The Almanac
Today is Friday, June 19, the 170th day of 2015 with 195 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 French
philosopher/mathematician Blaise Pascal in 1623; Moe Howard of the
Three Stooges comedy act in 1897; bandleader Guy Lombardo in 1902;
baseball Hall of Fame member Lou Gehrig in 1903; former U.S. Sen. Alan
Cranston, D-Calif., in 1914; musician Lester Flatt in 1914; film critic
Pauline Kael in 1919; actor Louis Jourdan in 1921; actor Nancy Marchand
in 1928; actor Gena Rowlands in 1930 (age 85); Nobel Peace Prize
laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in 1945 (age 70); author Salman Rushdie in
1947 (age 68); actor Phylicia Rashad in 1948 (age 67); musician Nick
Drake in 1948; musician Ann Wilson of Heart in 1950 (age 65); actor
Kathleen Turner in 1954 (age 61); singer Paula Abdul in 1962 (age 53);
political commentator Laura Ingraham in 1964 (age 51); actor Mia Sara
in 1967 (age 48); actor Robin Tunney in 1972 (age 43); actor Paul Dano
in 1984 (age 31). On this date in history: In 1846, two amateur
baseball teams played under new rules at Hoboken, N.J., planting the
first seeds of organized baseball. The New York Nine beat the
Knickerbockers, 23-1. In 1856, the first Republican national convention
ended in Philadelphia with the nomination of explorer John Charles
Fremont of California for president. (James Buchanan, a Federalist
nominated by the Democrats, was elected.) In 1867, Austrian Archduke
Ferdinand Maximilian, installed as emperor of Mexico by French Emperor
Napoleon III in 1864, was executed on the orders of Benito Juarez,
president of the Mexican Republic. In 1905, Pittsburgh showman Harry
Davis opened the world's first nickelodeon, showing The Great Train
Robbery, a silent Western film. The storefront theater had 96 seats,
charged 5 cents and prompted the advent of movie houses across the
United States. In 1910, Spokane, Wash., had the first Father's Day. In
1943, World War II's Battle of the Philippine Sea began. (Japanese
forces tried unsuccessfully to prevent further Allied advancement in
the South Pacific.) In 1953, convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
were executed. In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 1981
Louisiana law that required schools to teach the creationist theory of
human origin espoused by fundamentalist Christians. In 2000, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that prayers led by students at public high school
football games aren't permitted under the constitutional separation of
church and state. In 2008, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., the
presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, became the first candidate
at that level to bypass public financing since the program was
established. In 2013, James Gandolfini, who starred in the gangster
drama The Sopranos, died of a heart attack in Rome. He was 51. In 2014,
William Kyle Carpenter, who shielded a fellow Marine from a grenade
thrown at them in Afghanistan, received the Medal of Honor from U.S.
President Barack Obama, who called him a model of the strength and
resilience that define us as a people ... . In sports, a star
attraction on opening day of the U.S. Women's Open golf championship in
Pinehurst, N.C., was 11-year-old sixth-grader Lucy Li, who shot a 78.
Lucy was the youngest competitor to ever qualify for the Open and
second youngest to compete in the tournament. Beverly Klass, at age 10,
played in the Open in 1967 when qualification was not required. (Lucy
also had a 78 in the second round and missed the cut.) A thought for
the day: Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing. -- Zane Grey .
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