The Almanac
Today is Thursday, June 25, the 176th day of 2015 with 189 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 composer Gustave
Charpentier in 1860; Broadway producer George Abbott in 1887; English
novelist/critic George Orwell, author of 1984, in 1903; movie director
Sidney Lumet in 1924; actor June Lockhart in 1925 (age 90); civil
rights advocate James Meredith in 1933 (age 82); musician Harold Melvin
in 1939; basketball Hall of Fame member Willis Reed in 1942 (age 73);
musician Carly Simon in 1945 (age 70); musician Ian McDonald in 1946
(age 69); actor Jimmie Walker in 1947 (age 68); U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Sonia Sotomayor in 1954 (age 61); actor/writer Ricky Gervais in
1961 (age 54); musician George Michael in 1963 (age 52). On this date
in history: In 1876, U.S. Army Gen. George Custer and his force of 208
men were killed by Chief Sitting Bull's Sioux warriors at Little Big
Horn in Montana. In 1942, U.S. Army Gen. Dwight Eisenhower took command
of the U.S. World War II forces in Europe. In 1950, North Korean forces
invaded South Korea. In 1951, CBS aired the first color television
broadcast. At the time, no color TV sets were owned by the public. In
1962, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision interpreted as
barring prayer in public schools. In 1973, White House attorney John
Dean told a U.S. Senate committee that U.S. President Richard Nixon
joined in a plot to cover up the Watergate break-in. In 1991, Slovenia
and Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia, sparking civil war.
In 1993, Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's first woman prime
minister, taking the post after the retirement of Brian Mulroney.
(Campbell was PM only until November, leaving office after her
Progressive Conservative Party was defeated in the federal election.)
In 1994, Japanese Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata resigned two months after
taking office rather than face a no-confidence vote by Parliament. In
1997, about half of Mir's power supply was knocked out when an unmanned
cargo ship collided with the Russian space station and put a hole in
it. In 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected president of Iran. In
2006, Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by militants from the
Gaza Strip. (He was released Oct. 18, 2011.) In 2009, entertainment
superstar Michael Jackson, known as the king of pop, a vast influence
on the music scene of his day, died of cardiac arrest at age 50 while
preparing a comeback. In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that
mandatory sentencing of teenage killers to life without parole is
unconstitutional. In 2013, U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass won a
special election to fill out former Sen. John Kerry's term. Markey, who
has served in Congress since 1976, defeated Republican Gabriel Gomez, a
former Navy SEAL turned investment banker. In 2014, the U.S. Supreme
Court unanimously ruled that police must get a warrant before searching
the cellphone of a person who is arrested. A thought for the day: You
will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for
bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. -- Thomas
Sowell .
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