1307: KULUG KHAN IS ENTHRONED AS KHAGAN OF THE MONGOLS AND WUZONG OF THE YUAN.
This must mean something to somebody.
1582: ODA NOBUNAGA, THE MOST POWERFUL OF THE JAPANESE DAIMYOS, WAS FORCED TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
Daimyos sounds like a new yogurt.
1621: EXECUTION OF 27 CZECH NOBLEMEN ON THE OLD TOWN SQUARE IN PRAGUE AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE BATTLE OF WHITE MOUNTAIN.
Big news I suppose if you're Czech.
1734: IN MONTREAL, A SLAVE KNOWN BY THE FRENCH NAME OF MARIE-JOSEPH ANGELIQUE IS PUT TO DEATH, HAVING BEEN CONVICTED OF SETTING THE FIRE THAT DESTROYED MUCH OF THE CITY.
Well, that sounds like a fair punishment.
1749: HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, IS FOUNDED.
Was it lost?
1788: NEW HAMPSHIRE RATIFIES THE CONSTITUTION OF THE US AND IS ADMITTED AS THE NINTH STATE OF THE US.
Primaries to come.
1798: IRISH REBELLION - THE BRITISH ARMY DEFEATS IRISH REBELS AT THE BATTLE OF VINEGAR HILL.
Vinegar Hill right next to Mount Olive Oil.
1848: IN THE WALLACHIAN REVOLUTION, ION HELIADE RADULESCU AND CHRISTIAN TELL ISSUE THE PROCLAMATION OF ISLAZ AND CREATE A NEW REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT.
It's amazing how much world history I don't give a shit about.
1898: THE UNITED STATES CAPTURES GUAM FROM SPAIN.
Why??
1905: AUTHOR JEAN-PAUL SARTRE IS BORN.
Still waiting.
1915: THE US SUPREME COURT HANDS DOWN ITS DECISION IN GUINN VS. US, STRIKING DOWN OKLAHOMA GRANDFATHER CLAUSE LEGISLATION WHICH HAD THE EFFECT OF DENYING BLACKS THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
No, Trump is not trying to undo this.
1921: ACTRESS JUDY HOLLIDAY IS BORN.
And she just died on This Date in History - June 7.
1921: ACTRESS JANE RUSSELL IS BORN.
I had lunch with her once. Mike drop.
1925: ACTRESS MAUREEN STAPLETON IS BORN.
Gets mentioned here solely because she was in "Bye Bye Birdie."
1932: COMPOSER LALO SCHIFRIN IS BORN.
Still with us. The genius who wrote the themes to "Mission: Impossible" and "Mannix."
1933: ACTOR BERNIE KOPELL IS BORN.
...because he played Siegfried on "Get Smart."
1942: A JAPANESE SUBMARIE SURFACES NEAR THE COLUMBIA RIVER IN OREGON, FIRING 17 SHELLS AT FORT STEVENS.
Because bombing Oregon was so strategic during World War II??
1945: WORLD WAR II - THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA ENDS WHEN JAPANESE FORCES COLLAPSE.
And that's what you get for bombing Oregon.
1947: ACTOR MICHAEL GROSS IS BORN.
The Michael nobody remembers from "Family Ties."
1952: PILOT WOP MAY DIES.
Included here only because the name made me laugh.
1957: ELLEN FAIRCLOUGH IS SWORN IN AS CANADA'S FIRST FEMALE CABINET MINISTER.
If you insist.
1963: POPE PAUL VI IS ELECTED.
Probably the biggest nose of any Pope.
1964: THREE CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS ARE MURDERED IN MISSISSIPPI BY THE KLU KLUX KLAN.
No, that wasn't Donald Trump riding the third horse.
1970: PENN CENTRAL DECLARES BANKRUPTCY, LARGEST EVER US CORPORATE BANKRUPTCY TO THIS DATE.
That was no way to run a railroad.
1980: COMPOSER BERT KAEMPFERT DIES.
Wrote "Swingin' Safari," the very first theme to TV's "Match Game." So there.
1982: JOHN HINCKLEY IS FOUND NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF US PRESIDENT REAGAN.
You talking to me?
1987: ENGINEER MADMAN MUNTZ DIES.
Also a name that made me laugh today.
2001: ACTOR CARROLL O'CONNOR DIES.
Sheer brilliance as Archie Bunker.
2003: AUTHOR LEON URIS DIES.
Really Exodus.
2005: EDGAR RAY KILLEN, WHO HAD BEEN ACQUITTED FOR THE MURDER OF THOSE THREE CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS, IS CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER WHEN THE CASE IS RE-OPENED.
It's about time.
2009: GREENLAND ASSUMES SELF-RULE.
If you want something done right...
2015: BASEBALL PLAYER DARRYL HAMILTON DIES.
Maybe there will be a Broadway musical about him.
Dinner last night: Bratwurst at the Dodger game.
1 comment:
Bernie Kopell was a busy guy back in the day -- in addition to Siegfried, he also played Marlo Thomas' neighbor on "That Girl."
I always thought Leon Uris' best book was "Trinity," though having some background in Irish history helps.
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