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Today, June 3, 2026
June 3: #OTD #TDIH #June3: -- "It
was the Third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day". So
begins "Ode to Billie Joe" is a song by American
singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry released by Capitol Records in
July 1967, and later used as the title track of her debut album.
Five weeks after its release, the song topped Billboard's Pop
singles chart. It also appeared in the top 10 of the Adult
Contemporary and Hot R & B singles charts, and in the top 20
of the Hot Country Songs list. The song takes the form of a
first-person narrative performed in a half-spoken style by the
daughter of a family, over sparse acoustic guitar accompaniment
with strings in the background. It tells of a rural Mississippi
family's reaction to the news of the suicide of Billie Joe
McAllister, a local boy to whom the daughter has a connection
unbeknownst to her family. The song's cryptic lyrics received
widespread attention, leaving its audience intrigued as to what
the narrator and Billie Joe threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge, as
the lyrics clearly inferred that it was Billy Joe that was being
thrown off of the bridge. Gentry later said that she intended the
song to portray the family's indifference to the suicide in what
she deemed "a study in unconscious cruelty", and that
the object thrown was not relevant to the message. It is likely
that Gentry came up with this explanation to calm the controversy.
"Ode to Billie Joe" was nominated for eight Grammy
Awards; Gentry and arranger Jimmie Haskell won three between them.
Gentry's writing was adapted for the 1976 film Ode to Billy Joe.
The song appeared on Rolling Stone's lists, 500 Greatest Songs of
All Time and Greatest Country Songs, while Pitchfork featured it
on their 200 Best Songs of the 1960s list. In 2023, the song was
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Today, June 3, 2026
June 3: National Egg Day: -- Take a crack
at the annual observance of National Egg Day! The nutrient-rich
food has gone back and forth with science and nutritionists over
the decades as to just how many eggs are too many for a healthy
diet. However, one egg provides an excellent source of protein and
vitamin D. At 75 calories and 5 grams of fat, it's an easy choice
to satisfy hunger, too. Eggs are easily seasoned and pair well
with vegetables to increase the nutritional value of a meal. Eggs
are an essential ingredient to baked goods and are a part of our
everyday diets. There's so much to celebrate in these small
packages. Some health experts fretted about the high cholesterol
content. But after a revision of the American Heart Association's
guidelines in 2000, the health benefits of eggs were affirmed. The
AHA says healthy adults can enjoy an egg per day and easily remain
within the daily cholesterol limit, and for most people, two eggs
per day is the consensus of healh experts.Each egg has only 75
calories, which is great for those looking to lose weight. And the
seven grams of protein in an average egg almost makes this a
superfood with a great calorie-to-protein ratio. So those of us
who are big fans of poached, scrambled, over easy, hard-boiled,
fried, sunny-side-up, or soft-boiled eggs can feel free to use
that timeless phrase, "How do you want your eggs?" And
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Today, June 3, 2026
June 3: World Bicycle Day: On April 2018,
the United Nations General Assembly declared June 3 as
International World Bicycle Day. The resolution for World Bicycle
Day recognizes "the uniqueness, longevity and versatility of
the bicycle, which has been in use for two centuries, and that it
is a simple, affordable, reliable, clean and environmentally fit
sustainable means of transport." Professor Leszek Sibilski,
Polish social scientist working in the United States, led a
grassroots campaign with his sociology class to promote a UN
Resolution for World Bicycle Day, eventually gaining the support
of Turkmenistan and 56 other countries. The original UN Blue and
White #June3WorldBicycleDay logo was designed by Isaac Feld and
the accompanying animation was done by Professor John E. Swanson.
It depicts bicyclists of various types riding around the globe. At
the bottom of the logo is the hashtag #June3WorldBicycleDay. The
main message is to show that the bicycle belongs to and serves all
of humanity. World Bicycle Day is a global holiday meant to be
enjoyed by all people regardless of any characteristic. The
bicycle as a symbol of human progress and advancement "[promotes]
tolerance, mutual understanding and respect and [facilitates]
social inclusion and a culture of peace." The bicycle further
is a "symbol of sustainable transport and conveys a positive
message to foster sustainable consumption and production, and has
a positive impact on climate." World Bicycle Day is now being
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Today, June 3, 2026
June 3: World Clubfoot Day: -- A day which seeky to unite those affected by clubfoot so that they can inspire and encourage one another on World Clubfoot Day. This day also spreads awareness for this common congenital disability. Each year, up to 200,000 babies across the globe are born with clubfoot. This statistic makes clubfoot one of the most common congenital disabilities in the world. This defect occurs when a baby's foot twists inward and downward. Clubfoot develops during the formation of the baby's bones, ligaments, and muscles in the womb. Babies with clubfoot can either have a mild or severe case. In the most severe cases, a baby's foot looks like it is upside down. In over half of the cases of clubfoot, both feet are affected. Left untreated, clubfoot can cause a variety of complications. These complications include arthritis and the inability to walk normally. Children with clubfoot might also struggle with a poor self-image. To avoid these kinds of complications, patients usually begin treatment after birth. One of the most effective forms of treatment for clubfoot is called the Ponseti method. This treatment option involves placing a cast on the foot to hold it in a specific position. Every week, the foot gets repositioned and recast. Repositioning and recasting of the foot are repeated for several months. Toward the end of the process, surgeons perform a minor surgery to lengthen the Achilles tendon. After this entire process, the baby wears special shoes and braces for up to three years until the position of the foot is fully corrected. If the Ponseti method is not effective, a more invasive type of surgery may be necessary. Treatment can help a child born with clubfoot live a fully active life. However, many children throughout the world do not have access to clubfoot treatment. In certain countries, children with untreated clubfoot face exclusion from society. They are unable to get an education and might be unable to work. In some cases, communities also ostracize the mother, blaming her for the child's deformity. The Ponseti International Association (PIA) established World Clubfoot Day in 2013. They chose June 3rd in honor of Dr. Ignacio Ponseti's birthday. He is the orthopedist who developed the Ponseti method. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-bad-lord-byron-19491949.html
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Today, June 3, 2026
June 3: Love Conquers All Day: -- A day
to cherish our loved ones! No matter how tough life gets, the
sailing becomes smoother with our loved ones at our side. It is a
day to express gratitude and love to those who matter and
recognize love as an emotion that makes the world go around. A day
of joy and warmth, you can celebrate it with your friends, family,
partners, pets, or anyone whom you love and cherish! Love is an
emotion that is probably as old as humans themselves. It is
described as a sublime feeling that positively affects our mental
and emotional well-being. The Greek philosophers identified six
different forms of love: familial love, friendly love, romantic
love, self-love, guest love, and divine love. Today, love also
exists as unrequited love, empty love, companionate love,
consummate love, infatuated love, self-love, and courtly love.
Every culture has its own unique definitions of love and some also
celebrate love as a part of religion and spirituality. It is also
a common subject of art, literature, poetry, movies, and music.
The famous expression, 'love conquers all,' is credited to the
Roman poet Virgil. These lines are found in Virgil's "Eclogues"
and were originally written in Latin. When translated to English,
"Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori" means "Love
conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love." The
expression suggests that there is no force in the world that
cannot be overcome by love. The phrase also finds a mention in
religious scriptures like the Bible. It preaches that God loves
everyone and those who are kind will be rewarded with love and
joy. The Bible says that vices like hatred, manipulation, and
deception are not fought with weapons, but love. Although the
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Today, June 3, 2026
June 3, 1621: The Colonial History Of The
United States: Dutch Colonization Of The Americas: New Netherland
(Dutch: Nieuw Nederland, Latin: Novum Belgium): The Dutch West
India Company (WIC) (Dutch: Westindische Compagnie) (GWC
[Geoctrooieerde Westindische Compagnie; "Chartered West India
Company): -- The Dutch West India Company is founded when it
receives a charter for New Netherland, a colonial province of the
Netherlands that was located on the East Coast of what is now The
United States. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva
Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod, while the more limited
settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic States of New York,
New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in
Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The colony was originally conceived
by the Dutch West India Company (GWC) to capitalize on the North
American fur trade. Settlement initially stalled because of policy
mismanagement by the GWC, and conflicts with Native Americans. The
settlement of New Sweden by the Swedish South Company encroached
on its southern flank, while its eastern border was redrawn to
accommodate an expanding New England Confederation. The colony
experienced dramatic growth during the 1650s, and became a major
center for trade across the North Atlantic. The Dutch conquered
New Sweden in 1655, but during the Second Anglo-Dutch War,
surrendered New Netherland to the English following the capture of
New Amsterdam. In 1673, the Dutch retook the colony but
relinquished it under the Treaty of Westminster (1674) that ended
the Third Anglo-Dutch War. The inhabitants of New Netherland (New
Netherlanders) were European colonists, Native Americans, and
Africans imported as slave laborers. Not including Native
Americans, the colonial population, many of whom were not of Dutch
descent, was 4,301 in 1650, and 8,000 to 9,000 at the time of
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June 3, 1761: #BOTD: #HBD! Henry
Shrapnel, English Lieutenant General who invented the
fragmentation artillery shell known as the Shrapnel Shell, whose
fragments were popularly known thereafter as shrapnel (d. March
13, 1842) is #born in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England. Henry
Shrapnel was born at Midway Manor in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire,
England, the ninth child of Zachariah Shrapnel and his wife Lydia.
In 1784, while a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, he perfected,
with his own resources, an invention of what he called "spherical
case" ammunition: a hollow cannonball filled with lead shot
that burst in mid-air. He successfully demonstrated this in 1787
at Gibraltar. He intended the device as an anti-personnel weapon.
In 1803, the British Army adopted a similar but elongated
explosive shell which immediately acquired the inventor's name. It
has lent the term shrapnel to fragmentation from artillery shells
and fragmentation in general ever since, long after it was
replaced by high explosive rounds. Until the end of World War I,
the shells were still manufactured according to his original
principles. Shrapnel served in Flanders, where he was wounded in
1793. He was promoted to major on November 1, 1803 after eight
years as a captain. After his invention's success in battle at
Fort New Amsterdam, Suriname, on April 30, 1804, Shrapnel was
promoted to lieutenant colonel on July 20, 1804, less than nine
months later. In 1814, the British Government recognized
Shrapnel's contribution by awarding him 1,200 Pounds Sterling (UK
85,000 Pounds Sterling in 2020) a year for life. Bureaucracy
however prevented him from receiving the full benefit of this
award. He was appointed to the office of Colonel-Commandant, Royal
Artillery, on March 6, 1827. He rose to the rank of
lieutenant-general on January 10, 1837. Shrapnel lived at Peartree
House, near Peartree Green, Southampton, Southern England from
about 1835 until his death aged 80. He is buried at Holy Trinity
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Today, June 3, 2026
June 3, 1808: #BOTD: Jefferson Davis,
American general and politician, President of the Confederate
States of America from 1861 to 1865 (d. December 6, 1889) is #born
Jefferson Finis Davis at the family homestead in Davisburg, a
village his father Samuel established that later became Fairview
in Todd County, Kentucky, named after then-President Thomas
Jefferson, the youngest of ten children of Jane (nee Cook) and
Samuel Emory Davis. Samuel Davis's father, Evan, who had a Welsh
background, came to the colony of Georgia from Philadelphia.
Samuel served in the Continental Army during the American
Revolutionary War, and for his service received a land grant near
what is now Washington, Georgia. He married Jane Cook, a woman of
Scots-Irish descent whom he had met in South Carolina during his
military service, in 1783.Around 1793, Samuel and Jane moved to
Kentucky. As a member of the Democratic Party, Jefferson F. Davis
represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House
of Representatives before the American Civil War. He previously
served as the United States Secretary of War from 1853 to 1857
under President Franklin Pierce. Davis was born in Fairview,
Kentucky, to a moderately prosperous farmer, the youngest of ten
children. He grew up in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, and also
lived in Louisiana. His eldest brother Joseph Emory Davis secured
the younger Davis's appointment to the United States Military
Academy. After graduating, Jefferson Davis served six years as a
lieutenant in the United States Army. He fought in the
Mexican-American War (1846-1848), as the colonel of a volunteer
regiment. Before the American Civil War, he operated a large
cotton plantation in Mississippi, which his brother Joseph gave
him, and owned as many as 113 slaves. Although Davis argued
against secession in 1858, he believed that states had an
unquestionable right to leave the Union. Davis married Sarah Knox
Taylor, daughter of general and future President Zachary Taylor,
in 1835, when he was 27 years old. They were both stricken with
malaria soon thereafter, and Sarah died after three months of
marriage. Davis recovered slowly and suffered from recurring bouts
of the disease throughout his life. At the age of 36, Davis
married again, to 18-year-old Varina Howell, a native of Natchez,
Mississippi, who had been educated in Philadelphia and had some
family ties in the North. They had six children. Only two survived
him, and only one married and had children. Many historians
attribute some of the Confederacy's weaknesses to the poor
leadership of Davis. His preoccupation with detail, reluctance to
delegate responsibility, lack of popular appeal, feuds with
powerful state governors and generals, favoritism toward old
friends, inability to get along with people who disagreed with
him, neglect of civil matters in favor of military ones, and
resistance to public opinion all worked against him. Historians
agree he was a much less effective war leader than his Union
counterpart, President Abraham Lincoln. After Davis was captured
in 1865, he was accused of treason and imprisoned at Fort Monroe
in Hampton, Virginia. He was never tried and was released after
two years. While not disgraced, Davis had been displaced in
ex-Confederate affection after the war by his leading general,
Robert E. Lee. Davis wrote a memoir entitled The Rise and Fall of
the Confederate Government, which he completed in 1881. By the
late 1880s, he began to encourage reconciliation, telling
Southerners to be loyal to the Union. Ex-Confederates came to
appreciate his role in the war, seeing him as a Southern patriot.
He became a hero of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy in the
post-Reconstruction South. Jefferson Davis died in New Orleans of
acute bronchitis complicated by malaria at 12:45 a.m. on a Friday,
holding his wife Varina's hand and in the presence of several
friends. He is buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
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Today, June 3, 2026
June 3, 1839: Opium Suppression Movement
Day: -- The Opium Wars: The First Opium War (The Opium War, The
Anglo-Sino War): Lin Zexu (Lin Tse-Hsu), Chinese political
philosopher and politician, who served as Head Of states
(Viceroy), Governor General, and Scholar-Official under the
authoritity of the Daoguang Emperor of the Qing dynasty, destroys
1.2 million kg of opium in Humen, China which he had confiscated
from British merchants, Lin's forceful opposition to the opium
trade was a primary catalyst for the First Opium War. He is
praised for his constant position on the "moral high ground"
in his fight, but he is also blamed for a rigid approach which
failed to account for the domestic and international complexities
of the problem. The Emperor endorsed the hardline policies and
anti-drugs movement advocated by Lin, but placed all
responsibility for the resulting disastrous Opium War onto Lin.
Lin's destruction of British mercantile opium provided Britain
with a convenvient excuse to open hostilities with China,
resulting thereby in The First Opium War in the short term, and
ultimately in the entirety of The Open Wars, involving
Anglo-Chinese disputes over British trade in China and China's
sovereignty spanning The First Opium War (1839-1842) and The
Second Opium War (1856-1860). The wars and events between them
weakened and humiliated both China and the Qing dynasty, and
forced both to at last trade with the rest of the world. The day
is commemorated as Opium Suppression Movement Day in Taiwan as a
holiday dedicated to ending cigarette smoking, the opium
suppression movement in mainland China having inspired this
initiative. By spreading awareness about the dangers of smoking
and tobacco consumption, the day hopes to get smokers to quit and
prevent others from taking up smoking. 46% of Taiwanese men and 6%
of women are smokers, and of the country's 23 million people,
around five million consume tobacco products. Cigarette smoking
causes cancer, lung disease, and heart disease. In light of these
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June 3, 1853: #BOTD: #HBD! Flinders
Petrie, English Egyptologist, archaeologist, academic and pioneer
of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of
artefacts, often called the "Father Of Modern Archaeology"
and "The Man In The Pink Tutu" (d. July 28, 1942) is
#born William Matthew Flinders Petrie in Maryon Road in Charlton,
London, Kent, England, United Kingdom, the son of William Petrie
(1821-1908) and Anne (nee Flinders) Petrie (1812-1892). William
Petrie was an electrical engineer who developed carbon arc
lighting and later developed chemical processes for Johnson,
Matthey & Co. Anne Petrie was the daughter of British Captain
Matthew Flinders, who led the first circumnavigation of Australia;
it was after him whom Flinders Petrie was named. Petrie was raised
in a Christian household (his father being a member of the
Plymouth Brethren), and was educated at home. He had no formal
education. His father taught his son how to survey accurately,
laying the foundation for his archaeological career. At the age of
eight, he was tutored in French, Latin, and Greek, until he had a
collapse and was taught at home. He also ventured his first
archaeological opinion aged eight, when friends visiting the
Petrie family were describing the unearthing of the Brading Roman
Villa in the Isle of Wight. The boy was horrified to hear the
rough shovelling out of the contents, and protested that the earth
should be pared away, inch by inch, to see all that was in it and
how it lay. "All that I have done since," he wrote when
he was in his late seventies, "was there to begin with, so
true it is that we can only develop what is born in the mind. I
was already in archaeology by nature." Sir William Matthew
Flinders Petrie, FRS, FBA held the first chair of Egyptology in
the United Kingdom, and excavated many of the most important
archaeological sites in Egypt in conjunction with his wife, Hilda
Petrie. Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the
Merneptah Stele, an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred.
Petrie developed the system of dating layers based on pottery and
ceramic findings. He was the first surveyor to make accurate
measurements of the pyramids on the Giza Plateau. He lived inside
a tomb at Giza for two years, and a 1881 photo of his view from
this tomb has been famous. Curiously, he often conducted his
archaeological field work while wearing a ballerina's tutu. Up
until the 19th century, there had been no accurate survey made of
the Great Pyramids. The main reason for this was the danger
involved. The pyramids had been ransacked so badly the locals
would often beat or even kill anyone believed to be a grave
robber. There was a peculiar caveat to this custom, though. Anyone
violating local customs and laws that were deemed insane was to be
left alone, as long as no one was being harmed. Therefore, Petrie
wore a pink ballerina's tutu while surveying so he would appear
insane. Some accounts say he openly wore pink frilly underwear
while working. There are also several accounts of Petrie working
naked inside the pyramids to prevent any annoyances from curious
tourists. The Merneptah Stele, also known as the Israel Stele or
the Victory Stele of Merneptah, is an inscription by the ancient
Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah (reign: 1213-1203 BCE) discovered by
Flinders Petrie in 1896 at Thebes, and now housed in the Egyptian
Museum in Cairo. The text is largely an account of Merneptah's
victory over the Libyans and their allies, but the last 3 of the
28 lines deal with a separate campaign in Canaan, then part of
Egypt's imperial possessions. The stele is sometimes referred to
as the "Israel Stela" because a majority of scholars
translate a set of hieroglyphs in line 27 as "Israel".
Alternative translations have been advanced but are not widely
accepted. The stela represents the earliest textual reference to
Israel and the only reference from ancient Egypt. It is one of
four known inscriptions, from the Iron Age, that date to the time
of and mention ancient Israel, under this name, the others being
the Mesha Stele, the Tel Dan Stele, and the Kurkh Monolith. As a
result, some consider the stele to be Flinders Petrie's most
famous discovery, an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred.
Flinders Petrie died in hospital in Jerusalem, Mandatory
Palestine, where he and his wife Lady Hilda Petrie had retired to
in 1933, aged 89. His body is interred in the Protestant Cemetery
of Mount Zion Cemetery, but he donated his head (and thus his
brain) to the Royal College of Surgeons of London. World War II
was then at its height, and the head was delayed in transit. After
being stored in a jar in the college basement, its label fell off
and no one knew to whom the head belonged. However, it was
eventually identified, and is now stored, but not displayed, at
the Royal College of Surgeons. There is a popular legend that
Hilda brought back her husband's head in a hat box from Jerusalem
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June 3, 1864: The American Civil War (The
Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater Of The
American Civil War: The Overland Campaign (Grant's Overland
Campaign, The Wilderness Campaign): The Battle of Cold Harbor: --
The Union's Army Of The Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant and George
Meade attack The Army Of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee
Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia in what became
known as the Battle Of Cold Harbor. It was fought from May 31 to
June 12, 1864, with the most significant fighting occurring on
June 3. It was one of the final battles of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses
S. Grant's Overland Campaign, and is remembered as one of American
history's bloodiest, most lopsided battles. Thousands of Union
soldiers were killed or wounded in a hopeless frontal assault
against the fortified positions of Confederate Gen. Robert E.
Lee's army. Grant said of the battle in his memoirs, "I have
always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever
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Today, June 3, 2026
June 3, 1864: #BOTD: #HBD! Ransom E.
Olds, American businessman, pioneer of the American automotive
industry, founder of Oldsmobile and REO Motor Car Company, both of
whom were named after him (d. August 26, 1950) is #born Ransom Eli
Olds in Geneva, Ohio. He claimed to have built his first steam car
as early as 1887 and his first gasoline-powered car in 1896. The
modern assembly line and its basic concept is credited to Olds,
who used it to build the first mass-produced automobile, the
Oldsmobile Curved Dash, beginning in 1901. The band REO Speedwagon
took their name from the REO Speed Wagon light delivery truck, an
ancestor of pickup trucks, though the band pronounces REO as an
initialism (saying each letter) rather than as an acronym
(pronouncing it as a word, "RIO"). Ransom E. Olds died
aged 86 in Lansing, Michigan of unspecified causes. He is buried
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June 3, 1865: #BOTD: #HBD! George V, King
Of The United Kingdom And The British Dominions And Emperor Of
India from May 6, 1910 until his death (d. January 20, 1936) is
#born George Frederick Ernest, with the last name
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (changed to Windsor in 1917) in Marlborough
House, London during the reign of his grandmother Queen Victoria.
George was the second son of Albert Edward, Prince Of Wales, and
was third in the line of succession to the British throne behind
his father and his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. From 1877
to 1892, George served in the Royal Navy, until the unexpected
death of his elder brother in early 1892 put him directly in line
for the throne. Following the death of Queen Victoria in 1901,
George's father ascended the throne as Edward VII, and George was
created Prince Of Wales. He became king-emperor on his father's
death in 1910. George's reign saw the rise of socialism,
communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian
independence movement, all of which radically changed the
political landscape of the British Empire, which itself reached
its territorial peak by the beginning of the 1920s. The Parliament
Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House Of
Commons over the unelected House of Lords. As a result of the
First World War (1914-1918), the empires of his first cousins
Nicholas II of Russia and Wilhelm II Of Germany fell, while the
British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917,
George became the first monarch of the House of Windsor, which he
renamed from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as a result of
anti-German public sentiment. He appointed the first Labour
ministry in 1924, and the 1931 Statute of Westminster recognised
the Empire's dominions as separate, independent states within the
British Commonwealth of Nations. George V died at Sandringham
House in Norfolk, England aged 70 by a secretly administered
lethal injection. George suffered from smoking-related health
problems throughout much of his later reign. In November 1928, he
fell seriously ill with septicaemia, and never fully recovered.
The death of his favourite sister, Victoria, on December 3, 1935
depressed him deeply. On the evening of January 15, 1936, the King
took to his bedroom at Sandringham House complaining of a cold; he
remained in the room until his death. He became gradually weaker,
drifting in and out of consciousness. On the day he died, his
physicians, led by Lord Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn,
physician to the British Royal Family and President of the Royal
College of Physicians from 1931 to 1937, issued a bulletin with
the words "The King's life is moving peacefully towards its
close." Dawson's private diary, unearthed after his death and
made public in 1986, revealed two things: 1) that the King's last
words, a mumbled "God damn you!", were addressed to his
nurse, Catherine Black, when she gave him a sedative that night;
and 2) Dawson, who supported the "gentle growth of
euthanasia", admitted in that diary that he ended the King's
life: "At about 11 o'clock it was evident that the last stage
might endure for many hours, unknown to the Patient but little
comporting with that dignity and serenity which he so richly
merited and which demanded a brief final scene. Hours of waiting
just for the mechanical end when all that is really life has
departed only exhausts the onlookers & keeps them so strained
that they cannot avail themselves of the solace of thought,
communion or prayer. I therefore decided to determine the end and
injected (myself) morphia gr.3/4 [grains] and shortly afterwards
cocaine gr.1 [grains] into the distended jugular vein ... In about
1/4 an hour - breathing quieter - appearance more placid -
physical struggle gone." Dawson's public stance on euthanasia
was expressed later that year when he opposed a move in the Lords
to legalise it because it "belongs to the wisdom and
conscience of the medical profession and not to the realm of law".
Since described as a "convenience killing", Lord
Dawson's actions have also been described as murder. George V is
buried at St. George's Chapel in Windsor, Berkshire, England.
George V was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII; Edward
abdicated in December of that year, and was succeeded by his
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June 3, 1881: #BOTD: #HBD! Mikhail
Larionov, Russian avant-garde abstract painter, illustrator, set
designer and exhibitor who worked with radical artists and
exhibitors and pioneered the first approach to abstract Russian
art (d. May 10, 1964) is #born Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov at
Tiraspol, in the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire. In
1898 he entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and
Architecture under Isaac Levitan and Valentin Serov. He was
suspended three times for his radical outlook. In 1900 he met
fellow avant-garde artist Natalia Goncharova and formed a lifelong
relationship with her. From 1902 his style was Impressionism.
After a visit to Paris in 1906 he moved into Post-Impressionism
and then a Neo-primitive style which derived partly from Russian
sign painting. In 1908 he staged the Golden Fleece exhibition in
Moscow, which included paintings by international avant-garde
artists such as Matisse, Derain, Braque, Gauguin and Van Gogh.
Other group shows promoted by him included Tatlin, Chagall and
Malevich. Larionov was a founding member of two important Russian
artistic groups Jack of Diamonds (1909-1911) and the more radical
Donkey's Tail (1912-1913). He gave names to both groups. His first
solo show was for one day in Moscow in 1911, which included
exhibition of his now famous painting Dancing Soldiers. Larionov
was influenced by the Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani. He then
became influenced by the Cubo-Futurist art movement, and in 1913,
with Natalia Goncharova, he invented Rayonism, which was the first
creation of near-abstract art in Russia. He had a one-man show at
the Omega Workshops. In 1915 he left Russia and worked with the
ballet owner Sergei Diaghilev in Paris on the productions of the
Ballets Russes. He spent the rest of his life in France and
obtained French citizenship. He is in the highest category "1A
- a world famous artist" in "United Artists Rating".
Mikhail Larionov died in Fontenay-aux-Roses, a commune in the
southwestern suburbs of Paris, France at the age of 82. He is
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June 3, 1889: #BOTD: #HBD! Josh Binney,
American actor, vaudevillian, film producer, film company
executive, and film director (d. November 8, 1956) is #born Harold
Joshua Binney in Kansas City, the second eldest of five sons. As a
young man his interests turned to vaudeville, and he was one of
the Keystone Kops. On October 14, 1908, he married Claribel Maude
Sprung. They had three children: Robert, Isobel and Barbara (his
great-granddaughter is actress Audrey Moore). He studied at the
University of Washington and was an actor in vaudeville
productions and with stock companies before becoming a film actor.
He acted in films for Biograph Studios, Independent Moving
Pictures (IMP), and Vogue Films, the lattermost a subsidiary of
Mutual Film Corporation. He established Florida Film Corporation
in Jacksonville, Florida in 1918, and produced their films through
his Harold J. Binney Productions division. He produced and
directed five silent comedies for the studio featuring Hillard
"Fat" Karr who began his career in comedy films at Josh
Binney Comedies in Florida. The films are Fabulous Fortune
Fumblers, Fred's Fictitious Foundling, Freda's Fighting Father,
Fatty's Fast Flivver, and Fatty's Frivolous Fiance. Hilliard,
Frank Alexander, and Bill "Kewpie" Ross went on to form
a team of heavyweight comedians in "Ton of Fun"
comedies. Florence McLaughlin was another one of the actors in his
Florida film crew. He also worked with Vangie Valentine in 1918 on
her film debut in Velvet and Rags. Binney then moved to Canada and
established Canadian Photoplay Productions but it fell through. In
1922 he was involved in a film project in Oregon. He solocited
photographs from community members interested in participating and
Oregon governor Ben Olcott and Salem mayor George E. Halvorsen
were said to be taking part. In late 1923 Binney set up operations
just outside of Sonoma, California. Leasing a former resort, he
started production on a proposed series of twelve short comedies.
Later that year he was caught passing a bad check with local
merchants. His backers paid his debts, but he was soon under
investigation in Montana for bilking investors there. In Butte, in
1924, he was tried and convicted of fraud and sentenced to three
to six years in prison. He was paroled in November of 1925. He and
his son Robert were active in summer stock, and his son, Robert
Binney (stage name Conrad Noles), continued with him in show
business and went on to star as Huey Long in "The Great
Dictator" on Broadway, prior to World War II. After World War
II, he directed training films for the Army. In the 1940s Binney
directed several musical "race films" with African
American casts for All-American News film company starring actors
like Stepin Fetchit.. The films included Hi-De-Ho (1947) starring
Cab Calloway, Boarding House Blues with Moms Mabley and Dusty
Fletcher (1948), as well as Killer Diller (1948) starring Fletcher
and Butterfly McQueen. He directed a British comedy feature film
called Merry-Go-Round starring Bonar Colleano in 1948. Josh Binney
died aged 67 in Los Angeles County, California. His burial details
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June 3, 1906: #BOTD: #HBD! Josephine
Baker, American-born Black French entertainer, actress, singer,
dancer, French Resistance agent, civil rights activist and beauty
(d. April 12, 1975) is #born Freda Josephine McDonald in St.
Louis, Missouri. She was a vedette, a French word that is used to
designate the main female artist of a show derived from the
Cabaret and its different genres (revue, vaudeville, music hall or
burlesque). Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in
her adopted France. During her early career she was renowned as a
dancer, and was among the most celebrated performers to headline
the revues of the Folies Bergere in Paris. Her performance in the
revue Un Vent de Folie in 1927 caused a sensation in Paris. Her
costume, consisting of only a girdle of bananas, became her most
iconic image and a symbol of the Jazz Age and the 1920s. Baker was
celebrated by artists and intellectuals of the era, who variously
dubbed her the "Black Pearl", the "Bronze Venus",
and the "Creole Goddess". Born in St. Louis, Missouri,
she renounced her U.S. citizenship and became a French national
after her marriage to French industrialist Jean Lion in 1937. She
raised her children in France. "I have two loves," the
artist once said, "my country and Paris.". Baker was the
first person of color to become a world-wide entertainer and to
star in a major motion picture, the 1934 Marc Allegret film
Zouzou. Baker refused to perform for segregated audiences in the
United States and is noted for her contributions to the Civil
Rights Movement. In 1968 she was offered unofficial leadership in
the movement in the United States by Coretta Scott King, following
Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. After thinking it over,
Baker declined the offer out of concern for the welfare of her
children. After working in the French Resistance during World War
II, she was awarded the Croix de guerre by the French military,
and was named a Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur by General
Charles de Gaulle. Josephine Baker died peacefully of a cerebral
hemorrhage in her bed in Paris, France, four days after her
triumphal retrospective revue at the Bobino in Paris, Josephine a
Bobino 1975, celebrating her 50 years in show business. She was
buried clothed in French military wear with the medals she earned
for her work in the French Resistance at the Cimetiere De Monaco
in Monaco-Ville, Monaco. On November 30, 2021, her remains were
reinterred in The Pantheon mausoleum in Paris, France's highest
burial honor; however, her remains remain in Monaco, and a plaque
and ceremonial casket containing soil from various locations where
Baker had lived, including St. Louis, Paris, the South of France
and Monaco, have been placed in the Pantheon instead, making her
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June 3, 1910: #BOTD: #HBD! Paulette
Goddard, American beauty, model, singer, dancer, actress of stage
and silver screen, notable for her film career in the Golden Age
of Hollywood (d. April 23, 1990) is #born Marion Levy in
Manhattan, New York to a Russian Jewish father and a English
Episcopalian mother, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. Goddard
initially began her career as a child fashion model and performer
in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl. In the early
1930s, she moved to Hollywood and gained notoriety as the romantic
partner of actor and comedian Charlie Chaplin, appearing as his
leading lady in Modern Times (1936) and The Great Dictator (1940).
After signing with Paramount Pictures, Goddard became one of the
studio's biggest stars with roles in The Cat and the Canary (1939)
with Bob Hope, The Women (1939) with Joan Crawford, North West
Mounted Police (1940) with Gary Cooper, Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
with John Wayne and Susan Hayward, So Proudly We Hail! (1943) -
for which she received a nomination for Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress - Kitty (1945) with Ray Milland, and
Unconquered (1947) with Gary Cooper. Goddard was noted as a
fiercely independent woman for her time, being described by one
executive as "dynamite". Her marriages to Chaplin, actor
Burgess Meredith, and writer Erich Maria Remarque received
substantial media attention. Following her marriage to Remarque,
Goddard moved to Switzerland and largely retired from acting. In
the 1980s, she became a notable socialite before dying of heart
failure at her home in Ronco Sopra Ascona, Switzerland, aged 79.
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June 3, 1916: The European Civil War:
World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World
War I): The Western Front Of World War I: The United States In
World War I: American Entry Into World War I: The Preparedness
Movement (The Preparedness Controversy): The National Defense Act
Of 1916: -- The National Defense Act is signed into law,
authorizing an expanded Army of 175,000, and increasing the size
of the National Guard by 450,000 men. The Preparedness Movement
was a campaign led by former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army,
Leonard Wood, and former President Theodore Roosevelt, to
strengthen the U.S. military amidst the "Preparedness
Controversy" following Pancho Villa's cross-border raid on
Columbus, New Mexico, and the outbreak of World War I. Wood
advocated a summer training school for reserve officers to be held
in Plattsburgh, New York. The chief proponent of The National
Defense Act was James Hay of Virginia, the Chairman of the House
Committee on Military Affairs and was sponsored by the committee's
ranking member, Julius Kahn of California. It updated the Militia
Act of 1903, which related to the organization of the military,
particularly the National Guard. The principal change of the act
was to supersede provisions as to exemptions. The 1916 act
included an expansion of the Army and the National Guard, the
creation of an Officers' and an Enlisted Reserve Corps, and the
creation of a Reserve Officers' Training Corps. The President was
also given expanded authority to federalize the National Guard,
with changes to the duration and the circumstances under which he
could call it up. The Army began the creation of an Aviation arm,
and the federal government took steps to ensure the immediate
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June 3, 1917: #BOTD: #HBD! Leo Gorcey,
American stage, movie and radio actor and comedian (d. June 2,
1969) is #born Leo Bernard Gorcey in New York City on June 3,
1917, the son of Josephine (nee Condon), an Irish Catholic
immigrant, and Bernard Gorcey, a Russian Jewish immigrant, the
latter appearing as an actor in many of his son's films. Leo
Gorcey became famous for portraying the leader of the group of
young hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, The East
Side Kids, and as an adult, The Bowery Boys. Always the most
pugnacious member of the gangs in which he participated, young Leo
was the filmic prototype of the young punk. He was the top paid
actor in the world during much of the 1950s. He was the shortest
member of the original gang. Leo Gorcey died one day before his
52nd birthday of liver failure, having been a lifetime alcoholic.
He is buried at Molinos Cemetery in Los Molinos, California. Leo
Gorcey was modelled and originally included on the cover of The
Beatles album cover Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to the
left of Huntz Hall, but was subsequently removed when a fee of 400
USD was requested for the use of the actor's likeness, so that two
years prior to his death, which occurred on the same calendar date
that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released in the US,
the album was released without his image appearing on the cover.
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June 3, 1918: #BOTD: #HBD! Lili St. Cyr,
American model, dancer, prominent American burlesque stripteaser
and beauty (d. January 29, 1999) is #born Willis Marie Van Schaack
in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her maternal half-sister, Rosemary
Minsky (nee Van Schaack; born 1924), was also a burlesque
stripteaser (whose stage name was Dardy Orlando, and was married
to Harold Minsky of the Minsky's Burlesque family of Miskys, the
inspiration for the Norman Lear 1968 film "The Night They
Raided Minsky's" based on the 1960 novel by Rowland Barber).
Minsky appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2004. The sisters,
and Barbara Moffett, were raised by their grandparents, the
Klarquists. Having taken ballet lessons throughout her youth, she
began to dance professionally as a chorus line girl in Hollywood.
Unlike other women who have stroke-of-luck stories about being
plucked from the chorus line and selected for a feature role, St.
Cyr had to beg her manager at the club to let her do a solo act.
From her self-choreographed act she eventually landed a bit part
at a club called the Music Box in San Francisco, with the Duncan
Sisters. It was here that she found a dancer's salary was only a
small fraction of what the featured star's salary was. The
difference was that the featured star was nude. From the 1940s and
most of the 1950s, St. Cyr with Gypsy Rose Lee and Ann Corio were
the most recognized acts in striptease. St. Cyr's stage name is a
patronymic of the French aristocracy, which she first used when
booked as a nude performer in Las Vegas. Although more obscure
toward the end of her life, her name popped-up regularly in 1950s
tabloids: stories of her many husbands, brawls over her, and her
attempted suicides. St. Cyr was married six times. Her best-known
husbands were the motorcycle speedway rider Cordy Milne,
musical-comedy actor and former ballet dancer Paul Valentine,
restaurateur Armando Orsini, and actor Ted Jordan. St. Cyr's
reputation in the burlesque and stripping world was that of a
quality and high-class performer, unlike others such as Rosa La
Rose, who flashed her pubic hair. St. Cyr started her professional
career as a chorus line dancer at the Florentine Gardens, in
Hollywood. Two years later, her stripping debut was at the Music
Box, in an Ivan Fehnova production. The producer had not even seen
her perform - her striking looks won him over. The act was a
disaster, but instead of firing her, Fehnova put together a new
act. At the end of the dance, a stagehand pulled a fishing rod
attached to St. Cyr's G-string, which flew into the balcony as the
lights went dim. This act was known as The Flying G, and such
creative shows became St. Cyr's trademark. Over the ensuing years
and in a variety of different venues, many of St. Cyr's acts were
memorable, with names like "The Wolf Woman", "Afternoon
of a Faun", "The Ballet Dancer", "In a Persian
Harem", "The Chinese Virgin", as well as "Suicide"
(where she tried to woo a straying lover by revealing her body),
and "Jungle Goddess" (in which she appeared to make love
to a parrot). Props were integral to many of the women's acts.
Lili was known not only for her bathtub, but elaborate sets of
vanities, mirrors, and hat racks. She variously performed as
Cinderella, a matador, Salome, a bride, a suicide, Cleopatra and
Dorina Grey. Lili St. Cyr received the title of the most famous
woman in Montreal throughout the late 1940s into the 1950s.
However, Quebec's Catholic clergy condemned her act, declaring
that whenever she dances "the theater is made to stink with
the foul odor of sexual frenzy." The clergy's outcry was
echoed by the Public Morality Committee. St. Cyr was arrested and
charged with behavior that was "immoral, obscene and
indecent." She was acquitted but the public authorities
eventually closed down the Gayety Theatre where she performed. In
1982, St. Cyr wrote a French autobiography, Ma Vie de
Stripteaseuse. (Editions Quebecor). In the book, she declared her
appreciation for the Gayety Theatre and her love for the city of
Montreal. While performing in 1947 at Ciro's nightclub in
Hollywood (billed as the "Anatomic Bomb"), St. Cyr was
arrested by police and taken to court by a customer who considered
her act lewd and lascivious. Represented by the infamous Hollywood
attorney Jerry Giesler in court, St. Cyr insisted to the jury that
her act was refined and elegant. As St. Cyr pointed out, what she
did was slip off her dress, try on a hat, slip off her brassiere
(there was another underneath), slip into a negligee. Then,
undressing discreetly behind her maid, she stepped into a bubble
bath, splashed around, and emerged, more or less dressed. After
her appearance as a witness, as a newspaper account of the time
put it, "The defense rested, as did everyone else."
After just 80 minutes of deliberation by the jury, St. Cyr was
acquitted. While St. Cyr starred in several movies, an acting
career never really materialized. In 1953, with the help of Howard
Hughes, St. Cyr landed her first acting job in a major motion
picture in the Son of Sinbad. The film, described by one critic as
"a voyeur's delight", has St. Cyr as a principal member
of a Baghdad harem populated with dozens of nubile starlets. The
film was condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency. St. Cyr also
had a role in the movie version of Norman Mailer's The Naked and
the Dead in 1958. In this film, St. Cyr plays 'Jersey Lili', a
stripper in a Honolulu night-club and girlfriend of a soldier who
boasts to his pals that he has her picture painted inside his
groundsheet. Heavy edits of St. Cyr's night-club routine by
censors result in some choppy editing in an otherwise finely
crafted film. But St. Cyr's movie career was short lived, and
typically she settled for playing a secondary role as a stripper,
or playing herself. Her dancing is featured prominently in two
Irving Klaw films, Varietease and Teaserama. St. Cyr was also
known for her pin-up photography, especially for photos taken by
Bruno Bernard, known professionally as "Bernard of
Hollywood", a premier glamor photographer of Hollywood's
Golden Era. Bernard said that she was his favorite model and
referred to her as his muse. Lili depleted the wealth she earned
during her heyday. Many women like Lili were not supported by
their husbands or family. St. Cyr retired from the stage in the
1970s, and began a lingerie business that she retained an interest
in until her death. Similar to Frederick's of Hollywood, the
"Undie World of Lili St. Cyr" designs offered costuming
for strippers, and excitement for ordinary women. Her catalogs
featured photos or drawings of her modeling each article, lavishly
detailed descriptions, and hand-selected fabrics. Her marketing
for "Scantie-Panties" advertised them as "perfect
for street wear, stage or photography." Her later years were
"quiet - just her and some cats in a modest Hollywood
apartment." Cyr was a self-professed nymphomaniac and claimed
that she turned down opportunities in the film industry so she
could maintain her sexually active lifestyle. She had ten
abortions before Roe v. Wade. Cyr married six times and
purportedly seduced one husband away from her "dear friend"
Marilyn. St. Cyr died in Los Angeles, California, on January 29,
1999, aged 80. Her remains were cremated, and the ashes scattered
at a location that is not publcly disclosed. She never had
children, but told Mike Wallace in an October 5, 1957, interview
that had she wanted them she would have adopted. Following her
death and a renewed interest in burlesque, especially in Bettie
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June 3, 1922: #BOTD: #HBD! Walter Haut,
who as a 1st Lt. public information officer (PIO) at the 509th
Bomb Group based in Roswell, New Mexico issued the initial "flying
disc" press release during The Roswell Incident (d. December
15, 2005) is #born in Chicago, Illinois. During World War II, he
was a bombardier flying 35 missions against Japan. At Operation
Crossroads, the A-bomb tests at the Bikini atoll in the summer of
1946, he dropped instrument packages to record data from the bomb
blasts. In 1947, he became the public information officer for the
509th Atomic Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico.
The base commander, Colonel William H. Blanchard, was a close
personal friend. In the first book on the subject, The Roswell
Incident, Haut was said to be "not a witness." He told
interviewers in 1979 that base commander Colonel William Blanchard
asked him to write and distribute the press release, but when Haut
asked to see the object in question, he was told "his request
was impossible." In UFO Crash At Roswell, Haut appears as a
witness, though not to any of actual debris. During a March 1989
interview he said he knew "nothing" about what was
recovered. He described being asked by Blanchard to write the
press release. "I didn't hear about it until, I guess, Jess
[Jesse Marcel, head intelligence officer, who initially
investigated and recovered some of the debris] was on his way to
the flightline." He did, however, describe what Marcel told
him: "It was something he had never seen and didn't believe
it was of this planet. I trusted him on his knowledge." He
further stated: "I think there was a giant cover-up on this
thing." In an affidavit signed May 14, 1993, he repeated the
above claimed sequence of events and added "I believe Col.
Blanchard saw the material, because he sounded positive about what
the material was. There is no chance he would have mistaken it for
a weather balloon. Neither is there any chance that Major Marcel
would have been mistaken." By this time, Haut, along with Max
Littell and Glenn Dennis, had opened the International UFO Museum
and Research Center. During all this time, he kept a deep secret:
not only had he seen the crash, he saw the dead bodies, one live
alien, and that alien communicated to him telepathically in
English. Accordinly, prior to Haut's death, ufologist Donald R.
Schmitt conducted interviews with Haut covering material that
Schmitt says Haut requested to be kept confidential during his
life. Schmitt composed and emailed an "affidavit" to
Haut's family, which Haut signed at his International UFO Museum
and Research Center in front of daughter Julie Shuster, staff
notary Beverlee Morgan, and a museum guest. Schmitt and the family
agreed not to release this 2002 document until after Haut's death.
Haut passed in 2005; in 2007, Donald Schmitt and Tom Carey
published the book Witness to Roswell, which prominently featured
the document, presented as the "Sealed Affidavit of Walter G.
Haut". The book was criticized for a lack of evidence,
inconsistencies with previous accounts, and presenting the 2002
document as Haut's affidavit. In that affidavit, Haut avers that,
in the words of his daughter Julie, "Basically Dad said yes,
he did see the bodies, yes he did see the craft and much more than
that... At one point I asked him about the size, and he said the
craft was about 25 feet in diameter. To me, hearing what Dad said
was not a surprise because he was very close to Colonel Blanchard.
They remained friends for all those years, and I would've been
very surprised if he had not seen it... Walter confirmed to Don
and I that the reason he kept everything a secret is because he
promised Colonel Blanchard that he would not divulge the secret
while he lived... And he didn't - he divulged it when he was gone.
That's the reason he kept quiet. It was like a father-son
relationship, and he'd promised Blanchard he would not talk... The
ship which he described was about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle,
more of an egg-shaped object, and he did see a number of bodies,"
says Carey. "He described them as being the size of children.
And when asked point blank if what he believed it was that he had
seen, without hesitation he'd say, 'It was not from this Earth, it
was something manufactured off this Earth.'" Carey and
Schmitt found dozens of other witnesses for their book, each one
verifying Haut's claims. "Those describing the bodies would
become very emotional," says Schmitt. "One of the
officers involved, he broke down and just said 'I can't get the
faces out of my mind.' His wife even told us how they'd been
unable to sleep in the same room for almost 30 years because he'd
jolt up in the middle of the night and scream and yell out because
he kept having flashbacks, because he saw the faces, he saw the
bodies... We had another officer who was also very traumatised by
it, and it reminded him of being a young boy and seeing his uncle
in a coffin, of how ashen-grey he looked, and it caused him a lot
of post-experience trauma. As one witness put it to us, 'It's the
first thing I think of when I get up in the morning, and it's the
last thing I think of when I go to bed at night.' You're talking
about guys who had just seen the worst horrors of World War II,
yet this is the one thing that surpassed the trauma of that."
A Roswell native, Walter Haut's daughter Julie Shuster knew
several townspeople who had witnessed the crash but were
threatened into keeping quiet. "There was a lady, and her
husband and her sister were both involved in the incident, and she
wouldn't tell me anything," says Shuster. "Finally she
said to me, 'I'm going to say this once, don't ever ask me or my
sister about this again, ever, because we promised my husband on
his deathbed that we would never reveal what he told us.' To me,
that is such a telling statement - all that over a weather
balloon? You're promising your husband on his deathbed that you
won't reveal it was a weather balloon? That to me says tons."
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June 3, 1924: #BOTD: #HBD! Colleen
Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (d. August 22, 1991) is #born
Colleen Rose Dewhurst in Montreal, Quebec. Known most for theatre
roles, Dewhurst wrote in her autobiography "I had moved so
quickly from one Off-Broadway production to the next that I was
known, at one point, as the 'Queen of Off-Broadway'. This title
was not due to my brilliance, but, rather, because most of the
plays I was in closed after a run of anywhere from one night to
two weeks. I would then move immediately into another." She
was a renowned interpreter of the works of Eugene O'Neill on the
stage, and her career also encompassed film, early dramas on live
television, and Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. One
of her last roles was playing Marilla Cuthbert in the Kevin
Sullivan television adaptations of the Anne of Green Gables
series, and her reprisal of the role in the subsequent TV series
Road to Avonlea (marketed as Avonlea in the US). Dewhurst won two
Tony Awards and four Emmy Awards for her stage and television
work. Because Dewhurst's Christian Science beliefs led to her
refuse any kind of surgical treatment, she died of cervical cancer
at the age 67 at her South Salem home in 1991. She was cremated
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June 3, 1925: #BOTD: #HBD! Tony Curtis,
American film actor whose career spanned six decades but who
achieved the height of his popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s
(d. September 29, 2010) is #born Bernard Schwartz at the Fifth
Avenue Hospital corner of East 105th Street in Manhattan, New York
City. He acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a wide
range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. In his later
years, Curtis made numerous television appearances. Although his
early film roles mainly took advantage of his good looks, by the
latter half of the 1950s he had demonstrated range and depth in
numerous dramatic and comedy roles. In his earliest parts he acted
in a string of mediocre films, including swashbucklers, westerns,
light comedies, sports films and a musical. However, by the time
he starred in Houdini (1953) with his wife Janet Leigh, "his
first clear success," notes critic David Thomson, his acting
had progressed immensely. He achieved his first serious
recognition as a dramatic actor in Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
with co-star Burt Lancaster. The following year he was nominated
for an Academy Award for Best Actor in The Defiant Ones (1958)
alongside Sidney Poitier (who was also nominated in the same
category). Curtis then gave what could arguably be called his best
performance: three interrelated roles in the comedy Some Like It
Hot (1959). Thomson called it an "outrageous film," and
an American Film Institute survey voted it the funniest American
film ever made. The film co-starred Jack Lemmon and Marilyn
Monroe, and was directed by Billy Wilder. That was followed by
Blake Edwards's Operation Petticoat (1959) with Cary Grant. They
were both frantic comedies, and displayed his impeccable comic
timing. He often collaborated with Edwards on later films. In
1960, Curtis played a supporting role in Spartacus, which became
another major hit for him. Elvis Presley dyed his hair jet black
in order to try to look like him. His stardom and film career
declined considerably after 1960. His most significant dramatic
part came in 1968 when he starred in the true-life drama The
Boston Strangler, which some consider his last major film role.
The part reinforced his reputation as a serious actor with his
chilling portrayal of serial killer Albert DeSalvo. Curtis also
took on the role of the Ukrainian Cossack Andrei in historical
action romance epic Taras Bulba in which the lead character was
played by Yul Bryner in 1962. He later starred alongside Roger
Moore in the ITC TV series The Persuaders!, with Curtis playing
American millionaire Danny Wilde. The series ran twenty-four
episodes. Curtis is the father of actors Jamie Lee Curtis and
Kelly Curtis by his first wife, actor Janet Leigh. Tony Curtis
died at his Henderson, Nevada home of cardiac arrest, aged 85. On
July 8 that year, Curtis, who suffered from chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD), was hospitalized in Las Vegas after
suffering an asthma attack during a book-signing engagement in
Henderson. A few days before died, he met photographer Andy Gotts
for a photo-shoot at his home, saying: "I'm not in a good way
at the moment but can I ask you one thing? Can you make me look
like an icon just one more time?" He left behind five
children and seven grandchildren. His remains are interred at Palm
Memorial Park Cemetery in Henderson, Nevada, on October 4, 2010.
The service was attended by daughters Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee
Curtis; as well as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rich Little and Vera
Goulet. Investor Kirk Kerkorian, actor Kirk Douglas, and singer
Phyllis McGuire were among the honorary pallbearers. He was buried
with a number of his favorite items, including a Stetson hat, an
Armani scarf, driving gloves, a copy of his favorite novel,
"Anthony Adverse," a book that inspired his celebrity
name, and his iPhone. Five months before his death he rewrote his
will, naming all his children and intentionally disinheriting them
with no explanation, then leaving his entire estate to his sixth
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June 3, 1926: #BOTD: #HBD! Allen
Ginsberg, American poet, philosopher, activist and writer
considered one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation
and the Counterculture (d. April 5, 1997) is #born Irwin Allen
Ginsberg into a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, the second
son of Louis Ginsberg, also born in Newark, a schoolteacher and
published poet, and the former Naomi Levy, born in Nevel (Russia)
and a fervent Marxist. Allen Ginsberg and grew up in nearby
Paterson. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism
and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects
of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to
bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many
influential American writers of his time known as the Beat
Generation, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and
William S. Burroughs. Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl",
in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of
capitalism and conformity in the United States. In 1956, "Howl"
was seized by San Francisco police and US Customs. In 1957, it
attracted widespread publicity when it became the subject of an
obscenity trial, as it described heterosexual and homosexual sex
at a time when sodomy laws made homosexual acts a crime in every
U.S. state. "Howl" reflected Ginsberg's own
homosexuality and his relationships with a number of men,
including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner. Judge Clayton W.
Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, adding, "Would
there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his
vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?". Ginsberg was a
practicing Buddhist who studied Eastern religious disciplines
extensively. He lived modestly, buying his clothing in second-hand
stores and residing in downscale apartments in New York's East
Village. Ginsberg took part in decades of non-violent political
protest against everything from the Vietnam War to the War on
Drugs. His collection The Fall of America shared the annual U.S.
National Book Award for Poetry in 1974. In 1979 he received the
National Arts Club gold medal and was inducted into the American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Ginsberg was a Pulitzer
Prize finalist in 1995 for his book Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems
1986-1992. Allen Ginsberg died of liver cancer due to
complications of hepatitis; he was cremated, and one third of
Ginsberg's ashes were buried in his family plot in Gomel Chesed
Cemetery in Newark, NJ; when his partner Peter Orlovsky died, as
per Ginsberg's wishes, another third of his ashes were buried
alongside Orlovsky at Shambhala Mountain Center in Colorado; and
the remaining third of the ashes are buried at Jewel Heart, Gelek
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June 3, 1927: #BOTD: #HBD! Boots
Randolph, American saxophonist, a major part of the "Nashville
sound" for most of his professional career, best known for
his 1963 saxophone hit "Yakety Sax" (which became Benny
Hill's signature tune) (d. July 3, 2007) is #born Homer Louis
Randolph III in Paducah, Kentucky. Raised in Cadiz, Kentucky, he
said a brother gave him the nickname "Boots" to avoid
confusion since his father and he had the same first name, though
the reason for the nickname choice is unknown. Randolph was a
prolific session musician and member of the Nashville A-Team,
performing on numerous notable recordings by artists including
Chet Atkins, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Brenda Lee, and Al Hirt.
During the span of his more than forty-year music career, Randolph
performed in hundreds of venues alongside many artists in pop,
rock, jazz, and country music. Boots Randolph died at Skyline
Medical Center in Nashville, after suffering a brain hemorrhage,
aged 80. His final solo studio album, A Whole New Ballgame, was
released June 12, 2007, one month before he died. He is buried at
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June 3, 1937: The History Of The United
Kingdom: Royal Weddings: -- The Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII,
marries Wallis Warfield Simpson in Monts, France. As King Edward
VIII, he had abdicated the British throne in December of 1936 amid
tremendous controversy to marry Simpson, an American who had been
divorced. Following the wedding, the couple lived in France and
had minimal contact with the English Royal family. The Duke died
in Paris on May 28, 1972, and was buried near Windsor Castle in
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June 3, 1939: #BOTD: #HBD! Ian Hunter,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known as the lead
singer of the English rock band Mott the Hoople from its inception
in 1969 to its dissolution in 1974, and at the time of its 2009
and 2013 reunions is #born Ian Hunter Patterson in Oswestry,
Shropshire, England, close to the border of Wales. Hunter was a
musician and songwriter before joining Mott the Hoople, and
continued in this vein after he left the band. He embarked on a
solo career despite ill health and disillusionment with commercial
success, and often worked in collaboration with Mick Ronson, David
Bowie's sideman and arranger from the Ziggy Stardust and the
Spiders from Mars period. Mott the Hoople achieved some commercial
success, and attracted a small but devoted fan base. As a solo
artist, Hunter charted with lesser-known but more wide-ranging
works outside the rock mainstream. His best-known solo songs are
"Once Bitten, Twice Shy", later covered by Great White,
and "England Rocks", which was modified to "Cleveland
Rocks" and then covered by The Presidents of the United
States of America, and became one of the theme songs used for the
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June 3, 1940: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The German Invasion Of Western Europe (World War
II) (Sieg Im Westen [German: "Victory In The West"})
(The Manstein Plan, Fall Gelb [German: "Case Yellow",
Unternehmen Sichelschnitt, "Operation Sickle Cut"): The
Battle Of France (The Western Campaign [German: Westfeldzug], The
French Campaign [German: Frankreichfeldzug; French: Campagne De
France], The Fall Of France): The Battle Of Dunkirk (French:
Bataille De Dunkerque): The Dunkirk Evacuation (Operation Dynamo,
The Miracle Of Dunkirk, Dunkirk): -- The Germans are victorious
with Allied forces in full retreat as The Dunkirk Evacuation, code
named Operation Dynamo and known as The Miracle of Dunkirk, ends.
The Dunkirk Evacuation began to save the British Expeditionary
Force trapped by advancing German armies on the northern coast of
France. Boats and vessels of all shapes and sizes ferried 200,000
British and 140,000 French and Belgian soldiers across the English
Channel by June 2. The operation commenced after large numbers of
Belgian, British, and French troops were cut off and surrounded by
German troops during the six-week long Battle Of France. In a
speech to the House Of Commons, British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill called this "a colossal military disaster",
saying "the whole root and core and brain of the British
Army" had been stranded at Dunkirk and seemed about to perish
or be captured. In his "we shall fight on the beaches"
speech on 4 June, he hailed their rescue as a "miracle of
deliverance". After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September
1939, France and the British Empire declared war on Germany and
imposed an economic blockade. The British Expeditionary Force
(BEF) was sent to help defend France. After the Phoney War of
October 1939 to April 1940, Germany invaded Belgium, the
Netherlands, and France on 10 May 1940. Three of their panzer
corps attacked through the Ardennes and drove northwest to the
English Channel. By 21 May German forces had trapped the BEF, the
remains of the Belgian forces, and three French field armies along
the northern coast of France. Commander of the BEF, General
Viscount Gort, immediately saw evacuation across the Channel as
the best course of action, and began planning a withdrawal to
Dunkirk, the closest good port. Late on 23 May, a halt order was
issued by Generaloberst Gerd von Rundstedt, commander of Army
Group A. Adolf Hitler approved the order the next day and had the
German High Command send confirmation to the front. Destroying the
trapped BEF, French, and Belgian armies was left to the Luftwaffe
until the order was rescinded on 26 May. This gave trapped Allied
forces time to construct defensive works and pull back large
numbers of troops to fight the Battle Of Dunkirk. From 28 to 31
May, in the Siege of Lille, the remaining 40,000 men of the
once-formidable French First Army fought a delaying action against
seven German divisions, including three armoured divisions. On the
first day only 7,669 Allied soldiers were evacuated, but by the
end of the eighth day, 338,226 of them had been rescued by a
hastily assembled fleet of over 800 boats. Many troops were able
to embark from the harbour's protective mole onto 39 British Royal
Navy destroyers, four Royal Canadian Navy destroyers, and a
variety of civilian merchant ships, while others had to wade out
from the beaches, waiting for hours in shoulder-deep water. Some
were ferried to the larger ships by what came to be known as the
little ships of Dunkirk, a flotilla of hundreds of merchant marine
boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft, yachts, and lifeboats called
into service from Britain. The BEF lost 68,000 soldiers during the
French campaign and had to abandon nearly all of its tanks,
vehicles, and equipment. In his speech to the House Of Commons on
4 June, Churchill reminded the country that "we must be very
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June 3, 1940: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The German Invasion Of Western Europe (World War
II) (Sieg Im Westen [German: "Victory In The West"], The
Manstein Plan, Fall Gelb [German: "Case Yellow",
Unternehmen Sichelschnitt, "Operation Sickle Cut"): The
Battle Of France (The Western Campaign [German: Westfeldzug], The
French Campaign [German: Frankreichfeldzug; French: Campagne De
France], The Fall Of France): Paris In World War II: Air Warfare
Of World War II: Strategic Bombing During World War II: -- The
Luftwaffe bombs Paris and its suburbs for the first time,
targeting in particular the Citroen automobile factory. 254
persons are killed, including 195 civilians. Paris had by this
time been flooded with refugees from the battle zone. The French
defense plan had been purely passive, waiting for the Germans to
attack. By May 15, German panzer divisions were only 35 kilometers
from Laon, in the rear of the French and British armies, racing
toward the English Channel. On May 28, the British realized the
battle was lost and began withdrawing their soldiers from the
beaches of Dunkerque. French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud dismissed
his supreme military commander, Maurice Gamelin, and replaced him
with the 73-year-old Maxime Weygand. He also named the 84-year-old
Philippe Petain, a hero of the First World War, as deputy prime
minister. Neither Weygand nor Petain felt the Germans could be
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June 3, 1940: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah): The Madagascar Plan: --
Franz Rademacher, head of the Jewish Department of the German
Foreign Office, proposes plans shortly before the Fall Of France
to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland" by forcibly
relocating the Jewish population of Europe to the island of
Madagascar, then a French colony, as part of the eventual peace
terms. The idea of resettling Jews in Madagascar was an idea that
had first been proposed by the father of modern political Zionism
and founder of The Zionist Organization, Austro-Hungarian Jewish
journalist Theodor Herzl (May 2, 1860 - July 3, 1904) before he
promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine as a means to form a
Jewish state. The idea of re-settling Polish Jews in Madagascar
was investigated by the Polish government in 1937, but the task
force sent to evaluate the island's potential determined that only
5,000 to 7,000 families could be accommodated, or even as few as
500 families by some estimates. Because efforts by the Nazis to
encourage the emigration of the Jewish population of Germany
before World War II were only partially successful, the idea of
deporting Jews to Madagascar was revived by the Nazi government in
1940. The resettlement plan of Franz Rademacher (February 20, 1906
- March 17, 1973) met with Adolf Hitler's approval, who also
approved Adolf Eichmann's releasing a memorandum on August 15,
1940 calling for the resettlement of a million Jews per year for
four years, with the island being governed as a police state under
the SS. They assumed that many Jews would succumb to its harsh
conditions should the plan be implemented. The plan was not viable
when proposed due to the British naval blockade. It was postponed
after the Nazis lost the Battle of Britain in September 1940, and
it was permanently shelved in 1942 with the commencement of the
Final Solution, the policy of systematic genocide of Jews, towards
which it had functioned as an important psychological step. On
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June 3, 1942: World War II: The Pacific
War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II):
The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The American Theater Of
World War II (The Americas Theater Of World War II): The Aleutian
Islands Campaign (The Alaska Campaign) (Japanese: Aryushan Homen
No Tatakai, "The Battle Of The Aleutians"): The Battle
Of Dutch Harbor: -- Japan begins the Battle Of Dutch Harbor and
thereby the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
The Battle Of Dutch Harbor took place on 3-4 June 1942, when the
Imperial Japanese Navy launched two air raids from an aircraft
carrier task force, consisting of the carriers Ryujo and Jun'yo
under the command of Admiral Kakuji Kakuta, on the Dutch Harbor
Naval Operating Base and U.S. Army Fort Mears at Dutch Harbor on
Amaknak Island, during the Aleutian Islands Campaign of World War
II. The Aleutian Islands Campaign was a military campaign
conducted by the United States and Japan in the Aleutian Islands,
part of the Alaska Territory, in the American theater and the
Pacific theater of World War II starting on 3 June 1942. A small
Japanese force occupied the islands of Attu and Kiska, where the
remoteness of the islands and the challenges of weather and
terrain delayed a larger U.S.-Canadian force sent to eject them
for nearly a year. The islands' strategic value was their ability
to control Pacific transportation routes, which is why U.S.
General Billy Mitchell stated to the U.S. Congress in 1935, "I
believe that in the future, whoever holds Alaska will hold the
world. I think it is the most important strategic place in the
world.". The Japanese reasoned that control of the Aleutians
would prevent a possible U.S. attack across the Northern Pacific.
Similarly, the U.S. feared that the islands would be used as bases
from which to launch aerial assaults against the West Coast. A
battle to reclaim Attu was launched on May 11, 1943 and completed
following a final Japanese banzai charge on May 29. On 15 August
1943, an invasion force landed on Kiska in the wake of a sustained
three-week barrage, only to discover that the Japanese had
withdrawn from the island on July 29. The campaign is known as the
"Forgotten Battle", due to its being overshadowed by the
simultaneous Guadalcanal Campaign. In the past, many Western
military historians believed it was a diversionary or feint attack
during the Battle of Midway, meant to draw out the U.S. Pacific
Fleet from Midway Atoll, as it was launched simultaneously under
the same commander, Isoroku Yamamoto. However, historians Jonathan
Parshall and Anthony Tully have argued against this
interpretation, stating that the Japanese invaded the Aleutians to
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June 3, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Curtis
Mayfield, African Mmerican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and
record producer, one of the most influential musicians behind soul
and politically conscious African American music (d. December 26,
1999) is #born Curtis Lee Mayfield on a Wednesday in Cook County
Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He first achieved success and
recognition with The Impressions during the civil rights movement
of the late 1950s and 1960s, and later worked as a solo artist.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Mayfield started his musical career in
a gospel choir. Moving to the North Side, he met Jerry Butler in
1956 at the age of 14, and joined the vocal group The Impressions.
As a songwriter, Mayfield became noted as one of the first
musicians to bring more prevalent themes of social awareness into
soul music. In 1965, he wrote "People Get Ready" for the
Impressions, which displayed his more politically charged
songwriting. Ranked at no. 24 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500
Greatest Songs of All Time, the song received numerous other
awards, and was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500
Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, as well as being inducted into
the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. Curtis Mayfield died of
complications of type 2 diabetes at 7:20 AM (12:20 GMT) on a
Sunday at the North Fulton Regional Hospital in Roswell, Georgia,
aged 57. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were given to
his family; he was survived by his wife, Altheida Mayfield; his
mother, Mariam Jackson; 10 children; two sisters, Carolyn Falls
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June 3, 1943: World War II: The Home
Front During World War II: The United States Home Front During
World War II: Race Riots: Race Riots In The United States: The
Zoot Suit Riots: -- In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy
sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths. The Zoot Suit Riots
were a series of conflicts in June 1943 in Los Angeles,
California, United States, which pitted European American
servicemen stationed in Southern California against Mexican
American youths and other minorities who were residents of the
city. European American servicemen and White European immigrant
civilians attacked and stripped children, teens, and youths who
wore zoot suits, ostensibly because they considered the outfits to
be unpatriotic during World War II, as they had a lot of fabric.
Rationing of fabric was required at the time for the war effort.
While most of the violence was directed toward Mexican American
youth, young African American and Filipino Americans who were
wearing zoot suits were also attacked. The Zoot Suit Riots were
related to fears and hostilities aroused by the coverage of the
Sleepy Lagoon murder trial (the name that Los Angeles newspapers
used to describe the death of Jose Gallardo Diaz, who was
discovered unconscious and dying on a road near a swimming hole,
known as the Sleepy Lagoon, in Commerce, California, on the
morning of August 2, 1942, a murder for which 17 Mexican-American
youths were arrested despite insufficient evidence, 9 of which
were convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to serve time
in San Quentin Prison). The riot appeared to trigger similar
attacks that year by European Americans against Latinos in
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Today, June 3, 2026
June 3, 1963: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The
Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The
Resistance War Against America): The United States In The Vietnam
War: Protests In Vietnam: The Buddhist Crisis (Vietnamese: Bien Co
Phat Giao): -- Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
attack protesting Buddhists in Hue, South Vietnam, with liquid
chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be
hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
The Buddhist Crisis was a period of political and religious
tension in South Vietnam between May and November 1963,
characterized by a series of repressive acts by the South
Vietnamese government and a campaign of civil resistance, led
mainly by Buddhist monks. The crisis ended with a coup in November
1963 by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and the arrest and
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Today, June 3, 2026
June 3, 1965: Rocket Launches: The
History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold
War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Space Programs Of The United
States: Human Spaceflight Programs: Project Gemini: Gemini 4: --
The first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew begins when
Gemini 4 is launched at 15:15:59 UTC atop a Titan II GLV (Titan II
Gemini Launch Vehicle, or Gemini-Titan II) from from Cape
Kennedy's Launch Complex 19 (LC-19). Crew member Astronaut Ed
White performed the first American spacewalk dduring this flight
of just over four days duration. Gemini 4 (officially Gemini IV)
was the second manned space flight in NASA's Project Gemini,
occurring in June 1965. It was the tenth manned American
spaceflight (including two X-15 flights at altitudes exceeding 100
kilometers (54 nmi)). Astronauts James McDivitt and Ed White
circled the Earth 66 times in four days, making it the first US
flight to approach the five-day flight of the Soviet Vostok 5. The
highlight of the mission was the first space walk by an American,
during which White floated free outside the spacecraft, tethered
to it, for approximately 20 minutes. Both of these accomplishments
helped the United States overcome the Soviet Union's early lead in
the Space Race. The flight also included the first attempt to make
a space rendezvous as McDivitt attempted to maneuver his craft
close to the Titan II upper stage which launched it into orbit,
but this was not successful. The flight was the first American
flight to perform many scientific experiments in space, including
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Today, June 3, 2026
June 3, 1989: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: Democracy Movements Of China : The Revolutions
Of 1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of
Communism): The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests And Massacre (The
June Fourth Incident [Chinese: Liusi Shijian, "The Six-Four
Incident"], The Tiananmen Square Massacre., The '89 Democracy
Movement, The Tiananmen Square Incident, The Tiananmen Uprising):
-- The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of
Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation. On June 1, Li
Peng issued a report titled "On the True Nature of the
Turmoil", which was circulated to every member of the
Politburo. The report aimed to persuade the Politburo of the
necessity and legality of clearing Tiananmen Square by referring
to the protestors as terrorists and counterrevolutionaries. The
report stated that turmoil was continuing to grow, the students
had no plans to leave, and they were gaining popular support.
Further justification for martial law came in the form of a report
submitted by the Ministry of State Security (MSS) to the party
leadership. The report emphasized the danger of infiltration of
bourgeois liberalism into China and the negative effect that the
West, particularly the United States, had on the students. The MSS
expressed its belief that American forces had intervened in the
student movement in hopes of overthrowing the Communist Party. The
report created a sense of urgency within the party and justified
military action. In conjunction with the plan to clear the Square
by force, the Politburo received word from army headquarters
stating that troops were ready to help stabilize the capital and
that they understood the necessity and legality of martial law to
overcome the turmoil. On June 2, with increasing action on the
part of protesters, the CPC saw that it was time to act. Protests
broke out as newspapers published articles that called for the
students to leave Tiananmen Square and end the movement. Many of
the students in the Square were not willing to leave and were
outraged by the articles. They were also outraged by the Beijing
Daily's June 1 article "Tiananmen, I Cry for You", which
was written by a fellow student who had become disillusioned with
the movement, as he thought it was chaotic and disorganized. In
response to the articles, thousands of students lined the streets
of Beijing to protest against leaving the Square. Three
intellectuals- Liu Xiaobo, Zhou Duo, and Gao Xin - and Taiwanese
singer Hou Dejian declared a second hunger strike to revive the
movement. After weeks of occupying the Square, the students were
tired, and internal rifts opened between moderate and hardline
student groups. In their declaration speech, the hunger strikers
openly criticized the government's suppression of the movement, to
remind the students that their cause was worth fighting for, and
pushing them to continue their occupation of the Square. On June
2, Deng Xiaoping and several party elders met with the three PSC
members - Li Peng, Qiao Shi, and Yao Yilin - who remained after
Zhao Ziyang and Hu Qili had been ousted. The committee members
agreed to clear the Square so "the riot can be halted and
order be restored to the Capital". They also agreed that the
Square needed to be cleared as peacefully as possible; but if
protesters did not cooperate, the troops would be authorized to
use force to complete the job. That day, state-run newspapers
reported that troops were positioned in ten key areas in the city.
Units of the 27th, 65th, and 24th armies were secretly moved into
the Great Hall of the People on the west side of the Square and
the Ministry of Public Security compound east of the Square. On
the evening of June 2, reports that an army trencher ran over four
civilians, killing three, sparked fear that the army and the
police were trying to advance into Tiananmen Square. Student
leaders issued emergency orders to set up roadblocks at major
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Today, June 3, 2026
June 3: National Chocolate Macaroon Day:
-- Chocolate macaroons are a popular dessert made with chocolate,
icing sugar, egg whites, and nut garnishings. Macaroons are
available in a range of flavors but chocolate macaroons remain an
undisputed favorite among everyone. A rich, creamy
chocolate-filled macaroon is an instant mood lifter and deserves a
separate day of celebration! The day is celebrated at patisseries,
cooking schools, and even at home. Schedule your next cheat day
for June 3 to celebrate National Chocolate Macaroon Day with your
loved ones. A macaroon is a small cake or cookie. The chief
ingredients in a macaroon are almond powder, egg whites, and
ground sugar. Flavors are added as per individual preference. Some
dessert lovers also add coconut shavings, condensed milk, and
ground nuts for added flavor. The macaroons are baked on edible
rice paper in an oven. It is believed that macaroons originated
some time in the 8th or 9th century in an Italian monastery. The
desserts were introduced in France in 1533 when monks from the
monastery joined King Henry II's pastry chef. A few centuries
later, two Benedictine nuns named Sister Marie-Elizabeth and
Sister Marguerite sold macaroons to pay for rent during the French
Revolution. Their macaroons became famous in the French province
and the sisters were known by the name of 'Macaroon Sisters'
throughout Europe. The dessert has now become synonymous with
French cuisine and today some of the best macaroons can be tasted
in France. The dessert also enjoys great popularity in other
European, Asian, and Latin American countries. We have Mrs. Esther
Levy to thank for popularizing the great American macaroon. In
1871, Mrs. Levy published the "First Jewish American
Cookbook." She originally published this recipe in the
chapter on cakes as there was not a chapter on cookies. However,
this is understandable, as the texture of a macaroon isn't very
cookie-like. It is soft and a little chewy, more like a cake than
a cookie. However, the bite-size serving is most definitely
cookie-like. Macaroons deserve to be celebrated and recognized for
their own characteristics. Coconut was substituted for almond
flour when the first coconut palms planted in Florida began to
yield fruit. Thus, macaroons are not only tasty little delights,
they were also an early exercise in the locavore movement, eating
produce grown close to home. National Chocolate Macaroon Day
celebrates the especially indulgent and rich flavor of chocolate
and encourages those with a sweet tooth to try out this flavor.
Chocolate macaroons taste best with a cup of tea or a glass of
crisp white wine.
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Today, June 3, 2026June 3: Repeat Day: -- The perfect time
to plan another spa retreat, book reservations at that special
restaurant, or even find a new activity that you would love to
repeat in the future. Repeating can be a wonderful thing.
Especially when it involves an activity we love or just indulging
in a simple pleasure. Repetition is a key element in everyday
life. Daily routines give us a sense of stability and direction.
We may not think about it that much, but repetition is also a good
example of how our personal tastes are constructed. Take your
favorite ice cream: the first encounter with that flavor was the
starting point of a love affair that is expressed through
repetition. Case and point, the difficulty of choosing a different
flavor when faced with that daunting decision. The arts have also
used repetition as the driving force behind powerful narratives.
The most popular example is the movie "Groundhog Day",
where a character finds himself inexplicably repeating the same
day over and over again. Other movies about repetition and time
loops include: "Run, Lola, Run" and "Palm Springs".
But there is much more to repetition than meets the eye. Sanford
Meisner, an actor and teacher, developed his acting technique
based on the repetition of words between performers. By repeating
the same word over and over again, the literal meaning of the word
loses importance and what is left is the underlying emotion of the
moment between the performers.
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Today, June 3, 2026June 3, 1963: #DOTD: #RIP: Pope John
XXIII (Latin: Ioannes; Italian: Giovanni), head of the Catholic
Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from October 28,
1958 to his death in 1963, canonized a saint on Apri 27, 2014 (b.
November 25, 1881) #dies of peritonitis caused by a perforated
stomach at 19:49 local time, just as a Mass for him finished in
Saint Peter's Square below celebrated by Cardinal Luigi Traglia,
at the age of 81, ending a historic pontificate of four years and
seven months. After he died, his brow was ritually tapped to see
if he was dead, and those with him in the room said prayers. Then
the room was illuminated, thus informing the people of what had
happened. The Italian government announced three days of mourning
with flags half-masted and the closure of offices and schools.
Spain announced ten days of mourning with flags half-masted;
Philippines announced nine days of mourning with flags
half-masted; Paraguay and Guatemala announced three days of
mourning; The Republic Of The Congo declared one day of mourning.
He was buried on June 6 in the Vatican grottos in a tomb located
near those of both Pope Pius X and Pope John Paul II. Two wreaths,
placed on the two sides of his tomb, were donated by the prisoners
of the Regina Coeli prison and the Mantova jail in Verona. On June
22, 1963, one day after his friend and successor Pope Paul VI was
elected, the latter prayed at his tomb. On December 3, 1963, US
President Lyndon B. Johnson posthumously awarded him the
Presidential Medal Of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian
award, in recognition of the good relationship between Pope John
XXIII and the United States of America. The citation for the medal
reads "His Holiness Pope John XXIII, dedicated servant of
God. He brought to all citizens of the planet a heightened sense
of the dignity of the individual, of the brotherhood of man, and
of the common duty to build an environment of peace for all human
kind." Pope John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli in
Sotto il Monte, a small country village in the Bergamo province of
the Lombardy region of Italy, the fourth of fourteen children born
to a family of sharecroppers. He was ordained to the priesthood on
10 August 1904 and served in a number of posts, as nuncio in
France and a delegate to Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. In a
consistory on January 12, 1953 Pope Pius XII made Roncalli a
cardinal as the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca in addition to
naming him as the Patriarch of Venice. After Pope Pius XII's
death, Roncalli was unexpectedly elected pope on October 28, 1958,
on the anniversary of Constantine I's victory at The Battle Of The
Milvian Bridge, at age 76 after 11 ballots. He was the first pope
to take the pontifical name of "John" upon election in
more than 500 years, and his choice settled the complicated
question of official numbering attached to this papal name. Pope
John XXIII surprised those who expected him to be a caretaker pope
by calling the historic Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), the
first session opening on October 11, 1962. His passionate views on
equality were summed up in his statement, "We were all made
in God's image, and thus, we are all Godly alike."
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Today, June 3, 2026June 3, 2021: #DOTD: F. Lee Bailey,
American criminal defense attorney (b. June 10, 1933) #dies under
hospice care in Atlanta, Georgia, aged 87. He is buried at Georgia
National Cemetery in Canton, Georgia. F. Lee Bailey was born
Francis Lee Bailey Jr. in Waltham, Massachusetts. Bailey's name
first came to nationwide attention for his involvement in the
second murder trial of Sam Sheppard, a surgeon accused of
murdering his wife. He later served as the attorney in a number of
other high-profile cases, such as Albert DeSalvo, a suspect in the
"Boston Strangler" murders, heiress Patty Hearst's trial
for bank robberies committed during her involvement with the
Symbionese Liberation Army, and US Army Captain Ernest Medina for
war crimes committed during the infamous My Lai Massacre. He was a
member of the "Dream Team" in the trial of former
football player O. J. Simpson, who was accused of murdering Nicole
Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Bailey was featured in an RKO
television special in which he conducted a mock trial, examining
various expert witnesses on the subject of the "Paul Is Dead"
rumor referring to Beatle Paul McCartney. One of the experts was
Fred LaBour, whose article in The Michigan Daily had been
instrumental in the spread of the urban legend. LaBour told Bailey
during a pre-show meeting he had made up the whole thing. Bailey
responded, "Well, we have an hour of television to do. You're
going to have to go along with this." The program aired
locally in New York City on November 30, 1969, and was never
re-aired.
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Today, June 3, 2026June 3, 1924: #DOTD: #RIP: Franz Kafka,
Czech-Austrian lawyer and author, German language novelist and
short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of
20th century literature (b. July 3, 1883) #dies in obscurity of
starvation caused by laryngeal tuberculosis which closed his
throat (parenteral nutrition had not yet been developed). He is
buried in the Jewish Cemetery Of Prague-Zizkov in Prague,
Czechoslovakia (modern Czech Republic). Franz Kafka was born near
the Old Town Square in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire. His family were German-speaking middle-class Ashkenazi
Jews. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic,
typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or
surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic
powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of
alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best
known works include "Die Verwandlung" ("The
Metamorphosis"), Der Process (The Trial), and Das Schloss
(The Castle). The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language
to describe situations like those in his writing.
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Today, June 3, 2026June 3, 1899: #DOTD: #RIP: Johann Strauss
II, also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son,
Austrian educator and composer of light music, particularly dance
music and operettas, composer of over 500 waltzes, polkas,
quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several
operettas and a ballet (b. October 25 1825) #dies of
pleuropneumoniain Vienna, Austria-Hungary at the age of 73. He is
buried in the Zentralfriedhof. At the time of his death, he was
still composing his ballet Aschenbrodel. Johann Strauss II was
born Johann Baptist Strauss II, the son of Johann Strauss I, also
known as Johann Strauss Sr., the Elder or the Father, and his
first wife, Maria Anna Streim. His paternal great-grandfather was
a Hungarian Jew - a fact which the Nazis, who lionised Strauss's
music as "so German", later tried to conceal. In his
lifetime, Johann Strauss II was known as "The Waltz King",
and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in
Vienna during the 19th century. Some of Johann Strauss's most
famous works include "The Blue Danube", "Kaiser-Walzer"
(Emperor Waltz), "Tales from the Vienna Woods", and the
"Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka". Among his operettas, Die
Fledermaus and Der Zigeunerbaron are the best known.
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Today, June 3, 2026June 3, 1975: #DOTD: #RIP: Ozzie Nelson,
American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, musician,
composer, conductor and bandleader, star of radio and television
(b. March 20, 1906) #dies of liver cancer aged 69 at his home in
the San Fernando Valley, with his wife and sons at his bedside.
Services were held at the Church of the Hills at Forest Lawn,
Hollywood Hills, California on Friday, June 6. He is interred with
his wife and son Ricky in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills
Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Born Oswald George Nelson in
Jersey City, New Jersey, Ozzie Nelson originated and starred in
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, a radio and television series
with his wife Harriet and two sons David and Ricky Nelson.
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Today, June 3, 2026June 3, 1924: #BOTD: #HBD! Jimmy Rogers,
African American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica
player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters's band
in the early 1950s, who also had a solo career and recorded
several popular blues songs, including "That's All Right"
(now a blues standard), "Chicago Bound", "Walking
by Myself" (his sole R & B chart appearance), and "Rock
This House" (d. December 19, 1997) is #born Jay or James
Arthur Lane, near to Ruleville, Mississippi, on June 3, 1924. He
was raised in Atlanta and Memphis. He adopted his stepfather's
surname. He learned to play the harmonica with his childhood
friend Snooky Pryor, and as a teenager he took up the guitar. He
played professionally in East St. Louis, Illinois, with Robert
Lockwood, Jr., among others. Rogers moved to Chicago in the
mid-1940s. By 1946, he had recorded as a harmonica player and
singer for the Harlem record label, run by J. Mayo Williams.
Rogers's name did not appear on the record, which was mislabeled
as the work of Memphis Slim and His Houserockers. In 1947, Rogers,
Muddy Waters and Little Walter began playing together, forming
Waters's first band in Chicago (sometimes referred to as the
Headcutters or the Headhunters, because of their practice of
stealing jobs from other local bands). The band members recorded
and released music credited to each of them as solo artists. The
band defined the sound of the nascent Chicago blues style (more
specifically, South Side Chicago blues). Rogers recorded several
sides of his own with small labels in Chicago, but none were
released at the time. He began to achieve success as a solo artist
in 1950, with the song "That's All Right", released by
Chess Records, but he stayed in Waters's band until 1954. In the
mid-1950s he had several successful records released by Chess,
most of them featuring either Little Walter or Big Walter Horton
on harmonica, notably "Walking by Myself". In the late
1950s, as interest in the blues waned, he gradually withdrew from
the music industry. In the early 1960s, Rogers briefly worked as a
member of Howling Wolf's band, before quitting the music business
altogether for almost a decade. He worked as a taxicab driver and
owned a clothing store, which burned down in the 1968 Chicago
riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rogers
gradually began performing in public again, and in 1971, when
fashions made him somewhat popular in Europe, he began
occasionally touring and recording, including a 1977 session with
Waters which resulted in the album I'm Ready. By 1982, Rogers was
again a full-time solo artist. He continued touring and recording
albums until his death. In 1995, Rogers was inducted into the
Blues Hall of Fame. His song "That's All Right" was
inducted by the organization in 2016 as a "Classic of Blues
Recording", which identified it as a blues standard. Jimmy
Rogers died of colon cancer in Chicago, Illinois, aged 73. He was
survived by his son, Jimmy D. Lane, a guitarist, record producer
and recording engineer for Blue Heaven Studios and APO Records. He
is buried at Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Cook County, Illinois.
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Today, June 3, 2026June 3, 2011: #DOTD: #RIP: James Arness,
American actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon for
20 years in the CBS television series Gunsmoke (b. May 26, 1923)
#dies from natural causes at the age of 88 at his Brentwood home
in Los Angeles, California. His body is interred in the Sanctuary
of Abiding Hope alcove in the Jasmine Terrace section of the Great
Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
James Arness was born James King Aurnes in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Arness has the distinction of having played the role of Dillon in
five decades: 1955 to 1975 in the weekly series, then in Gunsmoke:
Return to Dodge (1987) and four more made-for-television Gunsmoke
films in the 1990s. In Europe, Arness reached cult status for his
role as Zeb Macahan in the Western series How the West Was Won. He
was the older brother of actor Peter Graves.
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Today, June 3, 2026June 3, 1997: #DOTD: #RIP: Dennis James,
American television personality, philanthropist, and commercial
spokesman (b. August 24, 1917) #dies of lung cancer aged 79 at his
home in Palm Springs. His remains were interred at the Forest Lawn
Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. Dennis James was
born Demie James Sposa in Jersey City, New Jersey to Demetrio
Ernest Sposa and Teresa Amorosi, both of Italian descent. Often
referred to as "The Dean of Game Show Hosts", he is
credited as the host of television's first network game show, the
DuMont Network's Cash and Carry (1946). James was also the first
person to host a telethon (raising over 700M USD for United
Cerebral Palsy throughout his career), the first to appear in a
television commercial, first to emcee a variety show, and first to
appear on video tape; over 25 "firsts" in all. During
the late 1960s and early 1970s, Day appeared regularly as the
emcee of the annual United Cerebral Palsy television telethon.
Throughout the 1950s, Day regularly appeared in numerous
television ads for Old Gold cigarettes. Up until 1976, he had
appeared on TV more times and for a longer period than any other
television star.
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Today, June 3, 2026June 3, 2001: #DOTD: #RIP: Anthony Quinn,
Mexican-American actor, producer and civil rights activist (b.
April 21, 1915) #dies of respiratory failure caused by
complications from radiation treatment for lung cancer in Boston
at age 86. Quinn's funeral was held in the First Baptist Church in
America in College Hill, Providence, Rhode Island. His wife asked
for the permission of Bristol authorities to bury him in his
favorite spot in the backyard of his house, near an old maple
tree. They had bought the property in 1995; it had a view of the
Narragansett Bay. Permission was granted and he was laid to rest
there. Anthony Quinn was born Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca
in Chihuahua, Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution to Mexican
mother Manuela "Nellie" (nee Oaxaca) and Irish immigrant
father from County Cork Francisco "Frank" Quinn. Anthony
Quinn was known for his portrayal of earthy, passionate characters
"marked by a brutal and elemental virility" in numerous
critically acclaimed films both in Hollywood and abroad. His
notable films include La Strada, The Guns of Navarone, Guns for
San Sebastian, Lawrence of Arabia, The Shoes of the Fisherman, The
Message, Lion of the Desert, and A Walk in the Clouds. He also had
an Oscar-nominated titular role in Zorba the Greek. Quinn won the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice: for Viva Zapata! in
1952 and Lust for Life in 1956. In addition, he received two
Academy Award nominations in the Best Leading Actor category,
along with five Golden Globe nominations and two BAFTA Award
nominations. In 1987, he was presented with the Golden Globe Cecil
B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. Through both his artistic
endeavours and civil rights activism, he remains a seminal figure
of Latin-American representation in the media of the United
States.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Muhammad Ali Documentaries And Entire Fights DVD, Download, USB
Drive
Today, June 3, 2026June 3, 2016: #DOTD: #RIP: Muhammad Ali,
African American professional boxer and activist nicknamed "The
Greatest" (b. January 17, 1942) #dies at the age of 74 from
septic shock in a Scottsdale, Arizona hospital. Following Ali's
death, he was the number-one trending topic on Twitter for over 12
hours and on Facebook for several days. BET played their
documentary Muhammad Ali: Made In Miami. ESPN played four hours of
non-stop commercial-free coverage of Ali. News networks, such as
ABC News, BBC, CNN, and Fox News, also covered him extensively. He
was mourned globally, and a family spokesman said the family
"certainly believes that Muhammad was a citizen of the world
... and they know that the world grieves with him."
Politicians such as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton,
Donald Trump, David Cameron and more paid tribute to Ali. Ali also
received numerous tributes from the world of sports including
Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Floyd Mayweather, Mike Tyson, the
Miami Marlins, LeBron James, Steph Curry and more. Louisville
Mayor Greg Fischer stated, "Muhammad Ali belongs to the
world. But he only has one hometown." The day after Ali's
death, the UFC paid tribute to Ali at their UFC 199 event in a
lengthy video tribute package, crediting Ali for his
accomplishments and inspiring multiple UFC champions. Ali's
funeral had been pre-planned by himself and others for several
years prior to his actual death. The services began in Louisville
on June 9, 2016, with an Islamic Janazah prayer service at Freedom
Hall on the grounds of the Kentucky Exposition Center. On June 10,
2016, the funeral procession passed through the streets of
Louisville ending at Cave Hill Cemetery, where his body was
interred during a private ceremony. A public memorial service for
Ali at downtown Louisville's KFC Yum! Center was held during the
afternoon of June 10. Billy Crystal gave the eulogy. The
pallbearers included Will Smith, Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson, with
honorary pallbearers including George Chuvalo, Larry Holmes and
George Foreman. Ali's memorial was watched by an estimated 1
billion viewers worldwide. In the words of Bob Dylan's tribute,
"If the measure of greatness is to gladden the heart of every
human being on the face of the earth, then he truly was the
greatest. In every way he was the bravest, the kindest and the
most excellent of men." He is buried at Cave Hill Cemetery in
Louisville, Kentucky. Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay
Jr. in Louisville, Kentucky. He is widely regarded as one of the
most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th
century. From early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring,
controversial, and polarizing figure both inside and outside the
ring. He was #Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and began
training as an amateur boxer when he was 12 years old. At age 18,
he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960
Summer Olympics in Rome and turned professional later that year.
At age 22 in 1964, he won the WBA, WBC, and lineal heavyweight
titles from Sonny Liston in a major upset. Clay then converted to
Islam and changed his name from Cassius Clay, which he called his
"slave name", to Muhammad Ali. He set an example of
racial pride for African Americans and resistance to white
domination during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1966, two years
after winning the heavyweight title, Ali further antagonized the
white establishment by refusing to be drafted into the U.S.
military, citing his religious beliefs and opposition to American
involvement in the Vietnam War. He was eventually arrested, found
guilty of draft evasion charges, and stripped of his boxing
titles. He successfully appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme
Court, which overturned his conviction in 1971, by which time he
had not fought for nearly four years and thereby lost a period of
peak performance as an athlete. Ali' actions as a conscientious
objector to the war made him an icon for the larger counterculture
generation. Ali is regarded as one of the leading heavyweight
boxers of the 20th century, and remains the only three-time lineal
heavyweight champion. During 1964, Ali reigned as the undisputed
heavyweight champion. His record of the most wins in heavyweight
title bouts in modern boxing history at 22 was unbeaten for more
than 35 years. Ali is the only boxer to be named The Ring magazine
Fighter of the Year six times. He was also ranked as the greatest
athlete of the 20th century by Sports Illustrated, the Sports
Personality of the Century by the BBC, and the third greatest
athlete of the 20th century by ESPN SportsCentury. Nicknamed "the
Greatest", he was involved in several historic boxing
matches. Notable among these were the first Liston fight; the
"Fight of the Century", "Super Fight II" and
the "Thrilla In Manila" against his rival Joe Frazier;
and "The Rumble in the Jungle" against George Foreman.
At a time when most fighters let their managers do the talking,
Ali thrived in and indeed craved the spotlight, where he was often
provocative and outlandish. He was known for trash talking, and
often freestyled with rhyme schemes and spoken word poetry, both
for his trash talking in boxing and as political poetry for his
activism, anticipating elements of rap and hip hop music. As a
musician, Ali recorded two spoken word albums and a rhythm and
blues song, and received two Grammy Award nominations. As an
actor, he performed in several films and a Broadway musical.
Additionally, Ali wrote two autobiographies, one during and one
after his boxing career. As a Muslim, Ali was initially affiliated
with Elijah Muhammad' Nation Of Islam (NOI) and advocated their
black separatist ideology. He later disavowed the NOI, adhering to
Sunni Islam, practicing Sufism, and supporting racial integration,
like his former mentor Malcolm X. After retiring from boxing at
age 39 in 1981, Ali devoted his life to religious and charitable
work. In 1984, Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson' syndrome, which
his doctors attributed to boxing-related brain injuries. As his
condition worsened, Ali made limited public appearances and was
cared for by his family until his death.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Abraham
Lincoln Radio Show MP3 Set CD, Audio Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, June 3, 2026June 3, 1861: #DOTD: Stephen A. Douglas,
American lawyer and politician, 7th Secretary Of State of Illinois
(b. April 23, 1813) #dies of typhoid fever aged 48 in Chicago,
Illinois, mere weeks after the outbreak of The American Civil War.
Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician from Illinois
and the designer of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He was a member of
the House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and the
Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1860 election,
losing to Republican Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously
defeated Lincoln in a Senate contest, noted for the famous
Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. He was nicknamed the "Little
Giant" because he was short in physical stature, but a
forceful and dominant figure in politics; his height is given in
various sources as being in the range of 5 feet (1.5 m) to 5 feet
4 inches (1.63 m); five feet four is reported most often. Douglas
was well known as a resourceful party leader, and an adroit,
ready, skillful tactician in debate and passage of legislation. He
was a champion of the Young America movement which sought to
modernize politics and replace the agrarian and strict
constructionist orthodoxies of the past. Douglas was a leading
proponent of democracy, and believed in the principle of popular
sovereignty: that the majority of citizens should decide
contentious issues such as slavery and territorial expansion. As
chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the
Senate from 1850 to 1859. He was largely responsible for the
Compromise Of 1850 that apparently settled slavery issues;
however, in 1854 he reopened the slavery question with the
Kansas-Nebraska Act, which opened some previously prohibited
territories to slavery under popular sovereignty. Opposition to
this led to the formation of the Republican Party. Douglas
initially endorsed the Dred Scott decision of 1857. But during the
1858 Senate campaign, he argued its effect could be negated by
popular sovereignty. He also opposed the efforts of President
James Buchanan and his Southern allies to enact a Federal slave
code and impose the Lecompton Constitution on Kansas. In 1860, the
conflict over slavery led to the split in the Democratic Party in
the 1860 Convention. Hardline pro-slavery Southerners rejected
Douglas, and nominated their own candidate, Vice President John C.
Breckinridge, while the Northern Democrats nominated Douglas.
Douglas deeply believed in democracy, arguing the will of the
people should always be decisive. When civil war came in April
1861, he rallied his supporters to the Union cause with all his
energies, but he died of typhoid fever a few weeks later.
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