The Almanac
Today is Tuesday, June 23, the 174th day of 2015 with 191 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 French Empress
Josephine, wife of Napoleon, in 1763; pioneer sex researcher Alfred
Kinsey in 1894; Alan Turing, British computer scientist, in 1912;
former U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers in 1913;
director/choreographer Bob Fosse in 1927; singer June Carter Cash in
1929; Finnish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari in 1937 (age
78); U.S. Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph in 1940; Metropolitan
Opera conductor James Levine in 1943 (age 72); actor Ted Shackelford in
1946 (age 69); actor Bryan Brown in 1947 (age 68); U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas in 1948 (age 67); actor Frances McDormand in
1957 (age 58); golf Hall of Fame member Colin Montgomerie in 1963 (age
52); musician Jason Mraz in 1977 (age 38). On this date in history: In
1845, the Congress of the Republic of Texas agreed to annexation by the
United States. In 1865, the last Confederate holdouts formally
surrendered in the Oklahoma Territory. In 1894, the International
Olympic Committee was founded in Paris. In 1947, the U.S. Congress
enacted the Taft-Hartley labor act over the veto of President Harry
Truman. In 1956, Gamel Abdel Nasser was elected first president of the
Republic of Egypt. In 1985, an Air India Boeing 747 from Toronto
crashed off the Irish coast, killing all 329 people aboard in the
world's worst commercial air disaster at sea. In 1991, the Group of
Seven industrialized democracies agreed to offer the Soviet Union
associate membership in the International Monetary Fund. In 2003, the
U.S. Supreme Court upheld affirmative action in a University of
Michigan case by a 5-4 vote. The high court also upheld the Children's
Internet Protection Act, under which federally funded libraries must
block obscene material from computers to which minors have access. In
2010, U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal resigned as commander of U.S.
and NATO troops in Afghanistan after he and senior aides made
disparaging remarks in a magazine interview about administration
officials. Gen. David Petraeus, leader of the Central Command,
succeeded McChrystal, who formally retired July 23 and received the
Defense Distinguished Service Medal from Defense Secretary Robert
Gates. In 2012, the bodies of 14 people were found in a truck outside a
Mante, Mexico, shopping center. Authorities said they believed the
Zetas criminal organization was responsible. In 2013, daredevil Nik
Wallenda walked on a 2-inch thick cable across the Little Colorado
River Gorge near the Grand Canyon in Arizona -- 1,500 feet above the
gorge -- in just under 23 minutes. In 2014, the World Health
Organization said 350 Ebola virus deaths had been reported since March
in West Africa. A doctor called it an epidemic out of control. A
thought for the day: I wonder what it would be like to live in a world
where it was always June. -- L.M. Montgomery .
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