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June 29: International Fisherman's Day:
-- An unique festival that recognizes and integrates the efforts
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a part of every single society globally since the prehistoric era?
Fishing has been a viable source of food and trading from time
immemorial. Fishermen all over the world are incredibly important
to the food chain since the fish they catch are major sources of
nutrition for the inhabitants of the nation and the entire globe
(in terms of exportation). Fishing is a prehistoric activity that
has been associated with mankind since its inception. Although the
activity dates back 40,0000 years, there is hardly any corner of
the planet where fishermen are not present, carrying out their
duty. For the brave, fishing is a thrilling and adventurous sport.
International Fisherman's Day is observed by thousands of people
throughout the world as a way of celebrating the men and women who
work in the fishing industry. The day is observed by a variety of
celebrations, with fish serving as the main entree. Fishermen
launch into the deep to gather large catches on International
Fisherman's Day, which is celebrated with fanfare. International
Fisherman's Day is an annual day of activities organized by the
Fisherman's Day Committee in various nations around the world to
promote the improvement and preservation of the fishing industry
by celebrating the contributions of diverse fishermen.
Furthermore, this day is set aside to strengthen reliable
connections between fishing communities, vendors, processors,
government and non-government agencies, and different stakeholders
towards building a profitable and sustainable fishing sector. Many
people all around the world such as fish buyers, large fish
companies, local folks, and fishermen look forward to this day,
June 29, as a special time to team up, and network, to sell, buy
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June 29: Feast Day Of Saints Peter And
Paul: -- A liturgical feast day that honors two martyrs of the
Christian faith, St. Peter and St. Paul. Although the church
acknowledges they may not have been executed at the same time,
both met death at the command of the Roman emperor - Nero. The
date chosen is the traditional anniversary of their death and
martyrdom. The event is a significant religious occasion in Rome,
and the catholic church in England commemorates it with a
festival. Parishes around the world hold masses to commemorate the
day. Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul are likely one of the
oldest feast days celebrated in the Christian calendar. Paintings
of Peter and Paul were discovered on the wall of catacombs in
2010. The images on the walls date back to the fourth century A.D.
The holiday is dedicated to two saints in the Christian belief.
Peter was the head of the apostles and the first pope. Paul,
formerly called Saul, was a persecutor of the Christian faith but
converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus. Emperor Nero
ordered the martyrdom of St Peter and St Paul. This event was
thought to have occurred between 64 and 68 A.D. St Peter was
crucified head down because he did not believe he was worthy of
being crucified alongside Jesus. The cause of Paul's death was
unknown, but it was widely assumed that he was decapitated in
Rome. In Rome, Ticino, Switzerland, and Malta, Saint Peter and
Saint Paul Day is a public holiday. The Latin Church, England,
Scotland, and Wales observe it as a holy day of obligation, while
the United States and Canada do not. In 2021 the pandemic led to
the cancellation of Saint Peter and Saint Paul Day public
celebrations. Catholics were advised to celebrate at home while
adhering to covid restrictions. On June 29, Christians in coastal
and island communities adorn their boats and docks to honor St.
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June 29: National Camera Day: -- The day
that brings into focus photographs, the camera, and their
invention. A camera is an irreplaceable tool used to record and
replicate memories, events, and people/places. Before the
invention of the camera, the only resource to document a vision
was a painting. Capturing an image of a person or place in a
drawing took time and skill. Very few people can perfectly draw
the likeness of someone, let alone capture the essence of an
event. The power of a camera provided many with a simple,
inexpensive, and fast solution. George Eastman, also known as "The
Father of Photography," brought the camera to the masses.
While he did not invent the camera, he did develop many additions
improving the use, ease, and production of the camera. His
developments made the camera widely available to homes around the
world. While the first cameras were large and bulky, each later
design evolved until some cameras were as small as a pen. Today's
digital cameras have many features and variations, making them
appealing to people of all ages for personal and professional use.
The portable and easy-to-use features not only allow us to take
photos quickly, but we can also edit them on the fly. Smartphones
with built-in cameras include features that allow us to share
photos instantly, too. Taking photos has become so easy. According
to Business Insider, in 2017, we took over 1.2 trillion digital
photos! From a large boxy camera to one that fits in our pocket,
cameras have come a long way. To observe National Camera Day, take
photos! Snap a picture of something or someone you enjoy and
cherish the memory. But taking pictures isn't the only way to
celebrate: Take a photography class; Teach someone how to take
outstanding photos; Expand your photography skills by learning
more about your camera. Try a different style of photography or
camera; and post photos on social media using #NationalCameraDay.
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June 29: San Francisco's Birthday: --
Founded on June 29, 1776, by Spanish colonists when they
officially raised the Spanish flag at The Presidio, today we raise
our glasses as we celebrate San Francisco's Birthday with lively
festivities that capture the true essence of this vibrant city!
Situated between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, this
historic city is known for its iconic landmarks, unique
architecture, cultural diversity, and progressive spirit. What
began as a humble settlement has since grown into a thriving
metropolis that's home to almost one million people. San Francisco
is regarded as Northern California's cultural, commercial, and
financial center. It's a popular tourist destination that's
renowned for its scenic beauty, impressive landmarks like the
Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island, diverse culture, and
progressive attitude. San Francisco's history dates back to 1769
when San Francisco Bay was accidentally discovered by a Spanish
expedition led by Captain Gaspar de Portola who was looking for
Monterey Bay. The founding, however, took place on June 29, 1776,
when Spanish colonists Juan Bautista de Anza, Jose Joaquin Moraga,
and Francisco Palou established the Presidio of San Francisco and
Mission San Francisco de Asis for St. Francis of Assisi. San
Francisco was a small settlement throughout the early 19th century
until a man named James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's
Mill in Coloma, California in 1848. The resulting California Gold
Rush transformed the city almost instantly, the population
skyrocketed, and on April 15, 1850, San Francisco was incorporated
as a city. In 1873, the construction of San Francisco's iconic
cable car system began and was led by entrepreneur Andrew Smith
Hallidie. The first line, Clay Street Hill Railroad, opened on
August 2, 1873, and this innovative transportation system expanded
quickly, becoming an integral part of the city's landscape.
However, San Francisco experienced a devastating blow when the
1906 earthquake and subsequent fires killed thousands and
destroyed roughly three-quarters of the city. The city began to
rebuild and it was during this time of "rebirth" that
another one of its iconic landmarks was constructed. The
construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, which is an instantly
recognizable symbol of the city today, began in 1933 and was
completed on April 19, 1937. On May 27 that same year, the bridge
was opened to the public. During World War II, San Francisco
became the port of embarkation for Pacific-bound troops. After the
war, a number of factors, including the return of servicemen who
lived freely while living in larger cities, the Sexual Revolution,
and the Peace Movement led to the Summer of Love movement in 1969.
Since then, San Francisco has always championed LGBTQ+ rights and
proudly takes the title of the United States' gay capital. San
Franciscans, along with visitors from all over the country and
abroad, celebrate June 29 to honor the city's unique heritage. On
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June 29, 1927: Aviation: The History Of
Aviation: The History Of Transcontinental Flight: The History Of
Transpacific Flight: The Transpacific Flight Of Lester Maitland
And Albert Hegenberger (The Transpacific Flight Of The Bird of
Paradise): -- U.S. Army Air Force 1st Lt. Lester J. Maitland and
1st Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger complete the two-day first
transpacific flight in The Bird Of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps
Fokker tri-motor aircraft, flying from California to Hawaii, an
achievement in many respects more important than Lindbergh's solo
transatlantic flight across the month prior. For this feat the
crew received the Mackay Trophy. The Bird Of Paradise was used by
the United States Army Air Corps to experiment with the
application of radio beacon aids in air navigation, one of three
Atlantic-Fokker C-2 tri-motor transport aircraft developed for the
Air Corps from the civilian Fokker F.VIIa/3m airliner design. Its
two-ton carrying capacity gave it the ability to carry sufficient
fuel for the 2,500 miles (4,000 km) flight and its three motors
provided an acceptable safety factor in the event one engine
failed. Moreover, although modified for the long distance flight,
the C-2 was a widely used standard design, demonstrating the
practicality of flying long distances. Although the recognition
accorded Maitland and Hegenberger was less in comparison with the
extensive adulation given to Charles Lindbergh for his
transatlantic flight only five weeks earlier, their feat was
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June 29, 1971: The History Of Rocketry:
The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The
Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: The Soviet Space Program:
Human Spaceflight Programs: The Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 11
(Russian: Union 11): -- #DOTD: #RIP: Following a record-setting
stay aboard the Soviet Union's Salyut 1 space station, the crew
capsule of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurizes prior to re-entry
due to an accidentally opened valve, killing the three cosmonauts
on board by asphyxiation: Commander Georgy Dobrovolsky (b. June 1,
1928), Flight Engineer Vladislav Volkov (b. November 23 1935) and
Research Engineer Viktor Patsayev (b. June 19, 1933). They are
officially the first humans to die in space. Soyuz 11 (Russian:
"Union 11") was the only crewed mission to board the
world's first space station, Salyut 1 (Russian: "Firework
1"). The crew arrived at the space station on June 7, 1971,
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Sexuality: Homosexuality: LGBT Movements
(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Movements): The Gay
Liberation Movement (1969-1974): The Stonewall Riots (The
Stonewall Uprising, The Stonewall Rebellion, Stonewall): -- The
Stonewall Riots in New York City conclude. It began in New York
City's Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of
Manhattan when a police raid takes place in the early morning
hours, sparking a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by
members of the gay (LGBT) community that are widely considered to
constitute the single most important event leading to the gay
liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the
United States. Gay Americans in the 1950s and 1960s faced an
anti-gay legal system. Early homophile groups in the U.S. sought
to prove that gay people could be assimilated into society, and
they favored non-confrontational education for homosexuals and
heterosexuals alike. The last years of the 1960s, however, were
very contentious, as many social/political movements were active,
including the civil rights movement, the counterculture of the
1960s, and the anti-Vietnam War movement. These influences, along
with the liberal environment of Greenwich Village, served as
catalysts for the Stonewall riots. Very few establishments
welcomed openly gay people in the 1950s and 1960s. Those that did
were often bars, although bar owners and managers were rarely gay.
At the time, the Stonewall Inn was owned by the Mafia. It catered
to an assortment of patrons and was known to be popular among the
poorest and most marginalized people in the gay community: drag
queens, transgender people, effeminate young men, butch lesbians,
male prostitutes, and homeless youth. Police raids on gay bars
were routine in the 1960s, but officers quickly lost control of
the situation at the Stonewall Inn. Tensions between New York City
police and gay residents of Greenwich Village erupted into more
protests the next evening, and again several nights later. Within
weeks, Village residents quickly organized into activist groups to
concentrate efforts on establishing places for gays and lesbians
to be open about their sexual orientation without fear of being
arrested. After the Stonewall riots, gays and lesbians in New York
City faced gender, race, class, and generational obstacles to
becoming a cohesive community. Within six months, two gay activist
organizations were formed in New York, concentrating on
confrontational tactics, and three newspapers were established to
promote rights for gays and lesbians. Within a few years, gay
rights organizations were founded across the U.S. and the world.
On June 28, 1970, the first gay pride marches took place in New
York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago commemorating the
anniversary of the riots. Similar marches were organized in other
cities. Today, Gay Pride events are held annually throughout the
world toward the end of June to mark the Stonewall riots. The
Stonewall National Monument was established at the site in 2016.
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June 29, 1975: The Industrial Revolution:
The Third Industrial Revolution (1947-Present) (The Information
Age, The Computer Age, The Digital Age, The Digital Electronics
Revolution, The Silicon Age, The New Media Age, The Media Age):
Product Launches: The Computer: The History Of The Computer: The
History Of Computing Hardware: The History Of The Computer
Industry: The History Of The Personal Computer (The History Of The
PC): The Apple Computer 1 (The Apple I, The Apple Computer,
Apple-1): -- Steve Wozniak tests his first prototype of the Apple
Computer 1, now known as the Apple I. Wozniak demonstrated this
prototype in July 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto,
California. Designed by Wozniak, his Steve Jobs had the idea of
selling copies of the computer commercially. The result was the
Apple Computer, known later as the Apple I, or Apple-1, a desktop
computer released on April 11, 1976 by the Apple Computer Company
(now Apple Inc.) founded by Wozniak and Jobsin 1976. The Apple I
was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold
his only motorized means of transportation, a VW Microbus, for a
few hundred USD (Wozniak later said that Jobs planned instead to
use his bicycle to get around), and Wozniak sold his HP-65
calculator for 500 USD. Production was discontinued on September
30, 1977, after the June 10, 1977 introduction of its successor,
the Apple II, which Byte magazine referred to as part of the "1977
Trinity" of personal computing (along with the PET 2001 from
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June 29, 1920: #BOTD: #HBD! Ray
Harryhausen, American animator and special effects creator who
created a form of stop motion model animation known as
"Dynamation" (d. May 7, 2013) is #born Raymond Frederick
Harryhausen in Los Angeles, California. His works include the
animation for Mighty Joe Young (1949) with his mentor Willis H.
O'Brien (for which the latter won the Academy Award for Best
Visual Effects); his first color film, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
(1958); and Jason and the Argonauts (1963), which featured a sword
fight with seven skeleton warriors. His last film was Clash of the
Titans (1981), after which he retired. In 1960, Harryhausen moved
to the United Kingdom and became a dual American-British citizen.
He lived in London until his death in 2013. During his life, his
innovative style of special effects in films inspired numerous
filmmakers. In November 2016 the BFI compiled a list of those
present-day filmmakers who claim to have been inspired by
Harryhausen, including Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Joe Dante,
Tim Burton, Nick Park, James Cameron, and Guillermo del Toro.
Others influenced by him include George Lucas, John Lasseter, John
Landis, Henry Selick, J. J. Abrams, and Wes Anderson. Ray
Harryhausen died in London, England of unspecified (presumed
natural) causes aged 92. He is buried at St Peters Churchyard in
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June 29, 1918: #BOTD: #HBD! Gene La
Rocque, Rear Admiral of the US Navy, founder of the Center For
Defense Information (CDI) in 1971 (d. October 31, 2016) is #born
Eugene Robert La Rocque in Kankakee, Illinois, and began his naval
service in 1940. When the attack on Pearl Harbor was carried out,
he was serving on the USS Macdonough. He participated in 13 major
battles during World War II and worked for seven years in the
Strategic Plans Directorate of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff. In the
Battle Of Kwajalein, he was the first man to go ashore in the
landings at Roi-Namur. As a lieutenant commander, La Rocque was
the commanding officer of USS Solar, destroyed on April 30, 1946,
in an explosion in loading torpex at Naval Ammunition Depot, Earle
(now Naval Weapons Station, Earle), New Jersey. Five enlisted men
and one officer were killed with 125 others wounded. He retired in
1972 and was disillusioned over the Vietnam War. La Rocque and his
colleagues testified before the US Congress, frequently appeared
in the media, and consulted many national and international
political leaders. In the 1980s, La Rocque founded a weekly public
affairs television program, America's Defense Monitor. In 1974, he
stated that in his experience, any ship that is capable of
carrying nuclear weapons carries them and does not off-load them
in foreign ports. That statement directly conflicted with the US
Department of Defense's policy that it would "neither confirm
nor deny" (NC/ND) on such weapons and sparked controversy in
Japan, which has had a non-nuclear policy since World War II. He
was elected in 1982 to the National Governing Board of Common
Cause, a watchdog group based in Washington, D.C. prominently
known for its efforts to bring about an end to the Vietnam War and
to lower the voting age from 21 to 18. La Rocque had three
children (John La Rocque, James La Rocque, and Annette La Rocque
Fitzsimmons) with Sally Fox, whom he had been married 32 years
before her death, in 1978. In 1980, he married Washington
businesswoman Lillian Kerekes Danchik, who died in 1994, which
left his two stepsons (Howard and Roger Danchik) from her first
marriage. Gene La Rocque died in Washington, DC, at the age of 98.
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June 29, 1978: #DOTD: #RIP: Bob Crane,
American actor, drummer, radio host, and disc jockey, best known
for his performance as Colonel Robert E. Hogan in the CBS sitcom
Hogan' Heroes (b. July 13, 1928) #dies at age 49 in an officially
unsolved murder. While on tour for his play Beginner' Luck in June
1978, Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his Scottsdale,
Arizona apartment. He is buried at Westwood Memorial Park in
Westwood, Los Angeles County, California. This suspicious nature
of his death and later revelations about his personal and sexual
life gradually changed Crane's posthumous image from a cultural
icon to a controversial figure. Bob Crane was born Robert Edward
Crane in Waterbury, Connecticut. A drummer starting at eleven
years of age, Crane began his career as a radio personality, first
in New York and then Connecticut before moving to Los Angeles
where he hosted the number-one rated morning show. In the early
1960s, he moved into acting. Crane is best known for his
performance as Colonel Robert E. Hogan in the CBS sitcom Hogan's
Heroes. The series aired from 1965 to 1971, and Crane received two
Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his work on the series. After
Hogan' Heroes ended, Crane' career declined. He became frustrated
with the few roles he was being offered and began doing dinner
theater. In 1975, he returned to television in the NBC series The
Bob Crane Show. The series received poor ratings and was cancelled
after 13 weeks. Afterwards, Crane returned to performing in dinner
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June 29, 1613: Theatre (Theater): The
History Of Theatre (The History Of Theater): The History Of
English Theater (The History Of English Theatre): -- The Globe
Theatre in London, where most all of William Shakespeare's plays
premiered and were perfromed, burns to the ground. Probably the
first Shakespeare play to be performed at the Globe was Julius
Caesar, in 1599. Some other Shakespeare plays first performed
there are: As You Like It; Hamlet; Measure for Measure; Othello;
King Lear; Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. Other playwrights
wrote for the Globe, including Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and John
Fletcher. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare' playing company,
the Lord Chamberlain's Men, on land owned by Thomas Brend and
inherited by his son, Nicholas Brend and grandson Sir Matthew
Brend, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe
Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed by an
Ordinance issued on 6 September 1642. In September 1642 the Long
Parliament ordered a closure of the London theatres. The order
cited the current "times of humiliation" and their
incompatibility with "public stage-plays",
representative of "lascivious Mirth and Levity". The
ban, which was not completely effective, was reinforced by an Act
of 11 February 1648. It provided for the treatment of actors as
rogues, the demolition of theatre seating, and fines for
spectators. In 1660, after the English Restoration brought King
Charles II to effective power in England, the theatrical ban was
lifted. Under a new licensing system, two London theatres with
royal patents were opened. A modern reconstruction of the Globe,
named "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997
approximately 750 feet (230 m) from the site of the original
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June 29, 1941: #BOTD: Kwame Ture,
Trinidadian-American who became a prominent figure in the Civil
Rights Movement and the global Pan-African movement (d. November
15, 1998) is #born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael in Port
Of Spain, Trinidad And Tobago. He grew up in the United States
from the age of 11 and became an activist while he attended Howard
University. He would eventually become active in the Black Power
movement, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC), later as the "Honorary Prime Minister"
of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and finally as a leader of the
All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP). Kwame Ture died
of prostate cancer at the age of 57 in Conakry, Guinea. He had
said that his cancer "was given to me by forces of American
imperialism and others who conspired with them." He claimed
that the FBI had infected him with cancer in an assassination
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June 29, 1974: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1953-1962): The Eastern Bloc (The
Communist Bloc, The Socialist Bloc, The Soviet Bloc): Emigration
From The Eastern Bloc (Defections From The Eastern Bloc): The
Defection Of Mikhail Baryshnikov: -- While in Toronto, Canada on
tour with the Kirov Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the
Soviet Union and requests political asylum in Canada. John Fraser,
a ballet critic from Toronto, helped Baryshnikov to escape,
writing down phone numbers of people for him to contact on a small
piece of paper that he hid under his wedding ring. At a banquet
after one show, he managed to distract the KGB officer who
followed Baryshnikov as an interpreter. and gave Baryshnikov the
paper.Soon, Baryshnikov joined the National Ballet of Canada for a
brief time in a guest role. He also announced that he would not
return to the USSR. He later said that Christina Berlin, an
American friend, helped engineer his defection during his 1970
tour of London. Baryshnikov's talent was obvious from his youth,
but being 5' 5"in height - shorter than most male ballet
dancers - he could not tower over a ballerina en pointe and was
therefore relegated to secondary parts. More frustrating to him,
the Soviet dance world hewed closely to 19th-century traditions,
and deliberately shunned Western choreographers, whose work
Baryshnikov glimpsed in occasional tours and films. His main
reason for leaving the Soviet Union was to work with these
innovators. His first televised performance after coming out of
temporary seclusion in Canada was with the National Ballet of
Canada in La Sylphide. He then went to the United States. In
December 1975, he and his dance partner Natalia Makarova featured
prominently in an episode of the BBC television series Arena. In
the first two years after his defection, he danced for no fewer
than 13 different choreographers, including Jerome Robbins, Glen
Tetley, Alvin Ailey, and Twyla Tharp. "It doesn't matter if
every ballet is a success or not", he told New York Times
dance critic Anna Kisselgoff in 1976. "The new experience
gives me a lot." He cited his fascination with the ways Ailey
mixed classical and modern technique and his initial discomfort
when Tharp insisted he incorporate eccentric personal gestures in
dance. Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (Born January 27, 1948),
nicknamed "Misha" (Russian diminutive of the name
"Mikhail"), is a Soviet and American dancer,
choreographer, and actor. He is often cited alongside Vaslav
Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev and Vladimir Vasiliev as one of the
greatest male ballet dancers in history. After a promising start
in the Mariinsky Ballet in Leningrad, Mikhail Baryshnikov defected
to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance. After
freelancing with many companies, he joined the New York City
Ballet as a principal dancer to learn George Balanchine's style of
movement. He then danced with the American Ballet Theatre, where
he later became artistic director. Mikhail Baryshnikov has
spearheaded many of his own artistic projects and has been
associated in particular with promoting modern dance, premiering
dozens of new works, including many of his own. His success as a
dramatic actor on stage, cinema and television has helped him
become probably the most widely recognized contemporary ballet
dancer. In 1977, he received a nomination for the Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe nomination for his
work as "Yuri Kopeikine" in the film The Turning Point.
He also had a significant role in the last season of the
television series Sex and the City and starred in the movie White
Nights with Gregory Hines. What continues to be known
internationally by its former Soviet name of the Kirov Ballet is
now named the Mariinsky Ballet, the resident classical ballet
company of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Founded in the 18th century and originally known as the Imperial
Russian Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet is one of the world's leading
ballet companies.The Mariinsky Ballet is the parent company of the
Vaganova Ballet Academy, a leading international ballet school.
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Today, June 29, 2026
June 29, 1956: Highway Systems: American
Highway Systems: The Interstate Highway System (The Dwight D.
Eisenhower National System Of Interstate And Defense Highways, The
Eisenhower Interstate System): United States Federal
Transportation Legislation: The Federal-Aid Highway Act Of 1956
(The National Interstate And Defense Highways Act) (Public Law
84-627): -- United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs The
Federal Aid Highway Act Of 1956 into law, officially creating the
United States Interstate Highway System. The act had an original
authorization of 25B USD for the construction of 41,000 miles of
the Interstate Highway System supposedly over a 10-year period,
making it the largest public works project in American history
through that time. The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of
Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate
Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that
forms part of the National Highway System in the United States.
The system is named for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who
championed its formation. The original portion was completed 35
years later, although some urban routes were cancelled and never
built. The network has since been extended and, as of 2020, about
one quarter of all vehicle miles driven in the country used the
Interstate Highway System, which had a total length of 48,756
miles. The cost of construction is estimated at about 618B USD as
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Today, June 29, 2026
June 29, 1922: The European Civil War:
World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World
War I): The Western Front Of World War I: The Battle Of Arras (The
Second Battle Of Arras): The Battle Of Vimy Ridge: -- France
grants 1 square kilometer at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all
time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt
from all taxes". The Battle Of Vimy Ridge was a military
engagement fought primarily as part of the Battle of Arras, in the
Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War.
The main combatants were the Canadian Corps, of four divisions,
against three divisions of the German Sixth Army. The battle,
which took place from April 9 - 12, 1917, was part of the opening
phase of the British-led Battle of Arras, a diversionary attack
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Today, June 29, 2026
June 29, 1901: #BOTD: #HBD! Ed Gardner,
American comic actor, writer and director, best remembered as the
creator and star of the radio's popular Duffy's Tavern comedy
series (d. August 17, 1963) is #born Edward Poggenberg in Astoria,
New York. His character "Archie" on Duffy's Tavern was
the inspiration for the character Archie Bunker on All In The
Family and Archie Bunker's Place, and both characters constantly
communicated with malaprops (i.e. "Leave us not jump to
seclusion") and mixed metaphors, and both characters managed
a tavern, with both using the phrase "Archie the manager
speaking' when answering the telephone at their Taverns. Duffy's
Tavern was an American radio situation comedy that ran for a
decade on several networks (CBS, 1941-42; NBC-Blue Network,
1942-44; and NBC, 1944-51), concluding with the December 28, 1951,
broadcast. The program often featured celebrity guest stars but
always hooked them around the misadventures of Archie. Archie was
prone to involvement in get-rich-quick schemes and romantic
missteps. Some of Gardner's once-famous malaprops as Archie on
Duffy's Tavern include: "Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in
the back and instead of bleeding, he sings"; "Now, don't
infirm me that I'm stupid"; "Fate has fickled its finger
at me"; "Get me the lost and foundling division";
and "There's two kinds of guys go to church - them that
doesn't and them that don't." Ed Gardner died on August 17,
1963 at age 62 of a liver ailment at Good Samaritan Hospital in
Los Angeles. He was interred in Chapel of the Pines at Hollywood
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Today, June 29, 2026
June 29, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD! Richard
Lewis, American stand-up comedian, actor and screenwriter (d.
February 27, 2024) is #born Richard Philip Lewis in Brooklyn, New
York. He came to prominence in the 1980s as a comedian
specializing in self-deprecating humor before turning to acting.
He is also known for co-starring in the comedy series Anything but
Love (1989-92) and for his recurring and semi-autobiographical
role in HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-present). Lewis was
raised in Englewood, New Jersey, where he graduated from Dwight
Morrow High School in 1965. His father worked as a caterer and his
mother was an actress. The Lewises are Jewish but not especially
religious. Lewis recalls teachers sometimes reacted badly to his
antics as a class clown. Lewis attended The Ohio State University,
where he was a member of the Eta chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Pi
fraternity. Lewis began performing stand-up comedy in the 1970s.
He worked as a copywriter for an ad agency by day while honing his
stand-up act at night. The ad agency was named Contemporary
Graphics (now defunct) and was above Lovey's pizzeria in Hasbrouck
Heights, New Jersey. Lewis gained popularity in the 1980s with
numerous appearances on Late Night with David Letterman and his
own television specials on HBO. He is noted for always wearing an
all-black outfit. Lewis made his screen acting debut in Diary of a
Young Comic. He co-starred with Jamie Lee Curtis on the TV sitcom
Anything but Love, which ran for four seasons, and with Don
Rickles on Daddy Dearest. Lewis had a recurring role on Rude
Awakening and as Rabbi Richard Glass on 7th Heaven. He appears in
the Tales from the Crypt episode "Whirlpool." In 2007,
he made a cameo appearance as Phillip on George Lopez. He also
made cameos on Everybody Hates Chris as an old man in the hospital
bed next to Chris Rock and as Charlie Sheen's accountant on Two
and a Half Men. Lewis has written comic articles for magazines
such as Playboy and endorsed the popular early-1990s beverage
Boku, as well as Snapple and Certs breath mints. Lewis has
achieved moderate success in films, appearing as Prince John in
Robin Hood: Men in Tights, as a frontier doctor in Wagons East, as
an unemployed actor in Once Upon A Crime and as himself in The
Wrong Guys. He plays the lead role of Jimmy Epstein in Drunks and
in Game Day. Most of his performances are in comedy, but Lewis
also appears in the dramatic films Leaving Las Vegas, Hugo Pool,
and The Maze. On January 9, 2001, Lewis did The Howard Stern Show
to promote his book The Other Great Depression, about his recovery
from alcoholism. He has been sober since August 4, 1994. Lewis has
a recurring role as a character based on himself in Curb Your
Enthusiasm. Larry David and Lewis met at summer camp in
Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York when they were 13. Lewis was ranked
#45 on Comedy Central's list of "100 Greatest Standups of All
Time." Lewis claims to be the originator of the phrase 'the
______ from hell' as in 'the night from hell', 'the date from
hell" or 'the roommate from hell'. This theory is expounded
in the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode "The Nanny from Hell".
Lewis has petitioned the editors of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
for credit for the coinage, but the editors claim the phrase was a
common idiom before Lewis used it. For example, during World War
I, German troops nicknamed kilted Scottish soldiers "Ladies
from Hell" (Damen aus der Holle), and John Russell Fearn's
short story "The Man from Hell" was published in
Fantastic Adventures in 1939. However, The Yale Book of Quotations
attributes the phrase to Lewis. Richard Lewis died on a Tuesday of
a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, aged 76. HBO, producers
of the show "Curb Your Enthusiasm", said in a statement
the day after "We are heartbroken to learn that Richard Lewis
has passed away. His comedic brilliance, wit and talent were
unmatched," ..."Richard will always be a cherished
member of the HBO and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" families,
our heartfelt condolences go out to his family, friends and all
the fans who could count on Richard to brighten their days with
laughter." "Curb Your Enthusiasm" co-star Cheryl
Hines said: "Through the years I learned who Richard really
was and the gifts he gave," Hines said. "Yes, he was the
comedian I fell in love with, but he was also one of the most
loving people I know. He would take time to tell the people he
loved what they meant to him - especially in recent years. In
between takes on Curb, he would tell me how special I was to him
and how much he loved me. To be loved by Richard Lewis. A true
gift." In a statement shared with NBC News, Larry David, the
creator of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and friend of Lewis, said
"Richard and I were born three days apart in the same
hospital and for most of my life he's been like a brother to me.
He had that rare combination of being the funniest person and also
the sweetest," David said. "But today he made me sob and
for that I'll never forgive him." He is buried at The Temple
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Today, June 29, 2026
June 29, 1972: #BOTD: #HBD! Samantha
Smith, American schoolgirl, peace activist, and child actress from
Manchester, Maine, who became famous during the Cold War between
the United States and the Soviet Union (d. August 25, 1985) is
#born Samantha Reed Smith in Houlton, Maine. In 1982, the 11 year
old American schoolgirl had written a letter to Soviet leader Yuri
Andropov asking, "Why do you want to conquer the whole world,
or at least our country?" To her surprise, Andropov replied
personally to her and offered an all-expense paid trip to the
U.S.S.R. She toured the country for two weeks amid worldwide
publicity and came to symbolize American and Soviet hopes for
peaceful co-existance. Smith attracted extensive media attention
in both countries as a "Goodwill Ambassador", becoming
known as America's Youngest Ambassador and subsequently
participating in peacemaking activities in Japan. With the
assistance of her father Arthur (an academic), she wrote a book
about her visit to the Soviet Union, Journey to the Soviet Union,
and later became a child actress, hosting a child-oriented special
on the 1984 United States presidential election for The Disney
Channel and playing a co-starring role in the television series
Lime Street. Samantha Smith died at the age of thirteen in the Bar
Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 airplane crash when, on final approach
to Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport in Maine, the Bar Harbor
Airlines Beechcraft Model 99 crashed short of the runway, killing
all six passengers and two crew on board. She is buried at
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Today, June 29, 2026
June 29, 1943: #BOTD: #HBD! Little Eva,
African American singer (d. April 10, 2003) is #born Eva Narcissus
Boyd in Belhaven, North Carolina. Just before 9:30 AM on the final
WABC Music Radio broadcast anchored by Ron Lundy and Dan Ingram of
May 10th, 1982, Ron Lundy remarked that he was convinced that it
was actually Carole King who sang on the "The Loco-Motion"
record because the voice sounded so much like Carole King; Dan
Ingram said he believed that was true, too, and mentioned that he
had seen two different Dick Clark shows, and that "there was
a different 'Little Eva' each time.". Since the character of
"Little Eva" in the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
was a nice curly-haired blonde white girl who liked black people,
it may well be that the nice curly-haired blonde white woman who
likewise liked black people, Carole King, was indeed the real
"Little Eva" singing on the record - if one compares
Little Eva's "The Loco-Motion" with Carole King's "I
Feel The Earth Move", the voices do sound virtually
identical. Eva Narcissus Boyd (June 29, 1943: April 10, 2003),
known by the stage name of Little Eva and best known for the
number one single "The Loco-Motion", was an American pop
singer. Although some sources claim that her stage name was
inspired by a character from the novel Uncle Tom' Cabin, she
stated in an interview that she was named after her aunt, which
prompted her family to call her "Little Eva.". Born in
Belhaven, North Carolina, she moved to the Brighton Beach section
of Brooklyn, New York, at a young age. As a teenager, she worked
as a maid and earned extra money as a babysitter for songwriters
Carole King and Gerry Goffin. It is often claimed that Goffin and
King were amused by Boyd's particular dancing style, so they wrote
"The Loco-Motion" for her and had her record it as a
demo (the record was intended for Dee Dee Sharp). However, as King
said in an interview with NPR and in her "One to One"
concert video, they knew she could sing when they met her, and it
would be just a matter of time before they would have her record
songs they wrote, the most successful being "The
Loco-Motion.". Music producer Don Kirshner of Dimension
Records was impressed by the song and Boyd's voice and had it
released. The song reached #1 in the United States in 1962. It
sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. After
the success of "The Loco-Motion," Boyd was stereotyped
as a dance-craze singer and was given limited material. Little Eva
died of cervical cancer in Kinston, North Carolina, at the age of
59. She is buried in a small cemetery in Belhaven, North Carolina.
Boyd's gravesite was sparsely marked until July 2008, when a
report by WRAL-TV of Raleigh, North Carolina, highlighted
deteriorating conditions at the cemetery and efforts by the city
of Belhaven to have it restored. A simple white cross had marked
the site until a new gravestone was unveiled in November of that
year. Boyd's new grey gravestone has the image of a steam
locomotive prominently engraved on the front and the epitaph
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June 29, 1929: #BOTD: #HBD! Oriana
Fallaci, Italian war correspondent, World War II partisan,
journalist, author and beauty who had a long and distinguished
journalistic career (d. September 15, 2006) is #born in Florence,
Italy. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and
revolution, and her aggressive skill in interviews with many world
leaders during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. During World War II she
joined the Italian anti-fascist resistance movement, Giustizia e
Liberta, part of Resistenza. She later received a certificate for
valour from the Italian army. Her book, Interview With History,
contains interviews with Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat,
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Willy Brandt, Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi, and Henry Kissinger, South Vietnamese President Nguy?n
Van Thi?u, and North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap during the
Vietnam War. The interview with Kissinger was published in
Playboy, with Kissinger describing himself as "the cowboy who
leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse".
Kissinger later wrote that it was "the single most disastrous
conversation I have ever had with any member of the press".
She also interviewed Deng Xiaoping, Andreas Papandreou, Ayatollah
Khomeini, Haile Selassie, Lech Walesa, Muammar Gaddafi, Mario
Soares, George Habash, Alfred Hitchcock, among others. After
retirement, she returned to the spotlight after writing a series
of controversial articles and books critical of Islamic
fundamentalism. Oriana Fallaci died of in her native Florence,
Italy, aged 77. She is buried in the Cimitero Evangelico degli
Allori in the southern suburb of Florence, Galluzzo, alongside her
family members and a stone memorial to Alexandros Panagoulis, her
late companion. On Sale Till Midnight PT!
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Today, June 29, 2026
June 29: Internal Autonomy Day (French
Polynesia): -- On June 29, 1880, France annexed Tahiti. Annually
in French Polynesia, Internal Autonomy Day honors Tahitian and
French Polynesian self-rule. Additionally, it marks the annexation
of the Kingdom of Tahiti and the handover of control to France by
King Pomare V. While many political parties celebrate the day with
festivities, some also believe it should be a day of mourning
instead. Nonetheless, celebrations happen mainly in the national
capital of Papeete and include parades, entertainment, and
concerts. The actual date French Polynesia achieved internal
autonomy was September 6, 1984. French Polynesia is an overseas
collectivity of France. It consists of 121 islands and atolls that
stretch over an area of around 1,200 miles in the South Pacific
Ocean. It is believed that the islands were inhabited around 1500
B.C. when Austronesian peoples journeyed across the Pacific Ocean
during the Great Polynesian Migration. In about 200 B.C., the
Marquesas Islands were the first French Polynesia islands to be
settled. Further voyages southwest led to the discovery of the
Society Islands around 300 A.D. The first European contact with
the region was in 1521 when Portuguese conquistador Ferdinand
Magellan sighted Puka-Puka in the Tuamotu-Gambier Archipelago. The
first European settlement in French Polynesia came in 1774 when
the Spanish set up a base. Christian missions to Tahiti began soon
after, many settling permanently from as far back as 1797. French
Catholic missionaries arrived in Tahiti in 1834 and by 1842,
Tahiti and Tahuata were declared French protectorates. After many
years of annexation, Polynesians were granted French citizenship
in 1946, and the islands were deemed overseas territory. In 1957,
the French changed the islands' name to Polynesie Francaise. In
1977, French Polynesia was granted partial internal autonomy, and
by 1984, it achieved complete internal autonomy. As a result,
Internal Autonomy Day is observed on June 29 every year. It honors
Tahitian and French Polynesian self-rule. Additionally, it marks
the annexation of the Kingdom of Tahiti and the handover of
control to France by King Pomare V. While many political parties
celebrate the day with festivities, some also believe it should be
a day of mourning instead. Nonetheless, celebrations happen on
June 29 mainly in the national capital of Papeete, and include
parades, entertainment, and concerts.
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Today, June 29, 2026June 29, 1933: #DOTD: #RIP: Roscoe
Arbuckle, better known as Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film
actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter (b. March 24, 1887)
#dies in his sleep of a heart attack in Manhattan, New York City
at age 46, reportedly on the day that he signed a contract with
Warner Brothers to make a comeback feature film. His remains were
cremated, and the ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
Roscoe Arbuckle was born Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle in Smith Center,
Kansas. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually
moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with Mabel Normand and
Harold Lloyd, as well as with his nephew Al St. John. He mentored
Charlie Chaplin and discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope. He was
one of the most popular silent stars of the 1910s and one of the
highest paid actors in Hollywood, signing a contract in 1920 with
Paramount Pictures for 14K USD (equivalent to approximately 175K
USD in 2019). Arbuckle was the defendant in three widely
publicized trials between November 1921 and April 1922 for the
alleged rape and manslaughter of actress Virginia Rappe. Rappe had
fallen ill at a party hosted by Arbuckle at the St. Francis Hotel
in San Francisco in September 1921, and she died four days later.
A friend of Rappe accused Arbuckle of raping and accidentally
killing her. The first two trials resulted in hung juries, but
Buster Keaton defended him in the third trial, which acquitted
him, and the jury gave him a formal written statement of apology.
Despite Arbuckle's acquittal, the scandal has mostly overshadowed
his legacy as a pioneering comedian. His films were banned by
motion picture industry censor Will H. Hays after the trial and he
was publicly ostracized. Hays lifted the ban within a year, but
Arbuckle only worked sparingly through the 1920s. Keaton made an
agreement to give him 35 percent of his profit from Buster Keaton
Comedies Co. He later worked as a film director under the
pseudonym William Goodrich. He was finally able to return to
acting, making short two-reel comedies in 1932-33 for Warner Bros.
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Today, June 29, 2026June 29, 1941: #DOTD: #RIP: Ignacy Jan
Paderewski, Polish composer, pianist, politician, statesman,
patriot and spokesman for Polish independence, 2nd Prime Minister
of Poland (b. November 18, 1860) #dies of pneumonia in New York
City at 11:00 p.m., aged 80. He was temporarily laid in repose in
the crypt of the USS Maine Mast Memorial at Arlington National
Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia, despite anecdotal accounts that
he wished to be buried near his second wife and son in France. In
1992, after the end of communism in Poland, his remains were
transferred to Warsaw and placed in St. John's Archcathedral. His
heart is encased in a bronze sculpture in the National Shrine of
Our Lady of Czestochowa near Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Paderewski
was born to Polish parents in the village of Kurilovka, in the
Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire. A favorite of concert
audiences around the world, Ignace Paderewski's musical fame
opened access to diplomacy and the media. Paderewski played an
important role in meeting with President Woodrow Wilson and
obtaining the explicit inclusion of independent Poland as point 13
in Wilson' peace terms in 1918, called the Fourteen Points. He was
the prime minister of Poland and also Poland' foreign minister in
1919, and represented Poland at the Paris Peace Conference in
1919. He served 10 months as prime minister, and soon thereafter
left Poland, never to return. In 1922 he retired from politics and
returned to his musical life. His first concert after a long
break, held at Carnegie Hall, was a significant success. He also
filled Madison Square Garden (20,000 seats) and toured the United
States in a private railway car. After Pilsudski' coup d'etat in
1926, Paderewski became an active member of the opposition to
Sanacja rule in Poland. In 1936 a coalition of members of the
opposition was signed in his mansion; it was nicknamed the Front
Morges after the name of the village. After the Polish Defensive
War of 1939, Paderewski returned to public life. In 1940 he became
the head of the National Council of Poland, a Polish parliament in
exile in London. He turned to America for help as well. He spoke
to the American people directly over the radio, the most popular
media at the time; the broadcast carried by over a hundred radio
stations in the United States and Canada. In late 1940 he crossed
the Atlantic again to advocate in person for the cause of aiding
Europe and defeating Nazism. In 1941, he witnessed a touching
tribute to his artistry and humanitarianism as US cities
celebrated the 50th anniversary of his first American tour by
putting on a Paderewski Week with over 6000 concerts in his honor.
The 80-year-old artist also restarted his Polish Relief Fund and
gave several concerts to gather money for it. However, his mind
was not what it had once been: scheduled again to play Madison
Square Garden, he refused to appear, insisting that he had already
played the concert, presumably remembering the concert he had
played there in the 1920s. After the Invasion Of Poland by Nazi
Germany, Paderewski returned to public life, and n 1940 he became
the head of the National Council of Poland, a Polish parliament in
exile in London. He turned to America for help as well. He spoke
to the American people directly over the radio, the most popular
media at the time; the broadcast carried by over a hundred radio
stations in the United States and Canada. In late 1940 he crossed
the Atlantic again to advocate in person for the cause of aiding
Europe and defeating Nazism. In 1941, he witnessed a touching
tribute to his artistry and humanitarianism as US cities
celebrated the 50th anniversary of his first American tour by
putting on a Paderewski Week with over 6000 concerts in his honor.
The 80-year-old artist also restarted his Polish Relief Fund and
gave several concerts to gather money for it. However, his mind
was not what it had once been: scheduled again to play Madison
Square Garden, he refused to appear, insisting that he had already
played the concert, presumably remembering the concert he had
played there in the 1920s. Paderewski was taken ill during one
such tour, on June 27, 1941. Despite signs of improving health and
recovery from pneumonia, Paderewski died in New York at 11:00
p.m., June 29, aged 80. He was temporarily buried in the USS Maine
Mast Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington,
Virginia, near Washington, D.C. In 1992, his body was brought to
Warsaw and placed in St. John' Archcathedral. His heart is encased
in a bronze sculpture in the National Shrine of Our Lady of
Czestochowa near Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Early in 1941, the
music publisher Boosey and Hawkes had commissioned 17 prominent
American or North America-resident composers to contribute a solo
piano piece each for an album to commemorate the 50th anniversary
of Paderewski' American debut in 1891. His death in June caused
the album to become a posthumous tribute to his entire life and
work. Homage to Paderewski was published in 1942. The 1939 movie
melodrama Suicide Squadron, also known as Dangerous Moonlight, was
inspired and based loosely upon his final days.
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Today, June 29, 2026June 29, 1998: #DOTD: #RIP: Frank
Rowlett, American cryptologist whose solution of a major Japanese
cipher machine saved hundreds of American lives during World War
II (b. May 2, 1908) #dies of congestive heart failure at the
Wilson Health Care Center in Gaithersburg, Maryland at age 90. He
is buried at Sarasota Memorial Park in Sarasota, Florida. Frank B.
Rowlett was born Frank Byron Rowlett in Rose Hill, Lee County,
Virginia. Rowlett supervised the half-dozen Army code-breakers
who, after 18 months of effort, cracked the chief Japanese
diplomatic cipher machine, known as the Type B Cipher Machine and
codenamed PURPLE by U.S. officials, in September 1940. Although
the solution gave no warning of the Pearl Harbor attack -- because
no messages alerting anybody to the attack were ever sent -- it
paradoxically helped U.S. forces in the European theater. The
PURPLE machine encrypted the dispatches to Tokyo of the Japanese
ambassador in Berlin. One of those messages detailed German
defenses against the expected Allied invasion and was sent after
the ambassador's November 1943 tour of the Atlantic Wall, a line
of fortifications. A U.S. radio post in Ethiopia intercepted it;
U.S. code-breakers read it. It revealed that tank ditches were
"built in a triangular cross-section with a span across the
top of 5 meters and a depth of 3.5 meters." Turrets were
"built in a continuous line, close to the shore," each
equipped with two or three machine guns, as well as grenade
launchers. Mr. Rowlett said he believed that the information from
that message alone saved thousands of U.S. lives. Mr. Rowlett, a
soft-spoken, courteous Virginian who had been a mathematics
teacher, joined what was then the Army's Signal Intelligence
Service as a junior cryptanalyst on April 1, 1930. He said in an
interview that he felt his greatest contribution to the PURPLE
attack was his confidence that the machine would be solved. He has
been awarded the National Security Medal, the Legion of Merit and
the Order of the British Empire. Mr. Rowlett, a native of Rose
Hill, received a bachelor's degree in chemistry and math from
Emory and Henry College in Emory, Va., in 1929. He lived in
Arlington and Ellicott City before retiring to Sarasota, Fla., in
1966. He moved to Gaithersburg in 1997. His first wife, Edith King
Rowlett, died in 1980. His second wife, Alice Creech Rowlett, died
in 1997. A son, Frank Jr., of Sarasota, died in 1983. Survivors
include a son, Thomas M. Rowlett of Frederick, MD.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Ten
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Today, June 29, 2026June 29, 2020: #DOTD: #RIP: Carl Reiner,
American actor, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, author
and comedy genius whose career spanned seven decades (b. March 20,
1922) #dies at his home in Beverly Hills, California in the
company of his family, aged 98 years. According to his nephew,
George Shapiro, Reiner fell while leaving his TV room at around
10:00 p.m. Pacific Time and lost consciousness. His cause of death
was officially confirmed to be natural causes. He was given a
green burial near his home in an undisclosed location. Carl Reiner
was born March 20, 1922 in the Bronx, New York City to Jewish
immigrants Irving (1886-1966), a watchmaker from Austria, and
Bessie Reiner (1880-1968) (nee Mathias) from Romania. During the
early years of television comedy from 1950 to 1957, he acted on
and contributed sketch material for Your Show of Shows and
Caesar's Hour, starring Sid Caesar, writing alongside Mel Brooks,
Neil Simon, and Woody Allen. Reiner teamed up with Brooks and
together they released several iconic comedy albums beginning with
2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (1960). Reiner was best
known as the creator and producer of, and a writer and actor on
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1965). Reiner formed a comedy duo
with Mel Brooks in "The 2000 Year Old Man" and acted in
such films as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), The Russians
Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), and the Ocean's film
series (2001-2007). He co-wrote and directed some of Steve
Martin's first and most successful films, including The Jerk
(1979), and also directed such comedies as Where's Poppa? (1970),
Oh, God! (1977), and All of Me (1984). Reiner appeared in dozens
of television specials from 1967 to 2000, and was a guest star on
television series from the 1950s until his death. He also voiced
characters in animated films and television series, including the
TV series Father of the Pride (2004-2005), in which he voiced
Sarmoti, and was a reader for books on tape. He wrote more than
two dozen books, mostly in his later years. He was the recipient
of many awards and honors, including 11 Emmy Awards, one Grammy
Award, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He was
inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1999. He was the
father of actor-director Rob Reiner, author Annie Reiner, and
artist Lucas Reiner and the grandfather of Tracy Reiner.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, June 29, 2026June 29, 2023: #DOTD: #RIP: Alan Arkin,
American actor, filmmaker and musician who in a career spanning
seven decades received numerous accolades, including an Academy
Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award as
well as nominations for six Emmy Awards (b. March 26, 1934) #dies
at his home in Carlsbad, California at the age of 89. His death
was attributed to heart problems, of which he had a history. His
remains were cremated, and the details regarding his funeral,
burial, or the location of his ashes have been kept private by his
family. Alan Arkin was born Alan Wolf Arkin in Brooklyn, New York
City, the son of teacher, painter, writer and lyricist David I.
Arkin (1906-1980) (co-writer of the hit Three Dog Night song
"Black and White"), and his wife, Beatrice (nee Wortis;
1909-1991), a teacher. His grandparents were Jewish immigrants
from Ukraine, Russia, and Germany. The family, which had "no
emphasis on religion", lived in Crown Heights, before moving
to Los Angeles when Alan was 11. An eight-month Hollywood strike
cost his father his job as a set designer. During the 1950s Red
Scare, Arkin's parents were accused of being Communists, and his
father was fired when he refused to answer questions about his
political ideology. David Arkin challenged the dismissal, but he
was vindicated only after his death. Arkin performed in the sketch
comedy group The Second City before acting on the Broadway stage,
starring as David Kolowitz in the Joseph Stein play Enter Laughing
in 1963, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor
in a Play. He returned to Broadway acting in the comedic play Luv
(1964), and directed Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys (1971), for
which he received a Tony Award nomination. Arkin won the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a foul-mouthed
grandfather in Little Miss Sunshine (2006). He was Oscar-nominated
for his roles in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
(1966), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968), and Argo (2012). He
also acted in Wait Until Dark (1967), Inspector Clouseau (1968),
Popi (1969), Catch-22 (1970), The In-Laws (1979), Edward
Scissorhands (1990), The Rocketeer (1991), Glengarry Glen Ross
(1992), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thirteen Conversations About
One Thing (2001), Get Smart (2008), Going in Style (2017), Dumbo
(2019) and Spenser Confidential (2020). Arkin also directed three
films, including the comedies Little Murders (1971) and Fire Sale
(1977). His television roles included Leon Felhendler in Escape
from Sobibor (1987), and as Harry Rowen in The Pentagon Papers
(2003) for which he earned Emmy nominations, respectively, for
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie and
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Arkin
voiced Schmendrick in The Last Unicorn (1982), J. D. Salinger in
the animated series BoJack Horseman (2015-16), and Wild Knuckles
in Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022). From 2018 to 2019, Arkin
starred in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method, earning
two consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Execution Of Private Slovik (1974) DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, June 29, 2026June 29, 1944: #BOTD: Gary Busey,
American actor is #born in Goose Creek, Texas. He is known for his
portrayal of Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story (1978), for
which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and
won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor. His
other starring roles include Gumball Rally (1976) A Star is Born
(1976), D.C. Cab (1983), Silver Bullet (1985), Lethal Weapon
(1987), Predator 2 (1990), Point Break (1991), Under Siege (1992),
Rookie of the Year (1993), The Firm (1993), Black Sheep (1996) and
Lost Highway (1997).
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Swing:
The Best Of The Big Bands DVD, MP4 Video Download, Flash Drive
Today, June 29, 2026June 29, 2002: #DOTD: #RIP: Rosemary
Clooney, American singer, actress and beauty (b. May 23, 1928)
#dies of lung cancer at her Beverly Hills, California home, aged
74. Her nephew, George Clooney, was a pallbearer at her funeral.
She is buried at Saint Patrick's Cemetery, Maysville, Kentucky,
the town in which she was born Rose Mary Clooney. Rose M. Clooney
came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song "Come
On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such
as "Botch-a-Me", "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly",
"Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole
House". She also had success as a jazz vocalist. Clooney's
career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to
depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her White
Christmas co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a
show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She continued
recording until her death in 2002.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Bob
Hope Shows: Radio & USO Stage MP3 DVD Download USB Flash Drive
Today, June 29, 2026June 29, 1995: #DOTD: #RIP: Lana Turner,
American actress, pin-up model, cultural icon and beauty, who over
the course of her nearly 50-year career was frequently cited as an
icon of Hollywood glamour and who achieved fame as a screen legend
of classical Hollywood cinema and for her highly publicized
personal life (b. February 8, 1921) #dies of throat cancer at her
home in Century City, Los Angeles, aged 74 Turner's remains were
cremated and given to her daughter Cheryl Crane. Multiple accounts
have the ashes still in Cheryl's possession, while other accounts
say the ashes were scattered in the ocean, but which ocean and
location varies by the sources. Lana Turner was born Julia Jean
Turner at Providence Hospital in Wallace, Idaho. In the mid-1940s,
she was one of the highest-paid actresses in the United States,
and one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's (MGM) biggest stars, with her
films earning more than 50M USD for the studio during her 18-year
contract with them. Born to working-class parents in northern
Idaho, Turner spent her childhood there before her family
relocated to California. In 1936, when Turner was 15, she was
discovered while purchasing a soda at the Top Hat Malt Shop in
Hollywood. At age 16, she was signed to a personal contract by
Warner Bros. director Mervyn LeRoy, who took her with him when he
transferred to MGM in 1938. She soon attracted attention by
playing the role of a murder victim in her film debut, LeRoy's
They Won't Forget (1937), and she later moved into supporting
roles, often appearing as an ingenue. During the early 1940s,
Turner established herself as a leading lady and one of MGM's top
stars, appearing in such films as the film noir Johnny Eager
(1941); the musical Ziegfeld Girl (1941); the horror film Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941); and the romantic war drama Somewhere
I'll Find You (1942), one of several films in which she starred
opposite Clark Gable. Turner's reputation as a glamorous femme
fatale was enhanced by her critically acclaimed performance in the
noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), a role which
established her as a serious dramatic actress. Her popularity
continued through the 1950s in dramas such as The Bad and the
Beautiful (1952) and Peyton Place (1957), the latter for which she
was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Intense media
scrutiny surrounded the actress in 1958 when her teenaged daughter
Cheryl Crane stabbed Turner's lover Johnny Stompanato to death in
their home during a domestic struggle. Her next film, Imitation of
Life (1959), proved to be one of the greatest commercial successes
of her career, and her starring role in Madame X (1966) earned her
a David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress. Turner spent
most of the 1970s in semi-retirement, making her final film
appearance in 1980. In 1982, she accepted a much-publicized and
lucrative recurring guest role in the television series Falcon
Crest, which afforded the series notably high ratings.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Katharine Hepburn: All About Me Personal Reflections DVD, MP4, USB
Today, June 29, 2026June 29, 2003: #DOTD: #RIP: Katharine
Hepburn, American leading lady, film, stage and television
actress, cultural icon and beauty, recipient of four Academy
Awards - a record for any performer - for Best Actress, who
epitomized the "modern woman" in the 20th-century United
States and is remembered as an important cultural figure (b. May
12, 1907) #dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 96 at the Hepburn
family home in Fenwick, Connecticut. She is buried in Cedar Hill
Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut. Hepburn requested that there be
no memorial service. Hepburn's death received considerable public
attention. Many tributes were held on television, and newspapers
and magazines dedicated issues to the actress. American president
George W. Bush said Hepburn "will be remembered as one of the
nation's artistic treasures". In honor of her extensive
theatre work, the lights of Broadway were dimmed for the evening
of July 1, 2003. In 2004, in accordance with Hepburn's wishes, her
belongings were put up for auction with Sotheby's in New York
City. The event garnered 5.8M USD, which Hepburn willed to her
family. She was born Katharine Houghton Hepburn in Hartford,
Connecticut. Known for her fierce independence and spirited
personality, Hepburn worked in Hollywood for more than 60 years,
appearing in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary
drama. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute
as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Raised in
Connecticut by wealthy, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act
while studying at Bryn Mawr College. After four years in the
theatre, favorable reviews of her work on Broadway brought her to
the attention of Hollywood. Her early years in the film industry
were marked with success, including an Academy Award for her third
picture, Morning Glory (1933), but this was followed by a series
of commercial failures that led her to be labeled "box office
poison" in 1938. Hepburn masterminded her own comeback,
buying out her contract with RKO Radio Pictures and acquiring the
film rights to The Philadelphia Story, which she sold on the
condition that she be the star. In the 1940s, she was contracted
to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where her career focused on an alliance
with Spencer Tracy. The screen partnership spanned 25 years and
produced nine movies. Spencer Tracy was the most significant
relationship of Hepburn's life. In her autobiography she wrote,
"It was a unique feeling that I had for [Tracy]. I would have
done anything for him.". Lauren Bacall, a close friend, later
wrote of how "blindingly" in love Hepburn was with the
actor. The relationship has subsequently received much publicity,
and it is often cited as one of Hollywood's legendary love
affairs. Tracy remained married throughout their relationship;
although he and his wife Louise had been living separate lives
since the 1930s, there was never an official split and neither
party pursued a divorce. Hepburn did not interfere, and never
fought for marriage. Hepburn challenged herself in the latter half
of her life, as she regularly appeared in Shakespearean stage
productions and tackled a range of literary roles. She found a
niche playing middle-aged spinsters, such as in The African Queen
(1951), a persona the public embraced. Three more Oscars came for
her work in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in
Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981). In the 1970s, she began
appearing in television films, which became the focus of her
career in later life. She remained active into old age, making her
final screen appearance in 1994 at the age of 87. After a period
of inactivity and ill health, Hepburn died in 2003 at the age of
96. Hepburn famously shunned the Hollywood publicity machine and
refused to conform to society's expectations of women. She was
outspoken, assertive, athletic, and wore trousers before it was
fashionable for women to do so. With her unconventional lifestyle
and the independent characters she brought to the screen, Hepburn
epitomized the "modern woman" in the 20th-century United
States and is remembered as an important cultural figure.
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