Today's
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Today, June 11, 2026
June 11, 1184 BC: Troy (Ilion): The
History Of Troy: The Trojan War: The Sack Of Troy (The Iliupersis)
(Greek: Iliou Persis, "Sack Of Ilium"): -- The ancient
Greek city of Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations
by Eratosthenes of Cyrene, a Greek mathematician, geographer,
poet, astronomer, music theorist and chief librarian at the
Library of Alexandria. April 24, 1184 BC is the traditional date
of the fall of Troy, though there are many different accountings
of the date In Greek mythology. The Trojan War was waged against
the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took
Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of
the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated
through many works of Greek literature, most notably Homer's
Iliad. The Iliad relates four days in the tenth year of the
decade-long siege of Troy; the Odyssey describes the journey home
of Odysseus, one of the war's heroes. Other parts of the war are
described in a cycle of epic poems, which have survived through
fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek
tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets
including Virgil and Ovid. The war originated from a quarrel
between the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, after Eris, the
goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple, sometimes
known as the Apple of Discord, marked "for the fairest".
Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as
the "fairest", should receive the apple. In exchange,
Aphrodite made Helen, the most beautiful of all women and wife of
Menelaus, fall in love with Paris, who took her to Troy.
Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and the brother of Helen's husband
Menelaus, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged
the city for ten years because of Paris' insult. After the deaths
of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax, and the
Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan
Horse. The Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans (except for some of
the women and children whom they kept or sold as slaves) and
desecrated the temples, thus earning the gods' wrath. Few of the
Achaeans returned safely to their homes and many founded colonies
in distant shores. The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas,
Aphrodite's son and one of the Trojans, who was said to have led
the surviving Trojans to modern-day Italy. The ancient Greeks
believed that Troy was located near the Dardanelles and that the
Trojan War was a historical event of the 13th or 12th century BC,
but by the mid-19th century, both the war and the city were widely
seen as mythological. In 1868, however, the German archaeologist
Heinrich Schliemann met Frank Calvert, who convinced Schliemann
that Troy was a real city at what is now Hissarlik in Turkey. On
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Today, June 11, 2026
June 10/11 323 BC: #DOTD: #RIP: Alexander
The Great, king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon
as Alexander III Of Macedon, one of history's most successful
military commanders, undefeated in battle, who spent most of his
ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia
and northeast Africa, creator of one of the largest empires of the
ancient world by the age of thirty, stretching from Greece to
northwestern India (b. 356 BC) #dies in the palace of
Nebuchadnezzar II, in Babylon, at age 32. There are two different
versions of Alexander's death and details of the death differ
slightly in each. Plutarch's account is that roughly 14 days
before his death, Alexander entertained admiral Nearchus, and
spent the night and next day drinking with Medius of Larissa. He
developed a fever, which worsened until he was unable to speak.
The common soldiers, anxious about his health, were granted the
right to file past him as he silently waved at them. In the second
account, Diodorus recounts that Alexander was struck with pain
after downing a large bowl of unmixed wine in honour of Heracles,
followed by 11 days of weakness; he did not develop a fever and
died after some agony. Arrian also mentioned this as an
alternative, but Plutarch specifically denied this claim. Given
the propensity of the Macedonian aristocracy to assassination,
foul play featured in multiple accounts of his death. Diodorus,
Plutarch, Arrian and Justin all mentioned the theory that
Alexander was poisoned. Justin stated that Alexander was the
victim of a poisoning conspiracy, Plutarch dismissed it as a
fabrication, while both Diodorus and Arrian noted that they
mentioned it only for the sake of completeness. The accounts were
nevertheless fairly consistent in designating Antipater, recently
removed as Macedonian viceroy, and at odds with Olympias, as the
head of the alleged plot. Perhaps taking his summons to Babylon as
a death sentence, and having seen the fate of Parmenion and
Philotas, Antipater purportedly arranged for Alexander to be
poisoned by his son Iollas, who was Alexander's wine-pourer. There
was even a suggestion that Aristotle may have participated. The
strongest argument against the poison theory is the fact that
twelve days passed between the start of his illness and his death;
such long-acting poisons were probably not available. However, in
a 2003 BBC documentary investigating the death of Alexander, Leo
Schep from the New Zealand National Poisons Centre proposed that
the plant white hellebore (Veratrum album), which was known in
antiquity, may have been used to poison Alexander. In a 2014
manuscript in the journal Clinical Toxicology, Schep suggested
Alexander's wine was spiked with Veratrum album, and that this
would produce poisoning symptoms that match the course of events
described in the Alexander Romance. Veratrum album poisoning can
have a prolonged course and it was suggested that if Alexander was
poisoned, Veratrum album offers the most plausible cause. Another
poisoning explanation put forward in 2010 proposed that the
circumstances of his death were compatible with poisoning by water
of the river Styx (modern-day Mavroneri in Arcadia, Greece) that
contained calicheamicin, a dangerous compound produced by
bacteria. The tomb of Alexander the Great is attested in several
historical accounts, but its current exact location remains an
enduring mystery. Following Alexander's death in Babylon, his body
was initially buried in Memphis, Egypt by one of his generals,
Ptolemy I Soter, before being transferred to Alexandria, Egypt,
where it was reburied. Julius Caesar, Cleopatra and Augustus,
among others, are noted as having visited Alexander's tomb in
Alexandria in antiquity. Its later fate is unknown, and it had
possibly been destroyed by the 4th or 5th centuries; since the
19th century, over one hundred official attempts have been made to
try to identify the site of Alexander's tomb in Alexandria.
Alexander The Great was born in Pella in 356 BC into the Argead
dynasty, and succeeded his father Philip II to the throne of
Macedon at the age of twenty as Alexander III. During his youth,
Alexander was tutored by Aristotle until age 16. After Philip's
assassination in 336 BC, he succeeded his father to the throne and
inherited a strong kingdom and an experienced army. Alexander was
awarded the generalship of Greece and used this authority to
launch his father's pan-Hellenic project to lead the Greeks in the
conquest of Persia. In 334 BC, he invaded the Achaemenid Empire
(Persian Empire) and began a series of campaigns that lasted ten
years. Following the conquest of Anatolia, Alexander broke the
power of Persia in a series of decisive battles, most notably the
battles of Issus and Gaugamela. He subsequently overthrew Persian
King Darius III and conquered the Achaemenid Empire in its
entirety. At that point, his empire stretched from the Adriatic
Sea to the Indus River. He endeavored to reach the "ends of
the world and the Great Outer Sea" and invaded India in 326
BC, winning an important victory over the Pauravas at the Battle
of the Hydaspes. He eventually turned back at the demand of his
homesick troops. Alexander died in Babylon in 323 BC, the city
that he planned to establish as his capital, without executing a
series of planned campaigns that would have begun with an invasion
of Arabia. In the years following his death, a series of civil
wars tore his empire apart, resulting in the establishment of
several states ruled by the Diadochi, Alexander's surviving
generals and heirs. Alexander's legacy includes the cultural
diffusion and syncretism which his conquests engendered, such as
Greco-Buddhism. He founded some twenty cities that bore his name,
most notably Alexandria in Egypt. Alexander's settlement of Greek
colonists and the resulting spread of Greek culture in the east
resulted in a new Hellenistic civilization, aspects of which were
still evident in the traditions of the Byzantine Empire in the
mid-15th century AD and the presence of Greek speakers in central
and far eastern Anatolia until the 1920s. Alexander became
legendary as a classical hero in the mold of Achilles, and he
features prominently in the history and mythic traditions of both
Greek and non-Greek cultures. He became the measure against which
military leaders compared themselves, and military academies
throughout the world still teach his tactics. He is often ranked
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Today's
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Today, June 11, 2026
June 11, 1509: The English Monarchy (The
Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of England): Royal Weddings: -- King Henry
VIII Of England marries Catherine Of Aragon in a low-key ceremony
held at the friar's church in Greenwich, Kent, England, some two
months after his reign began, and thirteen days before his
coronation. On May 23, 1533, the marriage was declared null and
void. Catherine (Spanish: Catalina) of Aragon (December 16, 1485 -
January 7, 1536) was Queen Of England from June 1509 until the
annullment of her marriage; she was previously Princess of Wales
as the wife of Henry's elder brother Arthur. The daughter of
Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II Of Aragon (the King and
Queen who united Spain and sponsored Christopher Columbus and his
voyage to the New World), Catherine was three years old when she
was betrothed to Arthur, Prince Of Wales, heir apparent to the
English throne. They married in 1501, but Arthur died five months
later. In 1507, she held the position of ambassador of the
Aragonese Crown in England, the first female ambassador in
European history. Catherine subsequently married Arthur's younger
brother, the recently ascended Henry VIII, in 1509. For six months
in 1513, she served as regent of England while Henry VIII was in
France. During that time the English won the Battle of Flodden, an
event in which Catherine played an important part with an
emotional speech about English courage. By 1525, Henry VIII was
infatuated with Anne Boleyn and dissatisfied that his marriage to
Catherine had produced no surviving sons, leaving their daughter,
the future Mary I Of England, as heir presumptive at a time when
there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne. He
sought to have their marriage annulled, setting in motion a chain
of events that led to England's schism with the Catholic Church.
When Pope Clement VII refused to annul the marriage, Henry defied
him by assuming supremacy over religious matters. In 1533 their
marriage was consequently declared invalid and Henry married Anne
on the judgement of clergy in England, without reference to the
Pope. Catherine refused to accept Henry as Supreme Head Of The
Church Of England and considered herself the King's rightful wife
and queen, attracting much popular sympathy. Despite this, she was
acknowledged only as Dowager Princess of Wales by Henry. After
being banished from court, she lived out the remainder of her life
at Kimbolton Castle, and died there on 7 January 1536. English
people held Catherine in high esteem, and her death set off
tremendous mourning. The controversial book The Education of a
Christian Woman by Juan Luis Vives, which claimed women have the
right to an education, was commissioned by and dedicated to her.
Such was Catherine's impression on people that even her enemy,
Thomas Cromwell, said of her, "If not for her sex, she could
have defied all the heroes of History." She successfully
appealed for the lives of the rebels involved in the Evil May Day
(the name of a riot which took place in 1517 as a protest against
foreigners living in London), for the sake of their families.
Catherine also won widespread admiration by starting an extensive
programme for the relief of the poor. She was a patron of
Renaissance humanism, and a friend of the great scholars Erasmus
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Today, June 11, 2026
June 11, 1864: #BOTD: #HBD! Richard
Strauss, leading German composer and conductor of the late
Romantic and early modern eras, best known for his tone poems and
operas (d. September 8, 1949) is #born Richard Georg Strauss in
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Confederation. A successor of
Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss represents, along
with Gustav Mahler, the late flowering of German Romanticism, in
which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an
advanced harmonic style. Strauss's compositional output began in
1870 when he was just six years old and lasted until his death
nearly eighty years later. His first tone poem to achieve wide
acclaim was Don Juan, and this was followed by other lauded works
of this kind, including Death and Transfiguration, Till
Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote,
Ein Heldenleben, Symphonia Domestica, and An Alpine Symphony. His
first opera to achieve international fame was Salome which used a
libretto by Hedwig Lachmann that was a German translation of the
French play Salome by Oscar Wilde. This was followed by several
critically acclaimed operas with librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal:
Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Frau ohne
Schatten, Die agyptische Helena, and Arabella. His last operas,
Daphne, Friedenstag, Die Liebe der Danae and Capriccio used
libretti written by Joseph Gregor, the Viennese theatre historian.
Other well-known works by Strauss include two symphonies, lieder
(especially the Four Last Songs), the Violin Concerto in D minor,
the Horn Concerto No. 1, Horn Concerto No. 2, his Oboe Concerto
and other instrumental works such as Metamorphosen. A prominent
conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, Strauss enjoyed
quasi-celebrity status as his compositions became standards of
orchestral and operatic repertoire. He was chiefly admired for his
interpretations of the works of Liszt, Mozart, and Wagner in
addition to his own works. A conducting disciple of Hans von
Bulow, Strauss began his conducting career as Bulow's assistant
with the Meiningen Court Orchestra in 1883. After Bulow resigned
in 1885, Strauss served as that orchestra's primary conductor for
five months before being appointed to the conducting staff of the
Bavarian State Opera where he worked as third conductor from 1886
to 1889. He then served as principal conductor of the Deutsches
Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar from 1889 to 1894. In
1894 he made his conducting debut at the Bayreuth Festival,
conducting Wagner's Tannhauser with his wife, soprano Pauline de
Ahna, singing Elisabeth. He then returned to the Bavarian State
Opera, this time as principal conductor, from 1894 to 1898, after
which he was principal conductor of the Berlin State Opera from
1898 to 1913. From 1919 to 1924 he was principal conductor of the
Vienna State Opera, and in 1920 he co-founded the Salzburg
Festival. In addition to these posts, Strauss was a frequent guest
conductor in opera houses and with orchestras internationally. In
1933 Strauss was appointed to two important positions in the
musical life of Nazi Germany: head of the Reichsmusikkammer and
principal conductor of the Bayreuth Festival. The latter role he
accepted after conductor Arturo Toscanini had resigned from the
position in protest against the Nazi Party. These positions have
led some to criticize Strauss for his seeming collaboration with
the Nazis. However, Strauss's daughter-in-law, Alice Grab Strauss
[nee von Hermannsworth], was Jewish and much of his apparent
acquiescence to the Nazi Party was done to save her life and the
lives of her children (his Jewish grandchildren). He was also
apolitical, and took the Reichsmusikkammer post to advance
copyright protections for composers, attempting as well to
preserve performances of works by banned composers such as Mahler
and Felix Mendelssohn. Further, Strauss insisted on using a Jewish
librettist, Stefan Zweig, for his opera Die schweigsame Frau which
ultimately led to his firing from the Reichsmusikkammer and
Bayreuth. His opera Friedenstag, which premiered just before the
outbreak of World War II, was a thinly veiled criticism of the
Nazi Party that attempted to persuade Germans to abandon violence
for peace. Thanks to his influence, his daughter-in-law was placed
under protected house arrest during the war, but despite extensive
efforts he was unable to save dozens of his in-laws from being
killed in Nazi concentration camps. In 1948, a year before his
death, he was cleared of any wrongdoing by a denazification
tribunal in Munich. Richard Strauss died quietly of kidney failure
in his sleep shortly after 2 PM in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West
Germany. From his death-bed, typical of his enduring sense of
humour, he commented to his daughter-in-law Alice, "dying is
just as I composed it in Tod Und Verklarung" (German: "Death
And Transfiguration"). Georg Solti, who had arranged
Strauss's 85th birthday celebration, also directed an orchestra
during Strauss's burial. The conductor later described how, during
the singing of the famous trio from Rosenkavalier, "each
singer broke down in tears and dropped out of the ensemble, but
they recovered themselves and we all ended together".
Strauss's wife, Pauline de Ahna, died eight months later on May 13
1950 at the age of 88. He is buried at the Richard Strauss Villa
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June 11, 1905: #BOTD: #HBD! Harry Marble,
long-time radio and television reporter and announcer who became
familiar to millions in World War II as the voice of CBS Radio's
''News Of The World" and for years as one of the announcers
and reporters on the CBS radio program ''You Are There'' (d. July
31, 1982) is #born Harry W. Marble in Brownville, Maine. Harry
Marble's first radio position was with station WORL in Boston. He
joined CBS in New York in 1941. When CBS moved the "Your Are
There" program to the West Coast, he joined it to do several
shows on film. In 1955, he left CBS to work for WGAN radio and
television in Portland, until he retired in the last 1970s. Harry
Marble died on a Sunday in Greenland Cove, Maine where he had
lived for 27 years after a long illness, aged 77 years. He left
behind his wife, Doris Havens Marble, and a sister, Mrs. Richard
Ferris of Saugus, Massachusetts. His burial details are not known
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June 11, 1911: #BOTD: #HBD! Long John
Nebel, paranormal talk show radio host (d. April 10, 1978) is
#born John Zimmerman in Chicago, Illinois. Long John Nebel was,
from the mid-1950s until his death in 1978, a hugely popular,
influential all-night New York City talk radio show host with
millions of regular listeners. He originated the overnight UFO and
paranormal radio talk show format, and had a fanatically loyal
following to his syndicated program, which dealt mainly with
anomalous phenomena, UFOs, and other offbeat topics. Nebel's
format paved the way for later radio hosts, including Art Bell,
George Noory of Coast to Coast AM, Hilly Rose, Jeff Rense, and
Clyde Lewis, all of whom have broadcast shows on paranormal
topics. Nebel also used one of the first tape delay systems in
radio, using seven-second delay to give engineers a chance to edit
unacceptable language before broadcast. Nebel was born in Chicago,
Illinois, United States. He dropped out of school after the eighth
grade, but he was an avid reader throughout his life, and he was
conversant on many topics. Rumor had it that he was the son of a
physician and ran away with a circus as a youngster. According to
his own account in The Way Out World (1961), Nebel moved to New
York City "around 1930", at the age of 19. His first job
there was usher in the New York Paramount Theater. Nebel pursued a
number of careers in his young adulthood (including a long period
as a freelance photographer and a stint as a sidewalk salesman)
before establishing the successful Long John's Auctions, an
auction and consignment store in New Jersey. At his auction barn
in New Jersey, he was billed as "Long John, the gab and gavel
man", and people would attend just for an evening's
entertainment. The nickname "Long John Nebel" had
several sources: "Long John" was a nickname for his
tall, slender build (he stood 6'4" and never weighed more
than about 160 pounds. Nebel did not seek a career in radio until
around 1954, when he was 43 years old. In 1972, Nebel married the
former pin-up model Candy Jones, who became the co-host of his
show. Her controversial claims of having been a victim of CIA
mind-control influenced the direction of the program during its
last six years on the air. In the mid-1950s, radio throughout the
United States was floundering and trying to redefine itself after
the explosive popularity of television. Over several years, Nebel
had become friends with many people at various New York radio
stations when he bought commercial time to advertise his auction
house. WOR, one of New York's leading stations, faced poor ratings
in 1954 when Nebel proposed an interview show. The format, as
Donald Bain writes, "would be devoted to discussing strange
and unexplained topics". WOR's management was not especially
impressed by Nebel's idea. However, deciding they had little to
lose (following WOR's failed foray into broadcasting facsimile
editions of the morning paper during the early morning hours), WOR
offered him a midnight to 5:30 am time slot, the poorest-rated
hours. Building on the modest fame of his auction house (and also
hoping to generate more business), he used the same name, Long
John, when he went on radio. To the surprise of WOR's management,
Nebel's show was a quick success among New York's night-owls and
early risers. Unidentified flying objects were discussed almost
daily, alongside topics such as voodoo, witchcraft,
parapsychology, hypnotism, conspiracy theories, and ghosts.
Perhaps fittingly for an overnight show, one of Nebel's sponsors
was No-Doz caffeine pills. Within a few months Nebel was getting
not only high ratings, but press attention from throughout the
United States for his distinctive and in many ways unprecedented
program (WOR's powerful signal assured that Nebel's show was
broadcast to over half of the United States' population). Bain
notes that some listeners were put off by his "grating, often
vicious manner", but many more adored him because of (or in
spite of) his abrasive style. Keith writes: "Though Nebel
could be brusque and even imperious in the phone, he was always a
sympathetic listener and compasionate host." WOR was worried
about some of Nebel's guests or callers using profanity on the
air. Nebel used one of the first tape delay systems in radio,
giving engineers a chance to edit any unacceptable language before
it was broadcast. In 1956, engineer Russell Tinklepaugh invented
the system Nebel used. He built a modified Ampex 300 tape deck
with an additional set of heads. The deck was able to record on a
loop of 1/4" tape, and carry the tape around the perimeter of
the deck to be played on the second set of heads. This resulted in
a delay of several seconds, enough time to hit the "stop"
button to avoid airing foul language. (ref.ex-WOR engineer, Frank
Cernese) In 1962, WNBC offered Nebel more than 100K USD per year,
a near record sum for a radio personality at the time, to begin
broadcasting from their station, and he accepted the offer. He
continued there until 1973, when WNBC, facing sliding ratings,
decided to switch to an all rock music format. After a protracted
battle with station management, Nebel refused to change the
content of his show and resigned from the station in protest.
According to Bain, one anonymous station employee insisted that
the management at WNBC "deliberately fucked up [Nebel's]
career" by spreading unfounded rumors about the format switch
and Nebel's reaction to it. Nebel was quickly hired by WMCA,
where, from 1973 to 1977, he continued his program, virtually
unchanged from WNBC. The show was still popular, although his
ratings on the less powerful WMCA were not as high as they had
been at WNBC. At WMCA, John was constantly pestered by prank
callers who often told him "Yes John, I'm coming down there,
and I'm going to bash your head!" Beginning in 1977, Nebel's
show was broadcast nationwide over the Mutual Broadcasting System
(MBS), replacing Mutual's national distribution of Herb Jepko's
radio talk show. Nebel wrote two books that dealt with some of the
most interesting of his guests. The Way Out World, published in
1961, covered his years at WOR and included UFO contactees, a
stage magician, the Shaver Mystery, Edgar Cayce, and much more,
which Nebel said he had gleaned from his "twenty thousand
hours of interviewing and research". His second book, The
Psychic World Around Us, co-written with Sanford M. Teller and
published in 1969, dealt more specifically with tales of the
paranormal and the guests whom he had interviewed while at WNBC.
Nebel had had a short-lived marriage early in his life, and had a
daughter Jackie from that marriage. In the early 60's he was
married to Margaret Dallas, but he was single again in 1972 when
he met and married the fashion model Candy Jones. She had been one
of the favorite pin up girls of the World War II era. The marriage
took place after a whirlwind, month-long courtship, although Nebel
and Jones had met briefly when Nebel was a photographer decades
earlier. Jones became the co-host of Nebel's show almost
immediately, and continued in this role until his death. Due to
Jones's mood swings and shifts in personality, and some unusual
and otherwise-unexplainable events in her life, Nebel said that he
had come to suspect she had been a victim of a CIA mind control
plot. Her story, with its conspiracy theory overtones, had a
definite influence on the content of Nebel's radio show during its
final six years. Although long plagued with heart disease, he was
diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1971. Nebel sought various
treatments, but by the mid-1970s, he was in very poor health. He
continued broadcasting, however, usually six nights per week, with
Candy Jones as his co-host. Long John Nebel died aged 66 in
Manhattan, New York City. His burial details are not disclosed.
His Mutual network slot was taken over by Larry King. His show on
WOR, called "Partyline", was handed to James Randi,
skeptic and frequent guest on Nebel's show over the years. Jackie
Gleason was a frequent guest. On one show, Gleason offered US 100K
USD to anyone with physical proof of aliens visiting Earth
(Gleason later upped the amount to US 1M USD but it was never
claimed). Another memorable show found Gleason undertaking a
sharp, occasionally even savage, debate with publisher Gray
Barker. Gleason took Gray to task for presenting largely
unsubstantiated tales of the Men in Black and contactees as
factual. Nebel's commercials were often as entertaining as the
program itself. Nebel was a master story teller who could spin
yarns around the virtues of his sponsors. Commercials often ran
several minutes. His seven-minute commercial for a pornographic
movie ("It Happened in Hollywood") was unforgettable.
Apparently, he had not reviewed the copy before reading it cold on
the air and he fell victim to uncontrollable fits of laughter
throughout his long and fruitless attempt to read it. Another long
running sponsor was Ho-Ho's Chinese Restaurant - "Ho means
Good, Ho-Ho means Good-Good". Flying saucers were in the news
regularly throughout the 1950s and 1960s and were a frequent topic
on Nebel's show. Guests related to this subject included retired
Marine Corps Major Donald Keyhoe, contactees George Adamski and
George Van Tassel, artist Paulina Peavy, and skeptics like Arthur
C. Clarke and Lester del Rey. Nebel discussed the so-called Shaver
Mystery, the Flatwoods monster, the Nazca Lines, and many other
uncommon subjects. Nebel gave a forum to Otis T. Carr, an
Oklahoman who claimed to have discovered the secret of flying
saucer propulsion, by studying the works of Nikola Tesla. With
some of his regular panelists, Nebel journeyed to Oklahoma City
for the unveiling of Carr's saucer. (Carr was later convicted of
fraud and jailed after he took several hundred thousand dollars
from investors, and never produced his prototype.) Nebel was not
above a few pranks, all in the name of showmanship and ratings: on
one occasion, for example, he colluded with a friend to offer
testimony supporting a guest's claims of astral projection. Nebel
spent weeks on his show developing a tale for his audience that
the Empire State Building was rotated on giant ball bearings in
the wee hours of the morning. At first Nebel said the motion was
almost imperceptible. As the prank developed over time, Nebel
began telling callers that if they visited the Empire State
Building very late at night, they would find the shops at ground
level had switched location to the block around the corner. Nebel
also was fond of telling his audience that the finest candle wicks
were grown on "wick farms" located in the Midwest. The
fact that Nebel's second wife, Candy Jones claimed to have been
the subject of CIA experiments in mind-control was discounted as a
prank by those who pointed out his history of promoting hoaxes.
Nebel, on the other hand, said that he believed what Jones had
revealed to him under hypnosis, and never believed that her story
was false in any way. Jackie Gleason wrote in his introduction to
Bain's biography of Nebel: "Why is [Nebel] so strangely
entertaining?... because the best entertainment is entertainment
that opens your mind and tells you the world is bigger than you
thought it was." Radio historian Michael C. Keith wrote: "Few
people before or since have brought to all-night radio the kind of
ingenuity, originality and variety that Nebel did. He represents
one of post-World War II radio's creative high points and another
example of the special nature of overnight programming... He would
come to be regarded as one of after-hours radio's true pioneers."
Nebel was a formative influence on talk radio: Donald Bain noted
that in the early 1970s: "Fledgling (radio) announcers at
broadcasting schools around the country were played tapes of Nebel
shows as part of their course study." Recordings of Nebel's
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Today, June 11, 2026
June 11, 1933: #BOTD: #HBD! Gene Wilder,
American actor, comedian, writer, filmmaker, director and
screenwriter (d. August 29, 2016) is #born Jerome Silberman in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Jeanne (Baer) and William J.
Silberman, a manufacturer and salesman of novelty items. His
father was a Russian-Jewish immigrant, as were his maternal
grandparents. He was known mainly for his comedic roles, but also
for his portrayal of Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the
Chocolate Factory (1971). He collaborated with Mel Brooks on the
films The Producers (1967), Blazing Saddles (1974) and Young
Frankenstein (1974), as well as with Richard Pryor in the films
Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), See No Evil, Hear No Evil
(1989) and Another You (1991).[1] He also starred in Woody Allen's
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid
to Ask) (1972). Wilder began his career on stage, and made his
screen debut in an episode of the TV series The Play of the Week
in 1961. Although his first film role was portraying a hostage in
the 1967 motion picture Bonnie and Clyde, Wilder's first major
role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film The Producers, for
which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor. This was the first in a series of collaborations with
writer/director Mel Brooks, including 1974's Blazing Saddles and
Young Frankenstein, which Wilder co-wrote, garnering the pair an
Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Wilder
directed and wrote several of his own films, including The Woman
in Red (1984). With his third wife, Gilda Radner, he starred in
three films, the last two of which he also directed. Her 1989
death from ovarian cancer led to his active involvement in
promoting cancer awareness and treatment, helping found the Gilda
Radner Ovarian Cancer Detection Center in Los Angeles and
co-founding Gilda's Club. After his last acting performance in
2003 - a guest role on Will & Grace for which he received an
Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Wilder turned his
attention to writing. He produced a memoir in 2005, Kiss Me Like a
Stranger: My Search for Love and Art; a collection of stories,
What Is This Thing Called Love? (2010); and the novels My French
Whore (2007), The Woman Who Wouldn't (2008), and Something to
Remember You By (2013). Gene Wilder died at the age of 83, at home
in Stamford, Connecticut, from complications of Alzheimer's
disease. He had been diagnosed 3 years before his death but kept
knowledge of his condition private. According to his family,
Wilder died while listening to one of his favorite songs, a
rendition of "Over the Rainbow" sung by Ella Fitzgerald.
His remains were cremated, and his ashes scattered in the backyard
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Today, June 11, 2026
June 11, 1935: The History Of
Broadcasting: The History Of Radio Broadcasting: FM Broadcasting:
The History Of FM Broadcasting: -- Edwin Armstrong, Inventor and
Columbia University Professor, gives the first public test
demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine,
New Jersey. "Static" interference - extraneous noises
caused by sources such as thunderstorms and electrical equipment -
bedeviled early radio communication using amplitude modulation
(AM) and perplexed numerous inventors attempting to eliminate it.
Many ideas for static elimination were investigated, with little
success. In the mid-1920s, Armstrong began researching whether he
could come up with a solution. In early 1928 Armstrong began
researching the capabilities of frequency modulation. Working in
secret in the basement laboratory of Columbia's Philosophy Hall,
Armstrong slowly developed what eventually resulted in wide-band
FM. Four years later, on July 18, 1939, a 400-foot antenna tower
in Alpine, New Jersey broadcast the very first FM transmission to
the general radio listening audience. Columbia University's
WKCR-FM, therefore shares an especial history with Armstrong and
his groundbreaking work, which accounts for the phrase "The
Original FM" occasionally heard on WKCR's broadcasts. With
the station's beginnings as the Columbia University Radio Club
(CURC) as early as 1936, the organization was not yet a radio
station as we know it, but rather an organization concerned with
the technology of radio communications. As membership grew,
however, the nascent club turned its efforts to general
broadcasting. Armstrong helped the CURC in their early efforts,
donating a microphone and turntables when they designed their
first makeshift studio in a Columbia University dorm room at 1107
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Today, June 11, 2026
June 11, 1937: The Interwar Period (The
Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Soviet Union (The Union Of
Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR): The History Of The Soviet
Union: Mass Repression In The Soviet Union: Purges Of The
Communist Party Of The Soviet Union: Stalinism: The Great Purge
(The Great Terror [Russian: Bol'shoy Terror, "The Big
Terror"], The Year Of '37, The Yezhovshina [Russian: "The
Period Of Yezhov" {Nikolai Yezhov}]): The Case of Trotskyist
Anti-Soviet Military Organization (The Military Case, The
Tukhachevsky Case): -- At 11:35 PM, the Soviet Supreme Court's
special military tribunal declares guilty and sentences to death
eight army leaders: 1) Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, 2) Iona
Yakir, 3) Ieronim Uborevich, 4) Robert Eideman, 5) August Kork, 6)
Vitovt Putna, 7) Boris Feldman and 8) Vitaly Primakov; Yakov
Gamarnik, who was among the accused, committed suicide before the
investigations began. Most of the judges were in fear for their
lives; one was heard to comment, "Tomorrow I'll be put in the
same place." (Five of the eight officers serving as judges in
that court martial were later executed themselves.). Stalin, who
was awaiting the verdict with Molotov, Kaganovich, and Yezhov, did
not even examine the transcripts. He simply said, "Agreed.".
The Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization, also
known as The Military Case, was a secret trial, unlike the Moscow
Show Trials, both of which are part of The Great Purge, also known
as The Great Terror, Joseph Stalin's campaign of political
repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938,
involving a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and
government officials, repression of peasants and the Red Army
leadership, widespread police surveillance, suspicion of
"saboteurs", "counter-revolutionaries",
imprisonment, and arbitrary executions. Being as they were the
Soviet Union's top military echelon, their talents were not at
hand to help defend the nation when Nazi Germany invaded in 1941,
and the nation suffered greatly as a result - a fate made ironic
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Today, June 11, 2026
June 11, 1938: China: The History Of
China: The Century Of Humiliation (The Hundred Years Of National
Humiliation): The Sino-Japanese Wars: World War II: The
Asia-Pacific War: The Second Sino-Japanese War (The War Of
Resistance Against Japanese Aggression): The Battle Of Wuhan
(Chinese: Wuhan Huizhan; Japanese: Bukansakusen) (The Defence Of
Wuhan [Chinese: Wuhan Baowei Zhan], The Capture Of Wuhan
[Japanese: Bukan No Senryo]): -- The Battle Of Wuhan begins, the
longest, largest and arguably the most significant battle in the
early stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War, a large-scale battle
with engagements that take place across vast areas of Anhui,
Henan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Hubei provinces over a period of
four and a half months. More than one million National
Revolutionary Army troops from the Fifth and Ninth War Zone were
put under the direct command of Chiang Kai-shek, defending Wuhan
from the Central China Area Army of the Imperial Japanese Army led
by Shunroku Hata. Chinese forces were also supported by Soviet
Volunteer Group, a group of volunteer pilots from Soviet Air
Forces. The Soviet Volunteer Group was the volunteer part of the
Soviet Air Forces sent to support the Republic Of China during the
Second Sino-Japanese War between 1937 and 1941. After the Marco
Polo Bridge Incident, the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact was
signed and strong Soviet support was given to China by the Soviet
Union, including the volunteer squadrons. China paid for the
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Today, June 11, 2026
June 11, 1940: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World
War II: The Battle Of The Mediterranean: The Siege Of Malta (World
War II): -- The two-Year military campaign for the control of the
strategically important island of Malta begins, then a British
colony, which pitted the air forces and navies of Italy and
Germany against the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy. The
opening of a new front in North Africa in June 1940 increased
Malta's already considerable value. British air and sea forces
based on the island could attack Axis ships transporting vital
supplies and reinforcements from Europe; Churchill called the
island an "unsinkable aircraft carrier". General Erwin
Rommel, in de facto field command of Axis forces in North Africa,
recognised its importance quickly. In May 1941, he warned that
"Without Malta the Axis will end by losing control of North
Africa". The Axis resolved to bomb or starve Malta into
submission, by attacking its ports, towns, cities, and Allied
shipping supplying the island. Malta was one of the most
intensively bombed areas during the war. The Luftwaffe (German Air
Force) and the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force) flew a
total of 3,000 bombing raids over a period of two years in an
effort to destroy RAF defences and the ports. Success would have
made possible a combined German-Italian amphibious landing
(Operation Herkules) supported by German airborne forces
(Fallschirmjaeger), but this did not happen. In the event, Allied
convoys were able to supply and reinforce Malta, while the RAF
defended its airspace, though at great cost in material and lives.
In November 1942 the Axis lost the Second Battle Of El Alamein,
and the Allies landed forces in Vichy French Morocco and Algeria
under Operation Torch. The Axis diverted their forces to the
Battle of Tunisia, and attacks on Malta were rapidly reduced. The
siege effectively ended in November 1942. In December 1942, air
and sea forces operating from Malta went over to the offensive. By
May 1943, they had sunk 230 Axis ships in 164 days, the highest
Allied sinking rate of the war. The Allied victory in Malta played
a major role in the eventual Allied success in North Africa. The
George Cross (GC), the second highest award of the United Kingdom
honours system, was given to the Maltese by King George VI himself
for its gallantry on April 15, 1942. It is awarded "for acts
of the greatest heroism or for most conspicuous courage in
circumstance of extreme danger", not in the presence of the
enemy, to members of the British armed forces and to British
civilians. Posthumous awards have been allowed since it was
instituted. It was previously awarded to Commonwealth countries,
most of which have established their own honours systems and no
longer recommend British honours. It may be awarded to a person of
any military rank in any service and to civilians including
police, emergency services and merchant seamen. Many of the awards
have been personally presented by the British monarch to both
recipients and in the case of posthumous awards to next of kin.
These investitures are usually held at Buckingham Palace. The
Siege Of Malta concluded with a glorious Maltese, British and
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Today, June 11, 2026
June 11, 1944: Naval History: The History
Of The United States Navy: The New United States Navy (The New
Navy, The United States Navy 1885-Present): Naval Commissions:
Battleships: The USS Missouri (BB-63): -- USS Missouri, an
Iowa-class battleship that was the last battleship built by the
United States Navy and the last battleship the United States
commissioned, future site of the signing of the Japanese
Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned with Captain William
Callaghan serving as her first commander. The keel for Missouri
had been laid down at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on January 6, 1941 in
Slipway 1, and she was launched on January 29, 1944 before a crowd
of 20,000 to 30,000 spectators. At the launching ceremony, the
ship was christened by Margaret Truman, the ship sponsor and
daughter of Harry S. Truman, then one of the senators from the
ship's namesake state; Truman himself gave a speech at the
ceremony. The ship was assigned to the Pacific Theater during
World War II, where she participated in the Battles of Iwo Jima
and Okinawa and shelled the Japanese home islands. Her quarterdeck
was the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of
World War II. After World War II, Missouri served in various
diplomatic, show of force and training missions. In 1950, the ship
ran aground during high tide in Chesapeake Bay and after great
effort was re-floated several weeks later. She later fought in the
Korean War during two tours between 1950 and 1953. Missouri was
the first American battleship to arrive in Korean waters and
served as the flagship for several admirals. The battleship took
part in numerous shore bombardment operations and also served in a
screening role for aircraft carriers. Missouri was decommissioned
in 1955 and transferred to the reserve fleet (also known as the
"Mothball Fleet"). Missouri was reactivated and
modernized in 1984 as part of the 600-ship Navy plan of The Reagan
Administration. Cruise missile and anti-ship missile launchers
were added along with updated electronics. The ship served in the
Persian Gulf escorting oil tankers during threats from Iran, often
while keeping her fire-control systems trained on land-based
Iranian missile launchers. She served in Operation Desert Storm in
1991 including providing fire support. Missouri was again
decommissioned in 1992, but remained on the Naval Vessel Register
until her name was struck in 1995. In 1998, she was donated to the
USS Missouri Memorial Association and became a museum ship at
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, serving in that capacity to this day. On
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Today, June 11, 2026
June 11, 1963: Civil Rights Movements:
The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Anti-Black Racism
In The United States: School Segregation: School Segregation In
The United States: School Desegregation: School Desegregation In
The United States: The Desegregation Of The University Of Alabama:
The Stand In The Schoolhouse Door: -- Alabama Governor George
Wallace defiantly makes his infamous "Stand In The
Schoolhouse Door" by standing at the door of Foster
Auditorium at the University Of Alabama in an attempt to block two
black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that
school, in a symbolic attempt to keep his inaugural promise of
"segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever".
Later in the day, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order
11111, which federalized the Alabama National Guard, and Guard
General Henry V. Graham then commanded Wallace to step aside.
Wallace spoke further, but eventually moved, and Malone and Hood
completed their registration accompanied by these troops. The
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Today, June 11, 2026
June 11, 1963: Civil Rights Movements:
The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Anti-Black Racism
In The United States: School Segregation: School Segregation In
The United States: School Desegregation: School Desegregation In
The United States: The Desegregation Of The University Of Alabama:
The Stand In The Schoolhouse Door: The Presidency Of John F.
Kennedy: Addresses To The Nation: Oval Office Addresses: The Oval
Office Address Of June 11, 1964 ("The Report To The American
People On Civil Rights"): -- The same evening as The Stand In
The Schoolhouse Door, John F. Kennedy delivers between 8:00-8:13
PM EDT an Oval Office Address (a speech made from the Oval Office
in the White House by the President of the United States to
Americans by television and radio) to the nation, explaining his
decision to issue Executive Order 11111 which federalized the
Alabama National Guard to ensure that black students Vivian Malone
and James Hood could register at the University Of Alabama, and
proposing the Civil Rights Act Of 1964 which would revolutionize
American society, providing equal access to public facilities, end
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June 11: International Lynx Day: -- These
wild felines, known for tufted ears and stealthy ways, roam their
habitats with a cool confidence that's totally captivating. A
medium-sized feline that prefers a forest home, the lynx is a
nocturnal, solitary cat that enjoys hunting rabbits as well as
other rodents or sometimes small deer. These elusive cats have a
lifespan of around 17 years in the wild and about 20 years in
captivity, and their coat color can vary based on the climate they
live in. The Eurasian lynx resides in the central and eastern
regions of Europe, while the Iberian lynx can be found in
southwest Spain, and both are considered in danger of extinction.
In North America, some feline cousins are the Canadian lynx and
the bobcat, but their populations are considered stable and not at
risk. International Lynx Day is here to feature these cats and
raise awareness about their potentially irreversible plight!
Through hunting, loss of habitat, and low populations of prey
(particularly wild rabbits), the lynx has found it very difficult
to survive over the past 150 years. Since the 1970s, conservation
projects began to identify the shrinking size of the lynx
populations and the Eurasian lynx was the first subtype to be
reintroduced and protected. Several years later, the Iberian lynx
was also identified as at risk and made its way onto endangered
lists for protection. Today, though the populations of the lynx do
seem to be growing, they are still in need of help. Efforts toward
conservation of these animals mean providing them adequate places
to live and hunt, without the threat of unnatural causes of death.
Currently the number of Euraisian lynx is estimated to be around
9000 while the Iberian lynx is still only around 400, making it
the most endangered wildcat in the world. International Lynx Day
got its start in 2017 when it was first established as a
collaborative effort initiated by the transboundary 3Lynx Project.
Since then, the day has been observed each year to raise awareness
for the very real threat that is posed against this majestic cat.
International Lynx Day seeks to increase knowledge and education
surrounding the plight of these felines, while raising funds and
efforts to protect them as their populations are given the time
and opportunity to increase. This is a day to consider a variety
of ways to support this amazing cause, bringing restoration back
to nature through the protection and care of these beautiful
creatures in their natural habitat.
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June 11: National Making Life Beautiful
Day: -- It's up to us to decide to make life beautiful every day,
so to encourage such a mindset, we bring you the beautiful facts
about this very special day. First and foremost, the purpose of
National Making Life Beautiful Day is to celebrate those who make
life beautiful for others - be it our own or a larger group of
people. The truly freeing part is that you often do not even
realize when or how you are creating beauty in the life of
another. You could be investing in relationships, or lobbying for
causes you feel strongly about, or just encouraging someone when
they feel blue - these are all beautiful actions that are bound to
have a ripple effect. The word beauty itself is so vast that
essentially everyone deserves to be celebrated on this day, just
for adding beauty to the life of at least one other person in some
subjective way. One can never underestimate the beauty of making
someone else feel good about themselves or love themselves a
little more, so this day was founded in the hopes that this form
of beauty would spread. The company's mission statement is
threefold, aiming to achieve beauty through "pure product
innovation", "building relationships" and "beauty
that comes from personal success". They also tied up with the
non-profit Foundation Apriority, which supports womens' charitable
initiatives. British Romantic poet John Keats wrote, "A thing
of beauty is a joy forever," and that assures us that the
impact we may have on someone's life can be a memory that brings
joy to them forever. Everyone expresses things in different ways.
Some may create art to make life beautiful for many, while others
may add beauty by simply performing their job well, especially in
the case of service providers and laborers. These beautiful people
serve, empower, and lead by example, so this day needs to be a
celebration of them.
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June 11, 2025: #DOTD: #RIP: Brian Wilson,
American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and genius
who co-founded the Beach Boys, one of the greatest and most
pioneering songwriters and record producers of the twentieth
century (b. June 20, 1942) #dies in his sleep in his Beverly
Hills, California home, nine days before his 83rd birthday. Al
Jardine later reported that Wilson had been struggling with
long-term effects of COVID-19 since his last tour: "That was
the end of it. He never came back after that." Family and
associates, including Jardine and Mike Love, paid tribute to
Wilson on social media, while media outlets published eulogies
written by Van Dyke Parks, Darian Sahanaja, and biographer David
Leaf. Many other musicians, artists, and celebrities offered
public acknowledgements. His remains were cremated; as of what
would have been his 83rd birthday, the final disposition of his
ashes are not publicly disclosed. At the time of his death, Wilson
had left behind a substantial body of unreleased work, including
the albums Adult/Child and Sweet Insanity, a large collection of
1980s demos, and recordings created with Dennis Wilson, Gary
Usher, Andy Paley, and Joe Thomas. There were also tentative
releases scheduled for Adult/Child and the Paley sessions. Cows in
the Pasture, the unfinished album he had produced for Fred Vail in
1970, had been planned for release in 2025 alongside a docuseries
about Vail and the album's making. In 2026, Adult/Child was
released as a part of We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years,
an expanded reissue of Love You. Brian Wilson was born Brian
Douglas Wilson at Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood,
California. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, Wilson
wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the group.
In addition to his lifelong struggles with mental illness, Wilson
is known for his unorthodox approaches to pop composition and
mastery of recording techniques, and he is widely acknowledged as
one of the most innovative and significant songwriters of the late
20th century. The Beach Boys were formed by Brian, his brothers
Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine.
Brian, who grew up influenced by 1950s rock and roll and
jazz-based vocal groups, originally functioned as the band's
songwriter, producer, co-lead vocalist, bassist, keyboardist, and
de facto leader. He co-wrote, arranged, and produced their LP Pet
Sounds, considered one of the greatest albums ever made. The
intended follow-up, Smile, was canceled for various reasons, which
included Wilson's deteriorating mental health. As he suffered
repeated nervous breakdowns, Wilson's contributions to the Beach
Boys diminished, and his erratic behavior led to tensions with the
band. In the 1970s, he was increasingly reputed for his hermitic
lifestyle and substance abuse. Following a court-ordered removal
from the care of psychologist Eugene Landy, Wilson started
receiving conventional medical treatment, and in the late 1990s,
he began performing and recording consistently as a solo artist.
He remains a member of the Beach Boys' corporation, Brother
Records Incorporated. Wilson was the first pop artist credited for
writing, arranging, producing, and performing his own material. He
is considered a major innovator in the field of music production,
the principal originator of the California Sound, one of the first
music producer auteurs, and one of the most famous examples of the
outsider musician. Only 21 years old when he received the freedom
to produce his own records with total creative autonomy, he
ignited an explosion of like-minded California producers,
supplanting New York as the center of popular records, and
becoming the first rock producer to use the studio as its own
instrument. Wilson effectively set a precedent that allowed bands
and artists to enter a recording studio and act as their own
producers or co-producers. The zeitgeist of the early 1960s is
commonly associated to his early songs, and he helped develop the
sound of the wistful Flower Power era that proceeded. In later
years, Wilson was regarded as a "godfather" to an era of
indie musicians who were inspired by his melodic sensibilities,
chamber pop orchestrations, and recording explorations. He is
often depicted in media as a "genius". His honors
include being inducted into the 1988 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
and winning Grammy Awards for Brian Wilson Presents Smile (2004)
and The Smile Sessions (2011). In lists published by Rolling
Stone, Wilson ranked 52 for the "100 Greatest Singers of All
Time" in 2008 and 12 for the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All
Time in 2015. In 2012, music publication NME ranked Wilson number
8 in its "50 Greatest Producers Ever" list, elaborating
"few consider quite how groundbreaking Brian Wilson's studio
techniques were in the mid-60s". He is an occasional actor
and voice actor, having appeared in television shows, films, and
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June 11, 1969: #DOTD: #RIP: John L.
Lewis, American miner and organized labor union leader (b.
February 12, 1880) #dies aged 89 in Alexandria, Virginia. His
passing elicited many kind words and fond remembrances, even from
former rivals. "He was my personal friend," wrote Reuben
Soderstrom, the President of the Illinois AFL-CIO, who had once
lambasted Lewis as an "imaginative windbag," upon news
of his death. Lewis, he said, would forever be remembered for
"making almost a half million poorly paid and poorly
protected coal miners the best paid and best protected miners in
all the world." He is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery,
Springfield, Illinois, the same cemetery Abraham Lincoln and his
family are buried in. John L. Lewis was born John Llewellyn Lewis
in or near Cleveland, Lucas County, Iowa (distinct from the
present township of Cleveland in Davis County) to Thomas H. Lewis
and Ann (Watkins) Lewis, immigrants from Llangurig, Wales. He
served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW)
from 1920 to 1960. A major player in the history of coal mining,
he was the driving force behind the founding of the Congress of
Industrial Organizations (CIO), which established the United Steel
Workers of America and helped organize millions of other
industrial workers in the 1930s. After resigning as head of the
CIO in 1941, he took the Mine Workers out of the CIO in 1942 and
in 1944 took the union into the American Federation Of Labor
(AFL). A leading liberal, he played a major role in helping
Franklin D. Roosevelt win a landslide in 1936, but as an
isolationist, broke with Roosevelt in 1940 on FDR's anti-Nazi
foreign policy. Lewis was a brutally effective and aggressive
fighter and strike leader who gained high wages for his membership
while steamrolling over his opponents, including the United States
government. Lewis was one of the most controversial and innovative
leaders in the history of labor, gaining credit for building the
industrial unions of the CIO into a political and economic
powerhouse to rival the AFL, yet was widely hated by calling for
nationwide coal strikes which critics believed damaging to the
American economy and war effort. His massive leonine head,
forest-like eyebrows, firmly set jaw, powerful voice and
ever-present scowl thrilled his supporters, angered his enemies,
and delighted cartoonists. Coal miners for 40 years hailed him as
their leader, whom they credited with bringing high wages,
pensions and medical benefits. On September 14, 1964, four years
after his retirement from the UMWA, Lewis was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson, his
citation reading: "[An] eloquent spokesman of labor, [Lewis]
has given voice to the aspirations of the industrial workers of
the country and led the cause of free trade unions within a
healthy system of free enterprise." Lewis retired to his
family home, the Lee-Fendall House, where he had lived since 1937
until his death.
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June 11, 1937: #DOTD: #RIP: R. J.
Mitchell, English aeronautical engineer, designer of the
Supermarine Spitfire (b. May 20, 1895) #dies at the age of 42 of
rectal cancer in Portswood, Southampton, Hampshire in South East
England. He is buried at South Stoneham Cemetery in Swaythling,
Hampshire, England. Reginald Joseph Mitchell CBE, FRAeS was born
at 115 Congleton Road, Butt Lane, in Staffordshire in the West
Midlands of England. He worked as lead designer for Supermarine
Aviation, the British aircraft manufacturer that produced, among
the others, a range of seaplanes, flying boats the Supermarine
Spitfire fighter. The company was also famous for its successes in
the Schneider Trophy for seaplanes, especially the three wins in a
row of 1927, 1929 and 1931. Between 1920 and 1936, Mitchell
designed Supermarine's most noteworthy aircraft, and is best
remembered for his racing seaplanes, which culminated in the
Supermarine S.6B, which ultimately became the iconic Second World
War fighter, the Supermarine Spitfire.
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June 11, 1898: The Century Of Humiliation
(The Hundred Years Of National Humiliation): The Qing Dynasty: The
Hundred Days' Reform (The Wuxu Reform [Chinese: Wuxu Bianfa, "The
'Reform Of The Wuxu Yea"]): -- China's Guangxu Emperor and
his reform-minded supporters begin their plan to reform national,
cultural, political, and educational institutions in the late Qing
Dynasty China. It was ended after 104 days on September 22, 1898
by The Coup Of 1898, also known as the Wuxu Coup, perpetrated by
powerful conservative opponents led by Empress Dowager Cixi. The
goals of these reforms included: abolishing the traditional
examination system; eliminating sinecures (positions that provided
little or no work but provided a salary); establishing Peking
University as a place where Western liberal arts and sciences and
the Chinese classics would both be available for study;
establishing agricultural schools in all provinces and schools and
colleges in all provinces and cities; building a modern education
system (studying math and science instead of focusing mainly on
Confucian texts, etc.); encouraging imperial family members to
study abroad; changing the government from an absolute monarchy to
a constitutional monarchy; applying principles of capitalism to
strengthen the economy; modernizing China's military and adopting
Western training and drill methods; establishing a naval academy;
utilizing unused military land for farming; rapid
industrialization of all of China through manufacturing, commerce,
and capitalism; establishing trade schools for the manufacture of
silk, tea, and other traditional Chinese crafts; establishment of
a bureau for railways and mines. The reformers declared that China
needed more than the "self-strengthening" that the
conservatives wanted, and that innovation must be accompanied by
institutional and ideological change. However, conservatives like
Prince Duan, a Manchu prince and statesman of the late Qing
dynasty best known as one of the leaders of the Boxer Rebellion of
1899-1901, opposed the reformers, suspecting a foreign plot.
Prince Duan wanted to expel foreigners completely from China. In
addition to the edicts of reform, plans were made to forcefully
remove Empress Dowager Cixi from power. Yuan Shikai was supposed
to kill Ronglu,a Manchu political and military leader, and take
control of the military garrison at Tientsin. He was then intended
to return to Beijing with the contingent and imprison the Empress
Dowager; however, Yuan had previously promised his support to
Ronglu and instead of killing him, told him of the plot. This led
to the coup that ended the Hundred Days' Reform.
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June 11, 1920: Elections: Elections In
The United States: The 1920 United States Presidential Election:
The 1920 United States Republican National Convention:--
Republican Party leaders gather in a room at the Blackstone Hotel
in Chicago, Illinois to come to a consensus on their candidate for
the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to
first coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room". The
candidate they selected was Ohio Senator Warren G. Harding, who
won the general election, with Massachusetts Governor Calvin
Coolidge for vice president. The convention was held in Chicago,
Illinois, at the Chicago Coliseum from June 8 to June 12, 1920,
with 940 delegates. Under convention rules, a majority plus one,
or at least 471 of the 940 delegates, was necessary for a
nomination. Many Republicans sought the presidential nomination,
including General Leonard Wood, Illinois Governor Frank Lowden and
California Senator Hiram Johnson. Dark horse Harding, however, was
nominated. Many wanted to nominate Wisconsin Senator Irvine L.
Lenroot for vice president, but Coolidge was nominated instead,
because he was known for his response tough response to The Boston
Police Strike in 1919. The convention also adopted a platform
opposed to the accession of the United States to the League of
Nations. The plank was carefully drawn up by Henry Cabot Lodge to
appease opponents of the League such as Johnson, while still
allowing eventual American entry into the League.
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June 11, 2003: #DOTD: #RIP: David
Brinkley, American journalist and author (b. July 10, 1920) #dies
aged 82 at his home in Houston, Texas from complications of a fall
suffered at his vacation home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, according
to his son, John Brinkley. His body is interred at Oakdale
Cemetery in the city of his birth, Wilmington, North Carolina.
David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC
in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he
co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, The
Huntley-Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared
as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News,
through the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of
the popular Sunday This Week with David Brinkley program and a top
commentator on election-night coverage for ABC News. Over the
course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three
George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal Of
Freedom.
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June 11, 2015: #DOTD: #RIP: Ornette
Coleman, African American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter,
and composer, best known as a principal founder of the free jazz
genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: "A
Collective Improvisation" (b. March 9, 1930) #dies of cardiac
arrest at the age of 85 in New York City. His funeral was a
three-hour event with performances and speeches by several of his
collaborators and contemporaries. He is buried at Woodlawn
Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City. Ornette Coleman was born
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman in Fort Worth, Texas. His
pioneering works often abandoned the harmony-based composition,
tonality, chord changes, and fixed rhythm found in earlier jazz
idioms. Instead, Coleman emphasized an experimental approach to
improvisation, rooted in ensemble playing and blues phrasing. Born
and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, Coleman taught himself to play
the saxophone when he was a teenager. He began his musical career
playing in local R & B and bebop groups, and eventually formed
his own group in Los Angeles featuring members such as Ed
Blackwell, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins. In
November 1959, his quartet began a controversial residency at the
Five Spot jazz club in New York City and he released the
influential album The Shape of Jazz to Come, his debut LP on
Atlantic Records. Coleman's subsequent Atlantic releases in the
early 1960s would profoundly influence the direction of jazz in
that decade, and his compositions "Lonely Woman" and
"Broadway Blues" became genre standards that are cited
as important early works in free jazz. In the mid 1960s, Coleman
left Atlantic for labels such as Blue Note and Columbia Records,
and began performing with his young son Denardo Coleman on drums.
He explored symphonic compositions with his 1972 album Skies of
America, featuring the London Symphony Orchestra. In the
mid-1970s, he formed the group Prime Time and explored electric
jazz-funk and his concept of harmolodic music. In 1995, Coleman
and his son Denardo founded the Harmolodic record label. His 2006
album Sound Grammar received the Pulitzer Prize for Music, making
Coleman the second jazz musician ever to receive the honor.
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June 11, 1850: #BOTD: #HBD! Henry
Johnson, African American and Buffalo Soldier, Medal Of Honor
receipient for his actions in the Indian Wars (d. January 31,
1904) is #born in Boydton, Virginia. In 1866, he enlisted in the
Army at Detroit, Michigan as an original member of F Troop of the
10th Cavalry. He fought with the 10th against the Cheyenne on the
Republican River. Johnson joined D Troop of the 9th Cavalry in
June 1877, where the troop was stationed at Fort Wallace. The
troop was patrolling southern Colorado at the time of the Meeker
Massacre. On September 29, 1879, a group of Ute warriors, led by
Chief Colorow ambushed a group of around 175 soldiers and
militiamen from Fort Steele near Milk Creek. At the same time, the
Utes also killed the Indian agent and his white employees at the
Ute reservation nearby. The troops near the creek created a
perimeter around their wagons with dead animals while their
remaining animals were picked off by the Utes. Captain Francis
Dodge, Sergeant Johnson, and D Troop arrived on October 2, 1879,
and were able to enter the encampment without being shot at. For
the next three days, D Troop's animals were picked off, leaving
only four wounded horses. Johnson was charged with the
responsibility of securing the outposts for the defense for the
encampment, and under heavy fire from the Utes, made the rounds to
meet with his men. On October 5, five troops from the 5th Cavalry
arrived shortly after the Ute attackers dispersed. Johnson was
awarded the Medal Of Honor at Fort Robinson on September 22, 1890,
for his actions during the Battle of Milk Creek against the Ute
Indians from October 2-5, 1879 in Colorado. His Medal Of Honor
citation reads: "Voluntarily left fortified shelter and under
heavy fire at close range made the rounds of the pits to instruct
the guards, fought his way to the creek and back to bring water to
the wounded." At the time of the awarding, he was a private.
He had been promoted to sergeant for the third time in 1889, but
was demoted after tangling with a bartender at Fort Robinson.
Johnson was a sergeant in Company D. He was cited for twice
leaving his position under heavy fire, first to check on his men,
then, on October 4, going to the nearby Milk River to obtain water
for them. However, some have questioned whether he was under fire
when he went for water. Shortly after the 5th Cavalry arrived on
October 5, 1879, Johnson and D Troop of the 9th Cavalry headed to
New Mexico and spent the next two years fighting the Apaches in
Victorio's War. He was discharged in January 1883 at Fort Riley.
Johnson reenlisted two months later with the 10th Cavalry and was
stationed at Fort Grant to once again fight the Apaches. After
this five-year enlistment ended in 1888, he rejoined the 9th
Cavalry in K Troop. K Troop patrolled the Pine Ridge Sioux
Reservation for four months in the winter of 1890-1891 before it
was moved to Fort Myer in Virginia. K Troop returned to Fort
Robinson in 1893. Johnson's final five-year enlistment with K
Troop ended in 1898, before the troop was sent to Cuba for the
Spanish-American War. He retired that same year to Washington,
D.C. Johnson died of undisclosed causes in Washington, D.C., aged
53. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington,
Virginia, in section 23, lot 16547.
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June 11, 1930: #BOTD: #HBD! Charles
Rangel, African American soldier, lawyer, and Democratic
politician who was a U.S. representative for districts in New
York, the second-longest serving incumbent member of the House Of
Representatives at the time of his retirement, serving
continuously from 1971 to 2017, first African American Chair of
the influential House Ways and Means Committee; founding member of
the Congressional Black Caucus (d. May 26, 2025) is #born Charles
Bernard Rangel in Harlem, Upper Manhattan, and lives there to this
day. While he was the most senior member of the House, he was also
the Dean of New York's congressional delegation. Rangel earned a
Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for his service in the U.S. Army
during the Korean War, where he led a group of soldiers out of a
deadly Chinese army encirclement during the Battle of Kunu-ri in
1950. Rangel graduated from New York University in 1957 and St.
John's University School of Law in 1960. He worked as a private
lawyer, assistant U.S. attorney, and legal counsel during the
early-mid-1960s. He served two terms in the New York State
Assembly from 1967 to 1971 and defeated long-time incumbent
Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in a primary challenge on his
way to being elected to the House Of Representatives. Rangel rose
rapidly in the Democratic ranks in the House, combining solidly
liberal views with a pragmatic style towards finding political and
legislative compromises. His long-time concerns with battling the
importation and effects of illegal drugs led to his becoming chair
of the House Select Committee on Narcotics, where he helped define
national policy on the issue during the 1980s. As one of Harlem's
"Gang Of Four", he also became a leader in New York City
and State politics. He played a significant role in the creation
of the 1995 Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development
Corporation and the national Empowerment Zone Act, which helped
change the economic face of Harlem and other inner-city areas.
Rangel is known both for his genial manner, with an ability to win
over fellow legislators, and for his blunt speaking; he has long
been outspoken about his views and has been arrested several times
as part of political demonstrations. He was a strong opponent of
the George W. Bush administration and the Iraq War, and he put
forth proposals to reinstate the draft during the 2000s. Beginning
in 2008, Rangel faced a series of personal legal issues focusing
on ethics violations and allegations of failures to abide by the
tax laws. The House Ethics Committee focused on whether Rangel
improperly rented multiple rent-stabilized New York apartments,
improperly used his office in raising money for the Rangel Center
at the City College of New York, and failed to disclose rental
income from his villa in the Dominican Republic. In March 2010,
Rangel stepped aside as the Ways and Means Chair. In November
2010, the Ethics Committee found Rangel guilty of 11 counts of
violating House ethics rules and on December 2, 2010, the full
House approved a sanction of censure against him. During the 2012
and 2014 elections, Rangel faced two strong primary challenges in
a now primarily Hispanic district and prevailed. He did not run
for re-election in 2016 and left office in January 2017.
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June 11, 1937: #BOTD: #HBD! Johnny Brown,
African American actor, singer and comedian (d. March 2, 2022) is
#born St. Petersburg, Florida. Brown began recording as a singer
as late as 1961, after having toured with Sam "The Man"
Taylor since 1958. His first release was on Columbia Records,
"Walkin', Talkin', Kissin' Doll" b/w "Sundown"
in February 1961. He was only 23 at the time. The promotional
release was accompanied with a special insert describing his
background. His next record happened in early 1968 on Atlantic
Records, "You're Too Much in Love With Yourself" b/w
"Don't Dilly Dally, Dolly", the latter showing off his
impression skills as Louis Armstrong. That release had initially
been available on Crest Records. A nightclub promoter and
performer, he was most famous for his early best role as a regular
cast member of the television series Laugh-in, and his role as
building superintendent Nathan Bookman on the 1970s CBS sitcom,
Good Times Brown until the series was cancelled in 1979. Brown is
mostly remembered for his portly physique, beautiful smile, mobile
facial expressions, and easy, pleasant joking style. Brown made
appearances on The Flip Wilson Show, The Jeffersons, Family
Matters, Sister, Sister, The Jamie Foxx Show, The Wayans Bros, and
Martin. He had a small role in the 1970 film The Out-of-Towners
starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis as a waiter on a railroad
dining car. Brown went to school with Walter Dean Myers when he
lived in Harlem, New York City as a boy. Brown also appeared in
several television commercials, including ads for Hunt's Manwich
and the Write Brothers pen, a short-lived product of the Papermate
pen company in the 1970s. The commercial consisted of an elaborate
musical number, "Write On, Brothers, Write On", led by
Brown as a schoolteacher who encourages his chorus line of
students to use this pen for their school assignments. In 1997,
Brown contributed his voice to the introduction of the compilation
album Comedy Stew: The Best of Redd Foxx. In the introduction,
Brown tells of how Norman Lear had considered Brown to play the
role of Lamont in Sanford and Son, but was unavailable to do so
because of his prior commitment to Laugh-In, leading Lear to give
the role to Demond Wilson instead. In 1999, Brown appeared on two
episodes of the Nickelodeon children's sitcom Kenan & Kel.
Brown died in Los Angeles on March 2, 2022, at the age of 84. He
collapsed shortly after leaving a doctor's appointment for his
pacemaker and was pronounced dead when brought to hospital. His
remains were cremated, and his ashes given to his widow June
Russell Brown.
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June 11, 1967: Civil Rights Movements:
The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): The Ghetto Riots
(The Ghetto Rebellions, The Race Riots, The Negro Riots)
(1964-1969): The Long, Hot Summer of 1967: The 1967 Tampa Riots
(June 11- June 15, 1967): -- A 19-year-old black man named Martin
Chambers, who was one of three people suspected of robbing a
camera supply warehouse on 421 East Ellasme Street, is fatally
shot by a white officer Patrolman James Calvert of the Tampa
Police Department. Riots then followed in the Tampa neighborhood
that was then known as Central Park. The 1967 Tampa Riots were one
of 159 race riots that swept cities in the United States during
the "Long, Hot Summer Of 1967". As a result of the
rioting in the Summer of 1967, and the preceding two years,
President Johnson established the Kerner Commission to investigate
the rioting and to provide recommendations for the future. In his
remarks upon signing the order establishing the Commission,
Johnson asked for answers to three basic questions about the
riots: "What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to
prevent it from happening again and again?" Officially known
as The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, it was
popularly known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor
Otto Kerner, Jr. of Illinois. It was an 11-member Presidential
Commission, a special task force ordained by the President to
complete a specific, special investigation or research. The
Commission's final report, the Report of the National Advisory
Commission on Civil Disorders, or Kerner Report, was released on
February 29, 1968, after seven months of investigation. The report
became an instant bestseller, and over two million Americans
bought copies of the 426-page document. Its finding was that the
riots resulted from black frustration at the lack of economic
opportunity. Martin Luther King Jr. pronounced the report a
"physician's warning of approaching death, with a
prescription for life." The report berated federal and state
governments for failed housing, education and social-service
policies. The report also aimed some of its sharpest criticism at
the mainstream media. "The press has too long basked in a
white world looking out of it, if at all, with white men's eyes
and white perspective." The report's most famous passage
warned, "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one
black, one white-separate and unequal." Its results suggested
that one main cause of urban violence was white racism and
suggested that white America bore much of the responsibility for
black rioting and rebellion. It called to create new jobs,
construct new housing, and put a stop to de facto segregation in
order to wipe out the destructive ghetto environment. In order to
do so, the report recommended for government programs to provide
needed services, to hire more diverse and sensitive police forces
and, most notably, to invest billions in housing programs aimed at
breaking up residential segregation.
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June 11, 1964: South Africa: The History
Of South Africa: Segregation: Racial Segregation: Apartheid
(Racial Segregation In South Africa): The Rivonia Trial: --
Justice Quartus de Wet finds Nelson Mandela and two of his four
co-accused guilty on all four counts of sabotage and conspiracy to
violently overthrow the government. Although the prosecution had
called for the death sentence to be applied, the judge instead
condemned them to life imprisonment. The act of sabotage, which
Mandela admitted, was the deliberately non-lethal destruction by
bomb of the police radio transmitter the police used to organize
The Sharpesville Massacre, which killed 69 people killed and
injured 180, 249 victims total including 29 children, a day now
celebrated as a national public holiday in their honour. The
Rivonia Trial, also known as the Rivonia Treason Trial, took place
in South Africa between October 9, 1963 and June 12, 1964. At the
trial, Nelson Mandela delivered "I Am Prepared to Die"
speech, considered one of the greatest speeches of the 20th
century, a three-hour oration Mandela gave on April 20, 1964 from
the dock of the defendant at the Rivonia Trial. The speech, a key
moment in the history of South African democracy and a turning
point in world opinion, is so titled because it is the last words
of this closing statement: "During my lifetime I have
dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have
fought against white domination, and I have fought against black
domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free
society in which all persons live together in harmony and with
equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and
to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am
prepared to die." The Rivonia Trial led to the imprisonment
of Nelson Mandela and the others among the accused who were
convicted of sabotage and sentenced to life at the Palace of
Justice, Pretoria. Mandela and his co-accused were then
transferred from Pretoria to the prison on Robben Island,
remaining there for the next 18 years.
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June 11, 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 Self-Immolation Of Thich
Quang Duc: -- #DOTD: #RIP: In one of the most iconic moments of
The Vietnam War, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc, born Lam Van Tuc,
#dies when he burns himself to death with gasoline in a busy
Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in
South Vietnam. Quang Duc was protesting the persecution of
Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngo Dinh Diem.
Photographs of his self-immolation were circulated widely across
the world and brought attention to the policies of the Diem
government. John F. Kennedy said in reference to a photograph of
Duc on fire, "No news picture in history has generated so
much emotion around the world as that one.", and Kennedy
privately came to the conclusion that the United States should
cease its political support of the Diem regime its military
involvement in Vietnam. Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for
his photograph of the monk's death. Quang Duc's act increased
international pressure on Diem and led him to announce reforms
with the intention of mollifying the Buddhists. However, the
promised reforms were not implemented, leading to a deterioration
in the dispute. With protests continuing, the ARVN Special Forces
loyal to Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, launched nationwide raids
on Buddhist pagodas, seizing Quang Duc's heart and causing deaths
and widespread damage. Several Buddhist monks followed Quang Duc's
example, also immolating themselves. Eventually, a U.S.-backed
Army coup toppled Diem, who was assassinated along with his
brother on 2 November 1963.
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June 11, 1956: #DOTD: #RIP: Frankie
Trumbauer, jazz composer and soloists, and one of the leading jazz
saxophonists of the 1920s and 1930s (b. May 30, 1901) #dies of a
heart attack in Kansas City, Missouri, where he had made his home
for some years, aged 55 years. His remains were cremated, and they
were scattered by air over Unity Village, Lees Summit, Missouri.
Frankie Trumbauer was born Orie Frank Trumbauer in Carbondale,
Illinois. His main instrument was the C-melody saxophone, a
now-uncommon instrument between an alto and tenor saxophone in
size and pitch. He also played alto saxophone, bassoon, clarinet
and several other instruments. He was a composer of sophisticated
sax melodies, one of the major small group jazz bandleaders of the
1920s and 1930s. His landmark recording of "Singin' the
Blues" with Bix Beiderbecke and Eddie Lang in 1927, was
inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1977. His major
recordings included "Krazy Kat", "Red Hot",
"Plantation Moods", "Trumbology", "Tailspin",
"Singin' the Blues", "Wringin' an' Twistin'",
and "For No Reason at All in C" with Bix Beiderbecke and
Eddie Lang, and the first hit recording of "Georgia On My
Mind" in 1931. "Tram" was described as one of the
most influential and important jazz saxophonists of the 1920s and
1930s, particularly influencing the sound of Lester Young. He is
also remembered for his musical collaborations with Bix
Beiderbecke, a relationship that produced some of the finest and
most innovative jazz records of the late 1920s. Trumbauer and
Beiderbecke also collaborated with jazz guitarist Eddie Lang,
often with bandleader Paul Whiteman.
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June 11, 1922: #BOTD: #HBD! Douglas
Campbell, Canadian-based stage actor of stage and screen (d.
October 6, 2009) is #born in Glasgow, Scotland. Campbell's
interest in the theatre began at London's Old Vic Theatre at age
17, where working as a stage hand he saw Tyrone Guthrie's
production of King John. He first performed in the 1941 Old Vic
touring productions of Medea and Jacob's Ladder. He was invited to
Canada in 1953 by Guthrie, who had just been appointed the first
artistic director of the fledgling Stratford Festival of Canada in
Stratford, Ontario. Campbell played Hastings in the opening
production of Richard III in 1953, and King Oedipus in the stage
and screen production of Oedipus Rex in 1954. He appeared many
times at Stratford in the fifty years that followed, drawing great
acclaim in the role of Othello in 1959, and in many appearances as
Falstaff. Campbell founded the Canadian Players in 1954, and was
artistic director at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis from 1966
to 1967. He appeared in the role of Henry Green in the 1983
Canadian comedy film Strange Brew, starring the popular SCTV
characters Bob and Doug McKenzie. Green was awarded the Order of
Canada on April 17, 1997. Campbell received a Governor General's
Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honour in the performing
arts, in 2003. In 1947, Campbell married Ann Casson, actress and
daughter of Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike. His
children from that marriage are Dirk Campbell, television
director; Teresa Padden who played Cordelia to his first King
Lear, Tom Campbell, painter; Benedict Campbell, actor. In the late
1960s, Campbell developed a relationship with Moira Wylie, an
actress and director, with whom his children Beatrice and Torquil
Campbell were born. Beatrice Campbell is a stage manager at the
Shaw Festival while Torquil Campbell is an actor and lead
singer/songwriter of the indie rock band Stars. Casson, whom
Campbell never divorced, died in 1990. He and Wylie married in
1993. Campbell died at Hotel Dieu hospital in Montreal, Quebec
from complications of diabetes and congestive heart disease, aged
87. His burial details are not publicly disclosed.
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June 11, 1999: #DOTD: #RIP: DeForest
Kelley, known to colleagues as "Dee", American actor,
screenwriter, poet, and singer, known for his roles in Westerns
and especially as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS
Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek (1966-1991)
(b. January 20, 1920) #dies of stomach cancer aged 79 at the
Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. His remains were cremated and the
ashes were spread over the Pacific Ocean. DeForest Kelley was born
Jackson DeForest Kelley in Toccoa, Georgia, named after pioneering
electronics engineer Lee de Forest. He began singing on local
radio shows, including an appearance on WSB AM in Atlanta. As a
result of Kelley's radio work, he won an engagement with Lou
Forbes and his orchestra at the Paramount Theater. He made his
film debut in New Moon (1940), and nearly scored the lead of This
Gun for Hire (1942), but Alan Ladd was chosen instead. During
World War II, Kelley served as an enlisted man in the United
States Army Air Forces from March 10, 1943, to January 28, 1946,
assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit with the rank of private
first class. After an extended stay in Long Beach, California,
Kelley decided to pursue an acting career and relocate to Southern
California permanently, living for a time with his uncle Casey. He
worked as an usher in a local theater to earn enough money for the
move. Kelley's mother encouraged her son in his new career goal,
but his father disliked the idea. While in California, Kelley was
spotted by a Paramount Pictures scout while doing a United States
Navy training film. Kelley's acting career began with the feature
film Fear in the Night in 1947. The low-budget movie was a hit,
bringing him to the attention of a national audience and giving
Kelley reason to believe he would soon become a star. His next
role, in Variety Girl, established him as a leading actor and
resulted in the founding of his first fan club. Kelley did not
become a leading man, however, and his wife Carolyn and he decided
to move to New York City. He found work on stage and on live
television, but after three years in New York, the Kelleys
returned to Hollywood. In California, he received a role in an
installment of You Are There, anchored by Walter Cronkite. He
played ranch owner Bob Kitteridge in the 1949 episode "Legion
of Old Timers" of the television series The Lone Ranger. This
led to an appearance in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral as Morgan Earp
(brother to Burt Lancaster's Wyatt Earp).[14] This role led to
three movie offers, including Warlock with Henry Fonda and Anthony
Quinn. DeForest Kelley appeared in three episodes of the
television series, Science Fiction Theatre (season one, episode
four, April 30, 1955, "Y.O.R.D."; season one, episode
34, December 17, 1955, "The Long Day"; and season two,
episode 24, November 3, 1956, "Survival in Box Canyon".
In 1957, he had a small role as a Southern officer in Raintree
County, a Civil War film directed by Edward Dmytryk, alongside
Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, and Lee Marvin. He also
appeared in leading roles as a U.S. Navy submarine captain in the
World War II-set television series, The Silent Service. He
appeared in season one, episode five, "The Spearfish
Delivers", as Commander Dempsey, and in the first episode of
season two, "The Archerfish Spits Straight", as
Lieutenant Commander Enright. His future Star Trek co-star Leonard
Nimoy also appeared in two different episodes of the series around
the same time. Kelley appeared three times in various portrayals
of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral; the first was in 1955, as Ike
Clanton in the television series You Are There. Two years later,
in the 1957 film of that name, he played Morgan Earp. His third
appearance was in a third-season Star Trek episode (broadcast
originally on October 25, 1968), titled "Spectre of the Gun",
this time portraying Tom McLaury. Kelley also appeared in episodes
of The Donna Reed Show, Perry Mason, Tales of Wells Fargo, Wanted:
Dead or Alive, Boots and Saddles, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater,
Death Valley Days, Riverboat, The Fugitive, Lawman, Bat Masterson,
Gunsmoke, Have Gun - Will Travel, The Millionaire, and Laredo. He
appeared in the 1962 episode of Route 66, "1800 Days to
Justice" and "The Clover Throne" as Willis. He had
a small role in the movie The View from Pompey's Head. For nine
years, Kelley primarily played villains. He built up an extensive
list of credits, alternating between television and motion
pictures. He was afraid of typecasting, though, so he broke away
from villains by starring in Where Love Has Gone and a television
pilot called 333 Montgomery. The pilot was written by an
ex-policeman named Gene Roddenberry, and a few years later, Kelley
appeared in another Roddenberry pilot, Police Story (1967), that
was again not developed into a series. Kelley also appeared in at
least one radio drama, the 1957 episode of Suspense entitled
"Flesh Peddler", in which series producer William M.
Robson introduced him as "a bright new luminary in the
Hollywood firmament". In 1956, nine years before being cast
as Dr. McCoy, Kelley played a small supporting role as a medic in
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, in which he utters the diagnosis
"This man's dead, Captain" and "That man is dead"
to Gregory Peck. Kelley appeared as Lieutenant Commander James
Dempsey in two episodes of the syndicated military drama The
Silent Service, based on actual stories of the submarine service
of the United States Navy. In 1962, he appeared in the Bonanza
episode titled "The Decision", as a doctor sentenced to
hang for the murder of a journalist. The judge in this episode was
portrayed by John Hoyt, who later portrayed Dr. Phillip John
Boyce, one of Leonard McCoy's predecessors, on the Star Trek pilot
"The Cage". In 1963, he appeared in The Virginian
episode "Man of Violence" as a "drinking"
cavalry doctor with Leonard Nimoy as his patient (Nimoy's
character did not survive). Perhaps not coincidentally, the
episode was written by John D. F. Black, who went on to become a
writer-producer on Star Trek. Just before Star Trek began filming,
Kelley appeared as a doctor again, in the Laredo episode "The
Sound of Terror". After refusing Roddenberry's 1964 offer to
play Spock, Kelley played Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy from
1966 to 1969 in Star Trek. He reprised the character in a
voice-over role in Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973-74), and
the first six Star Trek motion pictures (1979 to 1991). In 1987,
he also had a cameo in "Encounter at Farpoint", the
first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, as Admiral
Leonard McCoy, Starfleet Surgeon General Emeritus. Several aspects
of Kelley's background became part of McCoy's characterization,
including his pronunciation of "nuclear" as "nucular".
Kelley became a good friend of Star Trek castmates William Shatner
and Leonard Nimoy, from their first meeting in 1964. During Trek's
first season, Kelley's name was listed in the end credits along
with the rest of the cast. Only Shatner and Nimoy were listed in
the opening credits. As Kelley's role grew in importance during
the first season, he received a pay raise to about 2,500 USD per
episode and received third billing starting in the second season
after Nimoy. Despite the show's recognition of Kelley as one of
its stars, he was frustrated by the greater attention that Shatner
received as its lead actor and that Nimoy received because of
"Spockamania" among fans. Shy by his own admission,
Kelley was the only cast member of the original Star Trek series
program never to have written or published an autobiography; the
authorized biography From Sawdust to Stardust (2005) was written
posthumously by Terry Lee Rioux of Lamar University in Beaumont,
Texas. Kelley regarded "The Empath" as his favorite Star
Trek television episode. After Star Trek was cancelled in 1969,
Kelley found himself a victim of the very typecasting he had so
feared. In 1972, he was cast in the horror film Night of the
Lepus. After that, Kelley made occasional appearances on
television and in film, but essentially went into de facto
retirement, other than playing McCoy in the Star Trek film series.
By 1978, he was earning up to 50,000 USD (208,000 USD in 2022)
annually from appearances at Star Trek conventions. Like other
Star Trek actors, Kelley received little of the enormous profits
that the franchise generated for Paramount, until Nimoy, as
executive producer, helped arrange for Kelley to be paid 1M USD
for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), which was his
final live-action film appearance. In 1987, he appeared in the
first Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Encounter at
Farpoint", in which he portrayed a 137-year-old Dr. McCoy.
For his final film, Kelley provided the voice of Viking 1 in The
Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars. Later in life, Kelley developed
an interest in poetry, eventually publishing the first of two
books in an unfinished series, The Big Bird's Dream and The Dream
Goes On. In a TLC interview done in the late 1990s, Kelley joked
that one of his biggest fears was that the words etched on his
gravestone would be "He's dead, Jim". Kelley's obituary
in Newsweek began: "We're not even going to try to resist:
He's dead, Jim". He stated the year before his death that his
legacy would be the many people McCoy had inspired to become
doctors; "That's something that very few people can say
they've done. I'm proud to say that I have". DeForst Kelley
had two first-hand UFO experiences, both of which he discussed on
a 1986 episode of The Open Mind With Bill Jenkins radio show
broadcast on KABC-AM radio station in Los Angeles, California: 1)
the February 24, 1942 Battle Of Los Angeles, when a number of UFOs
that came in over Los Angeles from over the Pacific ocean
travelling at speeds more than twice that of conventional aircraft
moved to various points over the city, triggering an anti-aircraft
barrage that lasted all night into the early hours of February 25
(the Steven Spielberg film 1941 is loosely based on that and
associated events; and 2) a cigar-shaped object in the sky in the
1950s. In 1991, Kelley received a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame. In 1999, shortly before he died, he was awarded a Golden
Boot award for his contribution to the genre of Western television
and movies.
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June 11, 1993: #DOTD: Ray Sharkey,
American stage, film and television actor (b. November 14, 1952)
#dies of complications from AIDS at Lutheran Medical Center in
Brooklyn, New York, at age 40. He is interred in Saint Charles
Cemetery in Farmingdale, Long Island, New York. He was born
Raymond Sharkey Jr in Brooklyn, New York to Cecelia and Ray
Sharkey, Sr. He was of Irish and Italian descent. His most notable
film role was that of Vincent Vacarri in the 1980 film The
Idolmaker for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -
Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He is also known for his role as
Sonny Steelgrave in the television series Wiseguy. Sharkey's
father was a professional drummer who abandoned the family when
Sharkey was five years old. He was raised by his mother, Cecelia
in Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood. Sharkey became interested in
acting after seeing Jack Lemmon in the 1962 film Days of Wine and
Roses. After attending New York City Community College for one
year, he enrolled at the HB Studio to study acting. While
attending the HB Studio, Sharkey performed in various Off-Broadway
stage productions. In 1973, he and his friend boxer/actor Chu Chu
Malave moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting careers. In 1974, he
made his film debut in The Lords of Flatbush. Sharkey went on to
appear in more than forty motion pictures and dozens of guest
appearances on various television series. In 1980, Sharkey
portrayed rock promoter "Vincent "Vinnie" Vacarri"
in The Idolmaker. The role boosted Sharkey's career and earned him
a Golden Globe Award for his performance in the film. The
following year, he was nominated for another Golden Globe for his
role in The Ordeal of Bill Carney, in which he played the title
role. Shortly after appearing in The Idolmaker, Sharkey developed
a 400 USD a day heroin habit. As a result of his drug use, his
career declined and he was relegated to mainly supporting roles.
He overdosed several times and was involved in four drug-related
car accidents, two of which required him to undergo microsurgery
on his eyes. He tried undergoing rehab treatment several times but
would ultimately relapse a few months later. In 1987, Sharkey
spent two months in an Orange County rehab center in an effort to
kick his drug and alcohol addiction for good. Four days after
leaving rehab, he won the role of Sonny Steelgrave in the series
Wiseguy. The character proved to be popular with audiences and
boosted Sharkey's career. The character was written out of the
series in 1989. Sharkey then co-starred in the biographical film
Wired. Based on the life of John Belushi, Sharkey portrayed a
Puerto Rican angel who meets Belushi after his death in the morgue
and "show[s] him the error of his ways." Sharkey's next
role was in the 1989 black comedy film Scenes from the Class
Struggle in Beverly Hills. In 1991, he starred in the ABC sitcom
The Man in the Family. While Sharkey received good reviews for his
performance, the show was panned by critics and canceled after one
season. The following year, he appeared in a guest spot on Jake
and the Fatman, and starred in the television movie In the Line of
Duty: Street War. On July 30, 1992, while filming a guest spot on
the television series, The Hat Squad, in Vancouver, he was
arrested for drug possession. Canadian customs officials, making a
routine inspection of incoming cargo at the airport, discovered
small amounts of cocaine and heroin in a black envelope being sent
from Los Angeles to Sharkey in Vancouver. Police searched his
hotel room and found an additional supply of drugs. He was jailed
and later released on bail. Sharkey was later fired from The Hat
Squad. Sharkey's final role was in the 1993 comedy film Cop and a
Half. In May 1981, Sharkey married model Rebecca Wood. The
marriage ended in 1986 due to Sharkey's drug abuse. In 1988, he
married actress Carole Graham. That marriage produced one
daughter, Cecelia, in 1989. In November 1992, Graham divorced
Sharkey also citing his drug abuse as the reason for the divorce.
On September 22, 2015, Sharkey's daughter, Cecelia Bonnie Sharkey,
was charged with capital murder for the death of her boyfriend's
mother, Patricia Metropoulous (Hickerson). In November 2017 she
pleaded no contest, was declared insane at the time of the crime
and was committed to Patton State Hospital. Sharkey was diagnosed
as HIV positive in the late 1980s. He reportedly contracted the
virus through intravenous drug use. After his death, Sharkey's
manager Herb Nanas admitted that they both decided to keep his
diagnosis a secret fearing it would hurt his career. Despite his
diagnosis, Sharkey remained in denial about his HIV positive
status and, according to his manager, had sex with an estimated
100 women after he was diagnosed. In April 1991, Sharkey began a
relationship with model/actress Elena Monica, daughter of comedian
Corbett Monica. In July 1991, she became ill and was hospitalized
with aseptic meningitis. During a routine check, she tested
positive for HIV. Monica believed she contracted the virus from
Sharkey who continued to deny that he had infected her. Monica
ended the relationship in October 1991 due to her suspicions. In
July 1992, she learned that another woman also suspected that
Sharkey had infected her with HIV as well. Later that same year,
Monica filed a 52M USD lawsuit against the actor for knowingly
infecting her with HIV. In an interview with Details magazine
conducted in March 1993, three months before his death, Sharkey
told the reporter that he was in fact HIV-positive by saying that
he "harbored a strain of HIV" that he believed would
never develop into AIDS. At the time of the interview, Sharkey
weighed 80 pounds (36 kg), had a hacking cough and was suffering
from a brain lesion. When asked about his ex-girlfriend Elena
Monica who accused him of infecting her with HIV, Sharkey said,
"This disease is funny. One day you're negative and the next
day you're positive. And people suffer. I don't think she suffered
from me." Monica won her lawsuit against Sharkey by default
judgment after his death (Sharkey declined to challenge her suit
when it was originally filed), but she received no compensation
from his estate because the actor had very little money. In June
1993, shortly after Sharkey's death, a Beverly Hills graphic
designer, who said she had an on-and-off relationship with Sharkey
from 1985 to 1991, announced that she was suing Sharkey's estate.
The woman, who was only identified as "Joyce", cared for
Sharkey in his final months and said that she believed that she
also had contracted HIV from Sharkey after she was diagnosed with
the virus in April 1992.
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June 11, 1979: #DOTD: #RIP: John Wayne,
American actor, singer, director, filmmaker and producer,
nicknamed Duke or Duke Wayne, among the top box office draws for
three decades, Academy Award-winner for True Grit (b. May 26,
1907) #dies of stomach cancer in Los Angeles, California, aged 72.
He is buried at Pacific View Memorial Park cemetery at Corona del
Mar, California. John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison at 224
South Second Street in Winterset, Iowa. The local paper, Winterset
Madisonian, reported on page 4 of the edition of May 30, 1907,
that Wayne weighed 13 lb at birth. Wayne claimed his middle name
was soon changed from Robert to Michael when his parents decided
to name their next son Robert, but extensive research has found no
such legal change, although it might have been changed informally
or the documention may have been lost. Wayne's legal name
apparently remained Marion Robert Morrison his entire life
although to this day his original name is almost always referred
to as Marion Michael Morrison. Wayne grew up in Southern
California. He was president of Glendale High class of 1925. He
found work at local film studios when he lost his football
scholarship to the University of Southern California as a result
of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film
Corporation, he appeared mostly in small bit parts. His first
leading role came in Raoul Walsh's widescreen epic The Big Trail
(1930), which led to leading roles in numerous B movies throughout
the 1930s, most of them in the Western genre. Wayne's career took
off in 1939, with John Ford's Stagecoach making him an instant
star. He went on to star in 142 motion pictures altogether,
including the dozens with his name above the title produced before
1939. Wayne's other well-known Western roles include a cattleman
driving his herd north on the Chisholm Trail in Red River (1948),
a Civil War veteran whose young niece is abducted by a tribe of
Comanches in The Searchers (1956), a troubled rancher competing
with a lawyer (James Stewart) for a woman's hand in marriage in
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and a cantankerous
one-eyed marshal in True Grit (1969). He is also remembered for
his roles in The Quiet Man (1952), Rio Bravo (1959) with Dean
Martin, and The Longest Day (1962). In his final screen
performance, he starred as an aging gunfighter battling cancer in
The Shootist (1976). He appeared with many important Hollywood
stars of his era, and his last public appearance was at the
Academy Awards ceremony on April 9, 1979.
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June 11, 1905: #BOTD: Richard Loeb,
American murderer (murdered January 28, 1936) is #born Nathan
Freudenthal Leopold Jr. in Chicago, Illinois into a wealthy
German-Jewish immigrant family. Richard Albert Loeb (November 19,
1904 - August 29, 1971) and Richard Albert Loeb (June 11, 1905 -
January 28, 1936), usually referred to collectively as Leopold and
Loeb, were two wealthy students at the University of Chicago who
in May 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in
Chicago, Illinois, United States. They committed the murder -
characterized at the time as "the crime of the century"
- as a demonstration of their ostensible intellectual superiority,
which, they thought, enabled them to carry out a "perfect
crime" and absolve them of responsibility for their actions.
After the two men were arrested, Loeb's family retained Clarence
Darrow as lead counsel for their defense. Darrow's 12-hour
summation at their sentencing hearing is noted for its influential
criticism of capital punishment as retributive rather than
transformative justice. Both young men were sentenced to life
imprisonment plus 99 years. Leopold was released on parole in
1958. The Franks murder has been the inspiration for several
dramatic works, including Patrick Hamilton's 1929 play Rope and
Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 film of the same name. Later works, such
as Compulsion (1959), adapted from Meyer Levin's 1957 novel; Swoon
(1992); and Murder by Numbers (2002) were also based on the crime.
Richard Loeb was murdered aged 30 from 58 inflicted wounds from a
razor attack by a fellow prisoner at Joliet Prison in Joliet,
Illinois. Private Jewish funeral rites were performed at his
mother Anna Loeb's home, and then his remains were cremated at Oak
Woods Cemetery.
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June 11, 1940: #BOTD: #HBD! Joey Dee,
singer and founder of the American popular music group Joey Dee
and the Starliters (also credited as Joey Dee and the
Starlighters) best known for their million-selling recording
"Peppermint Twist" (1961) is #born Joseph DiNicola in
Passaic, New Jersey. In 1960, the Starliters were noticed by agent
Don Davis while performing at a Lodi, New Jersey, nightclub called
Oliveri's. The group was booked at an intimate venue on 45th
Street in New York City called the Peppermint Lounge for what was
supposed to be a one-time weekend gig. During their initial
appearance at the nightclub, actress Merle Oberon and Prince Serge
Oblinski were dancing much of the night there, which was reported
the next morning by columnists Earl Wilson and Cholly
Knickerbocker. The next night, it took barricades and mounted
police to keep the crowds in line, which had backed to Broadway,
and for several months thereafter, the craze continued at the
Lounge. Celebrity visitors, such as Judy Garland, John Wayne,
Jackie Kennedy, Nat "King" Cole, Shirley MacLaine,
Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and Liberace, continued to make
an appearance. Dee and company were such a sensation that they
became the house band for the Peppermint Lounge for over a year.
Dee wrote "Peppermint Twist," along with producer Henry
Glover, as a tribute to the lounge and the song scored #1 on the
U.S. charts in early 1962. It sold over one million copies, and
was awarded a gold disc. By this time the team had contracted with
Roulette Records.
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June 11, 1900: #DOTD: Belle Boyd, dubbed
"The Cleopatra Of The Secession", "Siren Of The
Shenandoah", and later "The Confederate Mata Hari",
Confederate spy (b. May 9, 1844) #dies of a heart attack in
Kilbourn City, Wisconsin at age 56. She is buried in the Spring
Grove Cemetery in Wisconsin Dells, with members of the Grand Army
Of The Republic as her pallbearers. For years, her grave simply
read: "BELLE BOYD | CONFEDERATE SPY | BORN IN VIRGINIA | DIED
IN WISCONSIN | ERECTED BY A COMRADE". Belle Boyd was born
Maria Isabella Boyd in Martinsburg, Virginia (now part of West
Virginia). Belle Boyd was arrested on July 29, 1864 by Union
troops and brought to the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
the next day. Boyd had been arrested at least six times before but
somehow evaded incarceration... By late July 1862, detective Allan
Pinkerton had assigned three men to work on her case, and she was
finally captured by Union officials after her lover gave her up.
An inquiry was held on August 7, 1862, concerning violations of
orders that Boyd be kept in close custody. She was held for a
month before being released on August 29, 1862, when she was
exchanged at Fort Monroe. She was arrested again in June 1863, but
was released after contracting typhoid fever. Belle Boyd conducted
her spy operations from her father's hotel in Front Royal,
Virginia, and provided valuable information to Confederate General
Stonewall Jackson in 1862. Boyd's espionage career began by
chance. According to her 1866 account, a band of Union army
soldiers heard that she had Confederate flags in her room on July
4, 1861, and they came to investigate. They hung a Union flag
outside her home. Then one of the men cursed at her mother, which
enraged Boyd. She pulled out a pistol and shot the man, who died
some hours later. A board of inquiry exonerated her of murder, but
sentries were posted around the house and officers kept close
track of her activities. She profited from this enforced
familiarity, charming at least one of the officers whom she named
in her memoir as Captain Daniel Keily... She wrote in her memoir
that she was indebted to Keily "for some very remarkable
effusions, some withered flowers, and a great deal of important
information." She conveyed those secrets to Confederate
officers via her slave Eliza Hopewell, who carried them in a
hollowed-out watch case. Boyd was caught on her first attempt at
spying and told that she could be sentenced to death. General
James Shields and his staff gathered in the parlor of the local
hotel in mid-May 1862. Boyd hid in the closet in the room,
eavesdropping through a knothole that she enlarged in the door.
She learned that Shields had been ordered east from Front Royal,
Virginia. That night, she rode through Union lines, using false
papers to bluff her way past the sentries, and reported the news
to Colonel Turner Ashby, who was scouting for the Confederates.
She then returned to town. When the Confederates advanced on Front
Royal on May 23, Boyd ran to greet Stonewall Jackson's men,
avoiding enemy fire that put bullet holes in her skirt, as
according to her memoir. She urged an officer to inform Jackson
that "the Yankee force is very small [...] Tell him to charge
right down and he will catch them all." Jackson did and wrote
a note of gratitude to her: "I thank you, for myself and for
the army, for the immense service that you have rendered your
country today." For her contributions, she was awarded the
Southern Cross of Honor. Jackson also gave her captain and
honorary aide-de-camp positions. In March 1864, Boyd attempted to
travel to England, but she was intercepted by a Union blockade and
sent to Canada where she met Union naval officer Samuel Wylde
Hardinge. The two married in England. and had a daughter, Grace.
Boyd became an actress in England after her husband's death to
support her daughter. Following the death of her husband in 1866,
she and her daughter returned to the United States. Boyd assumed
the stage name Nina Benjamin to perform in several cities,
eventually ending up in New Orleans where she married John
Swainston Hammond in March 1869, a former British Army officer who
fought for the Union Army during the Civil War. They had two sons
and two daughters; their first son died as an infant. Boyd
divorced Hammond in 1884 and married Nathaniel Rue High in 1885.
She subsequently began touring the country giving dramatic
lectures of her life as a Civil War spy. Boyd published a highly
fictionalized narrative of her war experiences in the two-volume
Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison.
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June 11, 1945: #BOTD: #HBD! Adrienne
Barbeau, American actress, singer, sex symbol and beauty, the
author of three books, is #born Adrienne Jo Barbeau in Sacramento,
California. She came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's
original Rizzo in the musical Grease, and as Carol Traynor, the
divorced daughter of Maude Findlay (played by Beatrice Arthur) on
the sitcom Maude. In the 1970s and 1980s, Barbeau was a sex
symbol, and in 1980 began appearing in horror and science fiction
films, including The Fog, Creepshow, Swamp Thing and Escape from
New York. During the 1990s, she became known for providing the
voice of Catwoman on Batman: The Animated Series and subsequent
Batman cartoon series. In the 2000s, she appeared on the HBO
series Carnivale as Ruthie the snake dancer.
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June 11, 2014: #DOTD: #RIP: Ruby Dee,
African American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter,
journalist, and civil rights activist, perhaps best known for
originating the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and
film versions of A Raisin in the Sun (1961) (b. October 27, 1922)
#dies at her home in New Rochelle, New York, from natural causes
at the age of 91. "She very peacefully surrendered",
said her daughter Nora Day. "We hugged her, we kissed her, we
gave her our permission to go. She opened her eyes. She looked at
us. She closed her eyes, and she set sail." Following her
death, the marquee on the Apollo Theater read: "A TRUE APOLLO
LEGEND RUBY DEE 1922-2014". Dee was cremated, and her ashes
are held in the same urn as that of her beloved husband Ozzie
Davis, with the inscription "In this thing together". A
public memorial celebration honoring Dee was held on September 20,
2014, at the Riverside Church in Upper Manhattan. Their shared urn
is buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Ruby Dee
was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of
Gladys (nee Hightower) and Marshall Edward Nathaniel Wallace, a
cook, waiter and porter. After her mother left the family, Dee's
father remarried, to Emma Amelia Benson, a schoolteacher. Dee was
raised in Harlem, New York. Prior to attending Hunter College High
School, she studied at Public Schools 119 and 136. She went on to
graduate from Hunter College with a degree in Romance languages in
1945. She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta. Dee joined the
American Negro Theater as an apprentice, working with Sidney
Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Hilda Simms. She made several
appearances on Broadway, such as her first role in ANT's 1946
production of Anna Lucasta. Her first onscreen role was in That
Man of Mine in 1946. She received national recognition for her
role in the 1950 film The Jackie Robinson Story. She is perhaps
best known for originating the role of "Ruth Younger" in
the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun (1961). Another
notable film role was Do the Right Thing (1989). Dee was married
to Ossie Davis, with whom she frequently performed until his death
in 2005. For her performance as Mahalee Lucas in American Gangster
(2007), Dee was nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for
Female Actor in a Supporting Role. Dee was a Grammy, Emmy, Obie
and Drama Desk winner. She was also a National Medal of Arts,
Kennedy Center Honors and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement
Award recipient.
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