70: TITUS AND HIS ROMAN LEGIONS BREACH THE MIDDLE WALL OF JERUSALEM IN THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM.
And the status of the outer and inner wall is?
1257: KRAKOW, POLAND RECEIVES CITY RIGHTS.
And was later a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants.
1283: ROGER OF LAURIA, ADMIRAL TO KING PETER III OF ARAGON, CAPTURES CHARLES OF SALERMO.
Who was later taken over by Vinnie from Bayonne on WFAN.
1798: DURING THE BATTLE OF NEW ROSS, THE ATTEMPT TO SPREAD UNITED IRISH REBELLION INTO MUNSTER IS DEFEATED.
And what did the United Irish Rebellion have against the Addams Family?
1829: HMS PICKLE CAPTURES THE ARMED SLAVE SHIP VOLADORA OFF THE COAST OF CUBA.
Hold the HMS.
1832: THE JUNE REBELLION BREAKS OUT IN PARIS IN AN ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW THE MONARCHY OF LOUIS-PHILIPPE.
Which is why the song goes "April in Paris."
1837: HOUSTON, TEXAS IS INCORPORATED BY THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS.
Long before it switched over to the American League.
1850: SHERIFF PAT GARRETT IS BORN.
Billy the Kid, watch your step.
1851: HARRIET BEECHER STOWE'S SERIAL, "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN," IS PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME.
It was a soap opera? Like sands through the hourglass, so are the slaves of our lives.
1879: REVOLUTIONARY PANCHO VILLA IS BORN.
Si.
1883: THE FIRST REGULARLY SCHEDULED ORIENT EXPRESS DEPARTS PARIS.
That trip is murder.
1883: ECONOMIST JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES IS BORN.
That adds up.
1910: AUTHOR O HENRY DIES.
How's that for a twist ending?
1915: DENMARK AMENDS ITS CONSTITUTION TO ALLOW WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.
Which is why so many men went there to become women.
1916: LOUIS BRANDEIS IS SWORN IN AS A JUSTICE OF THE US SUPREME COURT.
I thought he was a college.
1917: DURING WORLD WAR I, CONSCRIPTION BEGINS IN THE US AS "ARMY REGISTRATION DAY."
Getting a little drafty around here.
1920: AUTHOR CORNELIUS RYAN IS BORN.
Interesting that his birthday is on June 5 since......well, you will see later.
1934: JOURNALIST BILL MOYERS IS BORN.
Journalist? Really?
1942: DURING WORLD WAR II, THE US DECLARES WAR OF BULGARIA, HUNGARY, AND ROMANIA.
Every war needs a couple of pushover countries.
1944: DURING WORLD WAR II, MORE THAN 1000 BRITISH BOMBERS DROP 5000 TONS ON BOMBS ON GERMAN GUN BATTERIES ON THE NORMANDY COAST IN PREPARATION FOR D-DAY, THE NEXT DAY.
Happy birthday, Cornelius Ryan. Now you have something to write about.
1947: THE MARSHALL PLAN - IN A SPEECH AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, US SECRETARY OF STATE GEORGE MARSHALL CALLS FOR ECONOMIC AID TO WAR-TORN EUROPE.
Knock 'em down and then build 'em up. Ain't war grand?
1951: ECONOMIST/TV HOST SUZE ORMAN IS BORN.
I met her once. I still don't have a million dollars.
1951: JILL BIDEN IS BORN.
As inconsequential as they come.
1956: ELVIS PRESLEY INTRODUCES HIS NEW SINGLE "HOUND DOG" ON THE MILTON BERLE SHOW, SCANDALIZING THE AUDIENCE WITH HIS SUGGESTIVE HIP MOVEMENTS.
Meanwhile, Milton was even scarier when he dressed like a woman.
1963: BRITISH SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR JOHN PROFUMO RESIGNS IN A SEX SCANDAL KNOWN AS THE PROFUMO AFFAIR.
Wasn't that an episode of "Man from U.N.C.L.E.?"
1967: THE SIX DAY WAR BEGINS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
The six day war now in its fifth decade.
1968: US SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY IS SHOT AT THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL IN LOS ANGELES. HE DIES THE NEXT DAY.
"Let's go on to Chicago and win there."
1971: SINGER/ACTOR MARK WAHLBERG IS BORN.
The newest kid on the block.
1975: THE SUEZ CANAL OPENS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE SIX-DAY WAR.
And is still open as the war approaches its sixth decade.
1976: THE COLLAPSE OF THE TETON DAM IN IDAHO.
Look out below.
1977: THE APPLE II, ONE OF THE FIRST PERSONAL COMPUTERS, GOES ON SALE.
What version are we up to now?
1981: THE MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT OF THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION REPORT THAT FIVE PEOPLE IN LOS ANGELES HAVE A RARE FORM OF PNEUMONIA SEEN ONLY IN PATIENTS WITH WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEMS, IN WHAT TURNS OUT TO BE THE FIRST RECOGNIZED CASES OF AIDS.
A long sentence that could be reduced to four words. "This is gonna suck."
1993: PORTIONS OF THE HOLBECK HALL HOTEL IN ENGLAND FALL INTO THE SEA FOLLOWING A LANDSLIDE.
You wanted a view of the water? Now you got it.
1993: SINGER CONWAY TWITTY DIES.
Long before people would start sending daily messages in his name.
1998: A STRIKE BEGINS AT THE GENERAL MOTORS PARTS FACTORY IN FLINT, MICHIGAN THAT QUICKLY SPREADS TO FIVE OTHER PLANTS.
And they thought AIDS moved fast.
1998: LOS ANGELES MAYOR SAM YORTY DIES.
Next to Twitty, the second funniest name to die on this date.
1999: SINGER MEL TORME DIES.
I hear this guy was a real scumbag.
2002: SINGER DEE DEE RAMONE DIES.
Dee Dee Dead.
2003: A SEVERE HEAT WAVE ACROSS PAKISTAN AND INDIA REACHES A PEAK OF 122 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.
In countries where there is no central air. Yeech!
2004: PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN DIES.
His casket drove past my apartment on this date. The closest I have ever come to a President, dead or alive.
2012: AUTHOR RAY BRADBURY DIES.
Talk about high Fahrenheit temperatures.
Dinner last night: Breaded chicken cutlet and macaroni salad.
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