III (King of England 1760-1820)  /  1936 – Bruce Dern (actor –  “Silent Running”)  /  1975 – Angelina Jolie

–  1892 –  Sierra Club founded

–  1896 –  Henry Ford drives his first car through the streets of Detroit

–  1912 –  Massachusetts passes the first minimum wage law

–  1939 –  SS St. Louis is refused permission to dock in Florida

–  1940 –  the last British soldiers are evacuated from Dunkirk

–  1942 –  Battle of Midway begins

–  1984 –  Bruce Springsteen releases “Born in the USA” album

Quote:   The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.  –  Bertrand Russell

June 5

– birthdays:  1878 –  Pancho Villa  /  1941 –  Robert Kraft (owner of the Patriots)  /  1971 –  Mark Wahlberg  (actor –  “The Departed”)

–  1933 –  FDR takes the U.S. off the gold standard

–  1968 –  Robert Kennedy is shot by Sirhan Sirhan

Quote:   Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.  –  George Santayana

June 6

– birthdays:  1755 –  Nathan Hale (Revolutionary War spy)  /  1875 –  Walter Chrysler    

–  1844 –  Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) founded in London

–  1892 –  Benjamin Harrison becomes the first sitting President to attend a major league baseball game

–  1918 –  Battle of Belleau Wood

–  1933 –  first drive-in movie theater opens in Camden, New Jersey

–  1944 – D-Day

–  1946 –  Henry Morgan becomes the first man to take off his shirt on TV

–  1965 –  The Rolling Stones release “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

–  1966 –  Stokely Carmichael begins the Black Power movement

–  1966 –  James Meredith is shot by a sniper while on a one man voter registration march

–  1968 –  Robert Kennedy dies  

Quote:   Hindsight is always twenty/twenty.  –  Billy Wilder

June 7

–  birthdays:   1843 –  Susan Blow (the “Mother of Kindergarten”)  /  1917 –  Dean Martin (biggest hit =  “Memories Are Made of This”)  /  1952 – Liam Neeson  /  1958 –  Prince (biggest hit =  “When Doves Cry”)  /  1959 – Mike Pence  /  1988 – Michael Cera (actor – “Arrested Development”) 

–  1769 –  Daniel Boone begins exploring Kentucky

–  1914 –  first ship passes through the Panama Canal

–  1942 –  the USS Yorktown sinks in the Battle of Midway

–  1965 –  Griswold v. Connecticut legalizes contraceptives for married couples

Quote:   Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.  –  Samuel Johnson

June 8

–  birthdays:   1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright (architect)  /  1925 –  Barbara Bush  /  1933 – Joan Rivers  /  1940 –  Nancy Sinatra (biggest hit =  “These Boots Are Made for Walking”)  /  1943 –  William Calley (My Lai Massacre)  /  1966 –  Julianna Margulies (actress –  “The Good Wife”)  /  1977 – Kanye West  (biggest hit =  “Gold Digger”) 

–  1861 – Tennessee secedes from the Union

–  1942 –  Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander in chief in Europe

–  1968 –  James Earl Ray is captured in London

–  1984 –  “Ghostbusters” and “Gremlins” are released

–  1995 –  downed pilot Scott O’Grady is rescued in Bosnia

Quote:   Our country, in her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right, but our country right or wrong.  –  Stephen Decatur

June 9

–  birthdays:   1891 – Cole Porter (songwriter/composer –  “Kiss Me Kate”)  /  1916 –  Robert McNamara (LBJ’s Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War)  /  1940 –  Dick Vitale (sportscaster)  /  1961 – Michael J. Fox  /  1963 – Johnny Depp  /  1981 – Natalie Portman 

–  1934 –  Donald Duck debuts in cartoon “The Wise Little Hen”

–  1940 –  Norway surrenders to Germany

–  1942 –  Nazis kill everyone in the Czech village of Lidice in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

–  1954 –  Joseph Welch asks Joseph McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency?”

Quote:   My country, right or wrong:  if right, to be kept right;  and if wrong, to be set right.  –  Carl Schurz

June 10

–  birthdays:   1822 – John Jacob Astor (fur company owner)  /  1895 – Hattie McDaniel (first African-American actress to win an Oscar – for “Gone With the Wind”)  /  1922 – Judy Garland  (Dorothy of “Wizard of Oz”)  /  1983 –  Leelee Sobieski (actress –  “Joan of Arc”) 

–  1692 –  Bridget Bishop becomes the first victim of the Salem Witch Trials

–  1933 –  John Dillinger robs his first bank

–  1943 –  FDR signs bill for withholding tax 

Quote:   Patriotism is the lively sense of collective responsibility.  Nationalism is the silly rooster crowing on its dunghill.  –  Richard Aldington

June 11

–  birthdays:   1741 –  Joseph Warren (patriot leader killed at Bunker Hill)  /  1880 –  Jeannette Rankin (first woman elected to Congress)  /  1888 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti  /  1910 –  Jacques Cousteau (oceanographer)  /  1913 –  Vince Lombardi (football coach)  /  1933 –  Gene Wilder (actor –  “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”)  /  1956 –  Joe Montana  /  1959 –  Hugh Laurie (actor – “House”)  /  1956 –  Peter Dinklage (actor – “Game of Thrones”)  /  1986 – Shia Lebeouf

–  1752 –  Ben Franklin invents the Franklin stove

–  1859 –  the Comstock Lode is discovered

–  1895 –  Charles Duryea gets a patent for the first gas-powered car in America

–  1911 –  Marcus Garvey founds the Universal Negro Improvement Association

–  1927 –  Charles Lindbergh is awarded the first Distinguished Flying Cross

–  1939  –  Eleanor Roosevelt serves the King of England hot dogs

–  1979 –  John Wayne dies

–  1982 –  “E.T.” is released

–  1993 –  “Jurassic Park” released

–  2001 –  Timothy McVeigh is executed for the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing

Quote:   To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.  –  George Washington

June 12

–  birthdays:  1924 –  George H.W. Bush  /  1929 –  Anne Frank  /  1930 – Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle)  /  1941 – Marv Albert (sportscaster) 

–  1939 –  Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY

–  1942 –  Anne Frank gets her diary as a 13^th birthday present

–  1944 –  the first V-1 to hit London

–  1954 –  “Rock Around the Clock” is released by Bill Haley and the Comets

–  1981 –  “Raiders of the Lost Ark” premieres

–  2007 –  “Transformers” premieres

Quote:   War makes rattling good reading, but peace is poor reading.  –   Thomas Hardy

June 13

–  birthdays:  1786 – Winfield Scott  /  1892 –  Basil Rathbone (actor –  Sherlock Holmes)  /  1903 – Red Grange (football player)  /  1926 –  Paul Lynde (comedian –  “The Hollywood Squares”)  /  1953 – Tim Allen  /  1981 – Chris Evans  /  1986 –  Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen  /  1986 – Kat Dennings (actress)

–  1777 –  Marquis de Lafayette arrives in America

–  1804 –  Lewis and Clark begin their expedition

–  1922 –  Charlie Osbourne begins his record-setting 68 years of hiccupping (he dies 11 months after they stop)

–  1927 –  ticker tape parade for Lindbergh

–  1933 –  Gestapo established by Herman Goering

–  1942 –  Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) established

–  1970 –  Beatles’ “Let It Be” album reaches #1

–  1978 –  “Grease” opens

Quote:   I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.  –  Winston Churchill

June 14

–  birthdays:  1811 –  Harriet Beecher Stowe (author –  Uncle Tom’s Cabin)  /  1904 –  Margaret Bourke-White (photographer)  /  1909 – Burl Ives (The Cowardly Lion)  /  1946 –  Donald Trump  /  1961 –  Boy George (biggest hit = “The Crying Game”) 

–  1775 –  the Continental Army is created

–  1777 –  Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes flag designed by Francis Hopkinson

–  1922 –  Pres. Harding becomes the first President to use the radio as he dedicates a memorial to Francis Scott Key in Baltimore

–  1942 –  Anne Frank begins her diary

–  1953 –  Elvis graduates from high school

–  1954 –  Pres. Eisenhower signs order adding “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance

–  1972 –  the Environmental Protection Agency bans DDT

Quote:   Faultless is a fault. –  Robert Browning

June 15

–  birthdays:  1937 –  Waylon Jennings (biggest hit =  “Theme from Dukes of Hazzard”)  /  1949 –  Jim Varney (actor – Ernest movies)  /  1954 –  James Belushi (comedian –  “According to Jim”)  /  1963 – Helen Hunt (actress – “Mad About You”)  /  1964 –  Courtney Cox (Monica on “Friends”)  /  1969 –  Ice Cube  (biggest hit =  “It Was a Good Day”)  /  1973 –  Neil Patrick Harris  (Doogie Howser, “How I Met Your Mother”) 

–  1215 –  Magna Carta

–  1775 –  Washington appointed commander of the Continental Army

–  1836 –  Arkansas becomes the 25^th state

–  1844 –  Charles Goodyear patents the vulcanization of rubber

–  1846 –  the Oregon Treaty signed

–  1864 –  Arlington National Cemetery is created

–  1877 –  Henry Ossian Flipper becomes first African-American to graduate from West Point

–  1916 –  Boy Scouts of America formed

–  1924 –  J. Edgar Hoover becomes head of the FBI

–  1965 –  Bob Dylan records “Like a Rolling Stone”

–  1967 –  “The Dirty Dozen” is released

–  1974 –  Woodward and Bernstein’s All the President’s Men is published

Quote:   A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman enjoys the happiness she gives.  –  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

June 16

–  birthdays:  1829 – Geronimo  /  1890 – Stan Laurel  /  1970 – Phil Mickelson (golfer)  /  1971 – Tupac Shakur  (biggest hit =  “I Get Around”) 

–  1779 –  Gen. “Mad Anthony” Wayne captures Stony Point

–  1822 – Denmark Vesey leads slave rebellion in South Carolina

–  1880 –  Salvation Army founded in London

–  1884 –  first roller coaster opens at Coney Island

–  1963 – Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) becomes first woman in space

–  1987 –  Bernie Goetz is acquitted for shooting four African-Americans attempting to rob him on a subway

Quote:    One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.  –   Jane Austen

June 17

 –  birthdays:  1871 – James Weldon Johnson (Civil Rights activist, NAACP leader, Harlem Renaissance poet)  /  1928 –  James Brown (biggest hit =  “I Got You (I Feel Good))  /  1943 –  Newt Gingrich  /  1943 –  Barry Manilow  (biggest hit =  “I Wrote the Songs”)  /  1980 –  Venus Williams  /  1987 – Kendrick Lamar (biggest hit =  “Humble”) 

–  1775 –  Battle of Bunker Hill

–  1885 –  the Statue of Liberty arrives in New York harbor

–  1963  –  the Supreme Court bans required readings of the Lord’s Prayer in public schools

–  1972 –  Watergate burglars arrested

–  1994 –  O.J. Simpson leads police in a freeway chase before being arrested

Quote:   The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found by accident.  –  Charles Lamb

June 18

–  birthdays:  1939 –  Lou Brock (famous baseball base stealer)  /  1942 – Paul McCartney (biggest solo hit =  “Coming Up”)  /  1942 – Roger Ebert (movie critic)  /  1976 – Blake Shelton (biggest hit =  “Came Here to Forget”) 

–  1682 –  William Penn establishes Philadelphia

–  1812 –  U.S. declares war on Britain

–  1815 –  Battle of Waterloo

–  1873 –  Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for voting for President

–  1928 –  Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly across the Atlantic (as a passenger)

–  1983 –  Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space

–  2001 –  “Fast and Furious” premieres

Quote:   The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.  –  Pablo Picasso

June 19

–  birthdays:  1897 –  Moe Howard (of The Three Stooges)  /  1903 –  Lou Gehrig  /  1942 – “Spanky” McFarlane (of the Little Rascals)  /  1954 –  Kathleen Turner (actress –  “Body Heat”)  /  1962 –  Paula Abdul  /  1978 – Garfield the cat  /  1978 –  Dirk Nowitzki  /  Zoe Saldana (actress –  “Avatar”) 

–  1778 –  Washington’s army leaves Valley Forge

–  1864 –  CSS Alabama sunk by the USS Kearsage

–  1905 –  first nickelodeon opens in Pittsburgh, showing the movie “The Great Train Robbery”

–  1936 –  Joe Louis suffers his first defeat, to German Max Schmeling

–  1953 –  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed

–  1964 –  Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27

Quote:   Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.  –  Jonathan Schattke

June 20

–  birthdays:  236 B.C. Scipio Africanus  /  1909 –  Errol Flynn  /  1925 –  Audie Murphy  /  1942 –  Brian Wilson (creative genius of the Beach Boys;  biggest hit =  “Surfin’ USA”)  /  1949 –  Lionel Ritchie (biggest hit =  “All Night Long”)  /  1952 –  John Goodman  /  1964 –  Michael Landon (actor – “Bonanza”, “Little House on the Prairie”)  /  1967 –  Nicole Kidman

–  1782 –  the Great Seal is approved by Congress

–  1840 –  Samuel Morse patents the telegraph

–  1893 –  Lizzie Borden acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother

–  1900 –  Boxer Rebellion begins

–  1947 –  Truman vetoes the Taft-Hartley Act

–  1967 –  Muhammad Ali sentenced to five years for refusing to be drafted

–  1975 –  “Jaws” premieres

–  1980 –  “Blues Brothers” premieres

Quote:   A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.  –  Frank Capra

June 21

–  birthdays:  1732 –  Martha Washington  /  1832 –  Joseph Rainey (first African-American in the House of Representatives)  /  1921 – Jane Russell and Judy Holliday  /  1957 –  Berkeley Breathed (cartoonist – “Bloom County”)  /  1979 –  Chris Pratt  /  1983 –  Eric Snowden  /  1985 –  Lana Del Rey (biggest hit =  “Young and Beautiful”) 

–  1788 –  Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire becomes the 9^th state to ratify

–  1834 –  Cyrus McCormick patents the reaper

–  1893 –  first Ferris Wheel (Chicago Columbian Exposition)

–  1898 –  U.S. captures Guam during the Spanish-American War

–  1923 –  Marcus Garvey sentenced to five years for mail fraud

–  1942 –  German Gen. Rommel captures Tobruk from the British

–  1945 –  U.S. claims victory in the Battle of Okinawa

–  1982 –  John Hinckley found guilty of attempting to assassinate Reagan

–  1989 –  Supreme Court declares it legal to burn the flag as a form of protest

Quote:   Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.  –  George Hopkins

June 22 

–  birthdays:  1903 –  John Dillinger  /  1907 –  Anne Murrow Lindbergh  /  1936 –  Kris Kristofferson (biggest hit =  “Why Me?”)  /  1947 –  Pete Maravich (all-time college basketball scoring leader)  /  1949 –  Meryl Streep  /  1949 –  Elizabeth Warren  /  1953 –  Cyndi Lauper (biggest hit =  “Time After Time”)  /  1958 –  Bruce Campbell  (actor –  “Evil Dead”)  /  1964 – Dan Brown (author –  The Da Vinci Code)  /  1973 –  Carson Daly 

–  1611 –  Henry Hudson set adrift in a rowboat on Hudson Bay by his mutinous crew

–  1633 –  Galileo forced to recant his support for Copernicus’ heliocentric theory

–  1934 –  John Dillinger becomes the first Public Enemy Number One

–  1937 –  Joe Louis becomes heavyweight boxing champ

–  1938 –  Joe Louis gets revenge against German Max Schmeling

–  1941 –  Germany invades Russia

–  1944 –  FDR signs the Serviceman’s Readjustment Act

Quote:   It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job;  it’s a depression when you lose yours.  –  Truman

June 23

–  birthdays:  1400 –  Johannes Gutenberg  /  1940 –  Wilma Rudolph (gold medal track star)  /  1957 – Frances McDormand  /  1964 – Joss Whedon 

–  1810 –  John Jacob Astor organizes the Pacific Fur Company

–  1888 –  Frederick Douglass becomes first African-American nominated for President

–  1947 –  Congress overrides Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act

–  1960 –  first birth control pill available for purchase

–  1969 –  Chief Justice Earl Warren retires

Quote:   Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.  –  George Eliot

June 24

–  birthdays:  1842 –  Ambrose Bierce (author/satirist)  /  1895 –  Jack Dempsey (heavyweight boxing champ 1919-26)  /  1947 – Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac – biggest hit = “Dreams”)  /  1979 – Mindy Kaling  /  1987 – Leonel Messi

–  1497 –  John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England

–  1853 –  the Gadsden Purchase

–  1936 –  Mary Bethune appointed head of Negro Affairs for the National Youth Administration

–  1947  –  Jackie Robinson steals home for the first of nineteen times

–  1948 –  Stalin starts the Berlin Blockade

–  1964 –  the Federal Trade Commission requires the Surgeon General’s warning on all cigarette packages

–  1982 –  Equal Rights Amendment is defeated

Quote:   I am always doing that which I cannot do. in order that I may learn how to do it.  –  Pablo Picasso

June 25

–  birthdays:  1903 –  George Orwell (“Animal Farm”, “1984”)  /  1933 – James Meredith  /  1942 –  Willis Reed (NBA Hall of Famer)  /  1945 –  Carly Simon (biggest hit =  “You’re So Vain”)  /  1947 –  Jimmy Walker  (comedian ‘  “Good Times”)  /  1963 –  George Michael (biggest hit =  “Faith”) 

–  1876 –  Battle of Little Big Horn

–  1947 –  first version of Anne Franks’ diary published in the Netherlands

–  1950 –  Korean War begins

–  1962 –  Supreme Court declared school prayer illegal

–  1984 –  Prince releases “Purple Rain”

–  1988 –  “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” premieres

Quote:   Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.  –  Henry Ward Beecher

June 26

–  birthdays:  1819 –  Abner Doubleday (Civil War general and supposed inventor of baseball)  /  1892 –  Pearl Buck (author –  “The Good Earth”)  /  1898 –  Chesty Puller (the most decorated Marine)  /  1911 –  Babe Didrikson Zaharias (great female athlete)  /  1956 – Chris Isaak (biggest hit =  “Heart Shaped World”)  /  1970 –  Chris O’Donnell  /  1970 –  Sean Hayes (actor –  “Will and Grace”)  /  1974 –  Derek Jeter  /  1980 –  Michael Vick  /  1984 –  Aubrey Plaza  /  1993 –  Ariana Grande (biggest hit =  “7 Rings”) 

–  1917 –  first doughboys from the A.E.F. arrive in France

–  1945 –  50 nations sign the United Nations Charter

–  1948  –  the Berlin Airlift begins

–  1977 –  Elvis’ last concert

–  1997 –  J.K.-  1997 –  J.K. Rowling’s first Harry Potter book is published

–  2003 –  Lebron James is the first pick of the NBA draft

–  2015 –  the Supreme Court declares same-sex marriage to be a right

Quote:   The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.  –  Samuel Johnson

June 27

–  birthdays:  1880 –  Helen Keller  /  1930 – Ross Perot  (presidential candidate 1992, 1996)  /  1966 –  J.J. Abrams  /  1975 – Tobey McGuire  /  1984 – Khloe Kardashian

–  1844 –  Mormon leader Joseph Smith taken from a jail by a mob and killed

–  1969 –  the Stonewall Riot 

–  1974 –  Nixon visits the USSR

Quote:   Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.  –  Ambrose Bierce

June 28

–  birthdays:  1491 –  King Henry VIII  /  1926 – Mel Brooks  /  1946 – Gilda Radner  /  1948 –  Kathy Bates  /  1960 – John Elway  (Hall of Fame quarterback)  /  1966 –  John Cusack

–  1778 –  Battle of Monmouth

–  1820  –  scientists disprove the myth that tomatoes are poisonous

–  1914 –  Franz Ferdinand assassinated

–  1964 –  Malcolm X forms the Organization for Afro-American Unity

–  1965 –  LBJ orders the first ground troops to Vietnam

–  1968 –  Daniel Ellsberg indicted for the Pentagon Papers

–  1971 –  Supreme Court overturns Muhammad Ali’s conviction for draft evasion

–  1997 –  Evander Holyfield is declared the winner in a fight where Mike Tyson bites off part of his ear

–  2000 –  Elian Gonzalez returns to Cuba

–  2003 –  “Pirates of the Caribbean” premieres

Quote:   Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.  –  Shakespeare

June 29

–  birthdays:  1912 –  John Toland  (historian – “The Rising Sun”)  /  1919 – Slim Pickens (actor –  “Dr. Strangelove”)  /  1920 – Ray Harryhausen  (special effects wizard)  /  1944 –  Gary Busey  /  1947 –  Richard Lewis  /  1991 – Kawhi Leonard 

–  1767 –  Parliament passes the Townshend Acts

–  1863 –  George Custer promoted to general at age 23

–  1909 –  the first transcontinental auto race ends in Seattle after leaving NYC 23 days earlier

–  1950 –  in a shocking upset, the U.S. defeats England in a soccer match (it would not win another World Cup match until 1994)

–  1956 –  Charles Dumas becomes the first human to high jump seven feet

Quote:   Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.  –  Shakespeare

June 30

–  birthdays:  1917 –  Lena Horne  /  1956 –  David Alan Grier  /  1959 – Vincent D’Onofrio  /  1966 – Mike Tyson  /  1985 –  Michael Phelps

–  1859 –  Canadian daredevil Emile Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope 

–  1906 –  Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act passed

–  1935 –   “Night of the Long Knives”

–  1936 –  “Gone with the Wind” published

–  1938 –  Superman makes his first appearance in comics

Quote:   If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.  –  Shakespeare