The Almanac
Today is Sunday, June 28, the 179th day of 2015 with 186 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 King Henry VIII in
1491; Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens in 1577; English clergyman John
Wesley, founder of Methodism, in 1703; French philosopher Jean-Jacques
Rousseau in 1712; French physician Paul Broca in 1824; Italian author
Luigi Pirandello in 1867; composer Richard Rodgers in 1902; spy
novelist Eric Ambler in 1909; filmmaker/comedian Mel Brooks in 1926
(age 89); actor Pat Morita in 1932; former CIA Director/Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta in 1938 (age 77); comedian Gilda Radner in 1946;
actor Kathy Bates in 1948 (age 67) ; actor Alice Krige in 1954 (age
61); football Hall of Fame member John Elway in 1960 (age 55); actor
John Cusack in 1966 (age 49); actor Mary Stuart Masterson in 1966 (age
49); singer/actor Danielle Brisebois in 1969 (age 46); actor Felicia
Day in 1979 (age 36). On this date in history: In 1778, the Continental
Army under command of Gen. George Washington defeated the British at
Monmouth, N.J. In 1838, Victoria was crowned queen of England. (She
would rule for 63 years, 7 months.) In 1914, Archduke Ferdinand of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, an act
considered to have ignited World War I. In 1919, World War I officially
ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. In 1969, the
clientele of a New York City gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, rioted after
it was raided by police. The event is considered the start of the gay
liberation movement. In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use
of public funds for parochial schools was unconstitutional. In 1972,
U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that no more draftees would be
sent to Vietnam unless they volunteered for service in the Asian
nation. In 1997, Mike Tyson bit off a piece of one of heavyweight
boxing champion Evander Holyfield's ears during a title fight in Las
Vegas. In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of
America had a constitutional right to exclude gay members. In 2003,
people eager to block telemarketing calls overwhelmed a government
website that began accepting phone numbers at the National Do Not Call
Registry. The Federal Trade Commission said 735,000 numbers were
registered the first day. In 2007, the American bald eagle was removed
from the endangered species list. Officials of the Interior Department
said the eagle, which had been declared endangered in 1967, was
flourishing and no longer imperiled. In 2009, Honduran President Manuel
Zelaya, rousted out of bed in the middle of the night by soldiers, was
forced from office and into exile in Costa Rica in the culmination of a
bitter power struggle over proposed constitutional changes. (He was in
exile for more than a year.) In 2010, U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.,
died in a Virginia hospital at age 92. Byrd was in the U.S. House from
1953 to 1959 before moving to the Senate, where he served from 1959 to
2010 -- a total of nearly 57 years in Congress. In 2012, the U.S.
Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the new healthcare law
known as the Affordable Care Act. In 2013, massive crowds in Chicago
honored the Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks in a victory parade and a
rally at Grant Park. (The Blackhawks won the 'cup' again in 2015.) In
2014, Alize Cornet of France, the 25th seed,at Wimbledon, eliminated
Serena Williams, top-seeded world No. 1 and five-time champion of the
tournament, in the third round and said: I just cannot believe it. A
few years ago I couldn't even play on the grass, I was so bad, and now
I beat Serena. (Cornet lost in the next round.) A thought for the day:
The people of [the United States] are more united than it seems on what
is needed to secure their families and give their children a better
life. It is the responsibility of leaders to lead America in that
direction, not to score points or win re-election. -- Leon Panetta .
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