Birthday letter doodles; Colbert opinions; Earth spinning faster; Florida man returns; is Starship doomed?
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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
WSJ's Trump-Epstein birthday letter bombshell rocks MAGA; Trump's doodles resurface: A Closer Look. (Video)
Jon Stewart reacts to Colbert's cancellation and Trump's "bawdy" Epstein doodles | The Daily Show (Video)
The gloves are off | "I absolutely love that Colbert got fired" | Trump and Epstein's wonderful secret (Video)
FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response.
Colbert will be fine; late-night television may not be.
Earth will spin faster today to create second shortest day in history. "Most scientists believe it is something inside the Earth. Ocean and atmospheric models don't explain this huge acceleration."
Russian army meltdown as troops kill commander and surrender en masse. Soldiers are becoming increasingly desperate to escape the frontline slaughter, and in some cases are resorting to extreme measures.
Polls show Americans want a third party, but not Elon Musk’s.
Is Elon Musk’s Starship Doomed? The future of SpaceX keeps blowing up, and no one knows if he can fix it.
Florida man arrested for DUI on lawn mower along toll road.
Quote of the Day:
I think I envy my dog, because my dog is 16 and she's limping and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick, that we all know the ending.
--Albert Brooks (Wikipedia link)
(More Albert Brooks quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Lion's Share Day, National BLT Sandwich Day, National Fragile X Awareness Day, National Hammock Day, National Mango Day, National Penuche Fudge Day, National Ratcatcher's Day, One Piece Day, Pi Approximation Day, Spoonerism Day, Summer Leisure Day, and World Brain Day.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
2011 – Norway attacks: A bomb explodes, targeted at government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.
1994 – At his second arraignment hearing, O.J. Simpson entered a plea of “"Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty."
1993 – Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1959 – Ed Wood's cult classic "Plan 9 from Outer Space," often called one of the worst films ever, was released in several southern US states. (Video)
1951 – Soviet space dogs: Dezik and Tsygan were launched into a sub-orbital spaceflight from Kapustin Yar and became the first dogs to fly in space and the first to safely return.
1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
1942 – Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.
1937 – The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1933 – Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen.
1893 – Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act passes in the British House of Commons, initiating the gradual abolition of slavery in most parts of the British Empire.
1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
1706 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each country's Parliament, leads to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1598 – William Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers' Register.
1587 – Roanoke Colony: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
1342 – St. Mary Magdalene's flood is the worst such event on record for central Europe.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
2013 – Prince George of Wales
1992 – Selena Gomez, American singer and actress
1988 – George Santos, American politician
1972 – Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor, director, and producer
1964 – David Spade, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1960 – John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1955 – Willem Dafoe, American actor
1949 – Alan Menken, American pianist and composer
1948 – S. E. Hinton, American author
1947 – Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and drummer
1947 – Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
1946 – Danny Glover, American actor, director, and producer
1946 – Paul Schrader, American director and screenwriter
1943 – Bobby Sherman, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2025)
1943 – Kay Bailey Hutchison, American lawyer and politician
1941 – Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (died 1975)
1941 – George Clinton, American singer-songwriter and producer
1941 – Estelle Bennett, American singer (died 2009)
1940 – Alex Trebek, Canadian-American game show host and producer (died 2020)
1938 – Terence Stamp, English actor
1934 – Louise Fletcher, American actress (died 2022)
1932 – Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (died 2014)
1932 – Tom Robbins, American novelist (died 2025)
1928 – Orson Bean, American actor (died 2020)
1925 – Joseph Sargent, American actor, director, and producer (died 2014)
1923 – The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (died 2007)
1923 – Bob Dole, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2021)
1908 – Amy Vanderbilt, American author (died 1974)
1898 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist (died 1943)
1893 – Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (died 1990)
1890 – Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (died 1995)
1889 – James Whale, English director (died 1957)
1849 – Emma Lazarus, American poet and educator (died 1887)
1844 – William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (died 1930)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
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