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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
The Trump/Musk firehose of folly continues, and it’s impossible to review all but the most egregious outrages here. The Associated Press, NBC, Aljazeera, and The Guardian are my picks for keeping up to date. Check out one or two, take a look, and come back here when you’ve had enough.
Army parade plans for Trump’s birthday call for 6,600 soldiers, 150 vehicles and 50 helicopters.
75 percent of North America’s bird species are in decline, study says. Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.
Musk freaks out over report Tesla is trying to force him out.
In 100 days, Trump has invented something new: Clown-Show Fascism. The Trump administration is a serious threat to democracy. They’re also laughably incompetent. But the result is no laughing matter.
Trump ousts Waltz after Signal scandal, says kids don’t need toys affected by tariffs. (Video)
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KGB Quote of the Day:
"When something important is going on, silence is a lie."
--A.M. Rosenthal (Wikipedia link)
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Among other things, today is- in no particular order of importance-
KGB REPORT STUFF! (Click on link) On This Day:
1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, was arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escaped from Lochleven Castle.
1611 – The King James Version of the Bible was published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
1670 – King Charles II of England granted a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.
1780 – William Herschel discovered first binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris.
1863 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson was wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbed to pneumonia eight days later.
1869 – The Folies Trévise (later cabaret hall Folies Bergère) opened as an opera house in Paris, France.
1885 – "Good Housekeeping" magazine was first published in the US by Clark W. Bryan.
1887 – Hannibal Goodwin filed a patent for celluloid photographic film.
1908 – Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer submitted their popular song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" for copyright.
1909 – Honus Wagner stole his way around bases in first inning against Cubs.
1918 – Chevrolet Motor Company was consolidated into General Motors.
1920 – The first game of the Negro National League baseball was played in Indianapolis.
1927 – U.S. Supreme Court's "Buck v. Bell", permitted forced sterilizations of various "unfits" by states' authorities where such surgeries are practiced for eugenic reasons.
1932 – Jack Benny hosted his first radio program on NBC, The Canada Dry Program. (Video)
1936 – Sergei Prokofiev's musical symphony for children, "Peter and the Wolf" premiered in Moscow.
1941 – FCC approved regular scheduled commercial TV broadcasts to begin July 1
1945 – Battle of Berlin ended as the Soviet army stormed the capital.
1952 – A De Havilland Comet made the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg.
1964 – The Beatles' "The Beatles' Second Album" reached #1 on the Billboard Hot LP chart, and stayed #1 for five weeks. (Video)
1969 – The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
1986 – Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl was evacuated six days after the disaster.
1997 – "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" was released. (Video)
2000 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
2008 – “Iron Man”, the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is released in the United States. (Video)
2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, is killed by the United States Navy SEALs in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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Quotes by or about persons born on this date (Click on link after name for quotes):
1551 – William Camden, English historian and topographer (d. 1623)
1729 – Catherine II of Russia, reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. (d. 1796)
1740 – Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and politician (d. 1821)
1837 - Henry Martyn Robert, American soldier, engineer, and author of Robert's Rules of Order (.d 1923)
1859 – Jerome K. Jerome, English author and playwright (d. 1927)
1860 – Theodor Herzl, Austro-Hungarian Zionist philosopher, journalist and author (d. 1904)
1879 – James F. Byrnes, American stenographer and politician (d. 1972)
1885 – Hedda Hopper, American actress and gossip columnist (d. 1966)
1892 – Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot (d. 1918)
1895 – Lorenz Hart, American playwright and lyricist (d. 1943)
1903 – Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, activist, and author (d. 1998)
1922 – A. M. Rosenthal, Canadian-born American journalist and author (d. 2006)
1924 – Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2015)
1936 – Engelbert Humperdinck, English singer and pianist
1947 – James Dyson, English businessman, founded the Dyson Company
1955 – Dave Winer, American software developer, entrepreneur, and writer
1967 - Mika Brzezinski, American talk show host
Other birthdays:
1922 – Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor and director (d. 2007) (Video)
1936 – Engelbert Humperdinck, English singer and pianist (Video)
1937 – Lorenzo Music, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001) (Video)
1945 – Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan-American model, actress, and activist
1946 – Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015) (Video)
1952 – Christine Baranski, American actress and singer (Video)
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