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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
The New York Times’ comprehensive obit of Brian Wilson. (Gift article)
Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired. Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content.
MAGA calls for Walmart boycott after billionaire heir promoted anti-Trump protest.
A great explainer of the Trump-induced mayhem in LA (Video).
Trump is “the cream of the litter.” (Video)
Trump gives wildly inappropriate speech to troops, spreads LA misinformation and Elon says sorry. (Video)
This engineer claims his anti-gravity tech could rewrite the laws of physics. TLDR: Probably not.
Quote of the Day:
I do not like broccoli and I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.
--George H.W. Bush (Wikipedia link)
Today’s holidays:
Crowded Nest Awareness Day, Ghost in the Machine Day, International Cachaça Day, International Falafel Day, Little League Girls Baseball Day, Loving Day, Magic Day, National Automotive Service Professionals Day, National Career Nursing Assistants' Day, National Jerky Day, National Peanut Butter Cookie Day, Pulse Night of Remembrance, Red Rose Day, Superman Day, Women Veterans Day, and World Day Against Child Labor.
On This Day:
1775 – American War of Independence: British general Thomas Gage declared martial law in Massachusetts. The British offered a pardon to all colonists who laid down their arms. There were only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
1817 – The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, was driven by Karl von Drais.
1939 – Shooting began on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor. (Video)
1942 – Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets released the hit single "Rock Around the Clock" (Video)
1963 – NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.
1963 – The film Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, was released in US theaters. It was the most expensive film made at the time. (Video)
1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declared all U.S. state laws that prohibited interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1968 – The film Rosemary’s Baby was released. (Video)
1981 – The first of the Indiana Jones film franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark, was released in theaters. (Video)
1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered.
2009 – US television broadcasts switch from analog NTSC to digital ATSC transmission, (Video)
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1916 – Irwin Allen, American director and producer (died 1991) (Video)
1924 – George H. W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States (died 2018)
1928 – Vic Damone, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2018)
1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust (died 1945)
1930 – Jim Nabors, American actor and singer (died 2017) (Video)
1941 – Marv Albert, American sportscaster
1957 – Timothy Busfield, American actor, director, and producer
(Complete list of today’s birthdays.)
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