The Almanac
Today is Monday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2015 with 192 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 Cancer. They include English adventure novelist
H. Rider Haggard ( King Solomon's Mines, She ) in 1856; German novelist
Erich Remarque ( All Quiet on the Western Front ) in 1898; bank robber
John Dillinger in 1903; baseball Hall of Fame member Carl Hubbell in
1903; movie director Billy Wilder in 1906; author Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh, in 1906; producer Mike
Todd in 1909; fashion designer Bill Blass in 1922; Sen. Dianne
Feinstein, D-Calif., in 1933 (age 82); singer/actor Kris Kristofferson
in 1936 (age 79); TV journalist Ed Bradley in 1941; news commentator
Brit Hume in 1943 (age 72); writer Octavia Butler in 1947; basketball
Hall of Fame member Pete Maravich in 1947; rock musician Todd Rundgren
in 1948 (age 67); actor Meryl Streep in 1949 (age 66); actor Lindsay
Wagner in 1949 (age 66); actor Graham Greene in 1952 (age 63); pop
singer Cyndi Lauper in 1953 (age 62); actor Freddie Prinze in 1954;
actor Tracy Pollan in 1960 (age 55); activist Erin Brockovich-Ellis in
1960 (age 55); basketball Hall of Fame member Clyde Drexler in 1962
(age 53); actor Amy Brenneman in 1964 (age 50); writer Dan Brown ( The
DaVinci Code ) in 1964 (age 51); television host Carson Daly in 1973
(age 42). On this date in history: In 1918, an empty troop train
rear-ended the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train in Ivanhoe, Ind., killing
53 circus performers and many animals. The circus train had stopped to
fix its brakes. In 1940, France fell to Germany in World War II. In
1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. In 1965 movie mogul David O.
Selznick, producer of Gone With The Wind, died at age 62. In 1969, show
business legend Judy Garland died of what a coroner called an
unintentional overdose of sleeping pills. She was 47. In 1973, U.S.
President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a
pledge to try to avoid nuclear war. In 1977, former U.S. Attorney
General John Mitchell entered a federal prison for Watergate crimes.
(He was released for medical reasons 19 months later.) In 2003, Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon offered to cede responsibility for security
in some West Bank and Gaza Strip areas to the Palestinians. In 2009,
U.S. President Barack Obama signed legislation authorizing the Food and
Drug Administration to regulate content and marketing of tobacco
products for adults. It also outlawed cigarette ads in school and
playground areas and the sale of flavored cigarettes designed for young
people. In 2011, reputed former Boston crime boss James Whitey Bulger,
indicted in 19 homicides, was captured in Santa Monica, Calif., ending
a 16-year manhunt. (Bulger was sentenced to life in prison.) In 2012,
accused child-molester Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant
football coach, was convicted on 45 sex-abuse charges. He was sentenced
to up to 60 years in prison. In 2013, the fiery crash of a stunt
biplane at an air show in Dayton, Ohio, killed wing walker Jane Wicker
and pilot Charlie Schwenker. They were true, ultimate professionals,
the show's president said. In 2014, Michelle Wie won the U.S. Women's
Open at Pinehurst, N.C. A thought for the day: We must rekindle the
fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of
America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference. -- Joe Biden .
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