Ant Farmer's Calendar

JUNE 2009

1 1801 Brigham Young; 1921 Nelson Riddle; 1926 Andy Griffith, Marilyn Monroe; 1934 Pat Boone; 1935 Reverend Ike; 1937 Morgan Freeman; 1939 Cleavon Little; 1940 Rene Auberjonois; 1947 Ron Wood.
• 1843: It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland, Ohio; residents aren't nearly as surprised as you might think.
• 1869: Thomas Edison receives a patent for electric voting machine; promises to deliver 1872 election to Grant in a walk.
• 1938: It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's the day Superman Comics launched!
• 1967: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released in U.S.
• 1971: Ed Sullivan's final really big shoo.
• 1975: Ron Wood replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist; Keith Richards doesn't notice until 1982.

2 1491 Henry VIII; 1740 Marquis de Sade; 1890 Hedda Hopper; 1901 Michael Todd; 1904 John Weissmuller; 1936 Sally Kellerman; 1941 Stacy Keach; 1943 Charles Haid; 1948 Jerry Mathers; 1950 Joanna Gleason; 1955 Dana Carvey.
• 455: Vandals enter Rome, vandalize.
• 1953: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is the first to be televised. Watching at home, a young Simon Cowell mutters, "This is the most dreadful coronation I have ever seen!"
• 1981: Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be; tragically Hepburn actually answers the question, rather than whacking Walters upside the head.

3 1906 Josephine Baker; 1911 Paulette Goddard; 1925 Tony Curtis; 1926 Colleen Dewhurst, Allen Ginsberg; 1929 Chuck Barris; 1942 Curtis Mayfield; 1946 Ian Hunter; 1950 Suzi Quatro.
• 1937: Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) marries Wallis Warfield Simpson; giving the editors of Time/Life something to swoon over until Princess Diana comes along.
• 1943: Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles give new meaning to term "Fashion Victims."
• 1968: Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol.

4 1908 Rosalind Russell; 1917 Charles Collingwood; 1936 Bruce Dern; 1937 Freddie Fender; 1944 Michelle Phillips
• 1812: Louisiana Territory renamed "Missouri Territory"; but only after a close vote between that name and “Debbie.”
• 1965: Rolling Stones release Satisfaction.
• 1876: A Transcontinental Express train arrives in San Francisco 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York; If another Transcontinental Express train had left San Francisco heading for New York at the same time would anyone give a rat's ass in which state they passed each other?
• 1967: The Monkees wins an Emmy Award for comedy series.
• 1973: Patent for the ATM granted; soon-to-be-unemployed bank tellers feel sudden chill.

5 1895 William Boyd; 1937 Waylon Jennings; 1939 Margaret Drabble, Ken Follett;
1956 Kenny G.
• 8239 B.C.: Presumed origin of Mayan Era of Creation; and, really, who's to say otherwise?
• 1661: Isaac Newton's first day at Trinity College; he drops the apple brought for his teacher, the rest is history.
• 1783: Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make first public balloon flight; they tow a banner declaring, “We’re Here, We’re Balloonists! Get Used to It!”
• 1912: U.S. Marines invade Cuba for the third time; vowing, "We'll keep doing this until we get it right!"

6 1599 Diego Velazquez; 1875 Thomas Mann; 1875 Walter Percy; 1939 Gary "US" Bonds; 1949 Robert Englund; 1954 Harvey Fierstein; 1955 Dana Carvey; 1955 Sandra Bernhard; 1956 Bjorn Borg.
• 1944: D-Day.
• 1946: Henry Morgan is the first man to take off shirt on television; this also marks the second time in broadcast history a horrified announcer exclaims, 'Oh, the humanity!'
• 1949: Nineteen Eighty-Four published; Big Brother gets own TV show in 2000
• 1955: Bill Haley & the Comets' Rock Around the Clock hits #1.
• 1962: Beatles work with producer George Martin for the first time; the result isn't promising as they record "Besame Mucho" with Pete Best on drums.

7 1848 Paul Gaugin; 1909 Peter Rodino, Jessica Tandy; 1917 Dean Martin; 1922 Rocky Graziano; 1940 Tom Jones; 1958 Prince; 1971 Mark Wahlberg.
• 1839: Hawaiian "Declaration of Rights" is signed; few notice that the fine print stipulates: "We agree to be taken over by sugar and pineapple corporations and treated like their private fiefdom, then annexed to the United States government and become over-run by hoards of tourists".
• 1860: First "dime novel" published (Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter); oddly, it costs a quarter.
• 1930: NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"; New York Post accuses Times of "liberal pandering."

8 1867 Frank Lloyd Wright; 1916 Francis Crick; 1925 Barbara Pierce Bush; 1929 Jerry Stiller; 1933 Joan Rivers; 1940 Nancy Sinatra.
• 1452: Attila the Hun invades Italy; upon leaving declares, "If you sack only one country this year, make it Italy!"
• 1968: Rolling Stones release Jumpin' Jack Flash.
• 1998: Charlton Heston becomes NRA President; damn dirty apes duck and cover.

9 1893 Cole Porter; 1908 Robert Cummings; 1915 Les Paul; 1916 Robert S. McNamara; 1951 Bonnie Tyler; 1961 Michael J. Fox; 1963 Johnny Depp.
• 1954: During Senate's Army-McCarthy hearings Joseph Welch asks Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"; McCarthy responds, "Let me get back to you on that."

10 1819 Gustave Courbet; 1910 Howlin' Wolf; 1911 Terence Rattigan; 1914 Saul Bellow; 1922 Judy Garland; 1923 Earl Hamner Jr; 1928 Maurice Sendak; 1933 F. Lee Bailey; 1943 Jeff Greenfield.
• 1902: Patent for window envelope granted to H.F. Callahan.
• 1977: Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.

11 1864 Richard Strauss; 1910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau; 1925 William Styron; 1931 Tab Hunter; 1932 Athol Fugard; 1935 Gene Wilder; 1936 Chad Everett.
• 1770: Capt. Cook runs aground on Australia's Great Barrier Reef; within hours, boatloads of environmental protesters appear on the scene to angrily shout at him.
• 1977: ELO releases Telephone Line; prepare to have that song stuck in your head for the next 3 minutes.
• 1991: Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0.

12 1915 David Rockefeller; 1916 Irwin Allen; 1919 Uta Hagen; 1928 Vic Damone; 1929 Anne Frank; 1930 Barbara Harris; 1932 Jim Nabors; 1943 Marv Albert; 1957 Timothy Busfield.
• 1939: Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY.

13 1865 William Butler Yeats; 1892 Basil Rathbone; 1893 Dorothy L. Sayers; 1903 "Red" Grange; 1913 Ralph Edwards; 1926 Paul Lynde; 1935 Christo; 1951 Richard Thomas; 1962 Ally Sheedy; 1986 Ashley Olsen, Mary Kate Olsen.
• 1774: Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves; exporting is still okay, leading to the policy of “Sell ‘Em if You Got ‘Em.”

14 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe; 1909 Burl Ives; 1921 Gene Barry; 1925 Pierre Salinger; 1928 Che Guevara; 1946 Donald Trump; 1961 Boy George.
• 1775: U.S. Army established; upon enlistment of its second soldier, they ditch the slogan, “An Army of One.”
• 1881: Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr., Cambridge, Mass.
• 1942: Walt Disney's Bambi released.
• 1954: First nationwide civil defense drill; US schoolchildren instructed to await fiery death under their desks.
• 1976: The Gong Show premieres on TV.

15 1914 Saul Steinberg; 1922 Morris Udall; 1932 Mario Cuomo; 1941 Harry Nilsson; 1942 Xaveria Hollander; 1956 Polly Draper; 1958 Wade Boggs; 1963 Helen Hunt; 1964 Courtney Cox; 1973 Neil Patrick Harris.
• 1779: General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx; locals retaliate with vandalism and graffiti.
• 1956: John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for the first time as Lennon's band The Quarrymen perform at a church dinner.

16 1917 Katharine Graham; 1935 Jim Dine; 1937 Erich Segal; 1938 Joyce Carol Oates.
• 1989: Four golfers (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price) all make a hole-in-one on the same hole (the sixth) at the US Open; the only remotely interesting thing that will happen in professional golf until Tiger Woods shows up.
• 1991: Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russia; celebratory drinking commences and doesn't stop until 1999.

17 1914 John Hersey; 1946 Barry Manilow; 1951 Joe Piscopo; 1954 Mark Linn-Baker.
• 1885: Statue of Liberty arrives in New York; customs officials comment that she doesn't look particularly tired, hungry or poor.

18 1877 James Montgomery Flagg; 1901 Jeanette MacDonald; 1904 Keye Luke; 1917 Richard Boone; 1942 Rogert Ebert, Paul McCartney; 1947 Linda Thorson; 1952 Carol Kane; 1952 Isabella Rossellini
• 1815: Battle of Waterloo.
• 1923: First Checker Cab goes into service; driver carries no cash, speaks no English.

19 1897 Moe Howard; 1902 Guy Lombardo; 1903 Louis Gehrig; 1914 Alan Cranston; 1919 Pauline Kael; 1943 Malcolm McDowell; 1947 Salman Rushdie; 1949 Kathleen Turner; 1962 Paula Abdul.
• 1934: Federal Communications Commission established; fines Al Jolson for risqué remark about ladies’ ankles.
• 1952: I've Got A Secret debuts.
• 1967: Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD; public reaction split evenly between those who think he took too much and those who think he didn't take enough.

20 1907 Lillian Hellman; 1909 Errol Flynn; 1920 DeForest Kelley; 1924 Chet Atkins, 1924 Audie Murphy; 1931 Olympia Dukakis; 1933 Danny Aiello; 1942 Brian Wilson; 1947 Candy Clark; 1950 Lionel Richie; 1952 John Goodman; 1953 Cyndi Lauper.
• 1837: Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne, is slightly amused.
• 1910: "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in New York Journal.
• 1963: Beatles form "Beatles Ltd." to handle their income; "Just a little something to help out when we're 64," quips John Lennon.

21 1732 Martha Washington; 1882 Rockwell Kent; 1892 Reinhold Niebuhr; 1903 Al Hirschfeld; 1905 Jean-Paul Sartre; 1921 Jane Russell; 1925 Maureen Stapleton; 1944 Ray Davies; 1947 Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael Gross; 1953 Benazir Bhutto
• 1633: Galileo is forced by Inquisition to recant his Copernican heliocentric views because Inquisitors think they "sound dirty."
• 1948: CBS demonstrates "33 1/3 rpm long playing record" and announces plan to phase out 78's and whoever's made one.
• 1990: Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame, wooo-ooooo-ooo!

22 1858 Giacomo Puccini; 1903 John Dillinger; 1906 Billy Wilder; 1907 Anne Morrow Lindbergh; 1920 Paul Frees; 1921 Gower Champion; 1921 Joseph Papp; 1922 Bill Blass; 1928 Orson Bean; 1929 Ralph Waite; 1933 Dianne Feinstein; 1936 Kris Kristofferson; 1941 Ed Bradley; 1947 Don Henley, Howard Kaylan; 1948 "Pistol" Pete Maravich, Todd Rundgren; 1949 Meryl Streep, Lindsay Wagner; 1954 Freddie Prinze.
• 1808: Pike peaks.
• 1847: Doughnut created; why isn't this a national holiday?
• 1969: Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance; her defense lawyer argues that she wasn't getting R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
• 1981: In what passes at that time for "...a disgraceful act of misbehavior" at Wimbeldon John McEnroe asks the visiting Prince of Wales if he 'Has any Grey Poupon'.

23 1894 Alfred Kinsey; 1894 Duke of Windsor; 1911 David Ogilvy; 1927 Bob Fosse; 1929 June Carter Cash; 1943 James Levine.
• 1713: French in Acadia ordered to declare allegiance to Britain or leave; begin packing cookpots and musical instruments.
• 1860: U.S. Secret Service created; for security reasons, it is not announced until 1907.
• 1955: Walt Disney's Lady & the Tramp released.

24 1771 E.I. du Pont; 1813 Henry Ward Beecher; 1842 Ambrose Bierce; 1895 Jack Dempsey; 1903 Phil Harris; 1935 Pete Hamill; 1942 Mick Fleetwood; 1944 Jeff Beck; 1947 Peter Weller; 1950 Nancy Allen.
• 1509: Henry VIII crowned King of England.
• 1977: IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976; his excuse, "I was making peanuts."

25 1903 George Orwell; 1924 Sidney Lumet; 1925 Clifton Chenier, June Lockhart, Robert Venturi; 1933 Gary Crosby; 1945 Carly Simon; 1949 Jimmie Walker; 1963 Mike Myers.
• 1630: Fork introduced to American dining by Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop; local chopsticks industry collapses.
• 1835: First permanent building constructed in San Francisco; advertised as "fixer-upper w/ample parking."
• 1876: Battle of Little Big Horn; Custer misinformed that Sioux had no WMD.
• 1935: Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium; granted, it was a scuffle over a bag of peanuts but still.
• 1977: Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for seventh time; says, "Once more and I'll start taking it personally."

26 1819 Abner Doubleday; 1892 Pearl S. Buck; 1893 Big Bill Broonzy; 1904 Peter Lorre; 1909 Col Tom Parker; 1933 Noriyuki "Pat" Morita.
• 1963: Kennedy visits West Berlin and announces "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner).
• 1974: Liz Taylor's fifth divorce (Richard Burton).

27 1869 Emma Goldman; 1880 Helen Keller; 1920 I.A.L. Diamond; 1923 Paul Conrad; 1927 Bob Keeshan; 1955 Isabelle Adjani.
• 1990: Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8,600 to help their earthquake victims; unmoved, most now plan on taking his wallet as well as whacking him.

28 1491 Henry VIII; 1577 Peter Paul Rubens; 1712 Jean Jacques Rousseau; 1926 Mel Brooks; 1946 Gilda Radner; 1960 John Elway; 1966 John Cusack, Mary Stuart Masterson.
• 1820: Tomato is proven nonpoisonous; but only after years of experimentation with salads and sauces and lots of, "You go first." "No, you go first."
• 1905: Russian sailors mutiny aboard the battleship "Potemkin"; in a stirring show of solidarity, Russian citizens shove baby carriages down long marble staircases.

29 1900 Antoine Saint-Exupery; 1901 Nelson Eddy; 1919 Slim Pickens; 1944 Gary Busey; 1947 Richard Lewis.
• 1613: Globe Theater burns down; William Shakespeare and his insurance company quarrel over whether the damage is covered by his policy's "Slings and Arrows" clause.

30 1917 Lena Horne, Buddy Rich; 1934 Harry Blackstone Jr.; 1966 Mike Tyson.
• 1986: Georgia sodomy law (they’re against it) upheld by Supreme Court (5-4); decision is handed down after repeated viewings of Deliverance.
• 1864 Lincoln grants Yosemite to California; waiting list for campsites already three years long.

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	JUNE 2009 1 1801 Brigham Young; 1921 Nelson Riddle; 1926 Andy Griffith, Marilyn Monroe; 1934 Pat Boone; 1935 Reverend Ike; 1937 Morgan Freeman; 1939 Cleavon Little; 1940 Rene Auberjonois; 1947 Ron Wood. • 1843: It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland, Ohio; residents aren't nearly as surprised as you might think. • 1869: Thomas Edison receives a patent for electric voting machine; promises to deliver 1872 election to Grant in a walk. • 1938: It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's the day Superman Comics launched! • 1967: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released in U.S. • 1971: Ed Sullivan's final really big shoo. • 1975: Ron Wood replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist; Keith Richards doesn't notice until 1982. 2 1491 Henry VIII; 1740 Marquis de Sade; 1890 Hedda Hopper; 1901 Michael Todd; 1904 John Weissmuller; 1936 Sally Kellerman; 1941 Stacy Keach; 1943 Charles Haid; 1948 Jerry Mathers; 1950 Joanna Gleason; 1955 Dana Carvey. • 455: Vandals enter Rome, vandalize. • 1953: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is the first to be televised. Watching at home, a young Simon Cowell mutters, "This is the most dreadful coronation I have ever seen!" • 1981: Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be; tragically Hepburn actually answers the question, rather than whacking Walters upside the head. 3 1906 Josephine Baker; 1911 Paulette Goddard; 1925 Tony Curtis; 1926 Colleen Dewhurst, Allen Ginsberg; 1929 Chuck Barris; 1942 Curtis Mayfield; 1946 Ian Hunter; 1950 Suzi Quatro. • 1937: Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) marries Wallis Warfield Simpson; giving the editors of Time/Life something to swoon over until Princess Diana comes along. • 1943: Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles give new meaning to term "Fashion Victims." • 1968: Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol. 4 1908 Rosalind Russell; 1917 Charles Collingwood; 1936 Bruce Dern; 1937 Freddie Fender; 1944 Michelle Phillips • 1812: Louisiana Territory renamed "Missouri Territory"; but only after a close vote between that name and “Debbie.” • 1965: Rolling Stones release Satisfaction. • 1876: A Transcontinental Express train arrives in San Francisco 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York; If another Transcontinental Express train had left San Francisco heading for New York at the same time would anyone give a rat's ass in which state they passed each other? • 1967: The Monkees wins an Emmy Award for comedy series. • 1973: Patent for the ATM granted; soon-to-be-unemployed bank tellers feel sudden chill. 5 1895 William Boyd; 1937 Waylon Jennings; 1939 Margaret Drabble, Ken Follett; 1956 Kenny G. • 8239 B.C.: Presumed origin of Mayan Era of Creation; and, really, who's to say otherwise? • 1661: Isaac Newton's first day at Trinity College; he drops the apple brought for his teacher, the rest is history. • 1783: Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make first public balloon flight; they tow a banner declaring, “We’re Here, We’re Balloonists! Get Used to It!” • 1912: U.S. Marines invade Cuba for the third time; vowing, "We'll keep doing this until we get it right!" 6 1599 Diego Velazquez; 1875 Thomas Mann; 1875 Walter Percy; 1939 Gary "US" Bonds; 1949 Robert Englund; 1954 Harvey Fierstein; 1955 Dana Carvey; 1955 Sandra Bernhard; 1956 Bjorn Borg. • 1944: D-Day. • 1946: Henry Morgan is the first man to take off shirt on television; this also marks the second time in broadcast history a horrified announcer exclaims, 'Oh, the humanity!' • 1949: Nineteen Eighty-Four published; Big Brother gets own TV show in 2000 • 1955: Bill Haley & the Comets' Rock Around the Clock hits #1. • 1962: Beatles work with producer George Martin for the first time; the result isn't promising as they record "Besame Mucho" with Pete Best on drums. 7 1848 Paul Gaugin; 1909 Peter Rodino, Jessica Tandy; 1917 Dean Martin; 1922 Rocky Graziano; 1940 Tom Jones; 1958 Prince; 1971 Mark Wahlberg. • 1839: Hawaiian "Declaration of Rights" is signed; few notice that the fine print stipulates: "We agree to be taken over by sugar and pineapple corporations and treated like their private fiefdom, then annexed to the United States government and become over-run by hoards of tourists". • 1860: First "dime novel" published (Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter); oddly, it costs a quarter. • 1930: NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"; New York Post accuses Times of "liberal pandering." 8 1867 Frank Lloyd Wright; 1916 Francis Crick; 1925 Barbara Pierce Bush; 1929 Jerry Stiller; 1933 Joan Rivers; 1940 Nancy Sinatra. • 1452: Attila the Hun invades Italy; upon leaving declares, "If you sack only one country this year, make it Italy!" • 1968: Rolling Stones release Jumpin' Jack Flash. • 1998: Charlton Heston becomes NRA President; damn dirty apes duck and cover. 9 1893 Cole Porter; 1908 Robert Cummings; 1915 Les Paul; 1916 Robert S. McNamara; 1951 Bonnie Tyler; 1961 Michael J. Fox; 1963 Johnny Depp. • 1954: During Senate's Army-McCarthy hearings Joseph Welch asks Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"; McCarthy responds, "Let me get back to you on that." 10 1819 Gustave Courbet; 1910 Howlin' Wolf; 1911 Terence Rattigan; 1914 Saul Bellow; 1922 Judy Garland; 1923 Earl Hamner Jr; 1928 Maurice Sendak; 1933 F. Lee Bailey; 1943 Jeff Greenfield. • 1902: Patent for window envelope granted to H.F. Callahan. • 1977: Apple Computer ships its first Apple II. 11 1864 Richard Strauss; 1910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau; 1925 William Styron; 1931 Tab Hunter; 1932 Athol Fugard; 1935 Gene Wilder; 1936 Chad Everett. • 1770: Capt. Cook runs aground on Australia's Great Barrier Reef; within hours, boatloads of environmental protesters appear on the scene to angrily shout at him. • 1977: ELO releases Telephone Line; prepare to have that song stuck in your head for the next 3 minutes. • 1991: Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0. 12 1915 David Rockefeller; 1916 Irwin Allen; 1919 Uta Hagen; 1928 Vic Damone; 1929 Anne Frank; 1930 Barbara Harris; 1932 Jim Nabors; 1943 Marv Albert; 1957 Timothy Busfield. • 1939: Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY. 13 1865 William Butler Yeats; 1892 Basil Rathbone; 1893 Dorothy L. Sayers; 1903 "Red" Grange; 1913 Ralph Edwards; 1926 Paul Lynde; 1935 Christo; 1951 Richard Thomas; 1962 Ally Sheedy; 1986 Ashley Olsen, Mary Kate Olsen. • 1774: Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves; exporting is still okay, leading to the policy of “Sell ‘Em if You Got ‘Em.” 14 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe; 1909 Burl Ives; 1921 Gene Barry; 1925 Pierre Salinger; 1928 Che Guevara; 1946 Donald Trump; 1961 Boy George. • 1775: U.S. Army established; upon enlistment of its second soldier, they ditch the slogan, “An Army of One.” • 1881: Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr., Cambridge, Mass. • 1942: Walt Disney's Bambi released. • 1954: First nationwide civil defense drill; US schoolchildren instructed to await fiery death under their desks. • 1976: The Gong Show premieres on TV. 15 1914 Saul Steinberg; 1922 Morris Udall; 1932 Mario Cuomo; 1941 Harry Nilsson; 1942 Xaveria Hollander; 1956 Polly Draper; 1958 Wade Boggs; 1963 Helen Hunt; 1964 Courtney Cox; 1973 Neil Patrick Harris. • 1779: General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx; locals retaliate with vandalism and graffiti. • 1956: John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for the first time as Lennon's band The Quarrymen perform at a church dinner. 16 1917 Katharine Graham; 1935 Jim Dine; 1937 Erich Segal; 1938 Joyce Carol Oates. • 1989: Four golfers (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price) all make a hole-in-one on the same hole (the sixth) at the US Open; the only remotely interesting thing that will happen in professional golf until Tiger Woods shows up. • 1991: Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russia; celebratory drinking commences and doesn't stop until 1999. 17 1914 John Hersey; 1946 Barry Manilow; 1951 Joe Piscopo; 1954 Mark Linn-Baker. • 1885: Statue of Liberty arrives in New York; customs officials comment that she doesn't look particularly tired, hungry or poor. 18 1877 James Montgomery Flagg; 1901 Jeanette MacDonald; 1904 Keye Luke; 1917 Richard Boone; 1942 Rogert Ebert, Paul McCartney; 1947 Linda Thorson; 1952 Carol Kane; 1952 Isabella Rossellini • 1815: Battle of Waterloo. • 1923: First Checker Cab goes into service; driver carries no cash, speaks no English. 19 1897 Moe Howard; 1902 Guy Lombardo; 1903 Louis Gehrig; 1914 Alan Cranston; 1919 Pauline Kael; 1943 Malcolm McDowell; 1947 Salman Rushdie; 1949 Kathleen Turner; 1962 Paula Abdul. • 1934: Federal Communications Commission established; fines Al Jolson for risqué remark about ladies’ ankles. • 1952: I've Got A Secret debuts. • 1967: Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD; public reaction split evenly between those who think he took too much and those who think he didn't take enough. 20 1907 Lillian Hellman; 1909 Errol Flynn; 1920 DeForest Kelley; 1924 Chet Atkins, 1924 Audie Murphy; 1931 Olympia Dukakis; 1933 Danny Aiello; 1942 Brian Wilson; 1947 Candy Clark; 1950 Lionel Richie; 1952 John Goodman; 1953 Cyndi Lauper. • 1837: Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne, is slightly amused. • 1910: "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in New York Journal. • 1963: Beatles form "Beatles Ltd." to handle their income; "Just a little something to help out when we're 64," quips John Lennon. 21 1732 Martha Washington; 1882 Rockwell Kent; 1892 Reinhold Niebuhr; 1903 Al Hirschfeld; 1905 Jean-Paul Sartre; 1921 Jane Russell; 1925 Maureen Stapleton; 1944 Ray Davies; 1947 Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael Gross; 1953 Benazir Bhutto • 1633: Galileo is forced by Inquisition to recant his Copernican heliocentric views because Inquisitors think they "sound dirty." • 1948: CBS demonstrates "33 1/3 rpm long playing record" and announces plan to phase out 78's and whoever's made one. • 1990: Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame, wooo-ooooo-ooo! 22 1858 Giacomo Puccini; 1903 John Dillinger; 1906 Billy Wilder; 1907 Anne Morrow Lindbergh; 1920 Paul Frees; 1921 Gower Champion; 1921 Joseph Papp; 1922 Bill Blass; 1928 Orson Bean; 1929 Ralph Waite; 1933 Dianne Feinstein; 1936 Kris Kristofferson; 1941 Ed Bradley; 1947 Don Henley, Howard Kaylan; 1948 "Pistol" Pete Maravich, Todd Rundgren; 1949 Meryl Streep, Lindsay Wagner; 1954 Freddie Prinze. • 1808: Pike peaks. • 1847: Doughnut created; why isn't this a national holiday? • 1969: Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance; her defense lawyer argues that she wasn't getting R-E-S-P-E-C-T. • 1981: In what passes at that time for "...a disgraceful act of misbehavior" at Wimbeldon John McEnroe asks the visiting Prince of Wales if he 'Has any Grey Poupon'. 23 1894 Alfred Kinsey; 1894 Duke of Windsor; 1911 David Ogilvy; 1927 Bob Fosse; 1929 June Carter Cash; 1943 James Levine. • 1713: French in Acadia ordered to declare allegiance to Britain or leave; begin packing cookpots and musical instruments. • 1860: U.S. Secret Service created; for security reasons, it is not announced until 1907. • 1955: Walt Disney's Lady & the Tramp released. 24 1771 E.I. du Pont; 1813 Henry Ward Beecher; 1842 Ambrose Bierce; 1895 Jack Dempsey; 1903 Phil Harris; 1935 Pete Hamill; 1942 Mick Fleetwood; 1944 Jeff Beck; 1947 Peter Weller; 1950 Nancy Allen. • 1509: Henry VIII crowned King of England. • 1977: IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976; his excuse, "I was making peanuts." 25 1903 George Orwell; 1924 Sidney Lumet; 1925 Clifton Chenier, June Lockhart, Robert Venturi; 1933 Gary Crosby; 1945 Carly Simon; 1949 Jimmie Walker; 1963 Mike Myers. • 1630: Fork introduced to American dining by Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop; local chopsticks industry collapses. • 1835: First permanent building constructed in San Francisco; advertised as "fixer-upper w/ample parking." • 1876: Battle of Little Big Horn; Custer misinformed that Sioux had no WMD. • 1935: Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium; granted, it was a scuffle over a bag of peanuts but still. • 1977: Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for seventh time; says, "Once more and I'll start taking it personally." 26 1819 Abner Doubleday; 1892 Pearl S. Buck; 1893 Big Bill Broonzy; 1904 Peter Lorre; 1909 Col Tom Parker; 1933 Noriyuki "Pat" Morita. • 1963: Kennedy visits West Berlin and announces "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner). • 1974: Liz Taylor's fifth divorce (Richard Burton). 27 1869 Emma Goldman; 1880 Helen Keller; 1920 I.A.L. Diamond; 1923 Paul Conrad; 1927 Bob Keeshan; 1955 Isabelle Adjani. • 1990: Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8,600 to help their earthquake victims; unmoved, most now plan on taking his wallet as well as whacking him. 28 1491 Henry VIII; 1577 Peter Paul Rubens; 1712 Jean Jacques Rousseau; 1926 Mel Brooks; 1946 Gilda Radner; 1960 John Elway; 1966 John Cusack, Mary Stuart Masterson. • 1820: Tomato is proven nonpoisonous; but only after years of experimentation with salads and sauces and lots of, "You go first." "No, you go first." • 1905: Russian sailors mutiny aboard the battleship "Potemkin"; in a stirring show of solidarity, Russian citizens shove baby carriages down long marble staircases. 29 1900 Antoine Saint-Exupery; 1901 Nelson Eddy; 1919 Slim Pickens; 1944 Gary Busey; 1947 Richard Lewis. • 1613: Globe Theater burns down; William Shakespeare and his insurance company quarrel over whether the damage is covered by his policy's "Slings and Arrows" clause. 30 1917 Lena Horne, Buddy Rich; 1934 Harry Blackstone Jr.; 1966 Mike Tyson. • 1986: Georgia sodomy law (they’re against it) upheld by Supreme Court (5-4); decision is handed down after repeated viewings of Deliverance. • 1864 Lincoln grants Yosemite to California; waiting list for campsites already three years long.
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