The Almanac
Today is Saturday, June 20, the 171st day of 2015 with 194 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 author-playwright
Lillian Hellman in 1905; actor Errol Flynn in 1909; musician Chet
Atkins in 1924; actor/World War II hero Audie Murphy, winner of the
Medal of Honor, in 1924; actor Martin Landau in 1928 (age 87); actor
Olympia Dukakis in 1931 (age 84); actor and James Tolkan in 1931 (age
84); actor Danny Aiello in 1933 (age 82); actor John Mahoney in 1940
(age 75); football Hall of Fame member Len Dawson in 1935 (age 80);
songwriter Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys in 1942 (age 73); singer Anne
Murray in 1945 (age 70); TV handyman Bob Vila in 1946 (age 69); concert
pianist Andre Watts in 1946 (age 69); singer Lionel Richie in 1949 (age
66); former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in 1950 (age 65);
actor John Goodman in 1952 (age 63); musician Michael Anthony (Van
Halen), in 1954 (age 61); actor Nicole Kidman in 1967 (age 48); actor
Michael Landon Jr. in 1964 (age 51). On this date in history: In 1214,
the University of Oxford in England was chartered. In 1893, a jury in
Fall River, Mass., acquitted Lizzy Borden in the ax murders of her
father and stepmother. In 1898, the U.S. Navy seized Guam, the largest
of the Mariana Islands in the Pacific, during the Spanish-American War.
(The people of Guam were granted U.S. citizenship in 1950.) In 1900, in
response to widespread foreign encroachment upon China's national
affairs, Chinese nationalists launched the so-called Boxer Rebellion in
Beijing. In 1963, the United States and Soviet Union agreed to
establish a hot-line communications link between Washington and Moscow.
In 1967, the American Independent Party was formed to back George
Wallace of Alabama for president. In 1977, oil began to flow through
the $7.7 billion, 789-mile Alaska pipeline. In 1991, the German
Parliament voted to move its capital from Bonn to Berlin. In 2004,
Pakistan and India reached agreement on banning nuclear testing. In
2009, insurgents, striking in a series of attacks as U.S. troops pulled
out of Iraq as planned, set off a truck bomb near a Shiite mosque in
northern Iraq, killing 82 people and injuring 250. In 2010, Juan Manuel
Santos easily defeated former Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus to become
Colombia's president. In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a
class-action lawsuit against Walmart that alleged sex discrimination
against up to 1.5 million women. In 2014, David Blatt, a longtime coach
of European teams, was hired to coach the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers.
(In Blatt's first season in his new job, the injury-plagued Cavs, led
by LeBron James reached the NBA finals before losing in six games to
Golden State.) A thought for the day: Whoever is careless with the
truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. --
Albert Einstein .
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