The Almanac
Today is Wednesday, June 17, the 168th day of 2015 with 197 to follow.
The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune and
Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. Those born on this
date are under the sign of Gemini. They include British clergyman John
Wesley, the founder of Methodism, in 1703; John Robert Gregg, inventor
of the Gregg shorthand system, in 1867; Russian-born composer Igor
Stravinsky in 1882; Dutch artist M.C. Escher in 1898; actor Ralph
Bellamy in 1904; author John Hersey in 1914; football Hall of Fame
member Elroy Crazylegs Hirsch in 1923; Egyptian Nobel Peace Prize
laureate Mohamed ElBaradei in 1942 (age 73); former U.S. House Speaker
Newt Gingrich in 1943 (age 72); singer Barry Manilow in 1943 (age 72);
musician/songwriter George Clinton in 1947 (age 68); comedian Joe
Piscopo in 1951 (age 64); actor Mark Linn-Baker in 1954 (age 61); actor
Thomas Haden Church in 1960 (age 55); actor Greg Kinnear in 1963 (age
52); Olympic gold medal speed skater Dan Jansen in 1965 (age 50); actor
Jason Patric in 1966 (age 49); actor Will Forte in 1970 (age 45);
tennis star Venus Williams in 1980 (age 35). On this date in history:
In 1967, China announced it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. In
1972, the Watergate scandal began with the arrest of five burglars
inside Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate
complex in Washington. In 1981, a walkway collapsed at the Hyatt
Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Mo., killing 144 people. In 1982,
Argentina's President Leopoldo Galtieri resigned in response to
Britain's victory in the Falkland Islands war. In 1986, Kate Smith, one
of America's most popular singers in the 1920s, '30s and '40s, died at
the age of 79. In 1996, ValuJet Airlines shut down about a month after
a crash in the Florida Everglades led to questions about the carrier's
safety and maintenance records. In 2011, Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian
surgeon and co-founder of al-Qaida, moved up to assume leadership of
the terrorist network six weeks after U.S. forces killed Osama bin
Laden. In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Arizona's requirement
of proof of citizenship before voter registration violated federal law.
In 2014, U.S. officials said Ahmed Abu Khatallah, arrested in eastern
Libya as a suspect in the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound
in Benghazi that killed four Americans, would be transported to the
United States to face charges. (The U.S. Justice Department later said
Khatallah was indicted on numerous charges and held in a detention
facility in Alexandria, Va., awaiting trial.) A thought for the day: We
must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. --
Martin Luther King Jr. .
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